Yesterday we had our class Eid and Christmas party. Thank you to everyone who brought in such delicious food. We really enjoyed eating it!

The children looked beautiful in their outfits, we even created a video of their fashion parade which the children really enjoyed watching!

We also saw Santa and he was good enough to bring us some board games to enjoy in our class. The children have already started to play with them.

Everybody had a good time and all the teachers were amazed at what fantastic dancers we have in Year 1!

Here are some photos of our fantastic afternoon!

At the end of the party we gave Mr Fitz his cards as he is leaving us to go travelling. We will miss him very much! Good luck and come back soon!

This week we have been making our classroom look beautiful. 1 Peach have shown all the teachers how well they can follow instructions by making some super snowflakes, they are on our windows and paper chains which are hanging all across the classroom. We have also made alien masks for our home corner which is going to be a space station next half term and animal masks for our jungle reading corner. I am amazed at how artistic all the children in the class are; it's fantastic!

We also wrote some super sentences by writing to Father Christmas and telling him what presents we would like! Here are some great examples of work, we have sent all of them to Lapland and will see after the holidays if any of us were lucky enough to get some of these presents!

Tomorrow is going to be our class party to celebrate Eid and Christmas and the New Year. The children may wear their own clothes all day. I will put some more photos on tomorrow so you can see all their lovely outfits. Please make sure you bring in food that can be easily shared out between the children as the food will be served in class and we won't have any cutlery etc.... And please NO NUTS!

Super scientists

This half term we have been learning about light and dark. The children have been working extra hard to became super scientists and carry out experiments to find which materials let light in and which ones don't. They have been busy sorting out materials and are now creating a health and safety light booklet armed with all their information from the lessons! We ahave been very impressed with Hamza who has a very scientific mind!

Happy Eid!

We had a lovely day yesterday looking at all the children in their party clothes. I especially loved seeing the boys in their suits! Everyone looked very smart. I hope you all had a happy Eid or enjoyed your day off on Monday and thank you to all the parents who made sure their children came back to school on Tuesday.

Busy bees!

In 1Peach we have been super busy bees this week. We have been learning and doing lots of exciting things in class and out!

Yesterday was our trip to the Toy Museum, we took so many photos it has taken us two sessions to look at them all! A selection are on the blog here but please feel free to come in and look at the slide show on the computer. I will put it on at the end of the day for the next week!

We have also started doing a spotlight session each Wednesday on a different child. Last week was Sajidah and this week it is Jahed. The children have been helping me with this as they did it last year in Reception, it is just a nice opportunity to have a chat and find out more about each other. That is also hanging up in our classroom for you to come and see anytime. At the end of their turn, the child will bring their 'spotlight' home with them for you to see and maybe display somewhere! A warning though, they are quite big!

The children may have told you about Miss Ashworth, we have been lucky enough to get her and she will be here every day until Christmas and then will be coming back again after the holidays. She is doing lots of different work with groups so ask your child if they have worked with her yet?

A big thank you to all the parents in Peach class, everyone paid their £2 to contribute towards the cost of the coaches! Thank you all so much!

It was lovely to have a go on the rocking horses, although the queue was quite long! Lots of children from other school wanted a go as well!

All the children enjoyed dressing up!

We enjoyed our spotlight session with someone from the museum, we got to play with some of the old toys and find out more information about them!

We have also got a new addition to the class. Tigger is our class puppet and every night he goes home with a child and they write what exciting things they do with Tigger at home and draw a lovely picture! Each child will get a turn and then we will have a lovely class story book about Tigger! The children want to add to the collection so by the end of the year we may have a family of puppets!

Wonderful work and Super Spellers!

Our super spellers from Friday were:

Jahed, Rafa, Astrit, Hassan, Hajar, Amir, Jone Sheng, Sebahat, Hamza, Kaan, Farah-Noer and Eddie. Well done children.

Our star of the week was Bilal because he always tries his best.

Here is some star work of the week:

Mahirah

Kaan

Astrit

We have been learning about time and lots of the children found it tricky. This is something you can practise with them at home, looking at the clock and saying the times together or asking them what time it is during familiar daily routines, e.g. when you leave the house in the morning, when their favourite tv programme is on etc...

Hajer

There was a bit of a sad start to the week this Monday, lots of children hadn't done their homework. Please make sure you do it with them over the weekend, it shouldn't take very long. A big thank you to the parents who make sure their child hands in their homework every single week!

Amazing artists

Your child should have come home with their final piece of art work before half term ended. I am so impressed with the standard of our mini Kandinsky's!

We used paint and charcoal over the half term and worked very hard to make sure the shapes were bold and stood out. Here are some pictures of us creating our masterpiece. Don't they all look wonderful together on the carpet at the end of the lesson?

I hope you have displayed your child's piece somewhere in the house. They are all beautiful!

Pizza Express Round 2!

This morning the other half of the class went to Pizza Express In Abbey Road. Again we were extremely lucky with the weather and walked there and back in glorious sunshine. The children were so well behaved and lots of passers by smiled at us and one even commented they were a lovely group of children!

We were given squash again and a lovely activity book to fill out which the children will be bringing home with them this evening along with the delicious pizzas!

I think there maybe some budding chefs amongst the class because the standard of the pizzas was excellent! What a talented class we are!

Here are some snaps of our trip out!