Space – zoom to the moon!

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⭐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!

🟡🟢 ONYX TEAM CHALLENGE 🔴🔵

This week we are starting our BLOG challenges again, except this time we are playing for a Team 🏆!! Whoop whoop! 🙌

Your challenge is to bring in a photograph of something in our local community that would have been around during the Victorian era 🧐

The team with the most photos will win this week’s trophy (we will be presenting these in Friday’s Assembly), but there will also be an extra 🏆 for the most well thought out picture!

Good luck!

🇬🇧 British Gymnastics 🇬🇧

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! 🤩

🚴‍♂️How has Victorian transport impacted our world today?🚝

This afternoon, Onyx class learnt that the Victorians invented the motor car, the bike, the train and the propeller boat. In groups, we worked out how these inventions have impacted today’s world.

The children worked really hard to prepare their presentation in 20 minutes and then present their findings to the rest of the class.

They all worked incredibly and realised that without the Victorians we wouldn’t be able to live very far from our place of work, we wouldn’t have goods from different parts of the world, we wouldn’t have amazing sports such as track cycling and our businesses wouldn’t be able to sell their products to such a wide market.

Wow! Great work Onyx! 👍

🌕 🟢 🔴 🔵 TOPAZ TEAM BLOG CHALLENGE 🌕 🟢 🔴 🔵

Starting from this week we are introducing a Team Blog Challenge. It is a weekly mini team competition to see how many from each team complete the challenge. During Friday’s assembly the winning team for each class will be awarded Team 🏆 Trophies!

This weeks mini challenge is to bring in a photograph of yourself for a class display .

Photos need to be in by Thursday to be awarded a point.

Good luck 😉

Team Day in Emerald Class

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!

Emerald class learning

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!’