Class 1 Blog

We have been using Purple Mash to create our own African patterns. We thought carefully about colour, shape and pattern. Here are just a few, but they were all fantastic. We have also printed patterns using 2D shapes and paint.

We have had great fun learning the pulse to our new song – Hey You!

Here are the words if you want to sing at home!

What a fantastic year we have had Class 1. Enjoy your summer holidays. I’ll be eating ice-cream and having fun at the water park with my family!!!

THANK YOU CLASS 1

Anyone for a fruit kebab?

Our pupils did a fantastic job of applying the skills they had been taught during their food technology lessons to show our visitors from George Pindar School how to make a fruit kebab.

They made sure everbody washed their hands and that their work station had all the equipment they needed. They showed different techniques for cutting their fruit safely and our visitors were particularly impressed with their way of halving strawberries!

Working together to Reduce, Reuse and Recycle.

Staff and pupils from George Pindar School came for a visit to deliver our Eco-brick furniture.

The children enjoyed finding out more about Eco-bricks: where they are used, why they are made and the impact recycling can have on the environment.

It was great for our school children to hear how their Eco-bricks had been made into the different pieces of furniture and to meet the pupils who had helped in this process. 

We look forward to using the stools, tables and benches in our outdoor area and I’m sure they will be very popular!

We have been growing all different things in our indoor garden. Why not have a go at growing your own grass head at home.

We had a fantastic time last week looking at the picture book Journey. We thought about how the characters were feeling, discussed how the colour of the pictures made us feel and imagined what new worlds we would like to explore.

However my favourite day was Friday when we did a bit of acting. We used our ideas to act out the places the girl could visit (Diggerland, Africa, Disneyland and CBeebies Land) and played musical instruments to create a more dramatic effect. We even sang part of a song from ‘The Greatest Showman’ to start us off.

Through the dark, through the door

Through where no one’s been before

Thank you to all those people who have sent in an Ecobrick so far. Remember to try and squash as much plastic in there as you can. The harder the bottle the better the brick.

We have been learning how to write a program to make characters move on screen. For our first try at coding we have done really well.

Why not have a go at some of the other activities on 2Code on Purple Mash. Good luck.