Welcome to our class! 

Class 1 is our  Reception, Year 1 and 2 class, taught by Mrs Pankhurst and Mrs. Woolf, supported by Mrs. Linney and Mrs. Furse

May 2025

Outside Learning

As we have been writing non-chronological reports about birds this week we through it would be nice to listen to the different bird sounds we could hear in the playground, pretend to be robins, and see which colour caterpillars are the easiest to stop, and make simple bird feeders.

April 2025

We had great fun on Friday experimenting with using different tools to make marks in the clay.

March 2025

Space Lab

On Tuesday morning, Class 1 walked down to the village hall, where these was a mobile planetarium all set up and ready to go inside. Once inside we saw how the earth rotated and orbits the sun. We listened to a story about Orion and were fascinated to see all the different stars in the night sky. 

World Book Day
We all had great fun dressing up for World Book Day and sharing books with our friends. 

African Drumming Workshop
Class 1 had a brilliant time at the African Drumming Workshop this morning. They enjoyed using the drums to create the sounds of mini-beasts, snakes, elephants and even a crocodile. 

January 2025

On Friday the Year 1 and Year 2 children created paintings in the style of Jasper Johns while the Reception children explored mixing different colour paints.  

December 2024

We have been having lots of fun in the last week of school: creating Christmas pictures using dots, making moving monsters, baking gingerbread men, creating party hats and finishing with a fantastic party on Friday afternoon.

As part of their Science topic of Light the children in Class 1 have been investigating how shadows are formed and how you can change the size of a shadow.  They had great fun using the torches, creating their own projectors and experimenting finding out what happened when they moved the objects closer to and further away from the light source. 

On Wednesday we had our Nativity at St Bridget's Church. Everyone was amazing at remembering their lines and sang with lots of joy and enthusiasm. It made a magical start to Christmas!

November 2024

We all had a fantastic time on Tuesday at Rosemoor, creating Christmas Wreaths using colourful leaves from the garden. In the afternoon we discovered lots of interesting sculptures on our walk through the woods before having even more fun on the different play equipment.  

October 2024

Poppies

In art this week we have been creating poppies, two of which have been added to the display by the Chapel.

Art

On Friday, we started to create portraits in the style of Sandra Silberweig.

We all had fun in PE practising our ball skills. 

September 2024

Junk Model Bridges

We all became brilliant engineers on Tuesday, working together to create some strong bridges. 

Art

We have been experimenting with different lines to create a group picture inspired by listening to sea music.    

We all enjoyed watching a fantastic puppet show.

July 2024

Rainbow Day!

On Friday Class 1 had lots of fun making and flying their kites.

Bridge Mill

We all had a fantastic morning at Bridge Mill, feeding the sheep, pond dipping, looking for mini-beasts in the meadow and trying to guess the names of the vegetable plants in the garden.

Mother Alison’s Visit

It was lovely to see Mother Alison on Tuesday afternoon. She came into school, read us the story of “What Happened to You?” about a boy called Jo who was playing pirates at the playground, when all the children kept asking him what happened to his leg. This lead to lots of conversations about how we are all unique. Mother Alison then let the children choose a beautifully knitted bear to take home for them to love and take care of.

June 2024

Plymouth Aquarium

Class 1 had an amazing time at Plymouth Aquarium. There was a real sense of excitement and awe as we watched the  different sea creatures. In the afternoon we became scientists and found out how the salt in sea water helps the fish to float and learnt about the different ways that fish and whales eat plankton. 

Tennis

On Monday afternoon, we had the first of 5 tennis lessons. We learnt how to hold the racket, practiced hitting the ball  and an impressive number of children hit the ball over the net to their partner!

May 2024

On Friday we finished our topic on Ancient Egypt with an art afternoon, painting the pyramids and creating Egyptian masks.     

In RE we created different stained glass windows using images from the Christian Creation Story.

Our runner bean plants are all growing well!

April 2024

Class 1 have been having lots of fun during their outside learning and science, making dens and growing beans, looking at wild flowers and planting their pea plants in the polytunnel. In art they have been drawing different textures.