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Friday 19th December 2025

Angelfish Class have been enjoying all the Christmas festivities this week. The children have been writing to Santa making suggestions for how he can help his reindeer feel better in time for Christmas and also a back up plan if they don’t! Everyone enjoyed their Christmas dinner too. It was lovely to see so many happy faces. Happy Christmas to all our wonderful families. Enjoy making special memories during the break. 

Friday 12th December 2025

Angelfish Class have been doing all things Christmas this week. The children have been wrapping presents for Santa, writing instructions, performing in our Christmas concert and rocking their Christmas Jumpers! 

Friday 5th December 2025 

The children have been exploring 3D shapes in Maths this week. We have been naming them and taking a closer look at their properties. We have been reading different instructions, learning about their features and even putting them back in the correct order so they make sense. 

Friday 28th November 2025 

This week we have been learning about 2D shapes. The children have been on a shape hunt in the playground, been making shapes from lolly sticks, sorting shapes, creating shape pictures and recognising the properties of the shapes. In PE the children used their imagination to become toys in a shop who come alive at night. They moved to music counting in beats of 8. 

Our new graphemes this week are : /ee/e-e these, /oo/ /yoo/ ew chew new, /ee/ ie shield, /or/ aw claw New tricky words are : house, mouse, water, want

Friday 21st November 2025 

This week the children have jumped aboard The Polar Express, been on an adventure along the Yellow Brick Road and have even been taught some Russian words! Thank you to those who have brought in books for us to share. We have also loved seeing more toys from the past and hearing about them. It was lovely to see so many of you at our Book Look on Wednesday. Thank you for your continued support. I know the children loved showing you their work. 

Our new graphemes this week are : /ai/ a-e shake, /igh/ i-e time, /oa/ o-e home, /oo/ yoo/ u-e rude, cute  New tricky words are : could, would, should. our

Friday 14th November 2025

We have been looking at toys from the past this week as part of our History lesson. The children were amazed at how different the toys were (in the olden days!) We have also had lots of photos sent in which are up on our History display. Please do take a look during our next book look. We had a special visit from the dental team who spoke to the children about their teeth and how to take good care of them. 

Our new graphemes this week are : /oa/ o go, /igh/ i tiger, /ai / a paper, /ee/ e he. New tricky words are : Mr, Mrs, Ms, ask

Friday 7th November 2025

We went on a walk to Leigh Library Gardens to look for signs of Autumn. We searched for and collected different items and then made our own colourful picture using different coloured leaves. There were some cheeky squirrels scurrying around searching for food too! Thank you to all the parent volunteers too. We really couldn't do these trips without your support. 

Our new graphemes this week are : /ur/ ir bird, /igh/ ie pie, /oo/ yoo / ue blue rescue, /yoo/ u unicorn. New tricky words are : their, people, oh, your

Friday 24th October 2025

We have been reading Room on the Broom in Drawing Club this week. The children have loved reading along and drawing their very own dragon, swamp and a new super fast broomstick! I’m Maths we have been solving addition number sentences and writing our own. We took a closer look at maps this week using magnifying glasses to identify rivers, seas and even bridges! Happy Half Term everyone! 

Friday 17th October 2025

Angelfish Class have been busy learning about floods in Geography where they enjoyed doing a practical activity with water and different objects. We have been on a bear hunt in Drawing Club this week and as part of Black History month the children have been learning all about Rosa Parks.

Friday 10th October 2025

We have had a busy week in Angelfish Class. The children have been learning about carnivores, herbivores and omnivores in our Science lesson. We looked at different rivers pictured from space using Google Earth in our Geography lesson. Our Drawing Club has been based on The Magic Roundabout episode, Bubbles where the class invented their own bubble making machine. We have also celebrated all the lovely activities some of the children have been doing in their own time. 

Friday 3rd October 2025

The children enjoyed making the most of the dry sunny weather during our PE lesson this week. They worked in pairs to come up with actions to create different shadow shapes. We have been practising working as part of a team this week. The children worked together to complete a jigsaw puzzle. It was a real joy to see so many smiling faces with such a sense of pride at completing their puzzle. 

Friday 12th September 2025

We have had another great week in Angelfish Class. We have enjoyed our Drawing Club activities about a zoo and lots of practical maths activities to consolidate our number recognition and counting skills. We also enjoyed singing our songs to the parents on Thursday morning before the curriculum meeting.

Friday 5th September 2025

The children in Angelfish Class have been busy exploring their new Year 1 environment this week. We have shared stories about sharing and our feeling. A favourite was a pop up book of The Colour Monster. The children coloured their own monster and told us what they do to make themselves feel calm and happy. They have all had a super first week in Year One. 

Friday 18th July 2025

We have had a fun week listening to the story ‘There’s a Tiger in the Garden’. The children explored the playground and used their imagination to help them think of things they might see out there. They then planned and wrote their own story independently as their final piece of Year 1 writing. 

Friday 11th July 2025

We had fun in the sun this week during our PE lesson. We did some stretching to warm up our muscles and them practised jumping over a cone landing on two feet and then onto one foot. The ladybirds seemed to enjoyed our lesson too! 

Friday 4th July 2025

The children have been busy working on our space themed tasks. This week we have been thinking about what they would take to space with them. They then created characters and wrote descriptions about them using adjectives and conjunctions. 

Friday 13th June 2025

As part of our Science lessons we have been looking at wildflowers and plants. The children went on a hunt around the school grounds to see what flowers they could find growing. We had a visit from the lovely Grace Edkins a local print artist who demonstrated her printing techniques to the class. We will be planting a class sunflower and the children are in the process of creating their own ‘Diary of a Sunflower’.

Friday 6th June 2025

We started our new topic ‘What makes a  great explorer?’ this week. The children have enjoyed working with their peers thinking about the qualities a good explorer needs and what they would need to take with them on their expeditions. In our Maths lessons we have been learning about sharing (dividing) and finding halves and quarters of shapes. The class have displayed good turn taking and communication skills this week. 

Friday 23rd May 2025

We have had a jam packed week. The children have been learning about diary writing in our English lessons and enjoyed their vegetable themed drama lesson. They had lots of fun hula hooping in the sunshine and of course we all had a super time at Sports Day. The children were all amazing and it was so nice to see everyone smiling.  Happy half term everyone! 

Friday 16th May 2025

The children had a super day at Barleylands on Tuesday. They learnt about the farmer’s job and their crops and then used the flour to make the dough for their pizza bases. We enjoyed a picnic lunch in the sunshine before looking around the farming museum. We were given the opportunity to feed the animals including cows, goats and Guinea pigs. We finished the trip with a visit to the polytunnel and a ride on the tractor. What a lovely day. Thank you to all our parent helpers, your support is always appreciated. 

Friday 9th May 2025

As part of our Plants topic in Science we have been learning about different seeds and what they need in order to grow. This week the children all had a go at planting cress seeds. They prepared their pots with soil, sprinkled the seeds into the pot, watered them and made a sign for their cress. We then put them into our class greenhouse and have left them in the sunshine to grow. 

Friday 2nd May 2025

This week the children have been busy investigating mass, capacity and length. The children enjoyed practical activities where they explored the capacity of different containers using water or rice, weighed different objects using the balancing scales and measured the lengths of objects and the height of each other using metre sticks and rulers. It was nice to use the outside space for our learning in the sunshine. 

Friday 25th April 2025

The children in Angelfish Class have been busy learning about weight in our Maths lessons this week. They investigated the mass of different objects and compared their weights e.g. heavier and lighter. In our English lessons we have been looking at acrostic poems. The children have read a variety of different poems to spark their imagination when writing their own next week.

Friday 4th April 2025

Angelfish class have been busy over the last couple of weeks creating their own moving mechanisms in their Design Technology lessons and have made Easter themed cards. This week we have been learning about the prefix ‘un’. We changed some sentences and had some fun acting out some of the words with actions. Happy Easter everyone! 

Friday 28th March 2025

The children have worked so hard creating their own non-fiction information leaflets about scooters. This week they had the opportunity to share them with their friends. The children enjoyed talking to each other about their work with their Year 1 peers across the year group. I think the smiles in these photos say it all. Well done Angelfish Class. 

Friday 21st March 2025

The children enjoyed riding their scooters over ramps and around a track as part of our ‘Scooter Day’. The children had to persevere when riding over the ramps, taking care not to fall over the edge or get their wheels stuck at the top. It was tricky but they all did so well, gaining more and more confidence during each new lap. This week they have been busy writing their information leaflet all about Scooters! 

Friday 14th March 2025

We celebrated World Book Day last week. The children enjoyed dressing up and each wrote a sentence about who they had come dressed as. It was so lovely to see that our class book ‘The Wild Robot’ has not only inspired a member of our class to read the book at home but to also come dressed as their favourite character too! In PE the children have been practising throwing underarm to hit a target with accuracy.

Friday 7th March 2025

We have been sequencing the story of Cinderella this week in our English lessons. The children drew their own story map and changed the mode of transport Cinderella will use to get her to the ball! They enjoyed a Now Press Play session linked to our transport topic and we finally finished our weaving, which I think you’ll agree looks amazing! 

Friday 28th February 2025

This half term the question we are considering in our History topic is ‘How has Transport changed over time?’ We kicked off the unit with a trip on a double decker bus where we went on a tour of our local area. The children completed a tally chart of all the different modes of transport they spotted. It was a really fun afternoon. Thank you to all our parent helpers, we couldn’t run the trips without your support. 

Friday 14th February 2025

Angelfish Class have been busy this week following instructions to make their own weather vanes. They enjoyed working as a team, taking turns to follow each step. They also wrote their own set of instructions later in the week. In Maths, we have been doubling numbers. The children explored doubling using different apparatus to help them find and record all the possible number sentences. Have a lovely half term break everyone! 

Friday 7th February 2025

Angelfish Class did not let the fact that there was no wind at the beach on Monday stop their fun! The children had a whale of a time flying a variety of different kites including those they made themselves. Thank you to Mrs Brown and to all our parent helpers for making the trip such a success.

Friday 31st January 2025

We have been learning about materials in our Science lessons. This week, the children went hunting around the outside areas of our school grounds searching for ‘Natural’ and ‘Human-Made’ items. We had lots of good discussions about how natural materials are often turned into human-made objects. The children enjoyed the January sunshine and blue skies. 

Friday 24th January 2025

The children in Angelfish Class have been reading non-fiction texts about the different types of weather and what causes the changes in weather. They are busy researching in preparation to write their own non-fiction weather fact file next week. In Maths we have been learning to order and write numbers to 20. We created our own human number line and enjoyed removing numbers for our peers to identify correctly. 

Friday 17th January 2025

The children in Angelfish Class have been learning and practising basic shapes in our gymnastics lesson this week. We talked about pointed toes and straight arms. The children felt the stretch in different body parts and enjoyed working alongside a partner on their mat. Their was lots of super teamwork and happy faces. 

Friday 13th December 2024

The children in Angelfish Class have been busy preparing for our Christmas Production “A Happy-Clappy Nativity” for many weeks and they very much enjoyed performing to you all this week. A huge well done to everyone who had to learn lines and recite them and to all the children for their wonderful singing and instrumental pieces. Merry Christmas one and all from all these cheeky faces in Angelfish Class (plus a few more).

Friday 6th December 2024

The children have had a busy week investigating and learning about the properties of 3D shapes in Maths. Our English lessons this week have been all about ‘instructions’. The children have looked at different examples, discussed their features and ordered them. They have even followed them to create a Christmas decoration. Two more special bears from the past have been keeping us company in class too. 

Friday 29th November 2024

Angelfish Class have been working very hard this week planning and writing their own story based on the book Where’s My Teddy? The children had to recount or invent a story about a lost toy. It has been lovely to see how well their writing is coming along. The children will be sharing their stories with our reading buddy class very soon!

Friday 22nd November 2024

In our History lessons so far this term we have been learning about toys from the past. The children have brought in different toys from home and have enjoyed sharing them with the class. We passed around different toys such as an abacus, a spinning  top, a Jacob’s Ladder and a flip book and the children had great fun playing with them all.  

Friday 15th November 2024

Angelfish Class enjoyed a beautiful sunny walk around Leigh Library Gardens. The children (and grown ups) enjoyed exploring different areas of the gardens looking for signs of Autumn. They collected items for closer inspection to inspire their Autumn poem writing. It was a special afternoon filled with fresh air, sunshine, smiles and squirrels!

Friday 8th November 2024

Angelfish Class have been learning about firework safety this week and the children have been writing sentences in our English lessons. We had our first dance lesson where the class explored different weather types and created a sequence of movements to the count of eight. In DT we have started learning about architecture and the children had the opportunity to design their own building with a partner. 

Friday 25th October 2024

Angelfish Class have had a busy week. They enjoyed sharing a book in groups and then a very enthusiastic member volunteered to read one of the books to the class! In maths we have been learning to add within 10 where the children enjoyed a carousel of different activities. The highlight of our week was definitely the visit we had from PCSO Fox. The children loved hearing about her job, sitting in the police car and wearing different hats! 

Friday 18th October 2024

The children in Angelfish Class have been celebrating Black History Month by learning about the famous gymnast, Simone Biles. They watched a video clip from the Paris Olympics and have written some sentences about her. We then extended our writing by thinking of different verbs to describe the movements we saw her doing and performed some of our verbs using actions in the classroom. 

Friday 11th October 2024

The children in Angelfish Class enjoyed their first beach trip in Year One. They designed their own version of the River Thames featuring some of their favourite landmarks along the way. They then created a portrait of their group leader using items they found on the beach such as seaweed, stones, shells and mud. The morning was filled with sunshine, fun, laughter, creativity crabs and even a flyby from a huge flock of Brent Geese! 

Friday 4th October 2024

The children in Angelfish Class have been learning about ‘People who help us’. They have been busy writing different questions using our ‘question words’ e.g. why, how, what etc. They thought carefully about what they would like to ask our special visitor Louis, who is a real firefighter when he visited Year One on Thursday. Some of the children even had the opportunity to try on some of his uniform! 

Friday 27th September 2024

Angelfish class have been busy this week learning about labels. They have been labelling different objects, pictures and even parts of the body. The children displayed some good teamwork skills. We have been learning about more and less in maths and the children took part in different activities practising these. We have spent some time reading for pleasure this week during which the children were encouraged to share books with their peers. 

Friday 20th September 2024

The children in Angelfish Class have had a very busy week. They have been writing lists, practising their number work and completing different tasks using this weeks phonics sounds. In Geography we have been learning about streams and rivers and we have welcomed two new members to our class. 

Friday 13th September 2024

The children in Angelfish class have settled well into their new Year 1 routines. They have voted for our new Friendship Ambassadors and School Counsellors. We had our first PE lesson and the children have enjoyed different classroom based activities, displaying independence and team work.