ARCHIVED Year 1 Blog 2024/25

Today in English we received a special video from the penguin and he answered some of the questions that we wrote to him yesterday. We were really interested in his answers.  We then got into pairs and one of us pretended to be the penguin and one was the interviewer asking questions. The children were great at getting into character and pretending to be the penguin and then were really brave and showed their hot-seating to the rest of the class. 

This morning we received a special delivery from Ventnor Coastguard. Whilst they were out on a search on Gurnard beach this morning, they found a letter in a bottle. It was addressed to the children at Gurnard Primary School.  The children were excited to read the letter and found it was from a lonely animal. They worked out it was from a penguin. We were unsure where penguins live so we looked online and found out they live at the South Pole / Antarctica. We looked at a globe and a map to find out where he lives and to find out how far the bottle has travelled! We decided we wanted to write back to the penguin so the children wrote lovely letters and drew pictures that we will put back in the bottle and send out into the sea. 

  For the last couple of weeks of term we are using this advert ‘The bear and the Hare’ as a stimulus for our writing. So far we have enjoyed watching the video, and thought about what is happening and how the characters are feeling at different points. We all have admired the kindness of the Hare and found the ending to be heartfelt. I wonder how it will inspire our writing next.