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Scotland Year 1

Welcome to the Scotland Year 1 Class Page.  Here, you can find out about everything that we've been doing this term.

Friday 26th April

We had a fantastic time on Thursday visiting the newly refurbished Crawcrook library.

The children are always so keen to go and listen to Kyle read them a lovely story before they complete a story based ‘treasure’ hunt.

The children listened to the story Elmer – one of their favourites – and then were surprised to hear that Elmer is 35 years old this year!

After that they worked in pairs to look around the library to find pictures that had a letter on. Then they had to put all of these letters in order to find a word – which they all managed perfectly!

Finally, they were able to choose some of the books to look at in the children’s book area.

A fantastic time was had by all – the new look library certainly got a thumbs up from us and we’ll be back to visit soon!

Friday 19th April

Wow – what a great first week back. Everyone is back and ready and raring for the Summer term.

We started off the week with a visit from the amazing Gateshead School’s Music Workshop team.

This term the theme was Samba – a music genre that originated in Brazil.

All of the children took part in learning how to clap and dance to the ‘samba’ rhythms. We had to listen carefully to all of the different instruments and how they sounded when they were being played.

Then it was our turn to have a go! All of the children were split into different teams and had to follow a conductor who told us what our rhythm was and when we had to clap it. It got very complicated! But, in true Scotland style we used our ‘growth mindset’ and were successful.

As you will see from the accompanying photos the children had a great time with the different instruments. They learned the names of them as they played them:

Repinique

Surdo

Ganza

Agogo

Tambourim