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literacy - Writing a sentence
This week, our literacy focus has been on developing key skills and understanding grammar to write simple sentences. We began by reading the model text Duckie's Rainbow, which sparked creativity as we recreated Duckie’s journey home around our school.
In pairs, children then used colourful semantics to create their own sentences, making sure to include a noun, verb, and noun. They followed a sentence checklist to ensure their writing was clear and accurate—checking for capital letters, finger spaces, full stops, and reading over their work to make any necessary corrections.
We then invited the children to bring in their own teddies and take them on an adventure. Next week, each student will create a unique story based on their teddy's journey.
week beginning 22nd September
Our artwork
We learned about the life and work of folk artist Clementine Hunter and used her work to inspire our drawings of flowers in a pot. We explored line and shape using 2b pencils.
trip to fairlynch farm
This week, Class 1 and 2 enjoyed a fantastic local walking trip to Fairlynch Farm. The children explored Mr Dyer’s beautiful apple orchard, where they learned how apples are grown and discovered the wildlife that thrives among the trees. They even had the chance to pick their own apples, which was a real highlight!
From the top of the farm, the children took in views over Braunton village, spotting the estuary, Saunton Sands, and Braunton Burrows. They also learned about the local produce harvested from the historic Great Fields.
Back at school, children practised their chopping skills to make a delicious apple crumble.
It was a brilliant day of learning, nature, and sunshine. Year 1 should be very proud of how sensibly they behaved on the trip.
PE - fundamental skills
Week Beginning 29th September 2025
Children had the opportunity to meet the childrens' author and illustrator Duncan Beedie, who read the story 'I Really Really Love My Noisy Bum". They created some fantastic bush baby characters during our draw along and had the chance to ask Duncan some great questions about his job. Children all took home a copy ofthe story to read at and enjoy at home.
science explorers
As part of our learning about the different seasons and weather, we worked together in groups to find signs of Autumn around the school.
Week Beginning 13th October 2025
We continued learning to order numbers and write number words this week. Then we began learning about number bonds within ten, using a part whole model and a range of manipulatives to help us to think about our learning.
After learning about the seasons in science, we began to look at the parts of a plant which also links with our observational drawing of flowers in art.
OUr new literacy sequence
OUr new literacy sequence
We are focusing on a non fiction recount for our next literacy unit. Children will explore the model text 'My Day at the Zoo' and will later write a recount of their own school trip.
PE - ball skills
The children have been practising aiming for a target using an underarm throw. They worked as a team to encourage one another!
week beginning 13th October 2025
Class 1 walked safely to Saint Brannock's church where they learnt more about the history of Saint Brannock and story of the sow and the three piglets.
They learned more about the story of Saint Brannocks favourite cow which is shown on the Braunton shield of arms and is carved into one of the church pews.
They we lucky enough to ring the church bells and climb up the old church spire to watch the old clock mechanism in action.
This week, Class 1 have been introduced to adding using number bonds, and part whole models to create number bonds within ten.
We have had some great discussions about number bonds and deriving from known facts. If you would like to practice at home more with your child, please see the following link for fun educational videos: Numberblocks - Series 2: Just Add One - BBC iPlayer
Numberblocks - Series 3: Fruit Salad - BBC iPlayer
We experimented with oil pastels and patterns to create a background for our individual portraits.
Week beginning 20th October 2025
Class 1 did themselves proud at the Autumn Harvest festival in Saint Brannock's church.
After lots of practising, they were so brave and sang beautifully for the rest of the school and parents watching.
Class 1 have been learning to create addition stories and solve picture problems within ten. They did a fantastic job at explaining their reasoning and working in pairs to solve the addition problems.
Children have been practising ball skills. Dribbling, throwing, bouncing and catching.
They took part in attacking and defendnig games and practised team working skills and how to encourage others,
Week beginning 3rd November 2025
In our final week of Autumn 1, Class 1 explored the school grounds looking for signs of Autumn and collecting evergreen and deciduous leaves, conkers and more for our smelly potions. We used our 5 senses to think about what would make a great smelly potion just in time for Halloween!
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