Electric Rainbow

We really enjoyed our topic on Electric Rainbow. We designed and made a light source for the King of Sparkle to light his kingdom. We found out how to make a circuit using a bulb, wires, switch and battery. We had a great time in Techniquest helping the Selfish Elf fix his toys.

Community Exploring in Year 1

We hope you all had a lovely Christmas and New Year!

May Mrs Collingridge and I take this opportunity to thank you all for the gifts we received from you over the Christmas period. It was very kind of you all.

Our theme this half-term is  Community Explorers and we have been busy examining our surroundings. We have made a good start by drawing maps, locating prominent features within the village and creating models of the main buildings found in the locality.

May we proudly present our first model to you.

Christmas time in Year 1...!

 

Christmas Party in Year 1!

 We had a lovely Christmas party...
 

 

 

 

 

 



 



...and then Father Christmas arrived!!!





 

 

 

I can promise you that they have ALL been very good children...! x
 

Making Year 1 happy - with a bit of 'Samba' music!

 

 

Samba Workshop - 'Happiness'

Here are some of the pictures from our Samba workshop.  The children had great fun when Mrs Mack came to show us some of the exciting instuments & how to make a good sound with them...

 

 

 

 

It certainly made us all smile & put us in a good mood - there was even a little bit of sneaky dancing...! :)

 

 

 Are you grooving to the rhythm?

 

Happy days......! x

 



Enterprise Week - Cake Bake

 



We tested our 3 chosen cakes to see which ones people preferred...

 

 

 

Not all the cakes were popular - can you tell!?

 

 

(even Miss Norton had to try them!)

 

After collecting the results on a 'Tally Chart', we found the most popular cake flavour were the vanilla and the chocolate cupcakes.

 

So, let the 'Bake-off' begin!

 

 

We measured...

 

 

...we mixed...

 

 

...we got flour everywhere...

 

 

...and then we baked 72 cupcakes! 

 

Phew...  Mary Berry would be proud of us!!!

 

 

We had to design our own labels to attach to our cupcakes. 

 

 

With help (thanks Mrs Collingridge), we packaged them up to sell.

 

 

 

Finally, we sold our cakes and made a good PROFIT!

 

A great day for us all, look out Junior Apprentice!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Visitors to Year 1 and 2

Our Enterprise Project

The owner from the 'Flapjack Fairy' company came to our school to share her experience on how to choose a product & start your own business.

She talked to us about her passion for flapjacks and why she wanted to sell them to lots of people.  How she started her business and importantly, how she makes a profit by doing this.

She explained to us how she tried out lots of flapjack recipes with her friends and family before choosing her best flapjack recipes...

We enjoyed the taste-test too!  So, we decided we must do the same with our Cupcake project.  We can't wait (yum)!

Finally, she also told us how important it was to get the packaging right, how to advertise the tasty product (and how to display it the right way up!)...

 

 

 

 

 

We have already designed our products and we are looking forward to our enterprising day!

 

 

A big thank you to 'Flapjack Fairy' for helping us on our way...