Mr Griffin talks all things Titanic

Mr Griffin shared his enthusiasm about the Titanic with the boys today. He spoke about his recent visit to Belfast and his stay at the Titanic hotel. The boys had lots of questions that Mr Griffin eagerly answered.

Take a look at what we got up to in 1G

Titanic

This week the boys continued to learn about the Titanic disaster that shocked the world! They retold the story as a class through writing and pictures.

The boys painted their Titanic clay models.

Thank you to the boys who have already brought in their Titanic rooms, they look amazing! It is great to see the attention to detail that has come from researching your rooms.

Word of the day

Each day we learn the meaning of a new word. They boys are then encouraged to use this word when appropriate when speaking or writing.

injury

imagined

collect

shiver

acrobat

Julia Donaldson

This week we were reading the story ‘The Ugly Five’. The boys have learnt what a simile is. They had great fun thinking of similes for lots of different objects. They then chose a character from the ugly five to write similes about. They are on display in our classroom.

Science

The boys enjoyed going on a material hunt around the School. They then created Mr. Material and Little Miss Material for our science display. Still in progress……

In topic maths this week the boys learnt about tessellation. They created their own tessellations using complimentary colours. They are display on our classroom window.

LEO

In assembly today the senior LEOs spoke about the importance of adopting and sponsoring endangered animals around the world. By sponsoring the animals we are also saving the worlds natural habitats in which they live. Maurice showed the School Bongo the panda who he has adopted in China.

The boys enjoyed singing with their bears today in music 🙂

*Teddy bears needed for singing*

Please may the boys bring in a teddy bear next Friday 24th for the boys Music lesson. Mrs Lund has asked for it to be a bear and of a reasonable size. The boys will be learning a song about bears 🙂

Aha! Aho!

Julia Donaldson

Thank you to all the boys who have been bringing in and sharing books by Julia Donaldson. The boys have enjoyed reading and listening to stories that are familiar to them as well as experiencing new ones.

The boys had great fun creating characters from Julia Donaldson stories.

The boys learnt what a book review is and completed one on both The Gruffalo and a book of their choice.

They also completed some comprehension work. They became detectives to find the answers in the text.

3D shapes

The boys have been learning 3D shape names and their properties.

Thank you to the boys who have been sending in photos and bringing in objects of the different 3D shapes they have found at home.

Over the weekend, see what 3D shapes you can find when you are out and about 🙂

In Topic Maths this week the boys were learning about capacity. They learnt about millilitres and litres and carried out some investigations.

The boys have been showing lots of curiosity this week.

Our class curiosity wall  ……….

Titanic

The boys have been very engaged in our new topic about the Titanic. They had lots of questions about the disaster.

In our Art lesson this week the boys used their knowledge about 3D shapes to create a clay model of the Titanic.

    

Our cloakroom displaying ‘Season Tree’, created by the 1G boys.

Have a lovely weekend!

Happy New Year!

We hope you had a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year!

 

The boys created a season tree this week in Art linked to our learning about the four seasons. They wet a canvas and layered different coloured tissue paper on top to colour the background.

They then painted a tree onto the four canvases.

Finally the boys added buttons to represent leaves of the season.

 

The boys enjoyed working as a team to write an acrostic poem about the four seasons. They enjoyed the challenging of thinking of words related to each season.

 

This term we are studying the Author Julia Donaldson. They boys painted some of the characters from her book as part of our English display.