Class 1 What a busy week we've had! Reception have been working hard in our phonics sessions, quickly picking up lots of new phonemes and working hard to write them. In Maths we have been investigating patterns using all sorts of materials. In SCARF we shared pictures of our families, telling our friends what makes them special to us and recognising how they are different from our friends'. We also took part in Climate Day, where we learned about our wonderful world - making story sticks of natural treasures we found around the playground, then designing and building robots to help us make small changes to look after our environment. On Friday we were excited to take part in European Languages Day, with French, German and Ukrainian activities as well as finding out about different European flags. And again, we still found lots of time to explore and play!

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Class 1 It has been a very busy week in Class 1, with Reception settling in well to their daily phonics sessions. In Maths, Reception have read 'The Button Box,' and thought of different ways to group the buttons, as well as building houses for different sized animals. In Nursery they have been creating fabulous building using different shaped blocks.

We explored our orchard area and had our first Forest School taster, learning fire pit rules and making popcorn.

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Class 1 have had a fantastic week, with all children well settled into our routines and embracing their learning opportunities. Reception have loved starting Drawing Club and it is great to hear and see how imaginative they are. Nursery have begun their small group work, focusing on listening to their friends and taking turns. In SCARF we have been sharing all the things we enjoy and are good at, celebrating how different we are.

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Class 1 have made a brilliant start to the new school year. We have all enjoyed lots of time to explore inside and out: learning all about our new friends during our SCARF
session; starting to talk about different emotions linking to the Colour Monster; enjoyed singing some familiar nursery rhymes as well as learning some new ones; starting to learn all about apples and sampling some of our homegrown harvest; painting; building; making colour potions; climbing; building obstacle courses; testing our balance on the bike ramp..... They have all been amazing!

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Class 1 have had a lovely last week together, with all of our children showing they are ready for the next step in their school journey.

We enjoyed an end of term picnic, sharing cakes we had baked ourselves. We worked together to build paper aeroplanes, helped by some of our friends in year 5, then had a competition to see whose would fly the furthest. We all had fun flying our planes around the field and trying to make them do stunts. We have been busy making some very special paintings and cards for our year 6 buddies - we are so grateful for all the support and kindness you have shown us and wish you the very best of luck at your new schools!

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Class 1 have had an absolutely fantastic week. We started it with our trip to Maryport, where we visited the Lifeboat station and leaned all about the different kinds of boats they use and rescues they do. Then we had time to play on the beach and ice lollies all round.
On Tuesday we had our Forest School session with some very special guests - our teddies had decided to surprise us! We had a lovely teddy bears picnic and enjoyed making dens for our bears.
We loved watching Class 4's performance of 'Oliver with a Twist' and were so impressed with the acting, singing and dancing. Well done to you all!

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Class 1 have been busy learning all about maps in Maths and have enjoyed making maps for Goldilocks to find her way home, treasure maps and looking at maps of Crosby-on-Eden.
We were very excited to release our butterflies, having watched how they changed from a caterpillar. We have been writing about different life cycles.
We had a fantastic time on transition day, with Reception enjoying their time in Class 2 and Nursery welcoming some new friends.
Everyone has their fingers crossed for a dry sports day, we have been practising our racing and skipping and are really looking forward to it.

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Class 1 - Here are some of the activities we have enjoyed this week:

• Reading 'The Growing Story,' and thinking about changes with the passing of time.
• Working on counting backwards from 15 (then 20).
• Reading 'Goldilocks and the 3 Bears' for Drawing Club and producing some fantastic illustrations and creative twists to the story.
• Describing positions of items on a map.
• Playing attack and defence games in PE, where the fishes had to cross the river safely without being attacked by the sharks!
• Watching our butterflies emerge and move about before release.
• Producing observational drawings of our butterflies.
• Practising our sack race techniques in preparation for Sports Day!
• Welcoming our parents and carers in for our final Book and Biscuit of the school year.

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Class 1 enjoyed a trip to the Village green for a Sports Day practice with Class 2 - we were very impressed by their enthusiasm as well as how supportive they were of their friends and teammates.

In Drawing Club, we have had a fantastic time drawing the Pink Panther, designing his car and creating him some new friends. Reception children are really challenging themselves with their codes now and Nursery are coming up with brilliant ideas.

We have continued to keep a close eye on our caterpillars who have begun to transform into chrysalises. We are looking forward to seeing what kind of beautiful butterflies they turn into.

In SCARF we have been talking about the changes that happen to humans, looking at what is different about babies, toddlers, school children, teenagers, adults and older adults. We used excellent describing words to talk about the differences and similarities.

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Class 1 We are very excited to see how much our caterpillars have grown and are keeping a close eye on them to see when they start to build their chrysalises. We have also been learning about other life cycles, such as frogs and birds and humans, and comparing differences and similarities between them.
In Maths, Reception have continued their work on sharing and grouping, with some fabulous practical work on even and odd numbers. We are very good at explaining our ideas to each other.
In Drawing Club we have been reading the French book, Je m’habille et Je te croque! We enjoyed learning little bits of French, drawing our wolves and writing some brilliant codes.
In our Music lessons, we have been revisiting some of our favourites from the Autumn term, as well as trying to identify different instruments in a variety of pieces of music. Some very careful listening, well done!

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