Panda Class Blog (Y1/2)
Welcome to our new blog for 2024-25! We hope to share all the wonderful things we are learning about in Year 1 and 2.
Our Class teachers are Mrs E. Millard (Mon, Tues and alternate Wed) and Mrs E. Kerbey (Wed-Fri). Our teaching assistant is Mrs D. Airey.
We have indoor PE every Tuesday and outdoor PE every Friday, children need to come to school on both days in their PE kit please.
Y1/2 Curriculum Overview 2024-25 Y1/2 Writing Curriculum 2024-25
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Friday 28 March 2025 Terrific Trains Trees and Tally Charts What an exciting week it s been beginning with our class trip on Monday to Warminster park. We started with a terrific train ride, which was very exciting as some of us have never been on a train before. Panda Class did an amazing job of walking all of the wat to the station, then from the station to the park, around the park and back again. It was a really long way for little legs but a great lesson in stamina and determination! At the park we continued our learning all about deciduous and evergreen trees, we looked at wildflowers and had an opportunity to help the park keeper sew some seeds. The children are good at spotting clues if a tree or shrub is evergreen. They know the leaves may be thick and waxy, or thin and spiky like needles. And of course a trip to a park is not complete without a good fun play on the swings, climbing frames and slides.
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Friday 21 March 2025 Moving, Measuring and Making things happen! What another super week we have had in Panda Class! The weather has been glorious again - we do love the sunshine! Even better, we've been back out on the Trim Trail for play times and lunch times again now that the grass isn't muddy anymore. It's been lovely to see the children playing out there so happily - and watching their imaginations flourish with the games they play.
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Friday 14 March 2025 Marvelous Metre Measuring and Pretty Painted Pictures Spring is definitely in the air! Despite the cold mornings, the sun has been bright and the days are getting longer. Panda Class have worked super hard this week and should feel proud of all of their achievements. We have continued to enjoy learning lots of new and interesting things this week as well as consolidating things we have already learned.
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Friday 7 March 2025 Hello Sunshine! How lovely has it been to see the sunshine again and feel a little bit of warmth from the sun hitting our skin? The children have thoroughly enjoyed being able to run around at playtimes and lunchtimes without always needing their coats on, and our walk down to the swimming pool on Tuesday was glorious!
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Friday 28 February 2025 We are inspired! It was lovely to welcome everyone back this week and to begin our fantastic new art topic on Georgia O'Keeffe. We have learnt that she was an American artist who took her inspiration from natural objects around her. So we decided to try and take our inspiration from natural objects in our environment. We then used the leaves we collected to practice our sketching and shading skills. Georgia O'Keeffe also loved to use bold vibrant colours to paint her pictures, so we then looked at painting by recognising the three primary colours and using them to create secondary colours.
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Friday 14 February 2025 What a Great Term! What a fabulous term we have had! We hope everyone has had a great day today and are looking forward to a lovely week next week.
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Friday 7 February 2025 Healthy fruit salads for everyone! What a fun week we have had in Panda Class this week. We have been thinking about what foods help us to stay healthy and how we can prepare them safely. We talked about how to use the claw and bridge technique to chop, slice and cut fruit safely and which parts of the fruit we could eat. After we had designed our fruit salads, we then prepared them carefully and safely before we enjoyed eating them. It was delicious, colouful and nutritious and the children worked safely and carefully. Great job Panda Class!
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Friday 31 January 2025 Cooking and Calculations! What a busy week we've had! So much fabulous and varied learning - it's been wonderful to see the children trying hard to figure things out and develop this skills.
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Friday 24 January 2025 Mighty Musicians and Mathematicians Panda Class have worked their socks off this week and we have been blown away by their amazing attitude to learning.
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Friday 17 January 2025 Pandas - Lighthouse Keepers Lunch This week, Panda Class have continued to read and explore the wonderful book, The Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch. We have been learning about how to use an apostrophe correctly to show that something belongs to someone, we have thought about sequencing events, thought about the questions that we might ask the characters, and thought about how the characters are feeling at different points in the story.
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Friday 10 January 2025 A Warm but Wintery Welcome back! Welcome back Panda Class. The children have come back excited and ready to learn.
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Friday 20 December 2024 Merry Christmas Pandas! What a fabulous end to the term we have had this week! The children were absolutely fabulous in their Christmas Nativity performances on Monday and Wednesday. We hope you were as proud as we were when you watched them up there on the stage.
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Friday 13 December 2024 Our amazing Christmas Crackers! We have had another really busy week in Panda Class where the children have worked their socks off! They have had lots of fun learning about 2D and 3 D shapes and as this unit of maths comes to a close we have been so proud of how much the children have learnt about pattern, symmetry and knowing the properties of shapes. They know the point where edges meet are called vertices, the flat parts of 3D Shapes are faces and the line are called edges. See how many shapes you can spot around your home and everyday objects that are cuboids, cylinders, spheres and triangular prisms.
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Friday 6 December 2024 Perching Pandas at the Panto! What a wonderful week we've had in Panda Class!
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Friday 29 November 2024 SS Great Britain and 2D shapes What a fantastic day we had last Friday when we visited the SS Great Britain. The children had lots of fun seeing first hand Brunel's amazing achievements. We began by looking around the top deck where we saw lots of animals they would have carried on their voyages, either to feed the first class passengers with fresh meat or to provide them with eggs and fresh milk. We then enjoyed looking around the first class sleeping areas and dining room, adorned with gold and velvet cushions. It was interesting to compare the first class areas to the sterrage areas and we all decided we would rather travel as firsts class passengers. We also really enjoyed being able to explore under the ship, being able to see the iron hull and the screw propeller. The children were a credit to our school and behaved beautifully.
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Friday 22 November 2024 A chilly, busy week! It's been a little strange in Panda Class this week, with lots of children feeling poorly at the beginning of the week... but those of us who were there did lots of lovely learning, and it was great to see more children join us again, feeling better, as the week went on!
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Friday 15 November 2024 Perceptive Poems Published to end our Zim Zam Zoom topic! What a fantastic way Panda class finished their week by publishing (writing up in best to be displayed on the wall) their firework poems. We were SOO proud of the determination some of the children showed when they had made a mistake in their 'best' work and were asked to do it again. They are really developing resilience and a positive mindset which was fantastic to see and the pride they felt seeing their work go straight up on the wall was lovely. Great job everyone!
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Friday 18 October 2024 Panda Class Guess Who? It's been another busy week in Panda Class with more fabulous learning from all the children. We hope that you enjoyed seeing the work that the children have been doing in their books this term when you came along to parents evening this week. We certainly enjoyed seeing you all and talking to you about how your children have settled in to Panda Class since September.
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Friday 11 October 2024 Skillful scientists and wonderful writers This week Panda Class have continued to enjoy finding out about animals; discovering what they eat and how to classify them as Herbivores, Carnivores an Omnivores. They have also had lots of fun working scientifically to identify what animals may have been prowling around by looking at the clues they have left behind. We had lots of fun using magnifying glasses and taking our learning outside to follow the clues.
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Friday 4 October 2024 Budding Artists head to Bath! Last Thursday, Panda class, along with Leopards and Zebras, headed out on their first trip of the year to Holburne Museum in Bath. We have been studying sculpture in out Art topic since the beginning of the term, so this trip was to enrich this learning, getting to see art and sculpture in a gallery.
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Friday 4 October 2024 Budding Artists head to Bath! Last Thursday, Panda class, along with Leopards and Zebras, headed out on their first trip of the year to Holburne Museum in Bath. We have been studying sculpture in out Art topic since the beginning of the term, so this trip was to enrich this learning, getting to see art and sculpture in a gallery.
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Friday 27 September 2024 Only one, wonderful and Unique Me! This week we have come to the end of our learning using the story Can I build another me? We have been thinking about all the things we can do or can't do yet; all the things Kevin can and can't do and finally thinking creatively about what job we might do when we are grown up! We created lovely imaginative ideas to try and extend our sentences with adjectives and different conjunctions such as When I grow up I want to be a fabulous baker with great big fuzzy hair but I don't want to be a fast runner with long bendy legs. We practiced saying our sentences over and over again before writing them so that we could focus on using a capital letter, full stop and finger spaces. We have seen such an improvement already in some of the children's writing. Great Job Panda Class. You are super stars!
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Friday 13 September 2024 Naming Nouns and Proud Portraits This week Panda Class have been very busy settling into new class routines; new groups for RWI and mastering number. It takes lots of brain power remembering where to find different resources, how to set our work out neatly keeping writing on the line or single digits in different boxes as well as starting to learn lots of new information. Well done Panda class you should be super proud of much effort you are showing and how kindly you are helping each other. What a fab start!
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Friday 6 September 2024 Welcome to Panda Class! Welcome back Pandas after a lovely summer break! What a fantastic start Panda Class have made in getting to know each other and making everyone feel very welcome. It has been a very positive start to the year with lots of kindness and thoughtfulness being shown to each other throughout the week. It has been great to hear about some of the wonderful places the children have been to including Spain, Minorca, Cornwall and Wales, Devon and France. The class have enjoyed spending time with cousins and grandparents, friends and parents over the summertime, playing in the garden, going to the park, soft play or watching a film at the cinema.
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Friday 19 July 2024 Happy Summer Holiday Panda Class
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Thursday 11 July 2024 Amazing Band performance and Awesome car testing What a fun day we have had in Panda class. On Thursday we were so fortunate to experience the wonderful music performed by the New Orleans Band who's music was inspiring, fun and uplifting. It was so lovely to see the pure enjoyment on the children's faces as they sang, clapped and danced along to the fantastic musicians. They children were captivated by the Tuba, Saxophone, Trumpet, Trombone and drum and returned to the classroom inspired and full of enthusiasm. It was great to see.
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Friday 5 July 2024 Constructing Cars and Persuasive Letters This week, the children had great fun constructing their cars. They had to choose wheels and make sure they fitted on the axles properly. The children then had great fun attaching doors and windows using pivot and hinge joins. They have really enjoyed their DT topic on cars this term.
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Friday 28 June 2024 Colourful colour run and creative cars! Another busy week in Panda Class! The children are really enjoying their new DT topic learning about how to make a moving car. They have been testing out different ways to attach an axle to a chassis and the best way to fix the wheels to an axle. The children have been very creative in making axles from sticks, pencils, dowels or straws. They had a good attempt at cutting out wheels but decided it was more successful to use pre cut ones! They have also designed what they would like their finished vehicle to look like, ready to create it next week.
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