This afternoon we were lucky enough to have a taster session from Matt the Acrobat and Kevin the Dancer. We had lots of fun trying some breakdancing and some acrobatics on the air track.

Details of the clubs have been sent home on leaflets today or can be found in the last photograph on this post. 

Now that the tarmac has dried, today was the grand opening of the 'Captain Mannering' which is the newly installed play equipment on the field. We had a great time this afternoon playing on it and exploring all of its features. 

This morning we visited the MacMIllan Coffee Morning. We had a great time donating our money to charity and enjoying the yummy cakes. Thank you for all of your generous donations.

Today we learnt that an algorithm is a set of instructions and worked in teams to create algorithms to direct our Bee Bot from one location on our map to another. 

This afternoon we had a workshop from the Life Education Bus. It was all about how to keep our bodies healthy. 
We learnt that our bodies need 5 things to keep them healthy: sleep, water, healthy foods, exercise and oxygen. Harold then taught us about the different types of healthy foods. He told us about different food groups like dairy which gives us strong bones and teeth, proteins which give us strong muscles, vegetables and fruit which keep us healthy and carbohydrates which give us energy. 
Harold was really impressed with our knowledge and how carefully we listened to him and Pamela.

​This week in Talk for Writing we have been learning about recounts. We have been practising our text map about our dragon egg hunt with actions to help us remember it.
Year 1, can you use our text map to teach someone at home our recount? 

The children have settled in really well to their new Read, Write, Inc. Phonics groups. On Thursday they will be bringing home the book that they have been reading in their daily sessions this week to share with their grown-ups at home. 
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​Thank you for your continued support.

Today we received an email from Mrs Mardell. She needed our help! There had been sightings of dragons at school and she asked us to find out if there was still a dragon nearby. 

We were very excited! We popped on our coats and went to look for clues on the playground.

We found three dragon eggs but one had cracked. We watched the CCTV which showed that the dragon had been in our outdoor classroom!

This week we have been busy creating beanstalk collages using lots of different art and craft materials.