Running Week 2 - Ruskin Park

Watch our improved running in Week 2s edition of Brixton Running News! 

This week we all ran 1 or 2km around a gloriously sunny Ruskin Park. 

If you missed last weeks video check it out here! 

How did you improve from Week 1 to Week 2? 

Did you prefer Ruskin Park or Brockwell Park? Why?

Quentin Blake

Our key text this term, The Green Ship,  is by the author and illustrator Quentin Blake.

Here is a video of Quentin Blake talking 

about the power of illustration.

My favourite bit in the video was when he showed us all the different covers that he made for the Green Ship. 

Which bit was your favourite?

World Book Day

On Thursday 3rd March over 100 countries all over the world will be celebrating World Book Day. We'll be joining in the festival of imagination that is world book day by celebrating  authors, illustrators and books in Year one. 

To visit the World Book Day website; click here. 

What are you reading at the moment?

Writing workshops on the Green Ship

We have been redrafting and improving our writing on Quentin Blake's book the Green Ship this week in our writing conferences.

Working with an adult we improved our spelling and worked on improving our writing by using our writing targets. We even  re-drafted some key sentences to make our writing even more fantastic.

 What writing target have you been working on?

We can find totals!

Look how many ways we were able to make 10p! 

This week we began to learn the value of coins. We can now recognise 1p, 2p, 5p and 10p. 

How can you make 10p with coins?

Learning to Map Brixton

"We drew our house and then our route to school."

"I included Hollybush Walk and bus routes like the P4" 

"I put Hill Mead School and my house with the train station, tube station and shops" 

What can you see on your way to school?

Yummy new menu

 We have all been really enjoying the new school dinner menu in Year 1 this week. Here are some photos of what we have been eating; it all looks delicious.

Martha Payne is a Scottish school girl who started a blog on what she had for her school lunch each day.

 Read it : Here

Mapping Brixton

As well as going on tours of our local area we have been studying maps of Brixton to learn about the geography of the area. 

Using google street view we explored the streets around our school. 

 What can you see happening in this photograph?

Watch out year 1 are running

In PE this half term we are working on getting better at running. Each week we're going to go running in a different bit of Brixton. Today we went running in Brockwell park. 

One Year 1 said, "We ran around the big old tree. We have even been racing up and down the hill. We ran as fast as we could."

How far do you think we ran today?

School dinners

Year 1 have been enjoying their first day back at school after half term. A highlight for many has been tasting the new lunch menu. It's official, spaghetti bolognese is a hit. 

"I love school dinners. I love this (points at the pasta) and the stuff that goes on top. It's yummy."

"The best bit was the hot beans."

The Green Ship: I think....

The Green Ship

Today we looked at the front cover and blurb of our new book The Green Ship. 

"I think the children will go inside the green ship and have a picnic" 

"I wonder how I could be an explorer"

"I see green leaves because there are lots of trees" 

"I wonder where the man who owns the boat lives?" 

What questions do you have about book? 

Brixton

Welcome back. 

We hope you had a terrific half term and are excited as we are to start our new topic on the Brixton pound.

Which bits of Brixton are special to you?

The Green Ship

Next half term we'll be reading The Green Ship by Quentin Blake.

What do you think it's going to be about?

What are your first impressions of the book having looked at the front cover?

Telling the Time

This morning we have been learning how to tell the time. We practiced o'clock times and half past times. 

Click this link to practice telling the time!  

What time do we come to school?

What time do we finish school?

Workshare Assembly

It's our Year 1 assembly this Friday. Parents, carers and friends are warmly invited to come and see and hear all about our learning from this half term.

It's in the middle hall on Friday 12th February at 9 o'clock.

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Underground Designers

Designers at work! We have been designing our own London underground train carriages.

After building our original designs we then  reflected on and talked about what would improve our carriages. After listening to our peers opinions we went on to make our carriage models even better. 

What would you put in your underground carriage?

What's beneath our feet?

It's almost time to say goodbye to this term's topic. We've learned a lot about what's beneath our feet.

What's the most memorable thing you've learned this half term?

Lunches

Stop Press. There's now an even more detailed menu.

What do you think?

What meals are you looking forward to eating?

Halving Shapes

This morning in Year 1 we are learning to find half of different shapes.

What's your top tip for halving?

The Brixton Pound

We've been thinking about our topic next term, which is the Brixton Pound. We've been thinking about what we'd like to investigate and learn about.

What would you like to learn about the Brixton Pound?

Natural History Museum Trip

What a great day we had today at the Natural History Museum. We learnt so much about creepy crawlies and other animals. Here are some photos showing some of our best bits of the trip.

When we arrived at the museum we were amazed by
it architectural beauty.

We learnt where different mini beasts live in our house.

We went inside a model termite hill.

Investigating where ants like to live and what they like to eat. 

What was your best bit?