On this page you will find information about important dates, homework and events taking place. You will also be able to see what exciting learning your child has been taking part in along with some photos.
Well done to Tiffany for being an amazing and supportive friend to all her peers in Cambridge class!
Problem solving with measurements
Activities to help us write our invented story
Week 5
Well done to Oliver for his huge improvement in contributing during carpets times and group activities.
In D&T we made a fruit salad!
We played a guess my fruit game to help us find adjectives to describe our fruits. We have learned all about the benefits of eating fruits and vegetables every day. Our fruit salad was a real success!
Fruit salad story.
Year 1 homework project-Our fantastic castles!
Learning to read scales to solve measurements problems
Week 4
We have had an amazing time at Leeds Castle this week! The children went on a Nature Trail on the castle grounds and explored its maze. We took part in a 'Walk on the Wild Side' workshop where each child was able to make their own clay owl.
We also visited the magnificent castle and its beautiful garden.
Cambridge's Olympians
Week 3
Well done to the unstoppable Marek for his truly amazing imitation work in literacy this week. Marek is writing confidently now and takes great care in his work too!
Learning coins and notes value, making amounts and giving change
Week 2
Well done to all the children in Cambridge for the amazing endeavour they have showed this week during Year 1 Phonics Screening!
They have all made such great progress this year, I am very proud of every single one of them!
Our evolving environment
Our vegetables patch
Our farm shop
Carrots number bonds
Watch the Tricky Words!
We are going to focus on tricky words for the rest of the term in order to improve children's spellings.
Tricky words cannot be sounded out correctly. The only way these words can be read and spelt correctly is by learning them and having plenty of practice.
Practising our number bonds to 20
Start with smaller numbers
Use objects to find the bonds
use counters to find missing numbers
Use the systematic approach
Add using our bonds knowledge
Use the inverse operation to check answers
Week 1
Well done Viktoria for her great improvements in her attitude towards her learning this week.
Viktoria is beginning to show more resilience during focus learning, in particular with her writing.
Well done Cambridge class, you are my super stars this week! You have all worked so hard and made amazing progress. You have all 'stuck with it' even when it was hard going! Your teacher is extremely proud of you!
Year 1 trip to Dane Park
A troll lives under, grumpy pose!
Cuddling the biggest tree in the park
Group hug
Can you guess the sign?
How many girls can fit on a bench?
How many more boys could fit on the bench?
Riding a bike or walking a dog
Learning the ropes of parachute
Mrs Baker vs Miss Moore
quickly sit on it!
The mushroom!
Boys talking...
Well deserved breaK
Running under the parachute
Practising waves
Week 5
Well done to Dymitr for surpassing himself this week with his extraordinary addition and subtraction work using the 100 square and partitioning.
Well done to Abbie for being an enthusiastic learning this week. She has shown great leadership in her group and her contribution to class and group activities has been excellent!
A scientific toy devised in the 19th century, consisting of a disc with a different picture on each of its two sides, these appearing to combine into one image when the disc is rapidly rotated.
We innovated the Bog Baby and created our own pond creatures
In maths we are learning to sequence events using time related words
Early learning-Impeccable ordering and spelling!
We turned this into a Birthday chart
Our own What month is missing game
EAL group-Learning the days of the week
Week 2
Well done to Riley this week for his relentless efforts during independent and focused learning.
I am very proud of him!
Our environment is evolving
Our active planters!
Week 1
Well done to Marek for working more independently now during writing activities!
Decision Alley game-Who is right and who is wrong?
Should we keep it or release it?
Learning about 2D and 3D shapes' properties
Can you beat the teacher?
Kim's game
Feelie bag-Guess my shape
Term 4:
Space Poetry
This term we are continuing to venture into Space amongst aliens. The children will explore poetry and write their own alien poems.
In maths, we will consolidate our number skills and practise adding and subtracting two digit and one digit numbers. The children will apply their knowledge to solve problems.
Things to do at home: Help you child practise the 10 and 20 number bonds. Practise reading the hour and half past the hour times.
Week 6
Well done to Jayce this week for contributing with enthusiasm to our class learning and behaving sensibly during independent learning.
Happy Birthday Tiffany!
Pyjama Day and Easter fun!
History of Drapers Day
Our school council members and Miss Williams did a fantastic job and organised a great day, full of history about what Drapers Mills used to be like years ago.
We have had a whole school assembly about the history of our school to start with and ex pupils and teachers visiting our classroom later on during the day to share their past experiences.
we concluded the day with a balloon send off in our field, what a day!
Week 5
Well done to Abbie for showing endeavour in everything she does and being such a supportive friend for her group!
Introduction to arrays. This will establish the idea of counting groups of objects with equal amounts using repeated addition, which will lay the foundation for multiplication.
Week 3
Well done to Nevaeh for settling rapidly and making lots of new friends in Cambridge class!
Nevaeh is already part of the family!
A big well done to Oliver for being the first 100 time reader in Cambridge class!
Learning to ask and answer questions about the weather in Spanish
Que tiempo Hace hoy?
Hace calor!
Hace sol!
Have no mal tiempo!
Learning positional and directional language
Our fabulous invented poems
Week 2
Well done to Jayce-Rai this week for improving his learning attitude. Jayce-Rai has been working very hard in class and in intervention groups and this is beginning to make a difference. Keep up the good work!
World Book Day 2017
We had a great day celebrating the beautiful world of books and reading!
We started the day sharing our favourite books with the children in assembly. This was followed by activities in classrooms. all book themed.
Children had fun reading with year 5 Liverpool class and we created some fabulous displays in our school hall!
Japanese visitors
Yoma translated and read our alien poem
Kaito taught us to count to ten in Japanese!
Japanese workshops-calligraphy
Traditional games
Our Alien poem performed in Japanese
Numbers Song in Japanese すうじのうた
Business as usual in Cambridge!
Using bond beads to find 20 number bonds
Rhyming game in guided reading
10 number bonds systematically
Then trying independently!
using Numicons to find bonds with our teacher
We like to make Mrs Baker look silly!
Time for number practice outside!
Learning to use the suffix -ing in verbs
Sentences with -ing verbs
Week 1
Well done to Tiffany for the relentless efforts she always puts into her work and her consistent contribution to our class learning. She is an exceptional star!
A confident and amazing imitation of our Alien poem
Partitioning numbers into hundreds, tens and units...so clever!
This term our topic will be around space and aliens, we will use Pie Corbett's 'Talk for Writing' and 'Talk for Reading' approaches and bring writing and reading to life in the classroom!
In maths the children will continue developing strategies to help them add and subtract. I wonder who will be our first white badge winner? Come on my little ninjas!
In science, we will learn about materials and explore their properties. Children will then use their knowledge of materials in D&T to help them plan and design the perfect home for Beegu on Earth.
We will also learn about weather patterns in the UK and have a go at saying it in Spanish too!!!
This promises to be a very busy and exciting term indeed. Stay in touch, we will keep you posted!
Well done to Marek for all his perseverance this term in his writing. He has come leaps and bounds with his sounding and can now write some simple words!
Alien invasion!
Listening to music and learning about instruments
Exploring mass and capacity
Predicting less and more than 1 kg
Can the tallest container hold the most?
Reading scales
Measuring accurately
Reading scales in different steps
Which container can hold the most?
Which one is heavier/lighter?
Learning animals names in Spanish
¿Qué animal es?
¿es un perro?
¿es un mono?
Soy un cangrejo!
Soy un cocodrilo!
Week 5
Well done to Sarlota for settling so beautifully this week in Cambridge! She also took great care of work and presented it very neatly!
Well done to Nikolas for his truly amazing halving in maths. Nikolas is turning a page and showing superb endeavour in his work and attitude to learning!
Halving shapes / quantities and sharing into equal parts
Outer Space: "We are the Planets," The Solar System Song by StoryBots
Week 3
Well done to our new RED TED owner this week!
Well done to Kieran this week for his AMAZING independent imitation of Beegu's story! What a writing wizzard!
Time is of the essence...
Matching o'clock times
Learning to learning the time on analogue clocks
Learning the o'clock time with our clocks
Early learning-Tic toc our little brains clock!
Making our own clocks to read the time
Early learning-Showing o'clock and half past
Ordering the months of the year
Can you put the days of the week back in order?
Using time connectives to sequence Beegu's story
Beegu's story sequencing
D&T-Making a house for an alien to live in
The children designed their 'perfect' home to shelter a lost alien. They thought about the materials they would need to build their houses and what techniques they would use to assemble the different parts.
They then worked in groups to create houses using different materials:
Team 1 built a tall newspaper town house with door and windows
Team 2 built a paper teepee with paper straws
Team 3 built a log cabin with wooden blocks
Team 4 built a cardboard bungalow out of cereal boxes
Next week we will evaluate our houses and test their resistance to adverse weather!
Week 2
Well done to Ethan this week for his much improved behaviour for learning and his great endeavour during focus and independent learning.