This week in Year 1, we blasted off on a learning adventure that took us all the way to the moon and back. Our journey began with Man on the Moon, which the children absolutely loved, especially the part where they became professional alien‑spotters. While Bob the astronaut seems blissfully unaware of the many creatures lurking behind rocks and craters, Year 1 missed nothing. NASA may soon be calling!

Inspired by Bob’s day, the children wrote lists of things they would take to the moon. Their priorities were admirable: snacks featured heavily, followed by more snacks, a teddy, and one especially forward‑thinking suggestion of taking a dinosaur “just in case.” We do admire their strategic planning.

In maths, we used number lines to explore and understand numbers to 20. The children enjoyed hopping forwards and backwards along the line, spotting missing numbers, and discovering that 20 is, in fact, not as far away as it once seemed. There was a great deal of excitement when they realised that jumping from 9 to 10 does not require rocket boosters.

In History, the children were captivated by Neil Armstrong. Watching the moon landing sparked curiosity, awe and one imaginative theory involving rockets powered by unicorn sparkles. While this hasn’t been scientifically confirmed, the creativity involved was impressive. We used the information to make a fact file about Neil.

Our week ended with perhaps the most dramatic event of all: the eggstronaut landings. The children designed and built landing pads to help their brave eggs return safely to Earth. They demonstrated excellent understanding of soft materials, safe landings and, when necessary, the clean‑up of slightly less fortunate eggstronauts. Many eggs survived. Others cracked heroically in the name of science.

All in all, it has been a wonderfully creative, mathematical, moon‑filled week in Year 1, full of curiosity, laughter and learning. If next week’s adventures are anywhere near as exciting, we might need to keep our helmets close by.