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Westover Green Community School and Autism Centre

Year 1 Cherry

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Welcome to our class page. I am Miss Basten, the class teacher and Mrs Haste is our fabulous assistant. We hope you enjoy looking at our page where you can see a snapshot of all our exciting, challenging and fun learning opportunities we achieve at school.

Curriculum Maps

Below is a copy of our Curriculum Overviews. This shows the different topics we will learn about each term as well as what your child will be learning in each subject.

Autumn Term - September 2019 - December 2019

Spring Term - January 2020 - April 2020

Summer Term - April 2020 - July 2020

Newsletters

Autumn Newsletter 2019

Spring Newsletter

Sharing Letters & Timetable

Sharing Letter: Every Friday afternoon we will send out a Sharing Letter to share with you what your child will be learning in the following week. Any important messages will be shared at the top of the letter as well a website of the week that we feel will help embed your child's learning and will be linked to our class topic. Our topic for the next 6 weeks will be Amazing Animals.

16th - 20th March 2020

Timetable

Spring Timetable - Please keep checking in case this changes.

P.E will be on a Tuesday afternoon. Please provide joggers and a hoodie as the weather always gets colder in January and February but we will still be going out for our exercise!

Homework

Please ensure that you spend time to do homework with your children but not do it for them :-) I really love looking at what your child has chosen to learn about and how creative they have been. Drawings, labelling, photographs, writing... all are welcome and celebrated. All I ask is that the children are proud of them and they have tried their very best. The children have been or will be learning about the topics covered in class so this is not new learning but to consolidate this independently.

The children's homework books were a delight to read over half term. I always love seeing how creative they are and the activities that the children choose to do. It is also reassuring to know that you as parents are supporting your children to achieve this too and helps to build the bridge between home and school. It was also great to see parents not completing the writing in the homework books.

This term we start our Amazing Animals topic.

Please continue to read everyday and practise Magic Maths with your child.
Thank you for all your hard work to make sure we all work together well.

Photos / Videos

World Book Day

We had a wonderful World Book Day celebrating our love of books and reading. We created our own mini-beast character and made them into a super hero character to link with our book of the week "Superworm".

Recycling

As part of Year One's "Eco Project", the children have been learning the importance of recycling. We went on a little pick around the canal and were shocked at how much rubbish we collected in such a short space of time! Back In class we made some posters to promote recycling and to remind people to put their rubbish in the bin and look after our world. Next week we are going to go back to the canal and tie the posters to lamp-posts to remind people of their responsibilities. The children have also learnt a recycling song (which hopefully they have been singing at home!). In groups they have created their own Eco band and made up their own 4 line verse thinking about rhythm and how many beats should be in each line of their verse. The children performed these to Year 6 using their musical instruments they made at home as part of their homework.


Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole

The children went back in time to 1854 to the Crimean battlefield and Scutari hospital as they acted out being Florence Nightingale, Mary Seacole and injured soldiers. The children have been exposed to real life artefacts, learnt about the different plants Mary used to make her herbal remedies and had a go at making their own ginger beer...this was a bit like 'Marmite'. Some of the children loved it, and others hated it as you can see from the photos below! Enjoy :-)

Hated it....

Loved it...

Festive Fun!

These children have read at least 3 times a week for a whole term and got a lucky dip in the treat box. Well done everyone :-)

Our Westover Wonderful Word Wednesday!

Wow! So many words and fabulous costumes. Thank you to all that made such a fantastic effort. We had great fun acting out our words and finding out the definition and origin of our word.

London's Burning!

We kick-started off our Great Fire of London topic with a visit from the Somerset Heritage Centre on Thursday 21st November. The children had to work together to transport the buckets of water down the line just like the people of London did with the water from the Thames. They observed and handled different artefacts including a leather bucket and had a go at writing our names using ink and a quill. We all had a fantastic morning of learning.

It's Carnival Time...!

The children have had a great week learning to develop their D&T skills in class and in their South American Carnival Cart workshops that took place in the hall. The children have learnt about moving parts such as wheels and axles and have had a go at using the saws and glue guns to create their marvellous carnival carts. A brilliant week full of support from parents, imagination, creativity, smiles all round and our very own carnival parade in the playground as our grand finale.

South America

The children have thoroughly enjoyed learning all about South America! The children now know where to find this on a world map, have learnt about the different countries that make up South America, the landmarks, the vast amount of animals that live in the Amazon Rainforest, the indigenous people, and what the Amazon Rainforest is used for. They then used all this information to make their own information books filled with facts and captions about South America. Below are a few photos of our Creativity week where the children created Peruvian Arpillera pictures using coloured paper and card as well as wrapping yarn to create their Alpaca's. They also used clay to sculpt and paint their own rainforest animal which they had designed. To end the week they lastly painted their own talking stick using South American geometric patterns with their own tribal patterns on their face to really look the part. Tribe Cherries what a fantastic few weeks of learning!

Julia Donaldson

The children have enjoyed learning across the curriculum through the stories of Julia Donaldson. They loved taking on the different roles of characters from the stories "Sharing a Shell" and "A Squash and a Squeeze" through hot seating and role play. Some of them were very convincing! The children also made a fabulous "Betty" from "The Scarecrow's Wedding as part of our Design and Technology lessons. The children in Apple Class made "Harry".

In Maths the children have been learning to use the words "more than", "less than", "greater than" and "equal to" to compare numbers up to 10. The children have challenged themselves by using the > < and = to signs.

In Computing the children explored how to use a Beebot. They were set a challenge to see if they could predict how far the Beebot would move by pressing the forward button just once. They placed one cube next to their Beebot and the second cube where they thought their Beebot would stop. Some of the children had a harder challenge and placed their cube in a chosen destination and programmed their Beebot to go a further distance based on what they already knew. This was being a connecting spider.

In P.E the children have been learning how to aim and throw a ball at a target. Some of the activities have involved knocking a target over using a tennis ball, hitting a larger ball with a smaller ball so that it moves, rolling a ball in between two tram lines as well as rolling a ball into a hoop. We discussed good techniques by bending our knees, looking at our target and applying enough force to get our ball to the target. A lot of resilience and determination was shown by lots of children. Ana and Jaylen didn't give up for 15 minutes! What great Resilient Lions!

In Art the children have been learning how to create different shades and tints of a colour by adding white or black. The children then learnt how to make secondary colours by mixing two primary colours together and then used their knowledge to paint a self portrait of themselves which we have hung on "Our Wonderful Wall of Work" in class.