Skipper 3

Classroom Close Up aims to show you some of the day to day activities that take place in Skipper 1. Every day the children do ‘Let’s Write’ during registration. The children are asked to respond to a picture by writing […]

Here are this weeks new graphemes (they way a sound is written down).

Inspired by the book ’10 Things I Can Do to Help My World by Melanie Walsh’, Skipper 1 decided to make bird feeders to help the birds during the cold, winter weather. It didn’t take long before the Great Field […]

This week we visited Poundbury Garden Centre Christmas Display. Not only did we have lots of fun, we also did some important research for our latest Design Technology project. Look out for more updates on our project next week.

This week we are learning about length and height. We worked in groups to make, order and measure playdough snakes!

Skipper 1 has a similar reward system to Foundation’s ‘bucket filling’. We celebrate the thoughtful acts our children do by rewarding them with a colour coded sticker which they stick onto a star (see below). When your child completes a […]

Fantastic News… Welly walks are back on the Skipper 1 agenda! We had a super walk around the Great Field in Poundbury. We took some time to take in the joy of being outdoors together, we jumped in an extremely […]

This October Skipper 1 will be researching the phenonemal impact that black musicians have had on popular music. We have be so inspired by the artists we have learnt about so far. Why not listen to some at home too […]

In science we are exploring seasonal change. This week we learnt all about hibernation. We took our learning outside to have a go at making dens for hedgehogs… I have to say they looked very comfortable!

In maths we are looking at addition within 10. In our first lesson we investigated using number bonds to help us (2 parts = 1 whole). We got practical with cubes and whiteboard pens!