Onyx Class have had the best day today- it was Victorian Day! 😄

From the second they arrived on the playground they were split into boys and girls lines and given Victorian names for the day. Nail and cleanliness checks followed before times tables chanting and deportment lesson (otherwise know as balancing a book on your head!) On returning to the classroom, we showed our respect to Queen Victoria with the National Anthem, learnt our school rules: to stand when answering questions; to address your elders with Sir, Miss or Mrs etc etc It was clear the phrase “children are to be seen and not heard” was going to be a key part of the day! Then, it was on to handwriting practice. We found it really difficult writing with chalk, especially because all Victorian children had to write with their right hand! Sorry lefties!

Next it was arithmetic time. Real life money problems were the focus and we learnt how to convert between all the different units of money. We repeated key facts out loud and realised that money was very complicated back in the Victorian era.

During playtime, the children had a go at playing typical Victorian games, such as blind man’s buff, hide and seek, hoop and stick, skipping and hop scotch. It was such fun!

Once another full hand and cleanliness inspection had been performed, it was on to drill practise. We learnt that Victorian PE lessons were very boring and very army like!

Up next was prayer and bible learning time. The children had 10 minutes to learn a passage from ‘Luke’ and then recite it to the class. We found out it was really hard to memorise something so quickly and realised that a lot of Victorian schooling was based on repeating information over and over again.

Before lunch break we learnt how to play more games, such as marbles and spinning tops. We even made our own! We tried these out outside along with having more tries at our playtime games…

The afternoon was where the girls completed some cross stitch sewing and the boys had a go at nature and technical drawing. It was so strange splitting into genders, but was also fun doing different things!

Finally, it was time to come out of role and listen to some of our wonderful Homework presentations. We learnt about Victorian jelly babies, fashion and pets from Florence, Elsie, George V, Evie, Katherine and Louisa and can’t wait to hear more tomorrow!

Overall, we learnt so much about Victorian schooling:- we realised they were so strict, children had to be seen and not heard, boys and girls were treated unequally, the Queen, Christianity and bibles featured heavily, punishments were harsh, the work was very repetitive and PE was boring!

A HUGE thank you goes out to all the parents for the fantastic costumes! The children looked wonderful! 🙏

Onyx Class have had the best day today- it was Victorian Day! 😄

From the second they arrived on the playground they were split into boys and girls lines and given Victorian names for the day. Nail and cleanliness checks followed before times tables chanting and deportment lesson (otherwise know as balancing a book on your head!) On returning to the classroom, we showed our respect to Queen Victoria with the National Anthem, learnt our school rules: to stand when answering questions; to address your elders with Sir, Miss or Mrs etc etc It was clear the phrase “children are to be seen and not heard” was going to be a key part of the day! Then, it was on to handwriting practice. We found it really difficult writing with chalk, especially because all Victorian children had to write with their right hand! Sorry lefties!

Next it was arithmetic time. Real life money problems were the focus and we learnt how to convert between all the different units of money. We repeated key facts out loud and realised that money was very complicated back in the Victorian era.

During playtime, the children had a go at playing typical Victorian games, such as blind man’s buff, hide and seek, hoop and stick, skipping and hop scotch. It was such fun!

Once another full hand and cleanliness inspection had been performed, it was on to drill practise. We learnt that Victorian PE lessons were very boring and very army like!

Up next was prayer and bible learning time. The children had 10 minutes to learn a passage from ‘Luke’ and then recite it to the class. We found out it was really hard to memorise something so quickly and realised that a lot of Victorian schooling was based on repeating information over and over again.

Before lunch break we learnt how to play more games, such as marbles and spinning tops. We even made our own! We tried these out outside along with having more tries at our playtime games…

The afternoon was where the girls completed some cross stitch sewing and the boys had a go at nature and technical drawing. It was so strange splitting into genders, but was also fun doing different things!

Finally, it was time to come out of role and listen to some of our wonderful Homework presentations. We learnt about Victorian jelly babies, fashion and pets from Florence, Elsie, George V, Evie, Katherine and Louisa and can’t wait to hear more tomorrow!

Overall, we learnt so much about Victorian schooling:- we realised they were so strict, children had to be seen and not heard, boys and girls were treated unequally, the Queen, Christianity and bibles featured heavily, punishments were harsh, the work was very repetitive and PE was boring!

A HUGE thank you goes out to all the parents for the fantastic costumes! The children looked wonderful! 🙏

Onyx Class have had the best day today- it was Victorian Day! 😄

From the second they arrived on the playground they were split into boys and girls lines and given Victorian names for the day. Nail and cleanliness checks followed before times tables chanting and deportment lesson (otherwise know as balancing a book on your head!) On returning to the classroom, we showed our respect to Queen Victoria with the National Anthem, learnt our school rules: to stand when answering questions; to address your elders with Sir, Miss or Mrs etc etc It was clear the phrase “children are to be seen and not heard” was going to be a key part of the day! Then, it was on to handwriting practice. We found it really difficult writing with chalk, especially because all Victorian children had to write with their right hand! Sorry lefties!

Next it was arithmetic time. Real life money problems were the focus and we learnt how to convert between all the different units of money. We repeated key facts out loud and realised that money was very complicated back in the Victorian era.

During playtime, the children had a go at playing typical Victorian games, such as blind man’s buff, hide and seek, hoop and stick, skipping and hop scotch. It was such fun!

Once another full hand and cleanliness inspection had been performed, it was on to drill practise. We learnt that Victorian PE lessons were very boring and very army like!

Up next was prayer and bible learning time. The children had 10 minutes to learn a passage from ‘Luke’ and then recite it to the class. We found out it was really hard to memorise something so quickly and realised that a lot of Victorian schooling was based on repeating information over and over again.

Before lunch break we learnt how to play more games, such as marbles and spinning tops. We even made our own! We tried these out outside along with having more tries at our playtime games…

The afternoon was where the girls completed some cross stitch sewing and the boys had a go at nature and technical drawing. It was so strange splitting into genders, but was also fun doing different things!

Finally, it was time to come out of role and listen to some of our wonderful Homework presentations. We learnt about Victorian jelly babies, fashion and pets from Florence, Elsie, George V, Evie, Katherine and Louisa and can’t wait to hear more tomorrow!

Overall, we learnt so much about Victorian schooling:- we realised they were so strict, children had to be seen and not heard, boys and girls were treated unequally, the Queen, Christianity and bibles featured heavily, punishments were harsh, the work was very repetitive and PE was boring!

A HUGE thank you goes out to all the parents for the fantastic costumes! The children looked wonderful! 🙏

Onyx Class have had the best day today- it was Victorian Day! 😄

From the second they arrived on the playground they were split into boys and girls lines and given Victorian names for the day. Nail and cleanliness checks followed before times tables chanting and deportment lesson (otherwise know as balancing a book on your head!) On returning to the classroom, we showed our respect to Queen Victoria with the National Anthem, learnt our school rules: to stand when answering questions; to address your elders with Sir, Miss or Mrs etc etc It was clear the phrase “children are to be seen and not heard” was going to be a key part of the day! Then, it was on to handwriting practice. We found it really difficult writing with chalk, especially because all Victorian children had to write with their right hand! Sorry lefties!

Next it was arithmetic time. Real life money problems were the focus and we learnt how to convert between all the different units of money. We repeated key facts out loud and realised that money was very complicated back in the Victorian era.

During playtime, the children had a go at playing typical Victorian games, such as blind man’s buff, hide and seek, hoop and stick, skipping and hop scotch. It was such fun!

Once another full hand and cleanliness inspection had been performed, it was on to drill practise. We learnt that Victorian PE lessons were very boring and very army like!

Up next was prayer and bible learning time. The children had 10 minutes to learn a passage from ‘Luke’ and then recite it to the class. We found out it was really hard to memorise something so quickly and realised that a lot of Victorian schooling was based on repeating information over and over again.

Before lunch break we learnt how to play more games, such as marbles and spinning tops. We even made our own! We tried these out outside along with having more tries at our playtime games…

The afternoon was where the girls completed some cross stitch sewing and the boys had a go at nature and technical drawing. It was so strange splitting into genders, but was also fun doing different things!

Finally, it was time to come out of role and listen to some of our wonderful Homework presentations. We learnt about Victorian jelly babies, fashion and pets from Florence, Elsie, George V, Evie, Katherine and Louisa and can’t wait to hear more tomorrow!

Overall, we learnt so much about Victorian schooling:- we realised they were so strict, children had to be seen and not heard, boys and girls were treated unequally, the Queen, Christianity and bibles featured heavily, punishments were harsh, the work was very repetitive and PE was boring!

A HUGE thank you goes out to all the parents for the fantastic costumes! The children looked wonderful! 🙏

Onyx Class have had the best day today- it was Victorian Day! 😄

From the second they arrived on the playground, they were split into boys and girls lines and given Victorian names for the day. Nail and cleanliness checks followed before times tables chanting and deportment lesson (otherwise know as balancing a book on your head!) On returning to the classroom, we showed our respect to Queen Victoria with the National Anthem, learnt our school rules: to stand when answering questions; to address your elders with Sir, Miss or Mrs etc. It was clear the phrase “children are to be seen and not heard” was going to be a key part of the day! Then, it was on to handwriting practice. We found it really difficult writing with chalk, especially because all Victorian children had to write with their right hand! Sorry lefties!

Next it was arithmetic time. Real-life money problems were the focus and we learnt how to convert between all the different units of money. We repeated key facts out loud and realised that money was very complicated back in the Victorian era.

During playtime, the children had a go at playing typical Victorian games, such as blind man’s buff, hide and seek, hoop and stick, skipping and hop scotch. It was such fun!

Once another full hand and cleanliness inspection had been performed, it was on to Drill practise. We learnt that Victorian PE lessons were very boring and very army like!

Up next was prayer and bible learning time. The children had ten minutes to learn a passage from ‘Luke’ and then recite it to the class. We found out it was really hard to memorise something so quickly and realised that a lot of Victorian schooling was based on repeating information over and over again.

Before lunch break we learnt how to play more games, such as marbles and spinning tops. We even made our own! We tried these out outside along with having more tries at our playtime games.

The afternoon was where the girls completed some cross stitch sewing and the boys had a go at nature and technical drawing. It was so strange splitting into genders, but was also fun doing different things!

Finally, it was time to come out of role and listen to some of our wonderful homework presentations. We learnt about Victorian Jelly Babies, fashion and pets from Florence, Elsie, George V, Evie, Katherine and Louisa and can’t wait to hear more tomorrow!

Overall, we learnt so much about Victorian schooling:- we realised they were so strict; children had to be seen and not heard; boys and girls were treated unequally; the Queen, Christianity and bibles featured heavily; punishments were harsh; the work was very repetitive and PE was boring!

A HUGE thank you goes out to all the parents for the fantastic costumes! The children looked wonderful! 🙏

This week, Mrs Kyle and I are setting you a reading challenge! Wehoooo we ❤️ reading!

See if you can complete a line of 5 in any direction you want! If you read the whole book, it’s worth bonus points!

Good luck! 📖📚

Today, Onyx Class took part in a worldwide assembly based on plastics. The focus was how plastics are affecting and killing our oceans and how we can reduce plastic pollution in our schools.

We learnt so much, including that plastics do not totally break down, fish mistake micro-plastics for food and our school generates 8640 yoghurt pots a year! Wow!

Our Recycling officers are now planning lots of ways to help reduce our plastic wastage in school in order to help our seas and planet. We will keep you posted!

Firstly, Mrs Kyle and I want to say that we have been soo impressed with all the wonderful kindness that has been shown in Onyx Class over the last week. Thank you parents for all your help promoting extra kindness and hopefully we can keep the ripple effect going! ❤️

This weeks challenge is an Arty one! In Geography, we have been looking at the HS2 project and have conducted a brilliant debate in class based on the pros and cons.

To link into this, I would like you to create a 3D model of either the Victorian steam engine or the new HS2 train 🚂🚝

Bring in your model by Friday of this week and the best model will win the trophy for their team!

Good luck! I can’t wait to see them!

This week is Anti-Bullying week and the theme this year is ‘One Kind Word’. Today in our whole school assembly we looked at how we can spread kindness and how it can create a ripple effect (a bit like a Mexican wave!)

For your challenge this week, I have given everyone a Kindness Challenge (in our communication diaries)-we want to try and spread kindness to everyone, both at home and in school. So, see how many acts of kindness you can do each day from the list and it would be even more fabulous if you could think of some of your own to do as well. Once you have done one, share what you did with your parents and ask them to sign your Kindness Chart. See how many you can do each day….. one isn’t enough! Let’s really spread this kindness! ♥️

Finally, on Thursday evening, ask you parents to write a short paragraph explaining all the wonderful acts of kindness they have seen you do at home. Bring this in on Friday and we will make the ripple even bigger by sharing all your wowness with the rest of the class!

Good luck and remember…. Kindness doesn’t cost a thing!