Poppy Year 1 | Netherton Moss Primary School

Welcome to Poppy Class 2018-19

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!

Summer Term 1

Topic Web Summer 1

Summer 1 topic web.docx

Mobile Zoo

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!

We are Scientists

This half term we are learning all about plants. We have opened a Science Investigation Lab in our classroom and have been investigating the different parts of plants 🌱

Orienteering

In our PE lessons this half term we have been learning all about orienteering. We have been using our navigational and team work skills to navigate around our school grounds to find various objects.

Easter Experience

Tuesday 26th March

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

Capacity

Friday 22nd March

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

Length and Height

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.

Pancake Day 2019

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!

The Tin Forest

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!

World Book Day 2019

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!

Spring 2 Topic Web

spring 2 topic web.docx

Chinese New Year

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 😋

All About Materials

In science we have been looking at a range of different materials; wood, rock, metal, plastic and glass. We used our knowledge of different materials to investigate which material Little Red Ridng Hood’s coat should Ben made from to keep her dry.

Higher or Lower?

This week in maths we have been working on place value. We have comparing different numbers and discussing similarities and differences.

Our Trip to the Library

This week we visited our library for a lovely story telling session. We had a great time exploring our local library and listening to different fairy tales.

Magnificent Maths

This week we having been adding. The children generated their own number sentences and investigated what happened when they added two numbers.

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.

Spring 1 Topic Letter 2019

Poppy Class Topic Letter Jan 19.docx

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.

Read Write Inc Reading Tips

Autumn 1

Our Local Area

As part of our Geography topic ‘Our Local Area’ we took a tour around our local area to explore the landmarks. We had great fun exploring and finished our tour in the local park!

Poppy Class Autumn 1 Topic Letter

Topic letter sept 18.docx

House Keeping Information

Parent meeting letter 2018-2019.pub

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 Topic Letter Summer 1

Poppy Class Topic Letter Summer 1 Toys 18.docx

Easter Hat Competition

We had some fantastic entries for our Easter Hat Competition and it was so hard for our School Councillors to choose a winner! Thank you for all your help in creating such wonderful head pieces, the children had great fun showing them off.

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?

Spring 2 Topic Letter

Poppy Class Topic Letter Spring 2 animals 18.docx

This week we have introduced Reading Buddies. We paired up Year 5/6 children with Year 1 children to read aloud to each other. All children had a lovely time reading new books and listening to each other read. Year 1 are very excited as they will be pairing up with Nursery children after half term to become their Reading Buddies

Reading Buddies

We had a fantastic time on our school trip to Chester Zoo. We saw lots of wonderful animals and even listened to a special zoo keeper talk about elephants. We had great fun and learnt a lot! There were some very tired little people at the end of the day, and that was just the teachers!