Kusama see the sea!

On Wednesday 30th, Kusama had a very exciting trip to Frinton. We had to travel by coach - it felt like a very long journey but we were really excited! We spent the journey playing I-spy to pass the time. The best I-spy was for the letter S......Sea!

When we arrived we rushed to get to the beach. We went on a scavenger hunt to find lots of interesting things like holey rocks and pretty shells and then we made amazing sandcastles. We impressed our teachers by remembering all the facts we'd learnt in our castle topic. Some of us included moats and ramparts in our sandcastles!

We then had our lunch on the steps which was delicious except for the sand in our sandwiches (we finally know why they're called this!!)!

After lunch we had a brilliant time splashing in the sea. We jumped waves and some of us even fell over - we got so wet! We just couldn't stop giggling the whole time, it was great!

We then had some more fun in the sand, adding to our fab sandcastles. Some of us even found some little crabs in some pools of water.

All too soon the trip was over and we were heading home on the coach. What a brilliant day!

Year 1 Newsletter

 Fun at Frinton!

We were all so excited that we could go on our school trip to Frinton beach, and despite a few drizzles of rain, we had an incredible day.  The children were wowed by their first sight of the sea, were so good at finding all the things on their scavenger hunt and built superb castles!  Having a paddle seemed to be the favourite activity though, jumping over the waves and enjoying see their teachers getting rather wet, brought huge smiles to their faces.  We are so so proud of their fantastic behaviour throughout the day too. 

Amazing Art!

In our art lessons we have been looking at seascapes by Rachet Bennett.  In order to create our own, we have been practising our colour mixing and creating sea and sandy coloured backgrounds to print on.  We used string, scrunched up tin foil and bubble wrap to print onto our painted paper.  We will then tear these papers into strips and pick out ones we like to create our own seascape printed paper collages. 

There has been so much else going on in Year one over the past couple of weeks too!  Pattern making and measuring in maths, learning about the bravery of Grace Darling and writing her story in English, investigating the best material for a lifeboat in science and to top it all off, an awesome sports day!  The children were amazing sportspeople, cheering others on, persevering even when they were worn out and giving every event their absolute best.  We couldn't be more proud!