Whitsand Class Blog 

What a fantastic week we have had in Whitsand Class!

This week, the children have begun their exciting exploration of the traditional tale Hansel and Gretel. We have been focusing on describing the magical candy house, and the children have loved letting their imaginations run wild! They designed their very own candy houses before beginning to write descriptive sentences using adverbials of time. We have been so impressed with their creativity and enthusiasm so far, and we cannot wait to see how their writing develops!

In Maths, we have been exploring fact families and number bonds within 10. The children have been using Numicon to help them recognise different ways to make numbers and understand how numbers are connected. They have worked hard to build their confidence and develop their mathematical thinking.

In Science, the children put their knowledge to the test by revisiting their bridge-building challenge! Using materials from the builders' shed, they redesigned and improved their bridges, thinking carefully about how to make their structures strong and stable. Through fantastic collaboration and teamwork, they created some amazing structures. Well done, Whitsand Class!

Finally, in History, the children considered a very important question: would they prefer to go to school today or 100 years ago? After thinking about how school life has changed over time, most of the children decided that they would much rather attend school now! They explained how the love the colourful classrooms, interactive whiteboards, and football!

Well done to all the children for another wonderful week of learning, creativity and teamwork. We are so proud of their enthusiasm and the way they continue to challenge themselves across all areas of the curriculum.

Have a lovely weekend, everyone!

Whitsand Class Learning Update 

It has been another busy and exciting week in Whitsand Class!

In Maths, we have completed our unit on place value and number and have now moved on to addition. The children have been exploring how we can use part-whole models to help us understand addition and identify the parts and the whole. We have been working hard to explain our mathematical thinking and are becoming more confident in using our models to support our calculations.

In English, we have come to the end of our Jack and the Beanstalk unit. The children have worked incredibly hard throughout the unit and have put lots of effort into their final writing. They have been trying their very best to remember and apply the key skills we have been practising, and we are so proud of the progress they have made. 

Our Science learning has been particularly exciting! We have been exploring waterproof materials and investigating which materials are best at keeping water out. The children enjoyed carrying out an experiment where they tested a range of different materials to see how waterproof they were, before recording their findings in a table. There was lots of careful observing, predicting and discussing… although some children may have got a little wet along the way! 

Well done, Whitsand Class, for another fantastic week of learning. We are so proud of your hard work, curiosity and enthusiasm! 

It has been another busy and exciting time of learning in Whitsand Class!

In Maths, we have reached the end of our unit on place value. The children have worked hard to develop their understanding and have enjoyed taking part in a range of consolidation activities to revisit and strengthen their learning. It has been fantastic to see them applying their knowledge in different ways and becoming increasingly confident with place value.

In English, we have been exploring exclamation marks and coordinating conjunctions. Whitsand Class particularly enjoyed getting active with their learning! We danced along to music before working with a partner to create an exclamation mark using our bodies.

We also had fun finding two independent clauses that could be joined together using the coordinating conjunction 'and'. There was plenty of movement, laughter and some very creative ideas as we experimented with our sentences!

In RE, we explored the inside of an Anglican church. We looked carefully at some of the different features we might find inside a church and discussed their purpose and importance. The children then used what they had discovered to draw and label the different features. It was lovely to see them taking such care with their drawings and thinking carefully about what they had learned.

Well done, Whitsand Class, for another fantastic week of learning!

Week 3 in Whitsand!

Our Year 1 children have been amazing mathematicians this week as we've been exploring greater than and less than. We made our own Numbergators using card and split pins, and the children loved using their hungry crocodiles to work out which numbers were bigger and smaller. They showed great confidence explaining their mathematical thinking.

In Science, we became investigators and carried out an experiment to discover which materials are the stretchiest. We tested a variety of different materials and found that rubber bands stretched much more than anything else. We also discovered that felt was one of the least stretchy materials, and the children enjoyed making predictions before testing each one.

Our History lesson sparked some wonderful conversations as we shared the fantastic feedback from parents about how school has changed since they were at primary school. The children were fascinated to hear about the differences and similarities, and they loved comparing school life then and now.

We're so proud of all the enthusiasm, curiosity and teamwork the children have shown this week. Well done, Whitsand Class – keep up the amazing work!

Whitsand have had another fantastic week of learning, and we are so proud of everything they have achieved!

In History, we have continued exploring how school has changed over time. The children have loved comparing schools from the past with school today, and they are especially excited for next week when they will be hearing stories from parents and grandparents about their own school experiences. We can't wait to discover how different (or similar) school was for them!

In Science, we have started investigating different materials and thinking about which ones are most suitable for building strong bridges. The children enjoyed exploring the properties of different materials and are looking forward to putting their ideas to the test in future lessons.

We have also begun exploring the classic story of Jack and the Beanstalk. The children were brilliant actors as they recreated different parts of the story and performed them for the class. They showed fantastic expression, teamwork and confidence, bringing the characters and adventure to life.

Well done Whitsand, for another week full of curiosity, creativity and enthusiasm. We can't wait to see what next week brings!