Rainbow, Sunshine & Saturn Class Blog

Week 6 EYFS enjoyed exploring the book ‘Colour Monster’ this week. We discussed different emotions and thought about times when we might experience these emotions. We used mirrors to show different emotions and then linked emotions to music through painting!   This

     Week 5 EYFS enjoyed their walks around the village this week. We spotted lots of things in our local area. They then discussed what they saw and created maps of Uphill. We thought about what the buildings would look like from

Week 4 As Geographers this week, Year 1 looked at what features a map needs. We looked at the human and physical features on the map and how they are shown in a key. They then drew their own maps of the  classroom.

Week 3 This week Year 1 enjoyed a walk around the village as Geographers. We were looking for physical and human features of Geography and found lots of examples. As writers, we wrote about what we saw on our walk. Our focus

Week 2 What a lovely week we have had in EYFS and Year 1! As writers this week, both EYFS and Year 1 read a new book called ‘My Map Book’. We enjoyed looking at the interesting, unusual maps and creating our own. We loved creating

Week 1 We are so glad to be back and what a lovely week back it has been! We hope you all had a wonderful and restful Christmas break. We enjoyed a lovely winter walk as Scientists this week and it was definitely wintery out there!

We’ve had a wonderful Christmassy last week at school! We enjoyed our Christmas party on Monday, playing games and eating party food. We even had a visit from Santa which was very exciting! Then we had a lovely Christmas dinner

Week 6 What a busy week in EYFS/Year 1! We had 4 wonderful performances of our nativity this week! We were so impressed with our speaking, acting and singing! In phonics this week, Year 1 have been learning a new

Week 5 As historians this week, we looked at how phones have changed. We ordered them on a chronological timeline and looked at their similarities and differences. We noticed that the wires and screens were the main difference. As mathematicians this week,

Week 4 As Mathematicians, EYFS have been copying and creating repeating patterns.    Year 1 have been investigating 3D shape! The children enjoyed handling cubes, spheres, cones, and cylinders, talking about their properties and where we see them in the world around us.