Onyx Class are pleased to announce that we SMASHED our January walking challenge! 🥳
The aim was to walk from coast to coast (St Bees to Robin Hood’s Bay) just like the famous Alfred Wainwright did. The aim was 190 miles.
In total, Onyx class walked 311.27 miles!!!!!!! Wehooooooo!!!!!
A HUGE well done to all the Onyx families who got stuck in and helped us to achieve such a fantastic total!
Onyx Class had great fun this morning getting active with their Maths. Long jump, fitness, measuring, conversion…..you name it, we did it! Great work guys! 😀
Emerald Class have been amazing during the first few weeks of our Weather Experts topic! Here is an overview of some of our activities so far. We are so proud of the children’s hard work, they are certainly becoming weather experts!
English
Well done Emerald Class for working really hard on your writing to include capital letters, full stops and finger spaces in your writing. We are also focussing on our class target to make sure all of our sentences make sense when read back aloud! Emerald Class are also working hard to spell their High Frequency Words correctly. Keep up the super work Emeralds!
Linking to our super science learning around the seasons, we have been learning about non-fiction books. We learnt about and wrote our own information texts about the seasons.
As part of our writing process (the Primary Writing Project), we then innovated our information text and created our own information texts about hibernating animals – again linked to our seasonal work in science. Emerald Class showed lots of interest in learning about different animals that hibernate. Here are a few examples of our work:
We also wrote our facts to make a special book all about hibernating animals. We loved becoming authors of our very own information books!
Maths
Emerald Class have been working very hard (primarily within 20) to work on number understanding. We spent a lot of time identifying tens and ones within a two digit number. Well done Emerald Class!
Here are some of our fun activities linked to learning our number bonds to help us add!
Keep practising your number bonds at home! Thank you for all your support with learning these!
How many different ways can you make numbers such as 5? 8? 10? 20?
Science
We have been thoroughly enjoying learning about seasonal changes and patterns in our science unit. We started by learning about each season in turn. We found out which seasons our birthdays are in and what we can expect to happen during each season. We learnt about how seasonal changes can affect animals. We learnt more about robins and what we can expect them to do each season. Emerald Class also learnt about hibernating animals.
Geography
In our Geography work, we have been learning about the four countries of the United Kingdom. We identified places in coastal and inland areas and then we compared weather patterns. We found out that coastal areas usually have more sunshine and wind than in inland areas. Emerald Class also kept a weather diary and identified different weather types. We have been lucky this half term to observe lots of sunshine, rain and even snow earlier in the term!
Emerald Class also used compass directions to help us to add weather symbols onto the UK map. We had great fun finding parts of the map to add different weather symbols.
Challenge: keep practising how to use a compass! Can you make up a good way to remember the compass directions of North, East, South and West! Mrs Styles would love to hear your suggestions for a team point!
PE
Emerald Class have been working so hard on their Coast to Coast challenge! Thank you for sharing all your miles that you did at home! Between home and school, Emerald Class did amazingly well and completed the class challenge of 200 miles! We are currently on 240 miles! Emerald Class love seeing their total increase! Keep up the super work!
Emerald Class have been enjoying learning and practising football skills! Here we worked on our dribbling skills!
Emerald Class made some beautiful rainbow pictures! We used oil pastels and then paint!
Computing
Emerald Class are working really hard on their computing skills. It has been a pleasure to see such great team work when the children work with a partner to practise their skills. Well done wonderful Emeralds!
Chinese New Year! 🐅
We have loved celebrating Chinese New Year this week!
Thank you so much for bringing in such amazing decorations for the new year celebrations. We loved learning about the Year of the Tiger! We created some beautiful descriptive writing about tigers and used this to create some wonderful acrostic poems. We also produced some brilliant tiger artwork.
Well done Emerald Class for all of your hard work – we are so proud of you! ⭐
Diamond class have been busy at home and in school celebrating the Lunar New Year! Look at all our fantastic decorations! 🌕🧧🎊
Diamond Class have been loving sharing our favourite stories and making our own stories up this week! We have even been practising having some quiet reading time with some lovely calm music. Well done Diamonds 💎
Onyx Class had a brilliant afternoon celebrating Chinese New Year. They used drama to create and tell their own myths about how the 12 animals become important in the Chinese calender. Great job guys! 👏👏🎬🎬
As part of National Story Telling Week (30th January- 6th February) , we have launched our new Poetry Spine. Each class now has a poetry box which contains a selection of fantastic poetry anthologies as well as a focus on a particular poet for each term.
The purpose is to increase the children’s familiarity and confidence with poems and rhymes from Reception to Year 6.
KS1 will share a POEM OF THE WEEK to encourage familiarity and repetition.
In KS2, we will share a POEM A DAY.
Look out on the BLOG in future weeks for the children’s favourite poems!
Ruby Class had lots of fun this afternoon celebrating World Religion Day! To celebrate this special day we learnt about the special Hindu festival of light, Diwali!
We loved listening to the story of Rama and Sita and learning about how Diwali is celebrated each year.
We then worked hard to answer some tricky questions and coloured in some lovely Diwali posters. ❤️
Wow! Wow! Wow!
Ruby Class have produced an incredible piece of artwork each! Take a look at their wonderful work below.
In art the children in Topaz class have been finding out about Salvador Dali, the Surrealist artist. Today the children experimented with clay to replicate Salvador Dali’s clock painting. We can wait to share the end results with you!
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