Chestnut Year 1

Thursday 5th March 2026 📚✨ Calling all book lovers and story explorers!  ✨📚 You are all invited to dress up as your favourite book character for the day!  Let your imagination run wild and bring a story to life — whether you become a daring hero, a magical creature, or a mischievous villain! No need to buy anything  — there are loads of brilliant, simple homemade costume ideas online using things you already have at home. If you have any preloved costumes  you no longer nee

Well half term is here, I just hope it stops raining for some of it! This week we have read 'We're going on a Bear Hunt' by Michael Rosen. The children have enjoyed reciting the book off by heart and have written a new version of the poem. We're going on a fox hunt, We're going to catch a big one, What a beautiful day! We're not scared. Uh-Uh, rain. Soaking, wet rain. We can't go over it, We can't go under it' Oh no! We've got to go through it! Drizzle, drip, Drizzle, drip,

This week we have enjoyed sharing 'How the Elephant got his Trunk' by Andrea Florens. We have written the story in our own words and started to use conjunctions such as 'and, 'but' and 'because' in our sentences. In maths we have completed our unit on Addition and Subtraction within 20. However, we will continue to work on our number facts throughout the year. Your child has brought home their End of Block assessment. We complete this in the classroom and try to encourage the