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Pufferfish Class Weekly News

Friday 9th January 2026

We have had a lovely first week back. For our Learning to learn day we explored The Dot- a story about imagination, encouragement and finding hidden talents! The children created some wonderful art work around this theme. In English we have been reading weather poems and have discussed what we enjoyed about them.

Our new graphemes this week are : /igh/ y fly, /ow/ snow, /j/ g giant, /f/ ph phone  New tricky words are : who whole where two

Friday 19th December 2025

We have had a lovely Festive week in Pufferfish- including correcting some muddled sentences that our cheeky elf left for us and writing a letter to Father Christmas to help him with the reindeer! We hope you all have a wonderful Christmas and we look forward to seeing you in 2026!

Friday 12th December 2025

Firstly we would like to say how proud we are of the children in Pufferfish class for their fantastic performances on Tuesday. We hope you enjoyed it! 

This week in Science we tried many different tastes and described them- we enjoyed some more than others as you can see below! In English we have written instructions for wrapping presents and followed instructions for making reindeer hats! 

Friday 5th December 2025 

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas in Pufferfish class! This week we have been looking at features of instructions and we have followed instructions to decorate our Christmas tree and make decorations! 

In Maths we have explored 3D shapes and used mathematical language (faces, edges and vertices) to describe them.

Revision - graphemes – Grow the code : /igh/ ie  i  i-e, /ai/ ay a a-e, /oa/ oa o o-e, /ee/ e ie e-e ea, /oo/ / yoo/ ew u-e u ue

Friday 28th November 2025 

This week in Pufferfish class we have been exploring 2D shapes and using mathematical language to describe them. In DT we have begun to make our homes and had a lovely time learning to use masking tape to create joins. In English we have focused on our sentence writing skills and begun story writing.

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 in Pufferfish class we have been working on using prepositions, adjectives and feelings in our writing! In DT we have talked about features that all homes need and had a go at designing our own. In Maths we have been using a number line to subtract.

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

This week in Pufferfish class we have turned all our wonderful Autumnal adjectives into a poem- the children had lots of fantastic ideas! In Maths we have looked at different strategies for solving missing number problems. We have enjoyed looking at old toys in History and in DT we created detailed observational drawings of a building designed by the architect Friedensreich Hundertwasser.

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

Pufferfish class had a lovely Autumn walk to begin this half term! Huge thanks to all our parent and grandparent helpers! We have been inspired to think of lots of adjectives to describe acorns, conkers, pumpkins and leaves and have used these in our sentence writing. 

In Maths this week we have been focusing on missing number problems and in DT we have begun looking at architecture.

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

Pufferfish class have done a brilliant job of completing their self portraits in Art this week! In Maths we have been practising counting on using a number line and in English we have continued using Drawing Club to explore Room on the Broom.

Have a lovely half term Pufferfish! 

Friday 17th October 2025

This week in Pufferfish class we have been exploring number bonds using practical equipment. In Geography we had fun learning about floods and in RE we enjoyed drawing Jewish artefacts!

Friday 10th October 2025

This week Pufferfish have explored what rivers look like from space as part of Geography. In Drawing club, the children have shown what incredible imaginations they have and invented bubble machines! 

Friday 3rd October 2025

This week Pufferfish have enjoyed exploring Not Now Bernard during their drawing club sessions- they have shown great imagination!  In Art the children have worked on their observational drawing skills and produced some fabulous sketches using charcoal and chalk.

Friday 26th September 2025

Pufferfish class had a brilliant time exploring the River Thames- we built models and drew famous landmarks! We have also looked at colour mixing in Art and focussed on one more and one less in Maths.

Friday 19th September 2025

We have had a busy week in Pufferfish class! We have enjoyed continuing to look at portrait artists and created some fantastic Picasso-inspired portraits using collage and colour! 

We have classified animals into different groups in Science and explored rivers in Geography.

Friday 12th September 2025

This week Pufferfish have enjoyed taking part in Drawing Club. We have been inspired by Mr Benn to imagine what it would be like to be a zoo-keeper and to consider what the surprise animal at the zoo might be?

Well done to all our children for singing so beautifully in the hall on Thursday!

Friday 5th September 2025

We have had a great first week in Pufferfish class and it has been a pleasure getting to know your children.

We have enjoyed reading both The Rainbow Fish and The Colour Monster and the children have produced some lovely work. They shared lots of brilliant ways to help themselves to feel happy and calm.

Friday 27th June 2025

We hope you all enjoyed a lovely long weekend! A short but very busy week in Pufferfish this week! In Science we have been learning about the difference between Deciduous and Evergreen trees and we have used our observational skills to identify which leaves belong to which type of tree. In English we have continued to focus on the adventure story ‘The Way Back Home’ and in History we have been learning all about the history of flight and in particular the achievements of Amy Johnson.

Friday 13th June 2025

This week we loved bringing in some of our favourite books from home to share with our friends during ‘Leisure Reading’. It was great to see the children taking turns and listening carefully to each other! In maths we have been looking at numbers to 100. We have practised ordering and partitioning these bigger numbers and we have also been counting in 10s. In Science we have planted our own sunflower and we are eagerly waiting for it to grow so we can make some scientific observations. In History we have continued with our topic of Explorers where we have been learning all about Neil Armstrong. In PE we have been focusing on Athletics and how we can become faster and more efficient when running. What a busy week! We hope you all enjoy the lovely long weekend!

Friday 16th May 2025

What a fabulously sunny day we had at Barleylands this week! We learnt all about how the farm grows wheat to make flour and we used this flour to make our own yummy pizzas. We enjoyed meeting lots of the farm animals and feeding them. We also had fun on a bumpy tractor ride! Thank you to all the adults that made this trip possible! We have used our trip as inspiration for some writing and we have worked hard to produce our own chronological reports about the day.  

Friday 25th April 2025

Welcome back Pufferfish! It has been lovely to hear all your Easter Holiday news! This week we have begun to look at acrostic poems in English and in Maths we have been exploring heavier and lighter. We have begun our food topic and have talked about dairy products and the difference between fruits and vegetables!

Friday 4th April 2025

We have been exploring measure in Maths and we have practised using a ruler to measure in centimetres. In English we independently completed a story about ‘The Odd Egg’ and we have also been focusing on prefixes and suffixes. In PE we have been polishing our Lion King dance, ready to perform at the Dance Festival. We hope you have a lovely Easter break!

Friday 28th March 2025

We enjoyed sharing our brilliant non-fiction leaflets about scooters with our friends in Angelfish and Clownfish this week. We were also lucky enough to be invited to Sandhopper class in Year 2 to spend some time looking at their fantastic DT vehicle projects that they had completed this week. In Maths we have been looking at one more and one less than numbers up to 50. In PSHE we have been thinking about how to keep safe when crossing the road and we spent some time in the sunshine practising crossing North Street safely and sensibly. Well done Pufferfish!

Friday 21st March 2025

We loved our Scooter Day this week and we have been busy creating our own information about Scooters in English. In Maths we have been counting in tens and focusing on the value of each digit in a 2 digit number. In Science we have been thinking about which materials we might found around our homes and why they are suitable for different uses and in PE we have been busy working hard on a Lion King dance!

Friday 14th March 2025

This Week in Pufferfish we have become authors by following our own story maps to create our own version of Cinderella. Some of our stories have seen Cinderella zooming to the Ball in a Ferrari, in others Cinderella has taken to the skies in hot air balloons! We have been very impressed with the perseverance shown with this longer writing task this week!

In maths we have begin working with numbers to 50. In Science we have discussed what the world might look like if nothing was transparent.

Friday 28th February 2025

We kicked off our new History Transport topic by spotting as many different forms of transport as we could from the top deck of a double-decker bus! We have been exploring fairytales in English, focusing specifically on Cinderella and we are preparing to write our own version of the story next week. In Maths we have been practising our subtraction skills. 

Friday 14th February 2025

We have completed our Geography Weather topic by making our own weather vanes which we enjoyed testing on the playground. We have then written our own instructions for how to make them. In Science we have been learning about absorbency and we carried out an experiment to test the absorbency of different materials. In Maths we have been learning to double numbers to 20. We have now completed our individual weaving in Art and we have been evaluating our work. They look brilliant!  

Friday 31st January 2025

We have been learning about the difference between ‘natural’ and ‘human/man-made’ objects and we searched around the school for examples of each. In English we have started writing some great informative factfiles about weather which we will continue next week. In Maths we have been practising finding missing numbers in numberlines to 20 and we have revisited more than and less than to compare two numbers. We have also enjoyed spending more time on our weaving in Art. 

Friday 24th January 2025

We have all been really excited as we have welcomed a new little Pufferfish to our class this week! In English we learnt the difference between fiction and non-fiction texts and after a very surprising message from an Alien called Dill, we have been gathering facts from non-fiction books to teach him all about our weather. In PE we have learnt some more gymnastic shapes and in Art we have continued with our weaving topic. We enjoyed learning some new vocabulary in Science, see if we can remember the meaning of ‘transparent’ and ‘opaque’! 

Friday 17th January 2025

We really enjoyed learning and practising different gymnastics shapes this week in PE. Ask us to demonstrate our ‘star’, ‘straddle’ and ‘pike’ skills!

In English we have learnt all about verbs and we used these, along with our adjectives from last week, to write our very own Winter poems. In Geography we looked at artwork portraying different weather and discussed which pieces we liked or didn’t like and our reasons why. 

Friday 10th January 2025

Happy New Year Pufferfish! We started 2025 with our ‘Learning to learn’ days where we focused on the story ‘The Dot’ by Peter H Reynolds. The story inspired lots of art and we enjoyed using our own dots as a starting point for a more detailed picture. We also loved using pastels and watercolour paints to decorate our own dots with careful patterns. We were challenged to build the tallest tower we could with a friend, using just pieces of card and sticky dots…this was quite tricky but we showed great perseverance! 

Friday 13th December 2024

Wow, what a wonderfully Christmassy week we’ve had! We enjoyed singing and playing our instruments in our Happy Clappy Nativity and lots of us spoke beautifully in front of our huge audience too…well done everyone! You were all stars!

We have been helping the Elves with their wrapping by writing some detailed instructions for them and we have followed instructions to make our own reindeer hats which we will be wearing next week. Christmas has definitely arrived in Pufferfish! 

Friday 6th December 2024

Now we are experts in 2D shapes we have moved onto learning about 3D shapes this week in Maths. In English we have been learning about the features of instructions: heading, subheadings, equipment, numbers/bullet points and imperative verbs. Ask us if we can remember the actions for all of these! In Science we have been learning about our ears and we enjoyed playing a game that tested our listening skills. We have been practising lots for our Christmas production and we can’t wait to show you it next week!

Friday 29th November 2024

We have learnt all about the properties of 2D shapes this week in Maths. In English we planned our own ‘Lost’ stories thinking about how the character would be feeling and using propositions and adjectives to describe where our characters looked for their toys.  We have been learning about sight and eyes in Science and we made a tally chart to show the different eye colours in our class. 

Friday 22nd November 2024

In English we have been reading stories about lost toys in preparation for story writing next week. We have learnt about fact families in maths and also started learning how to use a numberline carefully to subtract. In PE we have been thinking about the weather and how we can represent different types of weather through dance. We’ve continued learning about toys from the past in History and we enjoyed listening to some music from the 1960s!

Friday 15th November 2024

We visited Leigh Library Gardens to look for signs of Autumn this week. Thank you to our parent helpers for coming with us! We found lots of autumnal objects which we brought back to school and used to inspire our own autumn poems. In DT we have been exploring the work of the architect Hundertwasser and in History we have begun looking at life in the 1960s and the toys that children enjoyed playing with then. 

Friday 8th November 2024

We had a great start to the week when the Firefighters from Leigh Fire Station visited us with their fire engine! They showed us the different equipment they use and spoke to us about how to keep safe around fireworks. We have been thinking about the sights and sounds of fireworks all week. We shared some fantastic adjectives and wrote sentences about how to keep safe. In History we have begun our new topic by creating our own timelines and in Science we have been learning about the different seasons. 

Friday 25th October 2024

We have had a super busy week in Pufferfish! We have been exploring maps in Geography, writing about the characteristics of different animals in Science and completing our self-portraits in art. In English we enjoyed reading in groups and revisiting some of the skills we have learnt over the last half term. In Maths we have been practising addition using a numberline. We loved our visit from PCSO Fox who brought along her Police Car and let us try on some uniform and we had a fantastic time dressing up on our special ‘People Who Help Us’ Day!

Have a great Half Term break!

Friday 18th October 2024

This week in Pufferfish we have been learning about Simone Biles as part of Black History Month. We loved watching some of her gymnastic routines and we wrote some super sentences about her. In Maths we have been learning that it doesn’t matter which way round we add numbers as the answer will always be the same. We have been finding out about flooding in Geography and we had a great time creating our own flood in the classroom!

Friday 11th October 2024

This week Pufferfish have looked at the features of a letter. We have written our own letters to Louis the Firefighter. We had a wonderful time at the beach as part of our Geography topic. We talked about the River Thames and had fun creating portraits from natural materials.

Friday 4th October 2024

Year 1 have been working on asking questions this week and we were very lucky to be visited by Louis the Firefighter as part of our 'People who Help Us' topic. Louis told us all about his work as a Firefighter and kindly answered all of the brilliant questions that Pufferfish class asked him! 

Friday 27th September 2024

Pufferfish class loved learning all about rivers in Geography this week; we even created our own River Thames complete with buildings and a farm by its side! We have enjoyed exploring labelling in English and have completed some fantastic observational drawings in Art.

Friday 20th September 2024

This week in Pufferfish we voted for our Friendship Ambassadors and School Councillors - they were all very excited about their new roles and we know they will all do a great job! The children have all worked really hard during our English and maths carousel activities again this week. In Science we have been learning about animal families - mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles and fish. In Geography we have continued our Rivers and Streams topic that we started in Seahorse Class and we have discussed the features of a river and looked at pictures of famous rivers around the world. 

Friday 13th September 2024

Pufferfish class have had a busy week! We really enjoyed our first swimming and PE sessions as year ones and have impressed our teachers with our ability to adapt to new routines. We have been learning about portrait artists in Art and had lots of fun creating a Picasso-inspired piece!