Stanway Fiveways Primary School

Welcome to Cherry and Magnolia's class page! Our topic this half term is 'Whatever The Weather!'. The children will be learning all about weather patterns and what a weather forecast is. They will also learning about seasonal changes in British weather. As well as this, we will be rehearsing and performing our Christmas Nativity! We hope you enjoy finding out about what we have been up to!

This week, the children performed their Christmas play, Prickly Hay, in front of their families. They did a fantastic job and the Y1 teaching team were all very proud of them.

In Maths, the children began to learn about shape. We have been focussing on 2D shapes this week. We learnt about their properties, how many sides and vertices each shape has, and then sorted them into groups using these properties.

During COOL time, the children have enjoyed completing phonics, maths and writing challenges. They also used some of the resources to recreate the rock workshop that the children participated in on Wednesday morning!

This week, Christmas has really begun at Fiveways. On Monday, the children enjoyed a visiting pantomime show, Scroogical. Then on Wednesday it was Christmas jumper day and Christmas dinner. Finally, on Friday, the children performed the Prickly Hay nativity to their siblings and Year 5 who were all very impressed.

The children have also been working hard on their learning. In English, the children have been writing their own Paddington story, Paddington visits the Forest. The Y1 teachers have been very impressed with the children’s presentation and their stamina for writing.

This week, the children completed their maths unit focusing on addition and subtraction with numbers to 10. The children have shown great progress in their understanding and we are very proud of them.

In Design and Technology, the children went to the DT room to practice their chopping, peeling and grating skills in preparation for making a healthy fruit snack at the end of term.

We also participated in a whole school positive noticing day as part of Agents of Change. The children loved receiving tags where their classmates had written positive things they had noticed about them.

The children have also been enjoying maths, English and phonics challenges in the outdoor area.

This week, Y1 started their new Talk 4 Writing unit – Paddington Visits London. To launch this new text, the children all enjoyed making and eating marmalade sandwiches, just like Paddington!

In Science, the children went on a nature walk around the grounds looking for signs of autumn. They also went to have a look at our class tree. We will be visiting this tree throughout the year, so that we can see all the changes it goes through during the different seasons.

The children have also been completing lots of tuff tray challenges in the outside area. These included: a London landmark hunt, seasons matching activity, addition number sentences and a phonics sorting game.

Wow, what a busy week we have had! The children returned from their half term break full of enthusiasm.

In English this week, the children finished off their non-fiction unit. The children innovated using their own ideas and they adapted the model text about Tree Giants to write about Ice Giants. Lots of great adjectives were used to describe what an Ice Giant looks like and what they eat.

In Science, we began learning about the seasons. The children learnt the names of the four seasons and thought about what the weather and nature is like in each.

The children have all enjoyed completing the tuff tray challenges this week. They got creative making their own Ice Giant, practised matching lower and upper case letters and began to think about cold and hot countries.