Welcome to Hedgehog Class 2024-2025

Class teacher: Mrs Harding

Learning Support Assistant: Mrs Dennis

PE days: Wednesday - CM Sports

Thursday - Tennis

 Friday - Athletics

Library: Friday

Living Rainforest 

We had a fantastic trip to The Living Rainforest to enhance our learning this half-term. As we stepped inside it felt humid and moist - just like in a real rainforest! There were trees towering above us and animals roaming free. We enjoyed seeing the colourful toucan, camouflaged stick insects, tiny monkeys, giant fish and much more! Some of us even spotted the sloth hiding high up in the canopy! We learned so much from the wonderful guides there too! 

Reading Week 

We celebrated our first week of the last half term by participating in Reading Week. We listened to and read lots of stories across the week. We looked at the Flip Flap books by Axel Scheffler and created our own sketches of mixed animals! It was lots of fun describing them and making up names for them! We also created a zig-zag book using the Oi! series. 

SCARF Life Education Workshop

Year 1 took part in a workshop all about 'My Wonderful Body'. We learned what is important to keep our bodies healthy and the different food groups we need. Harold visited and we talked about what he was eating to keep himself healthy.  

Dino Day!

We enjoyed a dinosaur exploration day.  We hunted for fossils, identified different dinosaurs, looked at dinosaur skeletons and sorted dinosaurs into herbivores and carnivores.

We looked at an example of a good information page and talked about the features we would need to include. We talked about what we already knew about dinosaurs and what we could find out by looking at books and the internet. We then looked at non-fiction books about dinosaurs and shared facts we had found out.

Art

We used our sketches to design a tile to print. We then used our colour washing skills to create a background and collaged to add texture to our art work. 

Beebots!

The Beebots have introduced us to coding concepts like sequencing, problem solving, and directional language. We experimented with our own coding, learning to 'debug' by identifying and correcting errors in our programs. We were then given a set of instructions to debug. 

Wild Science

We had a visit from Wild Science and met a leopard gecko, a hissing cockroach, a royal python and a lion lop rabbit.

Hockey

We have started hockey this half term. We are working on being 'hockey ready' with our sticks, dribbling, changing direction, scanning around as we move, passing and receiving the ball with control. 

Rockets

In D&T we looked at hinges and used these in our rocket designs. 

Clay Bugs

We really enjoyed making clay bugs and sun catchers in the style of Andy Goldsworthy. 

Wanted Posters

We read The Three Billy Goats Gruff and wrote a wanted poster using adjectives to describe the troll.

Firework Pictures

We created firework pictures using MS Paint. We learnt how to use the fill tool and select different brushes.