Welcome to Class One!
We are a small Foundation Stage class taught by Mrs Woods on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays and Mrs Barons on Thursdays and Fridays. We have a lovely bright room and our own outdoor playground where we enjoy a pure Foundation Stage curriculum with lots of practical learning through structured play and topic based activities.
We have fun learning our letters and sounds, supported by PhonicsBug and we quickly learn to apply these to our early reading and writing skills. Our early number skills are developed through practical, play-based activities. We love to be out and about in our Outdoor Explorers sessions each Thursday afternoon - making the most of our big field, woodland area and Spiritual Garden. We like nothing more than meeting people from our local community, going on memorable trips and being active in our own outside play space or in our lovely big hall.
We’re a busy little class who come to school with a smile, starting our school days in a fun and safe environment, becoming part of the family that is Landscove. Below you can see our termly topic webs and some of the things we have been getting up to...
We have fun learning our letters and sounds, supported by PhonicsBug and we quickly learn to apply these to our early reading and writing skills. Our early number skills are developed through practical, play-based activities. We love to be out and about in our Outdoor Explorers sessions each Thursday afternoon - making the most of our big field, woodland area and Spiritual Garden. We like nothing more than meeting people from our local community, going on memorable trips and being active in our own outside play space or in our lovely big hall.
We’re a busy little class who come to school with a smile, starting our school days in a fun and safe environment, becoming part of the family that is Landscove. Below you can see our termly topic webs and some of the things we have been getting up to...
Information for 2023/24
Class One News...
Reception 2023 - 2024
This week, in their Outdoor Explorers session, the children have been learning about birds migrating to warmer climates.
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We played games pretending to be migrating birds and we created the 'v' formation that geese fly in - accompanied by supportive honking!
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The children have been learning about mixing the primary colours - red, blue and green - to make other colours.
hey pretended to be squirrels hiding their 'caches' of nuts and they marked their maps and aerial photos to indicate where they were.
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This week Class One in the Outdoor Explorers learning the children have been learning about squirrels.
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Class One have been learning all about the properties of circles and triangles this week!
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Class 1 conducted a science experiment to see if a bear would keep warmer, when hibernating, nestled in a warm cave or just lying on the floor.
Inspired by ‘The Little Red Hen’, we made some bread today.
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We had a close look at the dough before putting it in Mrs Grant’s warm office to rise.
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We looked again after an hour and talked about what we noticed and if the yeast had made the dough rise.
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As part of our music week, Gaby kindly bought some musical instruments (violins and clarinet) in for the children to play.
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As part of our music week, Gaby kindly bought some musical instruments (violins and clarinet) in for the children to play.
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The children listened carefully, used the instruments with great respect, and waited patiently for their turn.
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Class One have been learning all about pattern in Mathematics this week.
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We've been copying, continuing and creating our own repeating patterns in may different ways using colours, shapes, objects, actions & sounds!
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We have been sorting images of farming into 'past' and 'present'.
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After seeing, and talking about, photos of past and present farm equipment, we decided to make some junk model tractors.
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Together, we planned what we would need, generating some wonderful technical vocabulary.
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This week in literacy our text is ‘Duck in the Truck’.
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The children had great fun retelling, and adapting, the story using a variety of props.
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In our first Outdoor Explorer session, the children were introduced to some special rules that keep us safe when outside.
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Class One enjoyed their first PE lesson with Mr Tanner.
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Mr Tanner was so impressed with the children’s ‘have a go’ attitude today.
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They all rose to the challenge of showing their running, jumping, throwing and moving skills. Great start, Class 1.
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Reception 2022 / 2023
Our new Reception class have made a wonderful start to the new year!
We have been investigating number patterns this week!
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We have been exploring continuous patterns and we have been developing our spatial reasoning skills too!
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Class One have been practising their ‘tricky words’. They particularly enjoy hunting for, and reading, as many as they can in our outdoor area.
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Class One have risen to the challenge to build their own boats.
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They were given a selection of resources to choose from, and then used their own ideas how to join the pieces to make their creations.
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They also needed to think about if their chosen materials would float or sink.
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When complete, the boats had their maiden voyage in the water tray and we soon discovered if they floated!
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What a wonderful day full of new sporting opportunities, ‘can do’ attitudes, giggles, teamwork and lots of suncream!
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It was so lovely to see the children keenly participating in the activities alongside their friends.
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We went artificial-caving at Haven Banks in Exeter.
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We had a go at rock climbing too!
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Bell-boating was lots of fun.
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‘Thank you’ to Rachel for visiting us and teaching us all about her job as a vet during her amazing ‘hands on’ workshop.
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The children had the opportunity to scan the teddies to see if they were microchipped and bandage the ‘animals’.
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Some budding vets in the making we think.
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Class One's ‘Work We Are Proud Of…’ wall is looking fantastic; a wonderful celebration of our 'New Life' topic!
Class One really enjoyed their very muddy visit to Caddaford Farm yesterday. Will Watson showed them the apple orchard.
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Yet again, Class One made their teachers immensely proud with their ‘have a go’ attitude; kindness to each other; sporting skills and behaviour.
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This week we have been exploring how teen (and some larger) numbers are made from 'tens' and 'units'.
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Class One had the most wonderful day at Stover Country Park today.
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In the morning the children explored a honey-pot trail inspired by "We're Going on a Bear Hunt" by Michael Rosen.
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After lunch, everybody enjoyed having a go at pond-dipping!
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Class One had a wonderful sunny afternoon in the Spiritual Garden this week, where they learnt about busy garden birds in the spring time.
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Class One ended their Science Week learning with an amazing, immersive space experience.
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Many thanks to the Explorer Dome team for a fantastic experience.
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As part of our science week, class 1 have been creating volcanic eruptions using fizzy drinks and Mentos!
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The children predicted how many Mentos we would need to make the eruption.
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After learning which dinosaurs were herbivore, omnivore or carnivore, we discussed what we could put in a healthy smoothie for a herbivore.
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The children agreed that fruit and vegetables were healthier than chocolate and fizzy drinks, so we used strawberries, bananas and orange juice.
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After some careful cutting and noisy blitzing, the children enjoyed drinking their delicious, healthy, herbivore smoothies.
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Today we went to St. Matthew's Church. We used our observation skills to sketch the beautiful, old building that's important to the community.
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Class One have been learning about maps,
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The children have been making maps of the school.
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Class One really enjoyed their first Martial Arts session today - what a fantastic experience and so much fun!
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Our palaeontologists have been busy exploring our dinosaur museum and the funky fingers dinosaur activity.
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We’ve been very impressed with their knowledge of all things dinosaur.
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We've been combining groups of objects to solve addition problems this week.
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We really enjoyed shopping for healthy fruit and vegetables, and working out how much they cost.
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We have been exploring 'Google Earth' - we found the UK, England, London, Ashburton and Landscove!
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We all worked together to make a map of our playground.
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Look at Class One's super rockets and crumpet moons!
This week in FaB we have been learning about Christian baptism.
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After talking about how different faiths welcome babies, children and adults, the children watched a clip of a Christian baptism.
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They learned about the sign of the cross and the giving of a candle.
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As the children made beautiful crosses as a gift for Mary, we talked about how Mary might be feeling, and what happens during a christening.
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Class One have been learning about deciduous trees in winter.
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A part of their learning, they made clay trees with trunks, branches, twigs, bark, buds and even a few nests!
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Class One had fun creating their own islands this morning. They imagined they were birds looking down from the sky - 'a bird's eye view'.
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They discussed and thought carefully about what things they wanted to include on their islands.
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We had a great first day of dance at Landscove C of E Primary School. A big thanks for Alex from Dance Fusion!
Class One have been enjoying their new 'space station' role-play area!
Class One enjoyed a frosty morning walk today. They used all their senses to explore the school field using lots of super winter vocabulary!
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Class One really enjoyed practising their 'tricky words' outside this morning!
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What fun we had yesterday making autumnal leaf crowns! We began our session by exploring the different colours and shapes of the fallen leaves.
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The children then hunted for their favourite leaves to create their own crowns.
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As part of our learning about changes in Autumn, new vocabulary such as 'deciduous', 'evergreen' and 'daylight' were introduced.
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