Welcome to Fox Class 

Class Teacher: Miss Grant

PE day: (After Christmas)  Monday - Gymnastics, Tuesday - Hockey 

Forest School day: Thursday mornings (Spring B)

Library day: Friday

In Spring Term 1, the children will have their weekly P.E lessons on a Monday and Tuesday.  On Monday, they will have indoor gymnastics and ALL children require shorts for health and safety.   On Tuesday, we will have qualified hockey coach delivering enrichment lessons.  

On these days, please ensure children come to school with long hair tied back and earrings either removed or taped over.  Please ensure P.E kits are kept in school at all times and returned after a club.  P.E days are subject to change with timetabling issues and weather.

Meet the Teacher

Hockey

This half-term, we are lucky to have Angie Cottee from Silky Skills Hockey every Tuesday to coach the children.  They are really enjoying this introduction to a new sport, even in the rain and snow! Already, they have learnt how to be 'hockey ready' by holding our hockey sticks correctly and looking up.  We have learnt to travel with the ball, pass and turn to defend the ball.  We even played our first matches in week 3! This is becoming one of our favourite weekly lessons.

Design and Technology

As part of our topic around 'Space' we are making our own rockets.  We explored rockets with windows and doors that use a hinge.  Then, we carried out a focused practical task, further exploring how the hinge works.  We learnt skills in making holes and using this hole as an entryway for the scissors.  We looked at single and double hinges and had a go at creating our own using squares and rectangles.  We are looking forward to applying this skill to our own rockets.

Number Pairs within 10

We have been revisiting our number pairs within 10, thinking about addition and subtraction number sentences.  We have used our ten frames and part-part-whole models to help see the patterns.  We also completed some missing number of sentences by looking closely at where the equals sign is and whether it has a + or a -.

Winchester Science Centre

We loved our first Year 1 trip out of school to visit Winchester Science Centre.  We had a wonderful day that helped to enrich our Space topic this half-term.  We enjoyed the show in the planetarium where we learnt more about the constellations in the night sky, each of the planets in our solar system and the wider galaxies.  We took time to explore the fascinating science exhibitions around the centre and became engineers with Grace, designing and making our own rockets and then watching them soar!

Orienteering

During Autumn Term, we have been exploring our map skills through our orienteering lessons.  We looked closely at the key and symbols to recreate patterns and shapes.  After, we looked at symbols used on maps of our school and how these help us to navigate quickly.  We used our maps to find control markers around school and retrieve information from the boards.  Our lessons linked to our English, Maths, Geography, History and P.E lessons.

Forest School

We love learning outside and our Forest School setting allows us to do just this.  We learn about nature and the awe and wonder within our world.  We identify the trees and animals in our surroundings and we think about how these things change across the seasons.   We also play noughts and crosses, build dens, get baking in the mud kitchen and enjoy looking more closely in our environment.

 

Dips and Dippers

As part of our Design and Technology lessons we tried a range of dips and dippers.  We decided if we liked the smell, taste and texture.  We used words to describe these, such as, fresh, crunchy, wheaty, sour, sweet. We then designed and made our own dips using chopping and mashing skills.

 

English

This week we met the smallest Billy Goat Gruff and asked him questions to find out more information on the revolting troll who has gone missing.  We then used these adjectives to write a wanted poster to help find the troll and conducted an appeal around school.  I'm sure we will help to track down the smelly troll.  Please let us know if you catch a glimpse of him!

 

Number Pairs

We have been using tens frames to practice our pairs of numbers within ten.  We have been using part, part, whole frames (or cherry models) to practice our subtraction facts within ten.  We found these really helpful so we could see the ways the numbers linked together.  

 

You Choose

After reading the book 'You Choose' by Nick Sharratt and Pippa Goodhart we enjoyed looking at all the amazing illustrations and talking about the different choices we would make. We then drew our own pictures and wrote what we would choose.

Sketching

We have been learning about toys from the past as part of our History unit.  We enjoyed playing with them and then looking closely to sketch them.  We thought about the shapes, texture and details.