Puffins

We are Puffins Class

Our class teachers are Mrs Jacklin and Mrs Angelo. Our Learning Assistant is Mrs Porter. We look forward to sharing with you all the exciting things that happen in Puffins Class.

Click on the link below to see what we are learning about this term!

Springfield Day

Our latest Springfield Day had a Caribbean theme to it; we learnt where the Caribbean Islands are, what the weather is like and how it compares to our weather, we made our own art inspired by the Caribbean artist Brianna McCarthy and were very excited to play some Caribbean instruments…the steel plans and Tamboo Bamboo. 

Brianna creates collages of people using different textures, paints and drawings to express how everyone is different.  First, we planned our collage by drawing the outline shape.  We chose our background colour and pattern and then layered different types and colours of paper to create the features.

Lewes Castle

On Thursday 23^rd April Year 1 visited Lewes Castle. We had a great time exploring the castle. We walked through the barbican which would have been the entrance to the castle. The children really enjoyed climbing up the dark spiral stairs to the top of the barbican and the top of the keep. Once at the top we looked out at the amazing views of the hills around us and the children were keen to hear about how the castle would have been defended against attack!

Castles

Having visited Lewes Castle and learnt about the features a castle, we made our own castles!  We combined our Maths learning to help as cut the paper in half to make the towers.  We carefully cut the battlements along the top, stuck thin arrowslits on and attached a moving drawbridge.  We thought of a way to include a moving portcullis and finally we added facts to explain about the features of a castle.

Back at school we remembered sitting in the Gun Garden at Lewes Castle and sketched what we could see – the Barbican and gate house to our right and the large motte and keep to our left.  We used sketching pencils to add marks, patterns and shade to our sketches.

Online Safety

Smartie the Penguin helps us know how to be safe online and reminds us to always ask a trusted adult for help when we are using computers.  We have also read the story Chicken Clicking by Jeanne Willis that reminds us not to talk to strangers online or share our personal information with anyone.  

We have designed our own safety posters to help us remember how to keep ourselves safe online.

Queen Elizabeth I

We have been learning about a famous monarch that was the Queen of England and Ireland nearly 500 years ago!  Queen Elizabeth I reigned for 45 years from 1558 until 1603.  We found out lots of interesting information about her…read our facts to find out what we have learnt!  We also imagined we were an artist from 500 years and finished sketching her portrait, just after she defeated the Spanish Armada.