Poppy Year 1

Welcome to Poppy Class 2019-20

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You can also email me @ lwalsh@nethertonmoss.co.uk if you have any questions or want to show me any of the lovely work the children have been getting on with whilst at home 😊

24/4/20- New Home School Packs are now available to pick up from school!

Hi everyone!

So on Friday 23rd March we said goodbye to lots of you for a little while. I know this all feels a little bit strange at the moment as we are not going to be in school for some time, but I want you to know the adults in school will be thinking about you every day. We want you to stay home for a while to keep everyone safe and healthy.

I want to tell you some important things:

• Don't be frightened. You may hear some things that might worry you, but these are not worries for you. If you are feeling worried or sad about anything speak to an adult. They will be able to help and look after you.
• Remember to keep washing your hands for 20 seconds to keep those pesky germs away.
• Even though you aren't in school right now you can still learn and try new things. Keep checking the website for updates and activities for you to do during our time off. Keep trying your best in everything you do.
• We miss you very much and when you come back some things may have changed. This is ok as the one thing that won't change is how much the adults in the school care about you.

Be kind, be brave and keep smiling. Help the adults around the house and, most of all, stay safe. We miss you lots and can't wait to see your smiling faces back in school very soon. Take care.

Lots of love,

Miss Walsh

Please sign up to the fabulous Oxford Owl education site to support your child at home with reading, English and maths.  You can choose activities by age group or by subject.  
 

There is a fabulous, free, age group specific ebook library - giving you lots of choice over books to read and listen to at home with your child.  

There are also lots of other activities to support your child with English and maths - all geared specifically to your child’s age group.  

Creating an account is free and really simple.Visit www.oxfordowl.co.uk, click on join us and add a few personal details including an email address and you are ready to go.  Have fun, we hope you enjoy using the online library and all the other fabulous activities. 

Monday 30th March 2020

The current situation we all find ourselves in can be overwhelming and lead to an increase in anxiety levels for some children. This is particularly so for those children with ADHD, social communication difficulties or ASD.  Please find below advice from the ADHD Foundation and the National Autistic Society offering tips to support these children during COVID -19.

Further advice and support can be found on :

www.autism.org.uk

www.adhdfoundation.org.uk

This week is also World Autism Awareness Week . Resources are available from :

www.autism.org/resources

Autumn Term 1 

Chester Zoo

The children had a great time at Chester Zoo and even though it rained, it didn’t dampen our spirits! We got to see all the different animals that we have been learning about. Our favourites were the giraffes and the hornbill! 

Adopt a Reading Buddy Puppy! 

Today we adopted a puppy! 
 

Miss Walsh thought that we are such good readers and love reading so much that we should adopt a puppy and read to it every night. We get to take our puppies home and we promised to read to them every night for at least 15 minutes. We are then going to share all the lovely stories we have read to our puppies with the rest of the class! 🐶😊

Playground Buddy Training 

Today was a very exciting day as Poppy Class took part in Playground Buddy Training. 
 

Our Playground Buddy scheme plays an important part in creating a safe, friendly, happy and peaceful environment for children during lunchtimes. Their role is to help and support the lunchtime supervisors to ensure the children in Foundation Stage and KS1 are safe and happy.

Year 5 children have been selected to be Playground Buddies this year and today Poppy Class helped them in their training. We met our buddies and they explained what their role is. They then taught us some exciting new games that we can play at lunchtimes. We are so excited for our new Buddies to join us on the Key Stage 1 playground. 

Wednesday 5th June

We has a fantastic day at Chester Zoo. We got to see lots of different animals, went on a boat ride and played in the park! We also got to step back in time and visit the ‘Predators’ exhibition which was full of fearsome animatronic animals from the prehistoric world. We came face to face with a massive megalodon, a dangerous dire wolf, a scary sabre tooth tiger and a terrifying T-Rex. It was very exciting! 

Monday 29th April

Today was a very exciting day! We had some very special visitors from ‘Boo’s Zoo 2 You’ who brought along some VIP’s. We got to meet lots of different animals including meerkats, pythons, a skunk, millipedes and owls. We got to meet each animal and learn all about what they eat, where they live and any special features they have. We had so much fun! 

Tuesday 26th March

Today we had a visit from St Oswald’s Church and they told us all about the Easter Story. 

Friday 22nd March

This week we have been estimating, measuring and recording volume and capacity. 

Monday 11th March 2019

This week we have been learning all about measuring length and height. Our favourite bit was when we used rulers to measure our own feet and compared them against our classmates. 

Tuesday 5th March 

We could not wait for pancake day this year as we were going to make our own pancakes from scratch! 

We wrote shopping lists, recipes, designed our pancakes, measured out the ingredients correctly using scales and measuring jugs and even created a shop so we could sell them to Reception children!

Like all the other classes in school, this week we have been reading the Tin Forest. We did lots of wonderful things including descriptive writing, art and created some 3D flowers. These flowers will form part of a whole school display. We can’t wait to see what the other classes have created and how the finished display will look!   

Thursday 7th March

Today was World Book Day and we had lots of exciting things taking place. We all dressed in our pyjamas and brought in our favourite bedtime story. We then shared our stories with Daisy Class. It was a great day! 

Tuesday 5th February

For Chinese New Year we cooked and tasted some Chinese food. We tried noodles in sweet and sour sauce with spring onions and prawn crackers 😋

Spring 1

Happy New Year! Welcome back. We hope you had a lovely Christmas. Have a look at our Topic Letter to find out what we are learning this half term.

Autumn 2

Happy Halloween 🎃 

Seasons

This half term we are learning all about the four different seasons. Today we went on an Autumn Hunt to see the different signs of autumn. Have a look at all the things we found in our school playground. 

Autumn 1

Our Local Area

Welcome to Poppy Class 2017-18

Trip to the park

To finish off our year in style we thought we would have a trip out to our local park. We had a lovely day playing games and having a picnic in the sunshine ☀️ 😎

Warrington Toy Museum

We had a fabulous day at the Warrington Toy Museum where we learnt all about different types of toys. We looked at old and new toys and even made our own cup and ball toy! 

Toys Topic

Our topic this half term is Toys. For homework we have been designing and making some toys of our own. Some children have worked really hard and produced some fantastic toys and brought them in to show the rest of the class. We even had a go at playing some of their board games! 

Tuesday 12th April 2018

We were visited by a Science Boffin and took part in lots of exciting experiments and a workshop. During our workshop we learned all about plants. We found out how roots take in water and about the life cycle of a plant. We also discovered how bees pollinate flowers. We had great fun!

Poppy Class Assembly

Poppy Class have been working hard this week rehearsing for our Amazing Animals assembly. Today they out on a fabulous performance that we were all proud of. Don't we look great in our animal head pieces?