Year 1 & 2 Class News

World Book Day in KS1

Posted on Thursday 07 March 2024 by Mrs Latham

We had a fabulous World Book Day today.

The children looked fantastic as their book characters and we shared stories and talked about why we loved certain characters. Thank you for all the costumes!

Staff all dressed as a crayon from The Day The Crayons Quit.

  

We also watched a fantastic theatre performance of The Secret Garden by M&M Productions. We were mesmerised.

  

We just loved celebrating how much we love reading, poems and books!

Maths – divide

Posted on Wednesday 06 March 2024 by Miss Young

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!

PE in 1,2B – yoga

Posted on Monday 04 March 2024 by Mrs Latham

We have been learning some yoga poses in PE lessons. Focusing on breathing, balance, movement and coordination are all essential in yoga. Working with a partner was also rather fun!

Help at home by doing some yoga together. (This is a YouTube link. Top tip for watching YouTube with your child: go to the settings cog along the play bar and turn off autoplay – this avoids an inappropriate clip coming up automatically, and helps to discourage your child from passively watching clip after clip.)

 

 

Living and Learning: I know we’re all the same and we’re all different

Posted on Thursday 29 February 2024 by Mrs Wilkins

In Key Stage One, we have read the book ‘Elmer’ by David McKee and considered things from another’s point of view. How might Elmer feel about being different from the other elephants? Why did Elmer want to look like the other elephants? How do the other elephants view Elmer?

Through this book, each class has been able to discuss how the elephants are the same and different. We have applied this to ourselves too.

 

Class novel – Naughty Bus

Posted on Monday 26 February 2024 by Mrs Latham

We are enjoying repeatedly reading our class novel, Naughty Bus by Jan and Jerry Oke,  and using it to inspire our reading and writing lessons too. The real photos and way the words are printed in the book has ignited lots of interesting discussions.

The word swim looks like it’s sinking.

Saving me looks like it’s being hooked by the powerful winch.

 

Help at home by taking discussing how authors use text or pictures in books to affect the reader.

Science vocabulary

Posted on Monday 26 February 2024 by Mrs Latham

Our new Science mini-topic is here below. We also designed some posters about what we can do to look after our Earth.

Help at home by talking about how we can care for our planet.

Science – caring for our planet

Posted on Monday 26 February 2024 by Miss Young

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!

Living and learning : Strong emotions

Posted on Friday 23 February 2024 by Mrs Latham

In our Living and Learning sessions we have been talking about our feelings, and in particular, strong emotions. We all have felt angry, sad and happy at some point. We identified different emotions and when we might have felt them. We talked about how emotions can feel overwhelming but will pass over time.

Design Technology – Food

Posted on Friday 23 February 2024 by Mrs Latham

1,2B had our turn in The Hub this week completing our fruit salad recipe.

We peeled, chopped, sliced and segmented our hearts out! The best part is the tasting though, of course.

Help at home by involving your child in food preparation and cooking. It helps with sequencing, fine motor control, maths, science and so much more!

1,2B Class Reward

Posted on Thursday 22 February 2024 by Mrs Latham

As part of our reward system at school, we work as a class to achieve a short term target. We have been trying to come in after lunch and work on our spellings quietly. It’s taken a bit longer than some other targets, but we achieved our 10 smiley faces this week. We all get a vote on what we’d like our reward to be. It was a landslide for the new adventure playground!

Help at home by helping your child choose a target they can work towards, with a reward at the end!