Year 1Whiteson

Our visit to Hainault Forest Country Park

2012-02-01T11:57:00.000-08:00

On Tuesday we took the 247 bus to Hainault Forest Country Park as part of theme Down Our Street to investigate our local environnment.
We explored the hills, plains, forest and lake as well as visiting the farm to see the animals.
Our favourites were sheep, donkeys, pigs and rabbits.

Our local mapping walk around Hainault

2012-01-09T07:26:00.000-08:00

Last week we walked around the local area of Hainault to find different buildings and important community buildings.

Visit to Hainault library

2011-12-01T08:56:00.000-08:00

On Tuesday 29th November we visited Hainault Library.
We read stories to each other and looked at some non fiction.
Mrs Barratt told us about how the books were ordered alphabetically and ten she read us some stoires.
It was a great local trip and hopefully more children will be encouraged to become members!1

Visit to Manford Way

2011-11-15T08:04:00.000-08:00

On Tuesday we visited Manford Way shops to buy a selection of fresh fruit.

We have been learning about healthy food and tomorow we are going to describe the fruit and then eat it!!

Diwali

2011-10-20T04:59:00.000-07:00

On Thursday the whole of KS1 celebrated the Hindu and Sikh festival of Diwali.

We listened to the story of Diwali, did some dancing and games as well as talking to some children about their own experiences of Diwali.

"We have lots of lights in our houses, " said Amrit.

"We wear beautifula nd colourful clothes," said Yash.

"I love the fireworks best," said Jeevan.

Visit to the Drama Centre

2011-10-20T04:51:00.001-07:00

On Wednesday we visited the Drama Centre in Woodford.

We acted out the story of The Big Bad Wolf and the Three Little Pigs.

Johnny encouraged us to use our bodies and our voices to become the characters in the drama.

"It was really good, " said Caitlin.

"I loved pretending to be the Wolf!!" said Ryan.

A visit to Valentines Mansion

2011-10-13T00:39:00.000-07:00

On Tuesday we travelled by public transport to visit Valentines Mansion.

It is a very old building and the whole house has been restored to its former glory!!

The children explored the different rooms and had plenty of opportunity to handle artifacts and

dress up!!

International Week

2011-09-26T05:40:00.000-07:00

During International Week we had some stories from differnt countries.
Gabriele's Mum read us a story in Italian and Gabriele taught us how to count to 10 in Italian.
Mrs. Forson comes from Ghana and read us a story.

Mrs. Gupta read us a story in Hindi and Kuhu helped her.

Mrs Raval read us astory in Gujurati.

Visit from Epping Forest Museum

2011-09-15T08:42:00.000-07:00

On Thursday we had a History workshop from Katherine.

She brought lots of artefacts that would have been found in the home 100 years ago.

She asked lots of questions to determine what each artefact might have been used for.

Welcome back!!

2011-09-10T00:41:00.000-07:00

Hi, welcome back and I hope you all hd a good holiday.
The children havre returned to school and are settling in well to the new routines.
We have lots of lovely learning experiences planned already!!

Clay tile workshop

2011-07-13T06:42:00.000-07:00

On Wednesday we had a clay workshop with Mel, an artist from a senior school.
We designed our portraits and decorated them with clay.
Mel is going to fire the tiles in a big kiln and put glaze on them
The whole school will make one and, next year, we will display them all for everyone to see.

Arts week Story telling from Africa

2011-07-07T08:44:00.000-07:00

Jambo!!

During Arts week we had an African storyteller who came from Kenya.

She told us a story about how leopard got his spots.

We did some dancing and played on an African drum.

Toys in the past

2011-06-13T08:46:00.000-07:00

On Monday 13th June, Rose came in to answer our questions about her life in the past and the toys she had when she was a child.
The children found out about her childhood in Ireland and the kinds of games and toys she played with.
Thanks Rose!!

Visit to Bethnal Green Toy Museum

2011-05-16T00:05:00.000-07:00

On Wednesday 11th May We travelled on London Underground to visit Bethnal Green Toy Museum.
We saw lots of toys from the past and we were able to play withe some. The rocking horse was one of the most popular!!

Heritage Day

2011-04-27T10:48:00.000-07:00

On Wednesday 27th April John Bramston celebrated English Heritage Day.

In KS1 we rotated several activities all designed to demonstrate our English Heritage.

These included:-

playing cricket

making cucmber and jam sandwiches

English Country Dancing

making the Union Jack

playing the Beetle game

listening to storie about St. George-the patron saint of England

In the afternoon we joined with the rest of the school for a huge picnic on the field.

Celebrating Passover

2011-04-05T06:12:00.000-07:00

Rebecca and Harrison fro Y3 came to talk to us about the jewish festival of Passover.

They showed us some important artefacts and we all shared some Matzoh bread.

The power of the sun!!

2011-03-25T07:51:00.000-07:00

We used special photographic paper to create some photographs of shapes.

The sun put an image onto the paper.

Y1 Story telling at Fairlop Waters

2011-03-14T10:33:00.000-07:00

On Monday Y1 classes visited Fairlop Waters to meet Tony Cranston , a story teller.
We looked at all the new equipment that has been built there and we were encouraged to use our imagination to tell stories about it.
"It looks like a Giant's footprint," said Jacob.
"Maybe those coils are snakes!!"said Matthew.
It really stimulated our imagination.

Library visit by Y1W

2011-03-07T10:52:00.000-08:00

On Monday 7th March Y1 classes visited Hainault library.
The children enjoyed looking at a variety of books.
"I have found a book that is also written in Bengali," said Ibrahim. "I am learning to read my language at home."

"I'm going to read this book with my friend ,"said Tanvi.

"I found a book about volcanoes,"said Billy.
Before we left, Mrs Barratt the librarian, read us some stories, including a rhyming story.

World Book Day - 'The Magic Box'

2011-03-03T03:33:00.000-08:00

On Wednesday the 2nd March it was World Book Day. In our class (Y1W) we had a 'Magic Box'. We all used our imaginations to write about what we thought might be inside the box. Alfie thought, "That there was tooth fairies inside the box". Jacob thought, "That there could be a Genie inside!". Gemma thought,"That there was a magic key inside" and Auria believed that the box was filled with, "Magic fairy dust!". Auria used this dust to wish for a magic Castle, and she was the princess inside it.

Jack and the Beanstalk

2011-02-15T09:01:00.000-08:00

On Tuesday 15th February we performed our class assembly, Jack and the Beanstalk, to KS1 ,Reception and family members.
All the childrenn had a speaking part and there was dancing and singing.
"It was great fun to do," said Jacob.
"I loved the Giants song the best,"

said Afi.

2011-02-02T04:07:00.000-08:00

Today we all got on a bus and travelled to Hainault Forest Country Park. We had a wonderful time walking accross the muddy fields and exploring the forest. We also went to visit the animals at the farm. We saw pigs, cows, goats, rabbits and even some donkeys.

Y1W a Traffic Survey

2011-01-20T06:07:00.000-08:00

On Tuesday 18th January we went for a walk to New North Road to do a traffic survey.
"We collected data about the traffic," said Isabel.
"The car was the most popular vehicle," said Kajus.
"The least popular vehicle was the bike," said Akhil.
We made some pictograms and graphs in ICT.

2011-01-08T04:58:00.001-08:00

Welcome back!! I hope you all had a very good Chrsitmas!!
We began our new theme for the term, "Down Our Street," with a local walk to find out about the different types of buildings that people might live in.

2010-12-13T05:03:00.000-08:00

On Thursday 16th Deacember we will have our Christmas party at 1:30pm. Children may bring party clothes to change into. You may bring party food to eat but NO FIZZY DRINKS OR NUTS.

Thanks

Mrs Whiteson

KS1 Nativity- A gift for the baby

2010-12-08T10:19:00.000-08:00

Hi, it's the Nativity season again!!. KS1 performed to children in the Foudation Stage and KS2. Families are welcome on Thursday for Y1 children and Friday for Y2 children. DVD's will be availabe for £5.
We look forward to seeing you.

2010-11-30T06:00:00.000-08:00

It was very snowy today so we all went to build a Snowman in the playground.

Here are some pictures of our new frosty friend.

We have also written lots of Winter Poems, here's one we all wrote together:

Cold and Freezing
In the snow
Going Woosh, whoosh!!
Here I go!!

Snow is falling
From the sky.
Floating down
Way up high

Shivering, shaking
Crunching about,
Nipping my toes
Makes me shout!!!

2010-11-24T07:20:00.000-08:00

We went to Penrith Park to look at the difference between Autumn and Winter. Here are some photos of what we saw.

Here are some words we used to describe Winter:

Gloomy, Freezing Cold, Cloudy, Dead Leaves, Lumpy Trees, Dark

2010-11-11T02:58:00.000-08:00

We visited Manford Way to buy some healthy food from the shops.

2010-11-04T06:12:00.000-07:00

KS1 Had a visit from Tony Cranston - a story teller. He told us a story about magic and princesses. We made up some stories as a group.

A visit to Redbridge Drama Centre

2010-10-30T04:03:00.000-07:00

On Friday we visited Redbridge Drama Centre to find out what it was like to be a poor child in the Victorian workhouse. We had to work like slaves!!

Visit from Reverend Segal

2010-10-21T09:22:00.000-07:00

On Thursday Reverend Segal came to talk to us about her Christian faith and what it was like to be a Reverend in the Church.

Y1 Visit to Valentines Mansion

2010-10-19T05:13:00.000-07:00

On Tuesday we visited Valentines Mansion to learn about life in the Victorian era.

The children explored this beautiful Victorian Mansion and dressed up as a servant, butler, house keeper and man servant. We learnt a lot about life in the past in a Victorian household.

Y1W visit Hainault Library

2010-10-14T04:48:00.000-07:00

On Thursday October 14th we visited Hainault Library.
We looked at the fantastic variety of books that we can borrow.
Mrs Barrat read us some stories.
We all hope to join the Library so that we can borrow books!!

A visit to Kielder Close Day Centre for the elderly

2010-10-06T11:11:00.000-07:00

Wednesday, 6 October 2010

On Wednesday Y1W visited Kielder Close Day Centre for the elderly.
We sang some songs for them and then asked them questions about what it was like when they were children. "I learned that children in the past had no cars or TV," said Billy. "I found about the Blitz and what is was like during the war," said Jacob. Jeevan asked what it was like at school. Honey wanted to know what games they played at school.
We had a great time and invited them all to our Nativity concert at Christmas.