This week’s spellings for Year 1 are common errors that children make in writing.
This week’s spellings for Year 2 contain one of the alternative pronunciations of the grapheme ‘a’ – the short vowel sound (except one).
We’re looking forward to it and we hope you are, too! More details can be found in the letter we sent home last week.
We’ve had another learning-loaded week to finish the first half term of the school year. Our English work has involved lots of noun-spotting and securing sentence construction. You could help consolidate this learning at home by looking out for, and talking about, nouns and how they appear in our language.
We also collected a whopping 1,343 conkers. We’ve used them to help us count in 10s. You could join in at home and collect interesting objects to count in 2s, 5s or 10s. Now we’ve finished with them, we’ve returned them to the woods behind school for the squirrels to enjoy – and hopefully a few will grow into chestnut trees, too!
The excitement was palpable during the voting for the school council representatives. We used a voting booth, ballot papers and a ballot box to make it an authentic experience. Well done to those that got voted in.
The class assembly from 2KL was amazing. The children were so excited and proud to share all their learning. Thank you to all the parents and carers who came to support the children.
We recently experienced an interactive performance from One Day Creative. The performance was called Let’s Talk About It and was aimed at encouraging children to deal with, and talk about, problems including difficult emotions, worries and cyber safety.
We followed this up with individual class workshops. We looked at situations and responses and how mindfulness exercises can be a ‘superpower’ that helps us make good choices when it comes to our responses.
The messages were powerful and hopefully useful for all children.
Thank you for the generous donations. The Salvation Army collected the tins and packets for their food bank.
We enjoyed learning about mindfulness this week and learnt new breathing techniques to help us approach difficult situations in a calm manner.
We’ve been working on our rapid recall of number facts, using dominoes to help. Please practise these at home, too.
Well done to our Golden Star this week. I think she feels proud!
This week’s spelling task is to practise writing the words from last week really fast and really s l o w l y. Write each word at least twice.
Year 1 spelling list
Year 2 spelling list
This week’s homework is Talk Time and is due on 19 October 2017.
I understand the importance of voting.
You could talk about:
Our current Big Topic is Explorers.
We ended our week with a walk exploring Scholes and it was a perfect sunny day for it. Thank you to all the parent and grandparent helpers – we wouldn’t have been able to do it without you. We walked three miles over nearly two hours so I imagine there will be some tired legs tonight. We mapped our route when we got back to school and will be talking more about what we saw next week. The highlights, according to one child, were eating our snack and jumping in muddy puddles!
Well done to our Golden Star this week.
This week’s spellings are high frequency words. Please practise writing them in your homework book. You could try look-say-cover-write-check, rainbow writing or pyramid writing to help. There are more ideas below.
Year 1 spelling list
Year 2 spelling list