In Geography, Grasshoppers have been learning about the human and physical features of a seaside town. They have taken inspiration from one of the books we have explored this term called ‘Postcards from Crabby Spit’. The book is set in Australia and follows a family who are on holiday there.

The children designed their own seaside town, choosing the features that they wanted and planning where to place them.
They then chose a name for their town and wrote a leaflet to persuade visitors that their resort was the best place to visit, by describing some of the exciting things they would be able to see and do there.

Grasshoppers have been using leaves and other items in nature such as, flowers, sticks and crab apples to create representations of multiplication number sentences. We enjoyed working outside!

In Science, this afternoon Grasshoppers have been making the boats that they have designed. They chose the materials they wanted to use for the hull and to make the mast and sail.
The children had a range of different materials to choose from: plastic, metal, cork, cardboard, sponge, fabric, felt, foam, wood and paper.
Once made, they tested them to see if they floated, sank or tipped over. They evaluated their boats and thought about what they might change next time and if they could improve their design.

Welcome to the Summer Term!

Please have a look below at what we will be learning about in the Grasshoppers class.

Click on the link below for a clearer copy of the curriculum overview.

Splash Curriculum Overview Summer Term

Alongside the art work we have been doing in class, linked to our topic of Australia, we have been working on a large scale painting of Uluru.
The children have used a dot painting technique to create features of the picture.
They also used watercolours and the dot technique to create the birds around the painting.
Year 1 children added the finished touches on Monday.

Well Done certificates, this week, are awarded to Zac Robinson and Jack Dewhurst-Cousins.

Our Spelling Shed ‘Super Spellers’ this week are:

1st – Teddy Yarwood

2nd – Zac Robinson

3rd – Ruby Robinson

Good Morning Grasshoppers.

Attached is the plan for today’s remote learning. All the links you need are included within the plan, they are in blue and just need selecting. Please send in any photographs of completed activities to the Grasshoppers email address and I will respond

Week 7 18.2.22 Remote Learning.

I hope you all have a super day.

Stay safe.

Mrs Cains

You should have received a letter via email about our class visit from Simon from Corner Exotics, on Thursday 10th February. If you haven’t or would like a hard copy, please contact Mrs Lloyd in the school office.

Many thanks.

Welcome to the Spring term!

Happy New Year to you all, I hope you have enjoyed the Christmas break.

Please have a look at our class information page for a reminder of PE days, water bottles, reading books and other useful information.

Our topic for the Spring term is ‘Australia‘.

You can also find the curriculum overview below, on the information page.

(Click on the link below for a clearer view.)

Australia Curriculum Overview Spring term 2022

This week, the children have been given their lines to learn for our class nativity.

Please could you support your child to learn their lines. Those children with narrator parts do not need to learn their lines off by heart, but they do need to be very familiar with the words so that they can read them fluently and confidently.

Unfortunately, we will have to video our performance to be viewed online, as we did last year. We all feel very disappointed that we can’t do a proper performance, this year, but we are still having fun learning the songs and rehearsing our parts. Fingers crossed that next year we will be back on stage with an audience.

Many thanks for your support.