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Wingham Primary School

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Term 1

What a fantastic first term we have had at school. In just a few weeks we have done so much! Our theme has been ‘What makes me special?' Throughout the term we have been talking about our similarities and differences, how we change as we get older, and how we differ in our likes and dislikes and generally just getting to know each other

At the start of the term we took a close look at ‘What makes me Me! We noticed that our features are all unique and different and celebrated this by having a go at creating a self-portrait, mixing our skin colours using the primary colours of red, blue and yellow and a bit of white.

We have enjoyed sharing our baby photographs with each other and comparing and discussing how we differ. This has also meant everyone has had opportunities to talk about the significant people around them and the roles they play. At the same time baby photographs help us to look at similarities and differences between changes over time starting the foundations of looking between in the past and present. We also had a great game of ‘Who’s the baby!’

It was wonderful to invite significant male relatives into class and join in with some of the activities we do. We got them to explore and engage in our indoor and outdoor activities during ‘COOL time’ (where we Choose Our Own Learning) and encouraged them to take part in Squiggle While you Wriggle a physical activity that supports us to develop gross and fine motor skills, balance, coordination and fitness all leading to developing amongst other things great mark making and handwriting skills

As we are outside each and every day exploring and working, we have noticed that the natural world is starting to change around us. We have looked closely for signs of autumn and observed first-hand the effects this is having in our local environment. We have also collected lots of natural resources to create an autumn table top and used leaves conkers acorns fir cones etc. to help us with lots of maths and creative activities.

Our artist for this term was the Japanese abstract artist Yayoi Kusama who was known as the ‘Queen of polka dots.’ Using cotton buds we have created some stunning pictures of our own inspired by her work. We particularly liked her pumpkin themed pieces so used them for inspiration.

It was great then to invite parents and carers in to help us design and create a t-shirt in the style o Yayoi Kusama.

We have also linked art with literacy this term. Inspired by the story Lucy’s Picture by Nicola Moon the children created textured collage pictures. Lucy made a collage so that her grandfather could ‘see’ the picture through his sense of touch as he is visually impaired.

We explored the importance of all our senses and then tested which senses would be most effective in solving a problem. Mrs Blench mixed up the salt and sugar and needed help to find out which was which. We went through all the senses to see which sense was most useful in solving the problem, They looked the same, had no smell, made no noise and did not feel much different from each other. When we tasted though there was no doubt which was the sugar and which was the salt!

It’s been an incredibly long but rewarding first term at school and we look forward to new adventures next term!

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