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Coral Class Weekly News

Friday 12th December 2025

This week we were really proud of all our Santas in their first Christmas performance at school. Thank you for all your support this term, I know we have another week but this may be the last class page update this year! If it is we wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Love from Mrs Brown, Mr Harrison, Mrs Kasai-Harte and Mrs Roberts xx 

PS Oops sorry I forgot to share our digraphs last week, they were sh, th, ng and nk. This week we have been reviewing ALL our phonemes and any practice you can do on these over the holidays would be fantastic! 

Friday 5th December 2025 

Santa and his helpers have popped up everywhere in Coral Class this week. They have been writing lists and sorting gifts in Santa's Grotto. They've been helping with our part whole models and they were even spotted in a reading group too! Maybe they are keeping an eye on our cheeky elf as well? Look out for more Santas coming your way on Monday! 

Friday 28th November 2025 

This week we have enjoyed chopping and cooking our vegetables to make some tasty soup! We've been really persevering with our handwriting and have been busy practising for our Christmas performance. Our phonemes this week have been z, qu and ch. We’ve also looked at words with s on the end making them plurals, for example ‘cats’.

Friday 21st November 2025 

This week has been all about vegetables! We've tasted them, painted them, seen how they grow and even sung about them! Next week we are going to chop and cook them to make some soup! In Maths we have been learning about 1 more and making up our own first, then, now stories. Our phonemes this week have been v, w, x and y. 

Friday 14th November 2025

This week we have been learning about 2D shapes in maths and enjoyed going on a shape hunt around the playground. We joined the whole school on Remembrance Day and had fun supporting Children in Need on Friday. We've been practising our cvc words and our phonics this week have been ll,ss,ff and j. 

Friday 7th November 2025

This week we have been learning about The Gunpowder Plot and Bonfire Night. Alongside this we have learnt about Diwali, the festival of lights and made our own Rangoli Patterns. In maths we have been investigating 3D shapes and their properties and in Science we have looked at electrical safety and firework safety. In phonics this week we have been revisiting all the phonemes from the previous half term. 

Friday 24th October 2025

This week we spent a lovely Autumnal morning in Leigh Library Gardens. We went on a hunt for signs of Autumn and worked together to create some lovely transient art. The phonemes this week were h, b, f and l. Enjoy a happy half term break! 

Friday 17th October 2025

This week we have learnt about Autumn and hedgehogs. We've made some fantastic collages and added some descriptive vocabulary. In Maths we have been looking at more and fewer. We enjoyed our visit to the Book Fair too, sharing books with our friends. This week our phonemes have been ck, e, u, and r.

Friday 10th October 2025

This week we have enjoyed learning about maps. We planned a route and went for a walk around our school, looking at key areas. When we got back to our classroom we made a 3D map of our route. The phonemes we have covered this week are g, o, c and k.

Friday 3rd October 2025

This week we have continued to learn about what makes us all unique and enjoyed painting our self portraits. We framed them, signed them and put them up in our Coral Class gallery. We have been lucky to have fun outside in the sunshine this week too with den building, water play and time on the Astro. The phonemes we have covered this week are i, n, m and d.

Friday 26th September 2025

We've been very busy and had lots of fun in our first full week at school! We have shared the story of 'Elmer', talked about how we are all unique and painted our own Elmers. In Maths we have been practising our 1:1 counting. The phonemes we have covered this week are s, a, t and p.

Friday 19th September 2025

The children have had an amazing first week.  The children have been getting to know each other and the staff.  They know some new routines , and stayed for lunch too.  We have sung a few songs as a class and some children came to the front to sing a solo! Very brave.

Friday 18th July 2025

Goodbye Coral Class!  Thank you for being superstars.  You have all grown so are now ready for your next adventure in Year One.

Friday 11th July 2025

The weather was warm so the scooter wash opened up this week.  It was very popular!  In maths we have been learning to sort and group objects by their properties.  As we have been learning about minibeasts too, the children sorted them by wings or no wings linking back to the maths lessons.  The children had a snack that used bowls and spoons so several children helped wash up.  So helpful!  Maybe they will help you at home?

Friday 4th July 2025

What a busy and hot week! Coral class enjoyed the visiting theatre company on Tuesday and meeting their new teacher on Wednesday. It was lovely to see everyone at Open Evening on Thursday to celebrate all the children's achievements. Where has that year gone?!

Friday 27th June 2025

Over the last two weeks we have been busy writing our mini beast adventure stories and hunting for mini beasts in the garden. Our caterpillars have been busy too as in two weeks they have gone into cocoons and emerged as beautiful butterflies. They were a little bit camera shy as were so happy to fly off and enjoy the sunshine.

Friday 13th June 2025

This week has been all about spiders! Drawing club based on 'Spinderella', learning spider facts and even weaving our own spider webs! In Maths we have been looking at shapes and using them to create some pictures. Our class caterpillars have grown so much in a week and we are eagerly awaiting the next stage in their lifecycle. 

Friday 6th June 2025

This week has been History Week in Coral Class. We have looked at how music, telephones and toys have changed over time. It made Mrs Brown and Mr Harrison feel very old! We also had our caterpillars arrive in class this week and look forward to watching them change over time too! We really enjoyed our gymnastics lesson on Friday as well. 

Friday 23rd May 2025

This week the children participated in their first Sports Day at Leigh North Street. We are really proud of every single one of them for displaying all of our ASPIRE values. Enjoy a happy half term break x

Friday 16th May 2025

Another busy week in Coral Class! We have been learning about doubles in Maths, saving the whale from polluted seas in 'Drawing Club' and had fun creating under the sea pictures in the ICT suite. 

Friday 9th May 2025

This week we have enjoyed doing some independent writing, learning about forces and celebrating the 80th Anniversary of VE Day. 

Friday 2nd May 2025

This week we have finished our Under the Sea collage and the children have enjoyed using their imaginations to create their own 'Tiddler' adventures in 'Drawing Club'.  In Science we set up a floating and sinking experiment and recorded our findings. 

Friday 25th April 2025

Welcome back to the Summer term! This week we have enjoyed the launch of 'Drawing Club' where we shared the story of 'Pirate Pete' and then drew our own pictures and added an accompanying sentence. We enjoyed learning some actions to help us with some new vocabulary too! We even had time to do some reading with our friends outside in the sunshine.

Friday 4th April 2025

The children started the week with a quick visit to the church.  The children listened carefully to what happens in a church at this time of year.  The sun came out so the children have been having lots of fun with water.  Have a lovely few weeks and we will see you all soon.

Friday 28th March 2025

This week Coral Class went for a trip to the beach and Leigh Library Gardens.  The children made sandcastles and played a PE game, before sketching flowers.  Next week we will be visiting a local church to learn about Easter.

Friday 21st March 2025

This week has had a red theme! We enjoyed retelling the story of Little Red Riding Hood with the puppets and wearing red to support Red Nose Day! We are looking forward to our Beach trip on Monday too! 

Friday 14th March 2025

As promised, some of the great photos from our World Book Day last Friday.  This week we have shared the story of 'The Gingerbread Man' and have devised ways in which we could get him across the river! We were very impressed with some of the children's creations! So proud of everyone coming into school by themselves this week too. 

Friday 7th March 2025

This week we have started our Traditional Tales topic and enjoyed sharing the story of the Three Bears and writing sorry letters from Goldilocks. We have been looking at number bonds to 10 in Maths and making the most of being outside in the Spring sunshine! Everyone looked fabulous on World Book Day and we had fun sharing stories with our reading buddy class. Photos to follow next week!

Friday 28th February 2025

As part of our Geography work we have been looking at homes around the world. We discussed the similarities and differences between these homes and our own. In maths we have been comparing weights and in PE we have been practising our balancing skills!

Friday 14th February 2025

This week we have continued learning about Chinese New Year and enjoyed tasting some Chinese food. We all tried really hard to use the chopsticks even Mr Harrison! We made our own dragon collages and made an amazing dragon head for our dragon dance. 

Friday 7th February 2025

Last Friday the children made some birdfeeders to hang on the tree.  You may have seen them.  The children watched patiently for any birds to eat them.  I spotted a pigeon twice having a nibble!  This week we have started to learn about Chinese New Year and will continue next week too.

Friday 31st January 2025

This week we have continued with our Winter theme and have enjoyed investigating ice. We carried out our own science experiment, placing ice cubes in different places around the school to see which one melted the fastest. We also had fun trying to free some of our toys from some ice blocks and getting messy making some pine cone bird feeders.

Friday 24th January 2025

This week the children have done so well with writing their instructions to help Olaf and you’ll be pleased to know that he sent us a postcard to say thank you and to let us know that he got home to Arendelle safely! We also enjoyed listening to and reenacting a Winter themed ‘Now Press Play’ through our headphones and finished some lovely Winter collages. 

Friday 17th January 2025

The children have been busy learning about winter, when they received a letter from Olaf asking for help to get home.  The children built maps together, then drew their own map to help Olaf get back to Arendelle.  Next week they will write instructions too.

Friday 10th January 2025

Happy New Year! We started our new term with a 'learning to learn' day and spent the day playing and working together in teams. In PE we successfully completed our challenges with some great team work! We've also had a lot of fun answering our history enquiry questions this week. Why do people wear hats? What is a crown and who wears o

ne? What happens at a coronation and what landmarks would we see in London? 

Friday 13th December 2024

Thank you for coming to our Christmas concert on Monday. We really enjoyed learning all the songs, actions and making our hats ready for our performance. We were really proud of all the children. Thank you for supporting Christmas Jumper Day this week too! 

Wishing you all a Merry Christmas 

Friday 6th December 2024

This week in Coral Class we have been busy little elves practising for our concert, helping Santa in our new workshop and learning about 'part whole models'! We look forward to seeing you at our concert on Monday! 

Friday 29th November 2024

This week we have enjoyed chopping the vegetables and making our soup! We hope you enjoy our 'Chop chop' song too!

Friday 22nd November 2024

This week has been all about vegetables! We tasted some, we painted some and even sang about them! We wrote our own shopping lists too of the vegetables we would put in our soup. 

In Maths we have been sharing 'First, then, now' stories about adding one more to a number (not necessarily vegetable related!)  

Friday 15th November 2024

This week we joined the whole school in the playground for our act of remembrance. In Maths we have been learning about 2D shapes and loved going on a shape hunt around the school. The children looked great in all their many colours on Friday too! Thank you for supporting 'Children in Need'. 

Friday 8th November 2024

A busy first week back in Coral Class!  We have collaboratively created firework art.  Then the children wrote the noises that they heard over the last few nights.  The children have spent lots of time outside too, sweeping leaves as a team.  We have also spent time hunting for 3D shapes, which the children were brilliant at.  Many of them remembered the names of the shapes and used them when describing if they could roll or stack.

Friday 25th October 2024

This week we had a lovely Autumnal morning in Leigh Library gardens. We went on a hunt for signs of Autumn and worked together to create some lovely transient art. Thank you to all the parents that supported us - we couldn't do it without you! Enjoy a happy half term break! 

Friday 18th October 2024

This week the children started their hedgehog pictures.  Maybe we will see some on our autumn walk next week.  We discussed Dame Kelly Holmes for Black History Month and we had a fantastic poster about another iconic person - Rosa Parks.  

Friday 11th October 2024

Coral Class went for a walk around the school as part of our geography topic called 'Out and About'.  We looked at Google Maps to try and spot the school, then we build a 3D map to plan our walk around the site.  We ended up in Mr Hautler's office!  In a few weeks, we will continue our topic when we explore the local park.  We also looked at parts of the body by drawing around a child and labelling those parts.

Friday 4th October 2024

This week the children have started writing patterns from the Letter join scheme.  We have been previously using scarves to make these patterns in the air, but now are using whiteboards for the first time.

We also started painting a self-portrait, and the children will cut and glue a border on their work next week.  Have a great weekend! 

Friday 27th September 2024

We've had lots of fun during our first full week at school. We have shared the story of 'Elmer', talked about how we are all unique and painted our own Eimers. We have learnt the sounds s,a,t and p. 

Friday 20th September 2024

Wow what a great start to our time at Leigh North Street Primary School! We have enjoyed meeting our new teachers, making new friends and learning lots of new routines! Well done Coral Class we are really proud of you.