Chestnut Class Summer 1 Week 1, by Miss Sims

Date: 25th Apr 2025 @ 10:55am

This week we have been reading Owl Babies in class and completing lots of speaking and listening activities about the story. The children have been sequencing the retelling the story. Next week, we will be completing some writing activities about the story. 

In Maths, our Year 1 children have started their Multiplication and Division unit of work. They have been learning how to count in steps of 2 and 10 so far. Next week they will be learning how to count in steps of 5. Please support your children to do this at home too. 

Our Reception children have been completing their learning about the numbers 9 and 10. 

In Computing, we used Code Studio to control an on screen animation using lines of code. The children also had to look for errors in lines of code and debug these in order to make the code work. 

Next week, we will be starting a new topic in Geography: Magical Mapping. 

Reminders: 

Children need to bring their water bottles and book bags to school daily. 
P.E. days during Summer 1 are Mondays and Wednesdays. 

Reception 2025 Places Available, by Mrs Williams

Date: 25th Apr 2025 @ 7:46am

Places available for Nursery and Reception for September 2025

Chestnut Week 5, by Miss Sims

Date: 28th Mar 2025 @ 4:13pm

We have had such a lovely week in Chestnut Class.

After having EGGCELLENT ATTENDANCE last week, we made our chocolate Easter nests this week.

In English lessons this week we have continued our work around the book Supertato. The children have produced some lovely pieces of writing about the story. 

In maths we have continued to learn about Mass and Capacity. 

We have concluded our Science unit of work this week about animals and their habitats. We have learnt about things that are Living, Dead and Never Alive. 

Chestnut Week 4, by Miss Sims

Date: 20th Mar 2025 @ 10:55pm

This week in Chesntut class we have been winners 3 times. We have been busy winning prizes in the EGGCELLENT ATTENDANCE competition. The prizes have included Easter colouring, an extra playtime and making chocolate nests - we look forward to making those before we finish for Easter.

In English we read 'Supertato'. The children loved following clues to find the hidden vegetables around school that Evil Pea had trapped.

In Maths, all children have been learning about length and height.

In D.T this week, the children designed, made and evaluated 'fun fruit kebabs'. They learnt about the importance of good hygiene when handling food and also some techniques to allow them to cut different foods safely. 

Our Computing lessons this week were linked to our D.T. topic. The children carried out a survey to find out the favourite fruits of their classmates and presented their results in an online pictogram.

Next week, the attendance competition continues to run and more prizes are up for grabs for EGGCELLENT class ATTENDANCE.

Chestnut Week 3, by Miss Sims

Date: 13th Mar 2025 @ 10:20pm

We had such a lovely time at Blackpool Zoo on Tuesday this week. We saw lots of animals. Our favourites were the sealions and the otters! It was feeding time for the otters as we arrived at their habitat and it was lovely to watch them diving into the water for their lunch. We also got a really good view of the lions, tigers and elephants whilst we were there. 

Throughout the rest of the week, we have completed our History and English topic on Castles. We have learnt a lot about Castles, Kings and Queens over the last few weeks. Our text in English next week will be Supertato, and we are looking forward to reading that. 

In Maths, Year 1 have been completing their Place Value to 50 unit of work. Next week, Reception and Year 1 will be learning all about Length and Height. 

On Friday 21st March it is our class assembly and it would be lovely if you could join us in the hall at 9am for our celebration morning and then come and complete some fun activities with us back in our classroom afterwards. The children have been busy learning their lines this week, if you could help them with this over the weekend that would be such a huge help!

We have had some exciting news about attendance in assembly today. We have a two-week challenge to complete were the class with the highest attendance each day will earn a prize. We are hoping for some lovely treats!

Next week is DT week. We will be designing, tasting and creating fruit kebabs.

Thank you for your continued support, 

Miss Sims

Chestnut Week 2, by Miss Sims

Date: 7th Mar 2025 @ 12:04pm

We have had such a fun week in school this week.

The children loved coming into school dressed as their favourite book characters; all of their costumes were fantastic!

Our castles topic has continued in English and in History we have been learning about Castles, Kings and Queens. 

Reception have been learning about numbers 6, 7 and 8 and Year 1 have been learning about numbers within 50. 

We are very excited to go on our trip to Blackpool Zoo next week. 

Chestnut Week 1, by Miss Sims

Date: 28th Feb 2025 @ 12:24pm

We have had a busy first wek back after the half term holidays. 

We have welcomed Miss Hines to Chestnut class and she will be working with us until Summer 1.

In English, we have been reading and writing about Castles. In the coming weeks, we will also be learning about Castles, Kings and Queens in our history topic. 

In Maths, we have completed our Addition and Subtraction within 20 topic. Next week, we start our new topic, Place Value to 50.

In PSHE, we have been learning about Healthy Lifetsyles; the importance of healthy eating, exercise, sleep and keeping clean. We have also learnt about how to stay safe in the sun and ways to avoid too much screen time. 

In Computing, we have been using Code Studio to control an on-screen animation. 

Next week:

Parent's Evening will be held on Monday 3rd March and Wednesday 5th March. Please select an appointment time on Spider, if you have not already. 

Thanks, 

Miss Sims

Chestnut Week 6, by Miss Sims

Date: 14th Feb 2025 @ 11:45am

This week in Chestnut class we have been doing lots of Art and we have enjoyed creating our own tiger pictures using oil pastels, crayons and paint. 

On Tuesday, we celebrated Safer Internet Day. The day started with a very exciting assmebly in the hall and then throughout the day we completed some activities to help us to understand how to stay safe on the internet.

We ended the day with a quiz. 

Due to being awarded a Gold Mental Health Award, this afternoon we continued our celebrations with a whole school party on the playground. 

I hope you have a lovely half term break and look forward to seeing you all back again on Monday 24th February.

Miss Sims

Chestnut Week 5, by Miss Sims

Date: 7th Feb 2025 @ 11:46am

This week we have celebrated Children's Mental Health Week. 

On Monday we spent time getting to know ourselves. We drew our islands of personality and discussed how we are all unique with our own interests, hobbies and strengths.

On Tuesday we talked about how to grow ourselves. We drew our path so far and thought about where we would like our path to lead us in the near and distant future. 

On Wednesday we loved breaking the rules. We had some crazy hairsyles, sparkly tattoos and lots of teddies in class.

On Thursday we reminded ouselves of ways we can support and protect our own mental health.

.... And on Friday, we celebrated the huge achievement of #teamcarrmill achieving the Gold Mental Health Award. 

Next week, we will be continuing our celebrations with a whole school party on the playground. 

We will also be creating some art work throughout the week so keep an eye out for updates from our artists in Chestnut Class. 

Chestnut Week 4, by Miss Sims

Date: 31st Jan 2025 @ 10:59am

It has been assessment week in Chestnut Class this week and we have been very busy completing lots of special quizzes.

In English we have have continued with our text, The Tiger Who Came to Tea. The children in Year 1 have looked at how to describe the tiger to help write a character description. Reception children have been working hard to apply their phonics learning to write words or sentences linked to the story - they have all worked really hard. 

In Maths, Year 1 have continued to learn about numbers to 20. We have compared numbers and amounts using the 'greater than', 'less than' and 'equal to' symbols. In Reception, the children have been learning how to combine two amounts within 5.

We have continued our topic of cities, towns and villages in geography lessons. We compared two maps of Carr Mill and St Helens town centre and we noticed the differences between them. We also thought carefully about 'what affects where people live'. We looked at some characters who lived in either a city, town or village and their reasons why they would want to live there. 

Next week:

Next week is Mental Health Week in school so we will be completing lots of fun activities in class about this.

Reminders:

Please bring book bags to school every day. Books are changed on a Friday each week. 

P.E. days are Monday and Thursday in Chestnut Class this half term. Children can come to school in their P.E. kits on these days. 

Below are the uniform requirements for children at Carr Mill Primary School.

Chestnut Class: Week 3, by Miss Sims

Date: 24th Jan 2025 @ 12:00pm

We have had another lovely week in school in Chestnut class.

Year 1 have been reading the text The Tiger Who Came to Tea and we have been completing lots of activities about the story.

Reception have been reading Who's Been Eating My Porridge? which is linked to last week's Goldilocks and the Three Bears text. 

In Maths we have been continuing to learn about numbers up to 20 in Year 1 and numbers up to 5 in Reception. We have been learning to find 1 more and 1 less, subitise and place numbers on a number line. 

This week, we started our new Geography topic and have spent the week learning about Villages, Towns and Cities. We started the topic by recapping our learning from our last topic; identifying the 4 countries in the United Kingdom and their capital cities. We have also been learning about the difference between human and physical features. 

Next week in our Compting lessons we will be editing photographs. 

Reminders: P.E. in Chestnut class is on a Monday and Thursday. 

Please remember to bring book bags and water bottles to school every day. 

Reception Porridge Party!!, by Mrs Williams

Date: 21st Jan 2025 @ 4:56pm

This week the Reception Children in Oak and Chestnut had a Porridge Party! We read the story Who has been eating my porridge? Goldilocks has a porridge party and invites all of the different traditional tales characters to the party.

We had lots of fun stirring the porridge, cooking and eating it, as well as playing party dances and games.

In Maths this week we focused on Zero the Hero!! We identified zero amounts, counted backwards to zero and wrote zero! We went on a zero hunt around school too!!

Next week our story is based on a tea party gone wrong!! A strippy orange and black animal comes to the tea party and eats all of the food! Can you guess which book it is?

Chestnut Week 2, by Miss Sims

Date: 16th Jan 2025 @ 11:50pm

Another fantastic week in Chestnut class! Well done everyone.

This week, the children have enjoyed Maths Week and have completed lots of fun activities. 

In English, Year 1 have produced some wonderful pieces of writing based on our text 'A River', whilst Reception have enjoyed reading the story of 'Goldilocks and the Three Bears'. 

In Computing, the children have been discussing sharing images and why it is important to be SMART online - Safe, Meet, Accept, Reliable, Tell. During the lesson we talked about sharing concerns about the online world with 'Trusted Adults' and never sharing personal details or images with strangers whilst using the internet. The children produced some lovely pieces of work during the lesson. Please also continue this discussion at home with your child. If you need any support with this, please speak to a member of Chestnut class who will be happy to help you. 

Next week, we will be visited by a child author, Max, who will be coming into school to share two of his books. We look forward to meeting Max when he joins us in class. 

Please ensure that all children bring their book bags to school every day as we have been encouraging this in class. 

First week back - Chestnut, by Miss Sims

Date: 10th Jan 2025 @ 12:00pm

We have had such a busy week in Chestnut class. 

We have been reading a lovely story called 'A River' and we have enjoyed thinking of adjectives to describe scenes from the text. 

Year 1 children have been learning about numbers to 20 in Maths, whilst Reception have been learning all about repeating patterns. 

In Science, we have been finding out about habitats and that plants and animals are suited perfectly to where they live. 

Next week is Maths week in school and we have lot of exciting activities planned.