Singing – Make your own kind of music
We added some singing to our golden assembly today; Make your own kind of music by Paloma Faith. It’s all about being yourself and making your own choices and we love singing it. Here is a video of KS1 singing some of the song!
1A Science – food chains
In Science, we have been learning about food chains. The children have enjoyed making their own.
Y2 Spellings
We’ve had another fantastic week in 2C so far. I have been extremely proud of how each child has been practising their spellings in preparation for their spelling test every other week. Here is our current spelling list:
- of
- once
- one
- our
- pull
- push
- put
- said
- saw
- says
Help at home by practicing sounding out spellings with your children. Why not get them to use coloured pencils or pens? This will help them to memorise spellings more easily and will encourage neat handwriting!
English – reading and writing
We have made a strong start to our English lessons since coming back after the summer holidays. Phonics lessons started on day one and we have been using our phonics to support writing too.
We use a ‘grapheme mat’ (letters and groups of letters and the sounds they make) to support our reading and writing.
In phonics, we learn how the same letters make different sounds and different sounds are made by the same letters! It can be very confusing.
Help at home by reading with your child regularly. If you have any problems logging in to the eBooks, contact your child’s class teacher.
Maths – place value
Year 1 and 2 have been focusing on place value for the past few weeks. Knowing the order of numbers, what each digit is worth and how numbers can be partitioned (split up) are all essential.
Year 1s are sorting, ordering and comparing numbers using great than > and less than < symbols.
Year 2s are using base 10 equipment (tens and ones) place value charts, part whole models and Numicon to represent and partition numbers.
Help your child at home by talking about numbers, comparing them and finding out how many tens and ones a number has.
Minibeast trail
This week our KS1 children have been exploring the playground on the hunt for minibeasts. In Science we are learning about habitats and micro-habitats. We searched high and low for small creatures, using magnifying glasses to understand the conditions each minibeast lives in.
1,2B conker collecting for counting
We have started a conker collection to help with counting. Counting carefully, counting big numbers and counting in tens and ones will all be done using these lovely shiny conkers. If you have any to add, send them in or help at home by starting your own collection and get counting!
Living and Learning : manners
We have been particularly talking about manners this week in our Living and Learning lessons, but we are always referring to good manners. Manners cost nothing but make a big difference and make our school a happy and healthy place to be!
Super swimming
We are so proud of our fantastic KS1 children for jumping feet first into their swimming lessons… and the pool.
Swimming is such an important and sometimes life-saving skill. We are extremely privileged to have our own swimming pool within the school grounds which means we are able to offer all pupils swimming lessons from a young age.
Swimming helps children’s development, confidence and stamina.
Well done super swimmers!
2C Settling in!
Well done to my class for settling so perfectly into their new classroom environment. We all know how to follow our school rules and remind one another of the importance of these rules daily. This term, we will continue to get to know each other, settle into our routines and continue our learning journey.
All of our children read every day at school and it is so important that the children also read at home.
Well done 2C!
