Number Work Show and 'Other Things' (written by Year 1)

We had a maths workshop come into the Luckwell. Craig did a funny show for Key Stage 1. It was a fantastic number work show. He made us laugh a lot.

We have been learning about Electricity in Science. Here we are having a really good try at making a Complete Circuit.

In Number work we have been making change from 10p and 20p. We have been playing fun games on the Interactive White Board...

... and playing shops with each other.

Monster Fun!!!! (written by Year One)

It has been a fun week in Year One and we have been happy that Spring is on it's way at last!


On Red Nose Day Miss Welton took a picture of the Year One crazy, fantastic monsters.


Here we are being very scarey!


Here is a picture of us finding caterpillars for our Science experiment because it was Science week - Caterpillar Chaos! We learnt all about camouflage for animals.


In PE we played a game of Pirate Treasure for a competition with the rest of the school and Ashton Gate school.



Here is a picture of us taking it in turns to have a go on the obstacle course that Ian from Bike It made for us. It was fab and cool!

Here we are riding our bikes in the bottom playground as part of out topic this term.

Year One's assembly went very well.

We sang the 'Govinda Jaya' song, displayed our Indian artwork and shared out poem about a train journey through India. We were so good at singing the song, that the class were given a Singing Certificate and a Star of the Week certificate!

On Friday, Lynn, from Brace's Bakery, came into the classroom to demonstrate how bread is made. He told us where the ingredients to make bread come from all about the history of bread and bread making and how to have a healthy diet.

We helped Lynn to make the bread dough, kneading and pounding it to make the yeast in the bread mix rise. We put the dough in a warm place to watch how the yeast made the dough rise before it is cooked in the oven.


We were lucky enough to be given a loaf of bread each to take home with us AND a goodie bag of things to colour in and games about healthy eating.

Next week, we are looking forward to bringing our bikes into school as part of our bike topic and a man called Ian will be coming in to talk about the History of bikes and how bikes work.

Phew!!! That was H O T! (written with the children)

Last week, Year 1 had a real taste of India! We tasted Indian food. There was no meat in the food because most Indian people are vegetarians and all Hindu people are too. We tasted mango ("which was yummy!), poppadoms ("which were salty"), samosas ("which were spicey") bhajis ("which had vegetables in") and bombay mix - which was H O T!!!!! It had so much chilli in that we had to rush to the sink for a cool drink of water! Here we are, gulping the water down!

We finished our Indian paintings and writing. This week, we have a class assembly and some of the parents are coming to look at all the things that we have learnt about India.

We all had a fantastic time at the Valentine Disco.

It's going to be a busy week this week in preparation for our performances but then we can all relax over half term.

"One day, I'm going to India!"

This week, we have been learning more about India.

Gareth from our school, came into the classroom to talk about her childhood growing up in India. She brought in some Indian objects and one of them was made from ivory, an elephants tusk. Elephants are looked after now and no one should hunt them.

Using Google Earth, we have compared maps of both India and the UK and looked at the different regions of India. We have learnt that the Himalayas are the biggest mountains in THE WORLD! and that The Ganges river begins in the Himalayas and flows into the rest of the country. We have compared the Ganges to The Thames river, in London.

On Tuesday, we went for a walk around the local area, looking at the attractive and unattractive features and comparing them to a small village in South India, Chembakoli. We then made our own map of the area, creating our own map symbols.

We have enjoyed spending some 'chill - out' time in the Indian role-play area. Here we are, dressing up in the many colourful Saris and Indian costumes that some of the parents have been kind enough to supply.

We have made our own Indian Rangoli designs from coloured rice, lentils, sand, glitter and chalks. Miss Welton was so pleased with our work and the way that we work so carefully and tidily, that she asked Mrs Roberts to come into the classroom and look at the Rangoli patterns and at some of the paintings of India that we had created.We also wrote some sentences about one of our favorite things about India. Some of us wrote about the Peacock, the National bird of India, some of us wrote about the Taj Mahal, a temple of love. There were lots of different things to learn about the country and we are going to invite the parents into the classroom so that we can share what we have learnt.

Because we had got all of the 'sweets' in our jar, on Friday we had a pyjama party during Golden Time. We put on our pyjamas and dressing gowns and sat cuddling our toys while we sipped hot chocolate and ate delicious cookies. Miss Welton put on her dressing gown and read us a story by one of our favorite authors, Roald Dahl. As the story is read, there are no pictures to look at so we have to sit quietly and use our imaginations, which we all really love to do! 'It's like disappearing into a different world!'

Next week, we are looking forward to trying some Indian foods and doing some Indian dancing and singing.

Some busy weeks we have had.... (written by the children)

We made a toy museum of old-fashioned toys and new toys. We opened the museum and showed our parents around. Everybody welcomed them and Emily gave out the tickets which cost 10p (not real money). Mrs Roberts came too and she was shown around the museum by Austen.

On Friday, Year 1 made a spell and tried to turn Professor Snape into a frog. Our spell had dragon tears, rat pooh, frogs eyes, monster toes, dog bone, lizard tongues and gold dust. Domi and Aaron held the caudron and stirred it. Our amazing spell really worked! Professor Snape went 'ribbett!' and lost his voice!

Here we all are writing up the spell.

We made some Stain-glass window biscuits which are really christmassie and tasted yummy! In our classroom we are getting ready for Christmas and practicing for the nativity next week.

We are back! (Emily) (written by the class)

Before the holidays we had our Recycling Fashion Show. We were fantastic at making our costumes and the grown-ups came to see our show.

It has been a busy week. We have been learning rhyming words in Literacy.In number work we have been sorting information into groups and practicing our doubles to 10.

We have made footballs to show the goals that we want to get better at. We are going to display them in the classrooom.

We had a disco and dressed up and danced all night. Ethan and Elif had a competition to see how long they could hold their breath.

When we came into the classroom there was a Toy Shop as we are going to be learning about old-fashioned toys this term.