Sunflower Class
WELCOME TO SUNFLOWER CLASS
Sunflower Class is our Year 1 and 2 class.
This Year Mrs Simons our senior teacher will teach the class on a Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.
On Wednesday mornings Mrs Atkins who is a HLTA, will teach the class. On Wednesday afternoons Mrs Harper a TA will lead the children in outdoor learning and Mrs Atkins will work with some of the children on Art and D.T. projects.
Mrs Elliott another HLTA will support the children in Sunflower Class every morning.
Please find below an information letter to provide you with everything you need to know about Sunflower Class for you to enable your child to settle well into the next term. Also to enable you to be aware and become involved with your child's learning there is a curriculum balloon which informs you of the learning your child will be completing over the next two terms as well as some home learning where you can help support your child at home.
Autumn Term
Year 1 Science Knowledge Organiser
Year 2 Science Knowledge Organiser
History Knowledge Organiser
Spring Term
The Earth and Beyond
The Earth and Beyond
How Did we Learn To Fly? History Knowledge Organiser
Would you prefer to live in a hot or cold Place? Geography Knowledge Organiser
CREATIVE HABITATS
As part of their learning about habitats, the children worked in partners to design and create their own 3D habitats with shoe boxes and craft materials. They were asked to think about their recent learning about habitats and consider both the plants and animals that live in either a Polar, Woodland, Rainforest or Ocean and create them.
WELLBEING WEEK
As part of our Wellbeing week the children enjoyed many exciting and fulfilling activities.
DEN BUILDING
Today as part of their outdoor learning Sunflower Class children had the opportunity to work together to enjoys some den building. Look at what fun we had!
COSMIC YOGA
Today the children took part in Cosmic Yoga lesson based on the Hungry Caterpillar. The children had lots of fun as they followed and acted out the story through yoga moves.
MOJO MOVES
Today as part of Wellbeing Week the children enjoyed a visit from Mojo Moves who led the children in her disco dance moves!
ARCHERY
Today we had fun in PE practising our archery skills with the IG Sports teachers! Look what fun we had!
MYSTERIOUS CRASH SITE!
After break today when the children were coming into class they discovered a mysterious crash site! There was what seemed to be a UFO or spaceship on its side and other pieces of unidentified debris! What could this be?
GOLDILOCKS AND THE THREE BEARS WOW DAY!
To celebrate the end of our learning based on this traditional tale we had a special dress up day where we either dressed up as Goldilocks or one of the bears. We also baked baby bear biscuits and made masks a well as design cottages out of Lego and other construction.
The Twinkly Nativity!
The children of Sunflower Class performed a fabulous 'Twinkly Nativity' Christmas play today. They sung so beautifully and presented their lines with such gusto, expression and enthusiasm all of the staff and their grown ups could not be more proud! Well done Sun flower Class children you were amazing!
A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS LUNCH!
Today the children all enjoyed a very tasty roast dinner Christmas lunch al together in the hall. The children wore their Christmas jumpers as well as Santa hats and pulled crackers. A wonderful time was had by both staff and children!
SHAPE HUNT!
Today we enjoyed using and exploring our outside area to find and identify 2D and 3D shapes. Here is what we found!
BEEBOT FUN!
We have been learning about programming Beebots sing code. We have been learning how to follow and execute programmes to complete a treasure hunt of animals on a Beebot grid. We followed the programmes and we were able to debug any problems in the programming to find all the animals. We worked with our teacher Miss Worrallo to do this!
THE FAMOUS SCIENTIST JANE GOODALL
In science we have been learning about animals and how to group and classify them. As part of this work we have been learning about Jane Goodall. We made binoculars and we have enjoyed role playing as Jane Goodall and finding different Chimpanzees around our outdoor environment. We have been studying their expressions and activities.
DESIGNING A CHAIR FOR BABY BEAR
In Design and Technology lessons we have been learning about how to make strong structures. We have discovered that cylinders make the strongest structures. We tested this by exploring how many books our cylinder could hold. This will help us when we design our chairs for Baby Bear!










FINISHED CHAIRS FOR BABY BEAR
After testing the best structures to use to design a chair for Baby Bear. The children constructed their designs and then made the finishing touches to their chairs. When ready the children tested their chairs by placing Baby Bear on it to see if it was a good fit and strong enough to hold him. Look at our amazing designs!
GOLDILOCKS AND THE THREE BEARS
To embed and develop our understanding of the sequence of the traditional Tale of Goldilocks and The Three Bears, we made stick puppets and created puppets shows. We performed our stories for each other and had great fun!
REMEMBRANCE DAY
Today day we observed two minutes silence at 11 o'clock at the of break time to remember all the soldiers and animals that have died during the wars around the world. In the afternoon we learned about why it is important to remember and why the poppy is used. We made our own stained glass window poppies to show our respects.
FIREWORKS FUN!
Today we learned about Guy Fawkes and his plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament. We sequenced and retold the story and created our own firework pictures to remember why we celebrate 5th November!
ARTS WEEK
ROCKING OUT WITH ROCKTOPUS!
Today day the children had a fabulous day creating a rock video with ROCKTOPUS. The children participated in a music workshop where they created a song based on our core value of Empathy and Compassion. The children helped and supported by ROCKTOPUS wrote lyrics to the song and created their own dance moves!
Look at what fun we had!
CIRCUS SKILLS
On the final day of our Arts week we had the opportunity to experience and participate in a circus skills workshop. We had so much fun learning new skills and working together!
MAKING BIRD SCULPTURES
Today as a culmination of our careful and creative study of birds we designed and created our own bird sculptures. During the week the children looked at feathers in detail as well as the different features of birds. With this knowledge we created our own using cardboard, paper, masking tape, oil pastels, felt-tips and tin foil. Take a look at our master pieces!
OBSERVING FEATHERS CLOSELY
This lesson we observed feathers closely and drew them in detail using different media including oil pastels, paint, charcoal, soft pencils and crayons.
EXPLORATION AND OBSERVATION OF BIRDS
Today in our art lesson the children were able to observe and study birds up close using video footage which was played and paused to allow the children to study different birds in detail to be able to draw their features with accuracy and confidence..












SUNFLOWERS
Today we learned about the famous artist Vincent van Gogh. We learned about the different paintings he created of sunflowers. Inspired by these great works of art we designed the front covers of our art books with our very own sunflower designs. Look at what a fantastic job we did!
HARVEST BAKING
Today Sunflower class enjoyed baking pumpkin muffins to celebrate harvest. We all worked together to puree the pumpkin, weigh out the ingredients, crack the eggs, mix the muffin mixture which we then put into cases to bake in the oven. After we had fun icing our muffin before we took them home to enjoy!
COMPARING CROCODILES
Today we used our greater than, less than crocodiles to compare numbers in a practical way using multi-link. In partners we were given two numbers to 10 to compare and using the multi-link we represented these numbers and positioned them correctly on our comparing crocodiles. Through this activity we were reinforcing our understanding of the greater than and less than symbol.
OUTDOOR LEARNING
Today we had fun during our Outdoor Learning time. We worked together to make dens and then enjoyed hot chocolate made from our new Ghillie kettle on the fire.
Maths Fun!
Today we enjoyed learning about doubles in maths. First of all we played a counting game to practice counting in twos. Then we completed a practical task in partners to calculate the doubles to 20 using multi-link.














Programming Beebots
Today in our computing lesson we initially spent time exploring how to turn on and instruct the Beebots to go forwards, backwards, left and right. While doing this we learned which buttons we needed to press to make the Beebot move.
We were then given the challenge to programme our Beebots to find and move to different animals on our Beebots grids.
Autumn Days
Today in our English lesson week went outside to use our senses to explore the signs of Autumn to help us prepare for our Autumn poem writing. Look at the fund we had!









The Holy Trinity
Today we were learning about what Christians believe about God. As part of this lesson we learned about the Holy Trinity.
To help us begin to remember we made doves, a symbol of the Holy Spirit and three leaf clovers to remind us of the three parts of the Holy Trinity.











