Multi skills - Year1

Today Murphy class had great fun, at Wodson Park, taking part in the KS1 multi skills event. We were very fortunate with the weather and the fact that the Chauncy sports leaders had lots of fun and exciting activities for us.

Dino day

KS1 thoroughly enjoyed their Dino day! The children made fossils from moulds (which were cast from real fossils), tried walking on Dino feet, excavated in a sand tray to fine bones, touched Dino poo, smelt the contents of a dinosaur's stomach, pretended to be a T-Rex and a Pterodactyl and saw how an explosion may have wiped out the dinosaurs. As usual it was great fun!

Dinosaurs

The topic of Dinosaurs is proving to be very popular in KS1 - the children are very engaged, keen to learn more and have enjoyed taking part in some creative activities.

Dinosaurs - Murphy, Hughes and Rosen.

This half term we will be learning about Dinosaurs. We look forward to seeing all the exciting information the children in Year 1 and year 2 will discover and seeing any books or toys they might already have that match our topic.

Murphy class assembly and Join me learn

Thank you for coming to watch our assembly and take part in join me learn. The children loved sharing their learning with you and thoroughly enjoyed seeing their parents take part in Big Maths, a spelling test and a phonics lesson. We hope you enjoyed it.

Author visit - Vashti Hardy

Today, we were very excited to have the author Vashti Hardy come to our school. All children, from Year 1-6, attended her author talk, where she told us what had inspired her to write, introduced us to facts about some real life explorers and showed us a video clip of  Bear Grylls escaping from quicksand.

In her book "Brightstorm", two of the main characters are twins. You can see them in the corner of the front cover. Murphy class and Vashti, thought our twins looked very similar to her characters.

Throughout the rest of the day, the children in Years 5 and 6, undertook workshops, made their own maps to inspire their writing and even got to dress up.

It was a great day and we ended it with many children coming into the library to get their copies of the books signed and meet Vashti in person. She welcomed then to the crew and encouraged them to seek out adventure through reading.

She has a new book coming out later this year and Brightstorm is in our school library.

Advent and Christmas in Murphy

Throughout the Advent season, the Wandering Wise Men, from our Crib set, made their way around Murphy classroom. They set challenges each day - all with the aim of making it to the stable. Yesterday they finally did!

Well done to all the children who responded to the challenges and helped them along the way.

Many thanks for all the kind cards and gifts you have given the staff in Murphy. we are very grateful. We hope you have a great Christmas and enjoy the items your child has brought home.

Year 1 reading challenge

Well done, to those of you who have already started your reading challenge and many thanks for organising a book swap. What a wonderful idea!

Don’t forget, some of the books are available in our own school library and you can reserve books from Ware public library. This can be done online if you can not make it in person, but you will need to go and collect the book.

Don't forget to return your sheet each time you have read 10 books!

Science in KS1

This half term,  Year 1 and 2 have been investigating the properties of everyday materials. We have looked at the items in our classroom, things we use and then, this week,  investigated which materials are waterproof. Mrs Matthews has a hole in her umbrella and need the help of KS1 to mend it!

Points of the compass

In Geography we have been learning about directional language and the points of a compass.

Tennis

We were very fortunate to have a tennis coach visit school today. 
Each class had a half hour session and had the chance to learn a few basic skills.Well done Murphy class, you picked it up really quickly!

BBC Music Day

The BBC invited us to "get singing" - and so we did! All across the school classes logged on to the BBC  and took part in a few vocal exercises, before learning and performing part of a song. Murphy class loved taking part.

Chauncy Community Day 2018

On Friday, the entire school took part in Chauncy Community day 2018. Most of us walked there, thanks to those who accompanied us, whilst the youngest children were visited, at school, by a team from Chauncy.

Food

Ceramics

Print

Numeracy Fun

Hargreaves class had a fantastic day and would like to say "Thank you" to all the staff and students, at Chauncy, who made this possible. I am sure other classes will share their photos soon.

Royal Wedding

This afternoon, in Hargreaves class, was all about the Royal Wedding! The children worked hard making cards, cracking a code, making puppets, colouring pictures and bookmarks, designing dresses and creating a beautiful dress design as a whole class.

Cheerio bird feeders

Today Hargreaves class designed and made a Cheerio bird feeder. The children had to bend a pipe cleaners into a shape of their choice, thread on the cereal hoops and then twist the pipe cleaner to ensure the hoops could not fall off.

The RSPB say that this is a suitable food for garden birds, as long as it is in small quantities and the bird has access to water..

Year 1 Multisports

On Friday, Hargreaves class were fortunate enough to be invited, to Wodson park, to take part in a sports festival. The children took part in a variety of different activities and a great time was had by all.

Science in Hargreaves class

Yesterday, we were fortunate to have four special visitors. They came to teach us about microbiology! All the children in class had the opportunity to take part in two investigations.

First, we found out how difficult it is to wash your hands thoroughly and get rid of all the germs - Thumbs, fingertips and fingernails being the least washed areas. Next,  we investigated how a virus is spread in water. If the water turn red it was infected, if it stayed green it was safe. 

Thank you to the team from GSK for two great activities.

Phonics App

Each child, in KS1, should have log in details for Teach Your Monster to Read. The website is free to use and the app can be purchased, should you wish to. 

However, this week, the app is free to download.

Please ask the class teacher if you need the  log in details again.

Hargreaves assembly and JML

Thank you to all the visitors who joined us for our assembly and JML. The children enjoyed sharing their ocarina playing, forward rolls, wake and shake and other learning with you. We hope you enjoyed the Big Maths challenge, the spelling test and the Phonics lesson.

Greek Day

This week we had a special assembly, in which each class shared some of the activities, and learning, they  took part in on Greek day. Hargreaves class did lots of activities, from dancing to cooking.

It was really interesting seeing what everyone else had done and we found out a few new facts.