Emerald Class

Our Emerald Class Blog:

December 2025

We have had amazing opportunities this half term. We had our first sharing assembly and were very good at presenting what we have been learning. We have also had lots of practise of our 'Noisy Nativity.' We have been learning our lines and singing the songs beautifully. We have been learning all about famous London landmarks and can name and identify them. We have been reading the story 'Katie in London.' We love that the lion in Trafalgar square comes alive and are looking forward to writing our own narratives of the story. In maths, we have been learning all about place value, how many tens and ones are in a number. We have looked at how to partition that number using a part-whole model. We have used the base ten to flexibly partition the number showing different ways. We found the easiest way was to partition using tens and ones. We also enjoyed Sam’s food waste workshop. We discussed where food should be stored and some of the children dressed up and have been taking responsibility for how we can manage ourselves so that we don't waste food, with the children suggesting storing any unwanted food in a container in the fridge. Some also said to cut off bruised parts of the fruit and still eat the good bits. 

November 2025

Before the half term, we invited our parents and carers into school to see our Great Fire of London. We had made some fantastic home learning project houses, which were made from straw, cardboard and wood. This was a replica of the houses that were in London at the time of the Great fire. We shared our home learning projects in celebration assembly before we set fire to them. We were amazed by how the fire spread so easily and the afternoon was very much enjoyed by all! We have also been enjoying the story of 'The Naughty bus' by Jan and Jerry Oke and have been creative in acting out our own versions of the story and writing speech bubbles to explain what happened in our story. In maths, we carried out some practical maths activities in pairs to investigate finding part of a number. 

October 2025

Our class have really enjoyed learning all about 'The Great Fire of London' and have created diary entries from Samuel Pepys explaining the events leading up to and around the time of the fire in 1666. We have also created some art work, linking to our art unit on stencils and created a silhouette of the buildings of the fire in London. In Maths, the year 1 children have showed independent learning with the use of part-whole models and how number sentences work. They can show that the whole number is the equals and the 2 parts are the numbers we add together to get the whole. The year 2 children have been looking at bonds to 10, 20 and even 100 and using related facts to answer number sentences. They have linked that if 4 + 6 = 10, 14 + 6 = 20 that must mean that 40 + 60 =100. We have have enjoyed the story 'The enormous turnip' in English and have been looking at the setting of a vegetable garden and using our 5 senses to describe the garden. We even went to the school vegetable patch to bring our writing to life. We used some great adjectives to describe what they could see, hear, feel and smell. 

September 2025

Our class have made such a fantastic start and we have already wowed our new teacher Ms Fisk. We have launched straight in to fantastic learning, using both the classroom and the outdoor area to develop our reading, writing and maths. We have already produced some fantastic poems and instructional writing and are working hard to form sentences correctly with capital letters and full stops whilst also adding in exciting adjectives. We have also produced beautiful calligrams ready to use for printing. Ms Fisk is so very proud of all of us. An excellent start to the term.