Author: Miss Young

See our photographs from our egg rolling competition today. Thank you everybody for getting involved!

Well done Ella for rolling your Incredible Hulk egg the furthest, enjoy your prizes!

Have a wonderful Easter break everybody!

Our Living Learning statement this week is ‘I can talk about how I am feeling.’

During this session, KS1 identified and discussed different emotions. We discussed vocabulary linking to these emotions and how to recognise such feelings in ourselves and in others.

The children recognised that everybody experiences a range of different feelings and this is completely normal and okay. We can experience and recognise these through thoughts, facial expression and body language.

We talked about how we can deal with our emotions and manage them effectively.

In class, children watched a pixar animation where they were asked to spot different emotions and explain why they thought each character was feeling a certain way.

Help at home: by discussing feelings often with your children and find techniques that help children to understand and regulate these emotions.

This afternoon, the Year 2’s had a very important visitor in school. The visitor was from Leeds City council and spoke to the children about road safety.

First, the children spoke about different parts of a typical road: a road, kerb and pavement. The children then spoke about what type of traffic they might see on the road and path, and added  images to a map.

They were given scenarios both within a car and whilst walking or riding on the pavement, and discussed how to stay safe.

We know that we must wear a seatbelt whenever we are in a moving vehicle. We must never distract our driver to ensure the journey is safe.

We also know when we are crossing the road, we have to follow the rules: stop, look and listen.

Help at home: by talking to your child about road safety at home.

Our Topic this half term is computing. We are learning about what a computer is and the functions and abilities that computers have.

Each Topic, we learn different vocabulary.

In class, we are using Beebots. These are robots that have the appearance of a bee. They can move around when programmed with an algorithm. The children have experimented over the past few weeks, using the Beebots. They know how to get them to move in the way that they want (after lots of trial and error).

First we must press ‘CLEAR’ to ensure that the Beebot does not follow any prior instructions.

Then we command an algorithm into the Beebot and press ‘GO’.

We have also been designing our own games. We have practised working out the correct algorithms needed to complete our games. We’ve also set our peers challenges whereby they need to ‘debug’ an algorithm to complete our games. So far, we have planned and designed our games in our books.

We can’t wait for next week, where we can see our games come to life, using the Beebots!

 

This week’s whole school Living and Learning statement is, ‘I know that friends and family are important.’

Our in-class learning objective however, has been ‘I know when my friends are happy.’

This week, KS1 have been discussing how important it is to have relationships with people we can trust, whether that is friends or family. This is not only for our own happiness, but if something goes wrong it means we always have someone we can talk to. Somebody we can trust.

It is therefore important that we know when we are feeling happy and in turn, when others are feeling happy. This can give us the social skills we need to help ourselves and others.

‘There has never been a stronger focus on the health and wellbeing of our young children as there is today and we have an important and valuable part to play in this.’

In class, we watched a clip about Elmer the elephant, a story by David McKee. In the story, Elmer became sad as other Elephants did not understand her.

We used the words from the story and looked at Elmers’ body language, to recognise why she was feeling sad.

We then discussed how the other Elephants could help Elmer and make her happy again. Then we spoke about how this can link to our own lives and situations in school.

Finally, the children designed their own Elmer the Elephant, using ‘happy’ and vibrant colours.

This week, Year 2 have been learning how to divide.

‘Divide means to share into equally groups.’ 

We are focussing on dividing by 2, 5 and 10. We know that divide is in the same fact family as multiply. This means that there is a link between the numbers we use in each equation.

Today, 2C focussed on dividing by 5.

10 divided by 2 = 5

10 divided by 5 = 2

2 x 5 = 10

5 x 2 = 10

See some of our fantastic work below!

For the first two weeks of this half term, KS1 are learning about how to care for our planet. We know it is everybody’s responsibility to look after planet Earth. We have a responsibility to look after our local area and we can do that by caring for other people, animals and plants.

During our first session, the children had a look at the ‘wildflower garden’ by our KS1 playground. It was there that we discovered bird feeders, hedgehog and bug houses and recently planted plants and trees by our Year 6 children. We know all of these things help to look after our planets.

‘Trees produce oxygen that we need to breathe.’ (S.C 2c)

‘Hedgehogs can find shelter in the houses.’ (HP 2C)

This week we compared two areas to one another. We decided to look at Scholes village and London. We talked about differences such as population, traffic and transport ect and the effects this may have on these environments. We talked about how we could improve each area to help the wildlife. Here are some examples of the posters we made in class!

Every week we have a different poem of the week. We read this every day in school. This week we are reading On The Ning Nang Nong by Spike Milligan.

Day 1 – Miss Young reads the poem to the class and models fluency.

Day 2 – Miss Young reads with the class and we focus on our prosody.

Day 3 – The class read it without Miss Young.

Day 4 – Children read the poem on their own and in a pair.

Day 5 – We all have a practise of saying the poem with our best fluency and prosody, without looking at the words. The poem is then sent home as part of children’s homework.

See below a video of 2C reading their poem of the week. This is day 3!

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Yesterday was Safer Internet Day.

We spent most of the day off timetable in order to look closely at how to stay safe online and how to be responsible users.

I know that some things online may not be true.

We discussed ‘fake news’ and what this means. We decided that if something is ‘fake’, it is not real and ‘news’ is information that is important. Fake news can be misleading and can give people the wrong impression or information.

We also talked about the importance of not sharing our personal information online, especially to strangers. We know we can’t trust what people say online and we should never plan to meet up with people we don’t know.

Personal information can include our name, age, address, contact details, school or clubs we go to. If we ever see something we are unsure of, or are not sure a website is safe, we must ask a trusted adult.

We read ‘Chicken Clicking’ by Jeanna Willis (one of our favourite authors). The story can be found online and has some brilliant talking points about internet safety.

In 2C we are learning about multiplication. We have been looking at lots of different representations.

First we count the amount of equal groups and then we count how many objects are in each group. Then we multiply these numbers together to get our total amount.

Help at home: by practising times tables on Times Tables Rockstars (TTRS)