This term, Bumble Bee Class has been exploring our exciting topic, ‘Superheroes’! Year 1 have done a fantastic job of welcoming our new Reception children, showing them how we do things in class and demonstrating superb learning behaviours. They have also enjoyed sharing some of their favourite games with their new classmates.

We began our topic with Super Daisy by Nick Sharratt. We imagined ourselves as superheroes, thought about the superpowers we would choose and decided which planet we would like to save. We also explored the exciting vocabulary found in comic books and had a go at creating our own!

Next, we enjoyed Kid Rex to the Rescue! by Mayo Agard-Olubo. This story encouraged us to think about our own interests and the things that make each of us special. We celebrated our individuality with a fantastic Superhero Day, dressing up as our favourite superheroes or creating our very own superhero characters.  

 Our final story was Supertato! by Sue Hendra, which inspired a classroom mystery! After returning from break one wet Monday morning, we discovered that several vegetables had been captured. The culprit could only be the Evil Pea! When even Supertato was captured, we put our detective superpowers to work, searching for clues, gathering evidence and solving the case. We then created a trap for the Evil Pea and successfully rescued the remaining vegetables!         

In Science, we have been learning about our senses and the signs of autumn. We matched our five senses to the different parts of our bodies and investigated how we use them to explore the world. We used our sight to spot details in pictures, our hearing to identify different sounds and our sense of touch to describe a variety of fabrics.

Our Forest School sessions have also helped us discover that autumn has arrived. We have enjoyed exploring the changes around us, collecting and investigating colourful leaves, conkers, acorns and pine cones – with plenty of mud along the way!

   

Year 1 have been working hard to develop their understanding of place value within 10 and use this knowledge to solve addition problems. We have practised writing numbers in words, finding one more and one less, identifying tens and ones, comparing numbers and using ordinal numbers. We have also explored how smaller parts can be combined to make a whole. Alongside these mathematical skills, we are developing our independence by learning to read questions carefully and have a go at solving problems for ourselves.

Reception have been busy developing their early mathematical skills through practical activities. They have enjoyed matching pairs of socks, sorting objects by colour and singing familiar nursery rhymes, including Five Little Ducks, Five Little Speckled Frogs and Humpty Dumpty. They are also beginning to explore the numbers 1 and 2.

In PE, we have been securing our fundamental skills, including moving in a variety of ways, balancing, changing direction and following instructions. We have also enjoyed a number of balance bike sessions with Kat. Reception were also lucky enough to visit Little Springers for some gymnastics fun!

    

In Geography, Bumble Bee Class have been exploring our school and the places that are important to us. We created messy maps of our classroom, talked about our own homes and began to think about where our school is located on a map. These activities have helped us develop our understanding of the places around us.

Music has been full of fun and singing with Mrs Lee! We have explored a range of nursery rhymes and learned Dingle Dangle Scarecrow, which we performed at our Harvest Festival in church.

What a wonderful start to the year! We are incredibly proud of how well the children have settled into Bumble Bee Class, welcomed one another and embraced their learning. Our little superheroes have already achieved so much, and we look forward to seeing what adventures the rest of the year will bring!