Welcome to Year 1 and 2!

Your teacher is Miss Littleford

Our Learning this Week

Immersion

This week the children have enjoyed being immersed in our new topic "Our Community", beginning with a history focus learning about the important work of Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole. We have learnt about the huge changes Florence made to Scutari hospital during the Crimean War. We learnt that Mary came from a very wealthy family, but unfortunately they were not supportive of her decision to become a nurse. She was determined to follow her dreams and we are thankful she did as the changes she made are still important today. We then learnt about Mary Seacole, who was a nurse at the same time as Florence. We compared their lives, looking at similarities and difference between the two women. We ended the week creating some of Mary Seacole's herbal remedies using lemon, ginger, honey and mint.