Canterbury Cross Primary School 
Dove iniziano i brillanti futuri

This week, our Year 1, Year 2 and Year 3 pupils took part in an exciting African dance workshop in honour of Black History Month.

The children had the opportunity to explore African dance, rhythm and movement, experiencing a vibrant and engaging way to celebrate African culture and heritage. They enthusiastically joined in with the activities, developing their coordination, confidence and appreciation of different cultural traditions.

The children have been describing settings and characters from traditional tales. The have been retelling the stories and using adjectives and conjunctions in their work.

For Maths, the children have been learning about the composition of numbers to up to 20. 

For ICT the children have been using the programme scratch and creating short algorithms for a sprite.

This week we had our Year 1 Phonics parent workshop.

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A huge thank you to all our parents and carers who joined. It was wonderful to share how we teach phonics in school and explore fun ways to support reading at home. Working together helps our children become confident, enthusiastic readers! 

Year 1 have made a brilliant start to the new school year!

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During our first two days together, we have settled into our new classroom, got to know our class routines and enjoyed spending time with our friends. The children have shown fantastic enthusiasm and have worked hard to make a positive start.

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We're looking forward to a year full of exciting learning and memorable experiences.

This week the children have been adding more in maths. They have used different strategies to help with their addition skills such as number lines, counters and jottings. They have been looking at one and two-step addition word problems too.

For literacy, the children have been editing traditional tales, making predictions about events in stories and writing about some characters from the stories.

The children have also enjoyed writing a letter to their future self for mental health week. They wrote their hopes for this year and will then have an opportunity to look back at these in the Summer. The children made some dream rainbows and wrote words of hope on their art-work.

The children have been using adjectives in their writing this week for literacy. They are also being encouraged to proofread their work and check to see if they make sense.

For maths, we have been looking at greater than, less than and equal to when comparing numbers to 20. The children have been recognising the symbols for each statement too.

The children have also started learning about Christianity this week as this is their focus topic for this term. They have listened to the biblical story of Zacchaeus and talked about whether Jesus found it hard or easy to be a good friend to Zacchaeus. They really enjoyed learning this story.

We've had a lovely week watching the kids settle into year 1 and it's been fantastic seeing them take on their new learning challenges so positively. 

In maths our focus has been working with numbers to 20 and writing these as numerals and words. They have also begun counting in 2's and attempting maths questions around these.

For literacy the children have been composing their own captions and focusing handwriting. Children have been encouraged to apply the correct pencil grip.

This week the children have also learnt the importance of e-safety and reporting to trusted adults any unsafe online situations they may come across, when using devices such as electronic tablets.