Zebra Class Blog (Y1)
Welcome to our new blog for 2024-25! We hope to share all the wonderful things we are learning about in Year 1.
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Our Class teachers are Mrs A. Rockey (Mon and Tues) and Mrs L. Channon (Wed-Fri). Our teaching assistant is Ms C. McVeigh.
We have indoor PE every Wednesday and outdoor PE every Tuesday, children need to come to school on both days in their PE kit please.
YR Curriculum Overview 2024-25 YR Writing Curriculum 2024-25
Y1/2 Curriculum Overview 2024-25 Y1/2 Writing Curriculum 2024-25
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Friday 13 December 2024 More shapes and nativity fun! This week, the children have been practising their nativity play, 'It's A Baby!', around their learning in class. Their singing, dancing and acting is amazing and you are in for a real treat when you come to watch next week. We will be performing for you on Monday and Wednesday. Thank you for all your effort with the children's costumes. They looked absolutely fantastic in our dress rehearsal on Wednesday.
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Wednesday 4 December 2024 Zebra 6th December This week the children have had a wonderful experience going to the theatre to watch the pantomime. I have heard some wonderful stories about how it was and what they saw. It sounds like a lot of fun was had by all.
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Friday 29 November 2024 Shapes, leaflets and Brunel We have had another busy week in Zebra Class and the children have continued to try their absolute best in all areas of the curriculum.
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Thursday 21 November 2024 Zebras 22.11.24 The Zebras have had a wonderful day exploring the SS Great Britain today. It was amazing the see the boat we have been learning about so much in class for real life. We were amazed how big it was and got to look really carefully at the iron hull and propellor. We imagined having a job on board and what it would have been like. The sounds and strange smells helped us with that!
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Friday 15 November 2024 Isambard Kingdom Brunel It has been another fantastic week in Zebra Class. The children have especially enjoyed starting our brand new history topic, learning about the achievements of the famous Victorian engineer, Isambard Kingdom Brunel. We looked at different sources of information and acted as inquisitive historians to find out as much as possible about him. We soon found out that sources of information from the past (photos, paintings, memorial plaques, statues) can tell us some information, but not everything we might want to know! The children cannot wait to visit the SS Great Britain next week, another one of Brunel's amazing masterminds.
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Wednesday 13 November 2024 7.11.24 This week the children have experienced a visit from a musical band playing different tunes from England and Scotland. The children joined in clapping, dancing and singing. We listened to a harp, accordion and violin.
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Wednesday 16 October 2024 Zebra senses This week we have continued to think about our bodies. We had fun labelling the different parts of our body with sticky notes and then thought about our 5 senses. We explored different textures, smells, sounds and images to think about which sense we were using.
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Friday 11 October 2024 Super Scientists! We have had another busy week in Zebra Class, continuing our topic on 'animals including humans'. We have classified different animals, looking at their common features and have thought about why they belong to different groups (fish, birds, reptiles, amphibians, mammals, amphibians). We looked at whether animals are carnivores, herbivores or omnivores and also thought about what we like to eat as humans! We then became investigators had a series of clues to decipher to help us work out which animals had been inside and outside of our classroom
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Thursday 26 September 2024 Zebra visit to the Holburn Museum This week the children went to Bath on the coach to visit the Holburn Museum to visit the sculptures and to take part in a workshop which enabled us to try out out sculpture skills and make a figurative sculpture using mod-roc. The children enjoyed looking at the portraits and moving the wooden man into the poses they could see. They then moved their own metal framed person into a pose and learnt how to cover it with mod-roc. The children listened well to the instructions and created some super sculptures.
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Thursday 19 September 2024 Likes and dislikes This week we have been reading a book called 'can i build another me?' we have been thinking about things we like and dislike. We had a really fun lesson exploring different things and deciding if we liked or disliked them. We felt beans, pasta, pine cones, wet spaghetti and playdoh. We smelt vinegar, marmite and mustard, we stood carefully on lego and discussed weather we liked or disliked these things and used descriptive language to describe why.
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Friday 13 September 2024 Our first full week in Year 1 What an amazing first, full week we have had in Zebra Class. The children should feel so proud of themselves. They have worked so hard, following our new rules and routines and giving their best to all the learning tasks.
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Wednesday 4 September 2024 Welcome To Zebra Class 2024 A huge welcome to the new Zebra Class, We have had a lovely start back to school getting to know each other whilst learning about our class animal! We have made a lovely floor book together with lots of facts and pictures all about Zebras!
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Friday 19 July 2024 Happy holidays Zebra Class! Wow! It is hard to believe that this is the very last blog of the year and we have come to the end of our time in Zebra Class. What an absolutely amazing year we have had together, with so much growth in so many different ways. Mrs Channon, Miss
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Thursday 11 July 2024 Zebra Music This week we were luck to have a band come and visit us. They played music using their instruments and we were able to clap along to the beat of the song.
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Friday 5 July 2024 Moving cars! This week, we have been very busy making our moving cars for our DT project. First, the children designed and labelled their plans for their cars and then the making process could begin!
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Friday 28 June 2024 Zebra Colour Run The children had a great time at our colour run this afternoon, There was bubbles and tunnels and lots of colour!! Thank you to everyone that supported this event all the money goes back into school to help fund the amazing school trips we offer.
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Friday 21 June 2024 Money, money, money! We have had another busy week in Zebra Class. It is hard to believe we are almost half-way through this term already!
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Thursday 13 June 2024 Zebra motor museum trip The Zebras had a wonderful time visiting the motor museum, today. The got to see lots of different cars and actually sit in some of them. We saw the oldest car designed by Karl Benz up close which reminded us how cars have changed over time. It was great to see it so close having looked at lots of pictures in the classroom.
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Thursday 23 May 2024 Zebra Sports Day We had a great time taking part in our sports day this year. It was a different way of doing it but the children loved the different activities and it was great hearing them cheer their team on and supporting one another.
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Friday 17 May 2024 Sewing fun! This week, the children have become experts at sewing! They started the week by designing their own hand puppet, choosing fabric, buttons, pipe cleaners and other materials to accessorise their puppets. The children then practised using a simple running stitch in readiness for joining the fabric for their hand puppet together. On Wednesday afternoon, some of the parents and grandparents joined Zebra Class to help sew our hand puppets (thank you, grown ups!) The finished products are amazing and look just like our original designs. Please take a look at our puppets below- I think you will agree that they look fantastic!
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Thursday 9 May 2024 Sports Day Ready The children are loving the opportunity to go swimming every week and their confidence in the water is really improving. We are so proud of them all.
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Friday 3 May 2024 Friday 3rd May 2024 We have had a another busy week in Zebra Class! The children are really enjoying their swimming sessions every Tuesday afternoon and it is wonderful to see how much their water confidence is increasing week by week. I am very proud of all the children. If you have any availability to help at the pool this Tuesday (7th May) or the following Tuesday (14th May), please drop me an email:
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Thursday 25 April 2024 Our trip to Noah's Ark This week we went to visit Noah's Arc Farm Park. We had an amazing day and were able to see the animals up close. We were amazed by how big the elephants were and we were really lucky to have our lunch while we watched them. We loved seeing the Zebras and watching them move across their field. We all had different favourite animals, Mrs Channon loved the giraffes and Miss McVeigh loved the bears. It was a wonderful day out and the children were really well behaved.
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Friday 19 April 2024 Swimming begins! Welcome to Term 5 Zebra Class! I hope you all had a wonderful Easter break and didn't eat too much chocolate!!
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Wednesday 27 March 2024 Happy Easter Zebras Thank you to all the parents that came to our parent event at the start of the week. The children always love sharing what they have been learning about and having time with you in their classroom. We hope you found the phonic session useful and enjoyed making some flowers with your children.
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Friday 22 March 2024 Plants and Rosie Red! This week in Zebra Class, we have continued to work really hard.
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