Class One have been making good use of their outdoor area, which we have been working hard to develop.  We have got some nice new areas for them to explore outside, including a garden centre role play area and a rockery area where they can make pictures using coloured stones.

This morning Class One worked in teams on an Easter egg hunt.  The eggs they were looking for were marked with the letters and sounds they have worked on and each team had different ones to find.  The teams worked very hard to find all of their hidden eggs which were hidden all around the classroom.

The children all looked great in their fancy dress costumes today.

Class One had lots of fun today learning some hockey skills.  They did brilliantly for their first session today.  They practised dribbling the ball, passing to a partner and aiming through markers.

Linked to our adventures topic on ‘Outer Space’ which we have just started this week, the children worked in the woods this afternoon to create some aliens!  They worked with a partner using sticks, leaves and whatever else they could find to make an alien with lots of eyes and tentacles!  The children worked well together and had lots of fun too.

Today Class One began a new topic with our visiting PE teacher.  They have started games for this half term.  The children worked on using beanbags today. After some warm up games, the children began by balancing the bean bags on different parts of their body.  They then worked on throwing and catching by themselves, then using targets and then working with a partner.

The children are continuing to enjoy their gymnastics sessions each week with our visiting teacher.  Today they explored the high apparatus for the first time.  They explored travelling over, under and through it.  They also continued to explore their balance and jumps on the mats and low apparatus.

Following our work on pirate adventures, Class One are moving on to look at ‘under the sea’ adventures for the next few weeks.  We began today by looking at what the children know already about under the sea.  This afternoon we looked at sea shells and the children worked in groups to sort the shells according to their size, shape and colour.