Author: Mrs Keys

Myself, Mrs Beasley and Miss Gossage would like to say a huge thank you for all the lovely gifts and cards, it was very generous of you. We hope you have a wonderful summer break and look forward to seeing the children in the playground when they return to Year 2!

It was lovely to see so many of you this morning – what a talented bunch you are!

Grayling 1 have had a fantastic week. We were all so proud of them on Sports Day!

In maths we have been learning about capacity and volume and spent time outdoors in the water trays.

We also spent some time sketching some of the beautiful plants we have growing in our school grounds and trying to identify trees by their leaves.

On Wednesday we spent time learning about the wonderful David Attenborough and how he has helped us learn about and how to look after our planet. One member of Grayling 1 created this fantastic piece of digital artwork when he had some time on the iPad using all the skills he has previously learnt in our computing lessons. Super job Sonny!

If anyone is yet to email in a baby photo to the year 1 email, there is still time as we will be looking at them next week!

The children enjoyed getting out in the school grounds today and finding out how many different colours they could spot!

What a great start to the week! Yesterday we did Wake and Shake and then tennis. Today we have made some delicious fruit kebabs!

We had a fantastic trip this morning led by Miles King from People Need Nature. The children found out all about Buttercups and collected seeds from Poundbury Hill Fort and then scattered them on The Great Field. This time next year there should be lots more buttercups around!

What a glorius day we had on our trip last week! The children were so well behaved and we were very proud of them all. Well done Grayling 1!

In Art this half term we are focusing on concentric circles and spirals. We have drawn them in different media and last week the children created them in playdough This week we have used salt dough (pictures to come once they are dry). This is all building up towards a large scale collaborative piece of work using pebbles and sand.

This lovely piece of art work was inspired by the artist Kandinsky!

The children have enjoyed making Soda Bread – it smelt delicious!

The children had a great time on this week’s Welly Walk. We were thinking about what Poundbury is like and how some of the buildings are similar to famous London Landmarks! We also popped into the Garden Centre to add our handprints to a big tree that will be on display there.