On Wednesday KS1 had a fantastic time at Sports Morning, taking part in a range of track events and fun races. The water relay and egg race were particular highlights, bringing lots of excitement and smiles! It was wonderful to see such excellent team spirit throughout the morning, with plenty of cheering and encouragement from everyone involved. A huge congratulations to Birkdale, who were crowned the overall winners. Well done to all our children for their enthusiasm, determination and sportsmanship!

This week in our writing lessons we have been learning our new story map, based on the story “Where the Wild Things Are”. We split the class into two teams and each day we had a “battle off” to see who was able to perform the story map the best (with the best cool poses of course)! Well done everyone, I was so impressed with how well you performed the story map each day!

This week we experimented with water colours to explore different ways of creating art. We used a variety of brush strokes to make shapes, lines and patterns, learning how colours can blend together.

This week at ACE we celebrated Mental Health Awareness Week. As part of this, on Wednesday, we all went onto the playground for the whole school to take part in the ‘Big Sing’. We sang one of our favourite songs in KS1, ‘Together’. We also sang our school song. It was so lovely to see all of the children joining in! Well done 1C!

In Geography this week we have been continuing to investigate our local area by looking at some aerial maps. We looked at lots of different types of maps and tried to find human and physical features on each of them. The children were challenged to find a school, a field and a roundabout and identify whether they were human or physical. I was really impressed that lots of them managed to also find houses, shops, roads and woods. Some of them even found their own houses!

This week we are writing our own stories based on our story ‘The Disgusting Sandwich’. Yesterday, we took our a sandwich around school. Unfortunately, lots of disgusting things happened to our sandwich! We then went back to class and planned our stories based on what had happened to our sandwich!

On Friday in our Art lesson we made the most of the nice weather and took our learning outside! First, we looked in class carefully at a dandelion in the different stages of its “life”. We looked at the flower and the seeds. We then went outside and found sketched dandelions, looking carefully at the shapes of the petals and the length of the stem.

Our topic this half term is Flourishing Me. As we are learning about plants in Science, in Art, we are going to be doing lots of sketching of wild flowers.

Today, we walked up Nursery Lane to have a look at the bluebells. We saw lots of bluebells on our local walk last week, so the children were very excited to sketch them! We talked about how a bluebell looked like a bell, like the one we use in class.

We started by practising sketching the lines and shapes we could see, focusing on the bell shape we had talked about. The children then used what they had learnt in Science to draw the stem, leaves and petals of the bluebell.

This week we have been learning our story map for “The Disgusting Sandwich”. We have loved thinking of actions for each part of the story!

In 1C we started off our half term by going on a local walk to Adel Woods. This morning, we began learning about human and physical features in Geography, then on our walk, we spotted them in our local area. We noticed lots of things such as the aqueduct, the river, the woods and the park. I was so impressed with how far the children walked and how resilient they were! This week we are going to spend time drawing maps of our route and talking more about human and physical features in our local area.