Year 1 & 2 Class News

Living and Learning – Dside visit

Posted on Wednesday 17 January 2024 by Miss Young

This week we had a visitor in our school from D:side. D:side often visit our school to talk to us about a number of things, such as how we can be healthy. This week, D:side spoke to us about  how to look after our bodies.

Science – animals

Posted on Monday 15 January 2024 by Miss Young

This half term in KS1, we are learning about animals in Science. We started the topic last week by discussing what a mammal is.

‘A mammal is an animal that has fur or hair and gives birth to live offspring.’

Examples of mammals include: dogs, cats, elephants, whales and bears.

This week we have been learning about fish and birds.  We labelled the features of both types of animal so that we know how to identify them. We also know what these features are for.

”Most birds have wings to fly, but not all birds can fly, like penguins.’ (2C)” Fish have fins and a tail to help them swim in water” (1A)

Bog Baby

Posted on Friday 12 January 2024 by Miss Young

This half term, KS1 are reading Bog Baby by Jeanne Willis. In the book we meet a cute creature called the ‘Bog Baby’. The Bog baby is discovered in a Magic pond, by two young sisters. The children decide to take the Bog Baby home to look after him and keep him as a pet. At first he is very happy, He has his own home, gets to eat cake crumbs each day and even gets to go to school. But then he starts to feel scared and homesick, and wants to go back home. This week, Year 2 wrote some sentences about how the Bog Baby might be feeling. They used their inference skills to draw information from both the illustrations and text. Some of the children even used conjunctions such as ‘because’ to explain their answers. Here is some of their work.

Posted on Thursday 11 January 2024 by Fiona Brown

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Happy New Year! Welcome back everyone! We hope you’ve had a lovely, restful break and that you’re full of energy for another busy and exciting half term at school.

 

A New Topic For Key Stage One.

This half term is all about History and we will be looking at how shopping has changed for people over time. We will be looking at Briggate High Street and we have an exciting trip to Abbey House booked to support our learning in school.

Our new Topic was kicked off this week by thinking about the past and by introducing timelines. We thought about the things that have happened in our past and thought about the order in which they happened. In groups, we sequenced events from our own lives and discovered that a timeline can be different for different people depending on the order things happen to individual people.

Help at home: by talking about the past and the present. You could talk about your childhood and how it may be similar or different to now. What was your house like? Which TV programs did you watch? What kind of toys did you play with? What kinds of foods did you eat? Can you compare the things that are in your child’s living memory, your living memory or even the living memory of the oldest generation in your family?

New member of staff in 1,2B

Posted on Monday 08 January 2024 by Mrs Latham

We said goodbye to Mr Goodwin before Christmas but we’re now saying Hello to Miss Gilliland, who will be with us until July

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM KEY STAGE 1

Posted on Friday 22 December 2023 by Mrs Latham

We would like to wish all our families a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from all the staff in Key Stage 1. We’re also wishing Mr Goodwin good luck on his next placement at one of our sister schools. We will miss him!

Christmas lunch

Posted on Friday 22 December 2023 by Mrs Latham

We had a lovely lunchtime yesterday. We visited the ‘Mrs Pennock inflatable display Christmas grotto’ and then had a lovely Christmas lunch together in the hall!

Christmas in 2C

Posted on Thursday 21 December 2023 by Miss Young

This week we have been very excited about the run up to Christmas. We’ve done lots of lovely activities such as made cards, calendars and crafts. We’ve done 2 Christmas productions for the adults, seen some special Christmas decorations and today we had a lovely Christmas lunch. See what we’ve been getting up to!

We can’t wait for our Christmas party tomorrow (9am)! Remember to send your child in their own clothes, some snacks for after the party and a bag to send all of their bits and bobs home!

Christmas in KS1

Posted on Wednesday 20 December 2023 by Fiona Brown

The children have been enjoying a lovely festive week in school this week. They performed their little socks off and displayed their singing and dancing talents at both of the Nativity shows. WELL DONE YEAR 1 AND 2!!!

Today, in all classes, we received a mysterious phone call to tell us that we had been sent a very special email. The big man himself, Santa Claus, had sent us an email with a video to watch. It turns out he had been to our school when we were at home last night and he had delivered some gifts to our classrooms for us. We were SO excited and searched for the presents in class. There was one for everyone. We’re even more excited now for the Christmas dinner tomorrow and for the party on Friday.

Merry Christmas everyone from all the KS1 staff.

Help at home: by taking some time to relax and recuperate after a long term and by enjoying some wonderful family time together. 

KS1 Science

Posted on Monday 18 December 2023 by Miss Young

For our final piece of Science learning this half term, KS1 have learning about the word ‘absorb.’ We did a comparative test where we used 4 different types of material to soak up the same measurement of water.

We found that cotton wool absorbed the most water, foil absorbed the least water and the carboard absorbed some but not all of the water.