What a fantastic day!

Games

Dancing

Party food

Today we visited Beamish Museum to see Father Christmas. The children were excited as they approached the grotto.

We then headed to the town where we visited the different shops and had lunch.

We took a short tram ride to the pit village and visited the Victorian school. The children spotted lots of differences compared to our school.

It really helped get us in the Christmas spirit.

When the children arrived this morning they were keen to talk about the snow.  Following their interests we went outside to explore.

“It’s cold,” Harriet said.

We used our fine motor skills to make marks in the snow.

After holding some snow in their hand, one of the children noticed that it was getting smaller. “It’s melting,” said Koby. We then experimented with different methods to melt the ice.

Harriet noticed that if she rubbed her hands together with the ice in the middle it melted quicker.

Using utensils they rescued leaves that were encased in ice.

In Class 1 we use lots of kind words.

With the help of Year 6 we led a liturgical prayer based around ‘one kind word.’ The children were respectful throughout and shared a kind word with others in school.

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Mr Baker was very impressed with how well we worked together to make shelters using natural resources. Well done Class 1.

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This week we talked a lot about remembrance. The children asked lots of questions and were exposed to new vocabulary about the topic.

They found out about a local solider called Norman and looked at some of his possessions.

They carried out some observational drawings of poppies.

We worked together to create our own cenotaph inspired by the one in London.

Mrs Hall very kindly brought in some equipment that the Royal Navy use today. She told us about all the different things and we even got to try them on.

In preparation for Remembrance Day we have been discussing the reason why we mark this day. We walked into the community to visit one of the soldier silhouettes, that have been placed around the village.
This gave us the opportunity to explore lots of new vocabulary.

This afternoon we enjoyed a visit to the library. Mrs Close read us a story about a crocodile and we were able to choose a book to read in school.

On World Mental Health Day we joined the Hello Yellow campaign. It linked nicely to our work on the Colour Monster and the children remembered that yellow meant happy in the story. We made and sang our own version of ‘If You’re Happy and You Know It’ and had fun with lots of props in our photo booth.