Class 1

We have been learning around the story of The Gruffalo today! We have enjoyed reading and joining in with the story! We used a story map to retell the story and we also read words and sentences that we matched to our story map. We have enjoyed playing in the Gruffalo woodland cafe and serving…

Nursery have been working hard on developing their fine motor skills through activities like using the tweezers! This is all going to help us develop amazing pencil control.

Today we explored the composition of 5! We threw the five beanbags and then counted or subitised how many landed in the hoop and how many landed outside the hoop. We recorded what happened using pictures and numerals. We looked at the total and found it was still 5!

Reception have been learning about the oo sound with cool blue in phonics this week. We have been reading words and sentences with the oo sound, writing words with the oo sound and we read Jack and the Beanstalk with lots of words with the oo sound in too. 
We have also been read tricky words…

We found a huge penguin in class one this morning! He delivered a story called Lost and Found. We read it and found out that the penguin wanted to make new friends! We have created our own penguins today using pastels and paint. We have been founding out about king penguins in the South Pole and…

We have been learning about winter this week. We also had a robin visit us in class one! We talked about how to care for birds over winter. We created our own bird feeders using cereal and put bird seed around the outdoor area to care for them.

Nursery enjoyed learning more about rhyme today! We used the pictures to find the rhyme “A witch on a switch.” “A dog on a log!” We thought of some more rhymes along the way for example “a dog and a frog on a log!” We also read Shark in the Park! We loved the story! We identified and completed…

Here are the links to the next Monster Phonics Parent webinars. These are an excellent way of finding out more about our phonics scheme Monster Phonics and how your child will be taught to read at St Mary's. 

Please see the links below. Click on the date that is suitable for you and sign up to…

We have had a wonderful Autumn term in Class One full of lots of exciting learning and experiences! Well done Class One! You have flown like eagles.

Next half term we are going to be welcoming more children into Class One. We are very excited to make new friends and to show leadership as we…

We enjoyed the Mince Pie Mice performance at the Lichfield Garrick today! We behaved beautifully! There was lots of super participation throughout and we had a super time!

We used our creative skills to build a Christmas train and role play being aboard the Polar Express! 

We have been using our creative skills and creating Christmas cards to give to our family.