Team Morris (Yr1)

Viking Games is coming up!

On Wednesday 20th May, Year 1 and 2 will be taking part in the Viking Games at Chilton with children from across the Viking Academy Trust.

Viking Games is a fun sporting event where children work in teams and take part in a range of different activities and challenges. It is a lovely opportunity for the children to be active, show teamwork and enjoy representing RAPS.

Children will need to come to school wearing their house colour top and their PE kit clothes.

Please also make sure your child brings:

A named water bottle
A hat if it's is sunny
A named jumper and coat if it's cold

Parents are not able to watch this event, but we will share photos after the event.

We are loving spending our Child-Initiated Play time outside in the sunshine! It has been so exciting to take our learning outdoors and explore in new ways.

We’ve been enjoying lots of different activities including messy play, creative play, water play, and sand play. Our brand new obstacle course equipment has been a big hit too, we’ve been constructing, balancing and challenging ourselves!

Some of us have even been putting on our own shows, using our imagination and performing for our friends, while others have taken on the role of weather forecasters, sharing updates about the sunny skies!

We love how our play helps us to be creative, active and work together, especially when the sun is shining!

This week in Personal Development, we have looked at the important value of respect. We thought carefully about what respect looks like in our classroom and created posters to show how we can be kind, thoughtful, and respectful to others.

We also learnt about people who help in our society. During Choosing Time, we created our own role-play village, where we took on different jobs such as scientists making medicines, farmers, shopkeepers, chefs, and restaurant workers. It was so much fun acting out these roles and understanding how everyone helps our community in different ways.

Another part of our learning was about manners. We explored how to use good manners and what to do if we see or hear poor manners — thinking about how we can gently make better choices. As an extra challenge, we even learnt how to say “please,” “thank you,” “sorry,” and “help” in British Sign Language (BSL)!

It has been a wonderful week of learning about how we can be kind, respectful, and responsible members of our community. 💛

This term, Year 1 will be studying the topic ‘Animals and Us’ where we will be exploring the features of different animals, learning about the different animal groups and how we are different from animals. To enhance this learning, we will be taking the children to the Powell-Cotton Museum on Thursday 14th May . This will be an exciting trip to bring their learning to life. 

Full school uniform must be worn and suitable shoes for walking. Please send your child in with a sun hat and waterproof coat as we will be visiting the beautiful gardens during our visit too. The trip will take place within normal school hours, so please ensure your child is at school by 8:30am and collected at 3pm. If we are running late the school will keep you informed.  A Free School Packed Lunch will be provided by the school, although you are of course welcome to send them with a home packed lunch. Please ensure they have a water bottle in school for the day too. 

If you can help, please let us know on the door or via the office. 

Thank you, 

Miss Morris & Miss Merry :) 

We had such a great day on Thursday!

Monday: What is creativity? Tuesday: Are we allowed to disagree with each other? Wednesday: How do I know right from wrong? Thursday: Discussion: Jack and the Beanstalk Friday: Should I have just one friend? Last week we learnt ab