A Day in the Life of Florence Nightingale.

Well, we have scrubbed the floors, washed the bed linen, dressed wounds, cooked healthy meals, chased away rats and nursed the sick.  Just a normal day in the Crimean War!  As you might have guessed, we have been learning all about Florence Nightingale and having a wonderful time.  Please ask your child to tell you what she did; why she is so famous and what the soldiers called her. 

Thank you Sister Sue (a real life nurse) who came in and talked about her job and taught the children how to bandage up an injured teddy.  Mrs Rixson was busy outside measuring up medicines and amounts of fluids.  Mrs Clark and Ms Milne did a sterling job making lanterns and pesky rats (there were a lot of them about in the hospitals of the Crimea  at that time!)

We hope the children enjoyed the day as much as we did.
This is the last week of spellings and homework before the holidays.  Here are the two sets of spellings.

  Harder spellings

all

also

always

almost

funny

sunny

smelly

naughty

Easier spellings

pot

cot

hot

put

cut

hut

get

got

Multiplication, mini beasts and more!

All is progressing nicely with our mini beast topic.  The children are enjoying finding out facts about mini beasts and 1CR are preparing for their ‘creepy crawly’ assembly on Tuesday 12^th May.  

In maths, we have been counting in twos, fives and tens and learning about multiplication.  The children should be familiar with the terms ‘groups of’ and maybe even be able to read the number sentence 2 x 3 = 6 as two groups of three equals 6.

Later this month, the children will be taking part in a Sing as One morning.  All the Year One children will be joined by children from other schools for a morning of singing together.  They have been practising the songs and might even sing them for you.  Here are the titles of a few:  ‘The Tiny Ant’, ‘The Bare Necessities’, ‘I want to be like you’.

Thank you for sending in the permission slips and donations for our school trip.  We will need a few parent volunteers to come along with us.  Thank you for those who have already come forward.  If you think you might be able to join us, could you please let us know.

Spellings for next week are as follows:  

Harder:

January
February
night
fright
light
sight
might
knight

Easier:

too
tree
little
how
old
day
year
ten

 Thank you for all your support helping your children learn them.  We can tell from their independent writing that they are having an effect!