Emerald Class had such a wonderful time meeting Belle today! 😃
We had such a magical visit and we learnt how much Belle loves to read! Emerald Class loved to hear the story of Beauty and the Beast and they joined in beautifully with some singing too! The children loved to tell Belle how much they love to read for pleasure too! It was so much fun talking to Belle!
Emerald Class had such a great time meeting Belle! Thank you for visiting us!
Belle made such an impression on the class that Emeralds were really keen to write her some cards! Here’s one of the lovely cards made for Belle! If you want to make a card for Belle, you’re welcome to bring them to school and we can get them posted to her castle! We know how much she loves to read!
What a wonderful visit we had! Here are Belle’s contact details below if you would like further information about booking her for parties and events!
See our blog challenge at the bottom of this post!
Wow Emerald Class! You did some super work when you were learning all about Bonfire Night!
Keep practising your number bonds, Emeralds! We used firework shapes to help us learn our number bonds to 10! Can you work on these at home? How many different ways can you make 10?
Well done Emeralds, you made some beautiful firework displays over the houses of Parliament!
🔵🟢🟡🔴 Blog time! Here is our weekly blog challenge!
For this week’s blog challenge, you have until Thursday (11th November) to create your very own poppy.
To make your poppy you could use;
paint
colouring pencils
crayons
the computer to make a digital poppy
poppy coloured items from around your home and make your poppy out of these objects! Take a photo of your transient art poppy and share this with us in school!
you may think of another way to create your poppy!
Please bring these poppies (or photographs of what you have made) into school by Thursday. Many thanks! I can’t wait to see what you will create! Emerald Class are very creative! 😃
Remember the team with the most entries will win the class team trophy!
We will be completing lots of learning around Remembrance this week so the poppies made will be used as part of our learning.
Emerald Class had a wonderful time learning about Diwali, the festival of lights! We learnt about the Hindu story of Rama and Sita and learnt about some of the traditions involved in celebrating Diwali.
Emerald Class really impressed me with their superb teamwork to help design and create some wonderful Rangoli patterns. The children were incredible; they were so engaged in the task and their team work was fantastic. Well done on working so well with your partner to discuss your designs and then working so well together to create your pattern. We all had lots of smiles on our faces! Very proud teacher alert! 😃
⭐ Remember to join in with our class blog challenge! Can you write a space fact to share with the class? The team with the most points will win the trophy in Friday’s assembly! ⭐ Please see our earlier blog post for more information!
We have been super busy so far this half term! Emerald Class are getting really stuck into our space topic and it is such a pleasure to see how enthusiastic and curious the children are!
We made good use of our art books this week. With Mrs Huntbach, the children created their own rocket pictures using drawing skills. Later in the week, we used black and white colours to create a repeating pattern. We explored the effect of the colours before adding geometric details. The children were also challenged to ensure their rocket had a symmetrical pattern. Well done Emeralds, you worked really hard and we love the effect of the rockets!
The children were so engaged during the task! 😃 Well done Emeralds!
We love our art activities!
Our wonderful Emerald Bear also couldn’t resist joining in with our space fun! He had an adventure to space which Emerald children loved to write about! Emerald Bear certainly goes on some fun and exciting adventures! Check out the wonderful descriptions written by our Year One children! Wow 🚀🌟
This week is also Money Sense Awareness Week! We talked about what we use money for as well as learning about the value of coins. We ordered them from the smallest to largest value, as well as learning how to make amounts. We worked on finding amounts up to 20p. Tomorrow we will make a toy shop and use the coins to be able to pay for the toys! Emerald Class worked really hard to sort the coins and to identify their values Well done!
⭐Please read the whole blog post! Our new and exciting team challenge is at the bottom of this post!⭐
What a super start to our new topic, Emeralds! We had a wonderful morning becoming astronauts! The class have already asked lots of questions and shared their knowledge! Well done superstars!
We also started our topic by writing our very own story books! We created our own books about ‘my journey into space’. We loved sharing our stories with our friends. We also wrote some super sentences about space too! What a great start to Autumn 2! 😃
TEAM CHALLENGE! 🔴🟡🟢🔵
Each week we will set a class team challenge. During Friday’s Celebration Assembly, the winning team from each class will earn a trophy which will be added to the whole school team competition! The team with the most points will win a trophy!
Which team will win the trophy this week?! It’s all to play for! 😊🏆
Our first exciting blog challenge!
You need to find out a space fact to share with Emerald Class! Write it down on a piece of paper (or in the reading record) and show Mrs Styles or Mrs Huntbach to earn a point! The team that earns the most points will win the trophy this week! Please bring these facts into school by Thursday so we can count them up. Good luck Emeralds!
We want to share with you all some fantastic news- Naomi Kyle (Year 6) finished 3rd in the British Gymnastics Competition this weekend earning herself a very heavy & shiny bronze medal! This puts her 3rd in the country! Wow, wow, wow!
⭐️Superstar! ⭐️
I am sure you will all join us in saying how proud we are of her and this just shows that hard work does pay off! 🤩
We had a super day for our Halloween themed team day! We loved sharing our super costumes and pumpkins that the children decorated at home! We love working in our house teams!
We took part in lots of special activities. We made up our own alliterative poems in English including phrases such as ‘spooky spiders and scary skeletons’. Can you make your own Halloween alliterative poem?
Emerald Class are busy bees!
In Maths, we learnt about measuring. We used standard and non-standard measures to help us to find out how tall the pumpkins are. We used rulers to find centimetre measurements. We talked about how our measurements need to be accurate and precise. Emerald Class were excellent at making sure they checked their measurement at eye level.
We had a great time in Geography completing the PTA Halloween trail. We had to explore our school grounds to find the different Halloween objects. It was lots of fun finding all the items!
As part of our PSHE task, we learnt about health and wellbeing. We talked about different healthy snacks we could make to ensure we have a balanced diet. Emeralds were super at creating their own ghost fruit kebabs. Well done Emeralds! The children loved using the edible cake pens to create their ghost faces!
We hope you all have a wonderful Halloween and half term holiday!
Get ready for our next topic which is all about space! Our incredibly talented Mrs Huntbach worked really hard to get our space role play area ready for us after the half term break! We can’t wait to see the space rockets that you’re going to make at home in readiness for our next topic! Have a wonderful half term!
Well done Emerald Class! You have been working really hard this half term! Here are a few updates on our learning over the last few weeks.
In Music, we have been enjoying learning the song ‘Hey You’. I wonder if the children sometimes sing this at home; it’s very catchy! We learnt and performed the song using the glockenspiel to find the pulse. Emerald Class practised keeping in time with each other. We love our music lessons!
The children also work very hard in their PE lessons! We love to keep fit and stay active!
As part of our Geography lessons, we have been exploring where we live. Emerald Class talked about the different villages and places they know around Nantwich. They wrote about where they live and the places they live near to. We looked at a map of our county, Cheshire. We talked about lots of places we may have visited in our county.
Emerald children created a map using symbols and a key to explore their journey to school. We talked about the different things the children spot on their journeys.
We explored our local area and looked at where we live in the United Kingdom. Emerald children learnt about the four countries of the UK and we discussed some of the places the children have visited. We labelled a map and found out where these countries are located.
Emerald Class worked incredibly hard to create their ‘place in the world’ model. We started with the smallest circle to identify our homes and as the circles got bigger, so was the size of the area we were exploring. Well done Emeralds, you have worked very hard on this activity!
We also had a brilliant seasonal week learning all about Amazing Autumn as part of our work on the seasons in our science learning!
Emerald Class shared their Autumn treasures that they brought in from home. We loved sharing all the wonderful findings! What a beautiful season to explore!
We produced some fantastic descriptions of Autumn linked to our English work. Well done Emeralds. You used some fantastic vocabulary to write about Autumn.
Emerald children have been working so hard and they have made such a brilliant start to their time in Year One! Keep up the amazing work, Emeralds!
We are excited for our next topic, ‘Zoom to the moon!’
On Monday, the whole school took part in a special assembly from the NSPCC. We learnt that all children have the right to speak out and be heard, be safe and be listened to.
We learnt that all of us have worries, sometimes big and sometimes small. We learnt that our emotions are like a giant bag: the more worries we have, the more we fill the bag. This then helped us to understand why it is important to speak out when we are feeling worried or unsafe. Each time we speak about our worries, we remove it from our bag!
We realised that there are many people we can speak to like our parents, a trusted adult (over 18years), a teacher or member of staff, another family member, the police or even Childline.
Finally, we learnt that Childline is a number that is always there for us. 08001111 is a number, not to be forgotten!
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