DT Cooking – 1A
We had a brilliant time making wraps in our DT cooking learning yesterday. First we spread either houmous or cream cheese onto our wraps. Next we used a bridge or claw grip to chop our cucumber, tomato, lettuce and pepper. Then we added ham, cheese or both to our wraps. We assembled our wraps and finally rolled them up before eating.
Each child has been sent home with a recipe from their learning. Help at home by making a wrap, or similar at home. Discuss what your child liked/ disliked and see if you can swap some of the ingredients!
Year 1 Maths
This Maths unit is all about money in Year 1. First of all, we learned how to count in 2s, 5s and 10s. After this, we learnt about 1p, 2p, 5p and 10p. We know how to identify them and know that each amount can be made using different coins.
‘5p and 5p makes 10p.’ (HE)
‘1p and 5p makes 6p’. (LD)
Help at home by asking children to help you count coins. Can they make the same amount using different coins?
Challenge – make 20p
PE – yoga
2C and 1,2B did their PE lessons indoors this afternoon due to the weather – bit of Cosmic Kids Yoga. (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.)
Year 1 and 2 have been going through our Sports Roundabout so we’re ready for the big day on 3 July. Don’t forget to check bags for your child’s letter and to find out which team they’re in.
PE-Sports Day here we come!
We have been busy being athletes! KS1 have been enjoying the field, the heat and our Sports Day equipment. We hope the weather conditions remain superb for our actual sports day roundabout on Friday 03 July. We will certainly be ready to gain points for our teams.
All our teams this year are based on some of the countries taking part in the FIFA World Cup 2026 football competition. We would like the children to come in clothing loosely matching the flag colours of the country that they are representing. We have sent all children in KS1 home with a letter giving details of each child’s team and what colour clothing to wear. Please do not feel under any pressure to buy anything new. Children can always wear their school PE kits. Each team is puposefully made up with children from Recepetion, Year 1 and Year 2. We aim to put siblings together in the same teams too. It really is a wonderful event, full of fun and active children. We hope to see you there!
Poem of the week
We read a poem every week in KS1. We do this to increase our fluency and prosody. We have a big focus on oracy in KS1. At the moment, we are focussing on using our facial expressions and body language when reading our poem. This is particularly useful when reading this poem, which we all love!
Here are some of our ‘Funny faces’.
Living and Learning – Relationships and Sex Education
In Living and Learning, we have been thinking about the relationships we have with family and friends, and what makes for a good relationship.
We have also discussed how we keep ourselves safe, including the importance of knowing that ‘pants are private’. The children are familiar with this Pantosaurus song by the NSPCC.
Help at home by watching the video together and discussing any questions or thoughts that come up.
Maths-Fractions
Year 2 have been busy understanding fractions. Can you find a fraction of a number? For example: What is half of 12? We have focused on thirds and quarters too. Doing this practically helps us to understand the concept visually before moving onto a deeper, abstract process.
Help at home: Can you find a half/quarter/third of a number? Use your cutlery drawer, leaves from the garden, toy cars, pegs or teddies to help you ‘share out your number into equal parts.’
Living and learning / Design Technology (sewing)
Our Design Technology topic is making us use our living and learning skills – especially resilience! Sewing was a brand new skill for lots of children and it has been a tricky one to learn. There’s been a few tears, frustration and some annoyance…but we now are showing that we can keep going and are learning to sew.
It is brilliant to see the children concentrate so well and not give up. We have also reflected back to how we felt the first lesson when is was really hard.
Help at home by encouraging your child to build resilience and independence when learning a new skill. Tying shoelaces or using a knife and fork properly are great ones!
Living and Learning
This week we have been learning about families. Our Living and Learning objective in class has been to understand that families come in all shapes and sizes.
We discussed what a family is.
‘It is love.’ (AJ)
‘It is a government of people.’ (AT)
‘A group of people you love and trust.’ (HYB)
We also talked about how our family does not always live in the same house as us. Each of the children chose one family member and drew them. They also wrote down why that family member is special and what they do to look after us.
Help at home by discussing families you know, their structure and how all families look different.
Topic – Design Technology
This half-term, our new topic is Design Technology.
We have started by discussing the different stages involved in the process of creating a product: designing, making and evaluating.
We have also started practising our sewing skills – using wool for an overstitch.
During the term, we are going to be designing, making and evaluating puppets!
Help at home by practising doing some knotting, threading or sewing. Can you thread some pasta onto a piece of a string?
