Monday 14th December

Well can you believe we have reached the end of our very first term...and what a packed one it was too!

As our Christmas preparations draw to a close, I am sure you are all gearing up at home and that the Christmas excitement is making everyone smile at home!

This week’s blog is to let you know what is happening during this week and also, we have included a few festive sites to keep everyone occupied whilst the cleaning fairies organise the housework for the big day!
We say a sad farewell to Mrs James who has worked at St Vincent's school for many many years. We wish her a happy and long retirement. We will all miss her so very much.

Monday 
Christmas dinner for pupils and staff.
Tuesday

Dust off those party frocks and best clothes, as Tuesday sees our fantastic Christmas party! The children have worked really hard all term, so now is the chance for them to let their hair down and boogie the afternoon away. The children will be allowed to come to school ALL DAY in their own clothes, complete with hair gel, glitter and perfume!

Santa’s elves have been very busy wrapping all the gifts for the children AND organising all the party food. The Elf’s and Pixies have been fantastic this week, making sure that all the children will have a great time – a huge thank you!

Thursday
 
Retirement Mass for Mrs James 1.30pm.

Friday

The last day of term, sees a real treat. Our Christmas Carol Service, led by Years 5/6 will be held in the hall at 9.15am.

The afternoon sees the Parent’s Panto. It is always a really fantastic production and a fitting end to the year. All the children, (and staff) leave the hall in festive mood, ready to start our preparations at home.

Festive Fun

Lots of the children enjoy using the websites given on the blog every week. All of the sites, links and activities on the site are used in class to support our learning, but every now and again, we include sites which are ‘just for fun’.

 

http://www.emailsanta.com/

 Write a letter to Santa and see the reply appear before your very eyes!
 http://www.northpole.com/
 A real favourite of mine! The disco dancing Santa is fabulous!
 http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/Xmas/
 A very interesting site, explaining all about the customs and traditions of Christmas.
 http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/Xmas/meaning.htm
 I loved this story! Maybe one for Christmas Eve?
 http://www.star28.net/snow.html?msg=they
Get the penguin to write your name in the snow. What about trying this to help with the spelling of those tricky words?
 http://www.learn-ict.org.uk/resources/rudolph/rudolph.htm
 Rudolf is missing! Read this lovely interactive story with your child. A great way of developing those comprehension skills.

 http://www.funranch.com/games/tree/index.htm

 Decorate the online Christmas tree
 http://www.kented.org.uk/ngfl/games/snowman_v4.html

 Build your very own snowman...without getting your hands cold!

 http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/winter/
 Some great ideas for Christmas crafts to do at home, using all those empty boxes.

 http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/christmas/ Christmas crafts

http://www.nevada.edu/~blake/Christmas.carols.html

Why not sing through some of these traditional Christmas Carols in preparation for Friday’s service?

 http://www.kidzone.ws/math/christmas/index.htm
 Although these are based on American ‘grades’, some of these Christmas themed Maths worksheets are still really useful.

 http://christmas.iboard.co.uk/

 Lots of Christmas online activities to try. I really like the writing ideas, which use a framework and a word bank to help. Why not print some off to bring in to show?

On behalf of all the staff, we wish you a very happy, peaceful and holy Christmas. We hope that Santa brings you everything you ask for and that we all return safe and happy in the New Year.

 

The 1 / 2 team and all our helpers.

Monday 7th December

Welcome to our blog.  The children did brilliantly in all the Christmas plays and we were all extremely proud of them.

 

RE

This week we will be listening and learning how Mary learnt she was pregnant by the message of Angel Gabriel. We will also learn about how Mary and Joseph prepared for Christmas by travelling back to the place of their birth for the census.

Phonics

Years 1 and 2 will be concentrating air, eu, au, ng

Year two will be reviewing some of the phase five phonemes  that the children did not know when tested these are all the split digraphs this week.

We wil be reviewing

e split digraph

U split digraph

E split digraph

 

http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/freeIndex.htm

 

Maths Year 2
This week we will be practising adding tens and ones to tens numbers. Then we will be moving onto adding teens numbers to two digit numbers. We will also be rounding numbers to 10 and 100.

http://www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?f=DartboardRoundingv2

We will also be practising telling the time every week.

We have been practising

·         clock

·         Half past

·         Quarter to

·         Quarter past

·         Five minute intervals too.

 

http://www.wmnet.org.uk/files/clock.swf

http://resources.woodlands- junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/measures.htm

English Year 2

This week we will be finishing writing up our King Midas stories and will be reading and composing winter poetry. The children will be exploring the theme of winter and what happens. They will be thinking about winter vocabulary too.

 http://www.englishpoemsforkids.com/winter-poems-for-kids.html#.VmR5QntOcaI

 

 Mrs Pinto/Mrs Sheerin

English

We will be doing Winter Poetry this week. The children will be brainstorming ideas about winter and working with a partner to think about how to construct winter sentences. They will be going on a winter walk around school to use their senses to see how winter makes them feel.

 

Maths

The children will be doing assessment in different areas of maths that we have covered this term.

Please keep going with the counting in 2’s 5’s and 10’s.

 Topic

Being British

For the next part of our topic we will be finding out about the queen and her role as the monarch of  our country. We will be finding out that she is our longest reigning monarch and that she celebrates her 90th birthday next year.

Have a good week.

 

The 1 / 2 team

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Monday 30th November

Welcome to our blog.  The children have worked really hard on the Christmas play and its now nearly ready.

The performances  are on:

Tuesday 1.30pm

Wednesday 1.30pm

Thursday 6.00pm.

We have also sent out homework and there are exercises on my maths.

http://www.mymaths.co.uk/

The children are getting excited about Christmas and might want to track Santa on the 1^st of December.

http://www.noradsanta.org/

English /RE

In between performances and practices we will be doing lots of RE. We will be learning about preparations in general and all the things that people do around Christmas to prepare

The children will also be learning about King Midas. The children will be recounting the story verbally and then writing out the story in words and pictures.

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=king+midas+story+u+

tube&FORM=VIRE3#view=detail&mid=C3E375198C88B94768A0C3E375198C88B94768A0

Year 1 / 2 Maths

This week the children will be adding multiples of ten. The children will be learning about ordinal numbers, number bonds to 10 and recognising numbers up to100.

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=big+numbers+song+youtube&FORM=VIRE1#view=detail&mid=5F21B0F714AFE88F06C25F21B0F714AFE88F06C2

Year 2

Maths

The children will be using cms to measure still and moving onto measuring with metres. They will also be adding two digit numbers and subtracting tens and ones.

http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/maths/measures/measure.html#Measure

We will also be practising telling the time every week.
We have been practising

• Half past
• Quarter to
• Quarter past
• Five minute intervals too.
  
  
  http://www.wmnet.org.uk/files/clock.swf
  http://resources.woodlands- junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/measures.htm
  
  
  
  
   Year 1
  English
  This week we will be focusing on grammar. We will be reviewing plurals and what plurals are. We will be adding s and es.
  
  

In Maths we will be using number lines to count along, we will be doing one more and one less too.

Phonics

Years 1 and 2 will be concentrating on oy, ir, ue, aw

Year two will be reviewing some of the phase three phonemes still that the children did not know when tested these are ear, oi, er and also phase five u – e split digraph. http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/freeIndex.htm

Topic

Being British

Topic

In our topic 'Being British' we will be labelling key places in Britain that are important in some way to us personally - such as the home of a favourite football team, home town of a family member. The children will be bringing home a homework sheet that they will hopefully be able to record places in Britain that mean something to them, which will help with this map work next week.

Have a great week everyone.

The 1 / 2 team.

Monday 23rd November

Welcome to our blog.  The children are busy learning their lines and learning the play songs too. We have sent out homework and there are exercises on my maths. We may very well not get much of this work done because of the play rehearsals.

http://www.mymaths.co.uk/

The children are getting excited about Christmas and might want to track Santa on the 1^st of December.

http://www.noradsanta.org/

RE

This week we will be starting our new topic PREPARING. We will be thinking about all the different things that people prepare for. We will be relating this specifically to how people prepare for Christmas.

Year 1 / 2

English 

This week the children will be spending a week focusing on spelling, punctuation and grammar. 

We will be recapping when to use capital letter. We will be discussing proper nouns and that these words need to be in a capital letter. 

We will also be looking at consistently using the present tense and past tense correctly. we will be discussing how to use a “ed” on the end of words. 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/factsheet/en32tens-e3-f-past-and-present-factsheet

 Activity at home: 

The children could look through their reading books and any other books at home and notice any past tense in their books. 

Maths 

This week the children will be counting to 100 and past 100. 

The children will also be finding one more or one less of small numbers gradually getting to larger numbers. 

We will be looking at ordinal numbers in context. For example: first, second, third, fourth and so on. 

http://www.softschools.com/math/ordinal_numbers/games/

Year 2

English

This week we will be concentrating on grammar too. We will be using different words for joining sentences such as or, because, but , when, that if and more. We will be also be reviewing tenses and we will be also using adjectives to form extended noun phrases.

Example – The cool, refreshing, fun……..

The speedy, sporty, shiny ……. Etc.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/factsheet/en32tens-e3-f-past-and-present-factsheet

Year 2

Maths

The children will be using cms to measure still and moving onto measuring with metres. They will also be adding two digit numbers and subtracting tens and ones.

http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/maths/measures/measure.html#Measure

We will also be practising telling the time every week.

We have been practising

• Half past
• Quarter to
• Quarter past
• Five minute intervals too.
  
  
  http://www.wmnet.org.uk/files/clock.swf
  http://resources.woodlands- junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/measures.htm#

Year 1

English

We will continue with using capital letters for proper nouns and will continue exploring the fairy tale Snow White, by writing a letter to the dwarfs from Snow White.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=II-OZIxS7Z0

In Maths we will continue with the work on length and measuring, and direction and position. We will also be continuing our work with money and change by playing in the shop.

Phonics

Years 1 and 2 will be concentrating on oy, ir, ue, aw

Year two will be reviewing some of the phase three phonemes still that the children did not know when tested these are ear, oi, er and also phase five u – e split digraph. http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/freeIndex.htm

Topic

In our topic 'Being British' we will be labelling key places in Britain that are important in some way to us personally - such as the home of a favourite football team, home town of a family member. The children will be bringing home a homework sheet that they will hopefully be able to record places in Britain that mean something to them, which will help with this map work next week.

Have a great week.

The 1 / 2 team.

Monday 16th November

Welcome to our blog.  The children have made a great start learning their parts and learning the songs. Homework was sent out last week and is due in on Monday. My Maths homework is on line too.

RE

We will be continuing with our signs and symbols topic. We will be thinking about Baptism and creating a Baptismal candle. We will also be thinking about how we can be a child of the light. We will learn all about the symbols of Baptism too

 Phonics

Years 1 and 2 will be concentrating on oy, ir, ue, aw
Year two will be reviewing some of the phase three phonemes still that the children did not know when tested these are ear, oi, er and also phase five u – e split digraph. http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/freeIndex.htm

 

Year 1 Maths

This week in Maths we will be focusing on length and measurement. We will be using a variety of items to measure objects and thinking about the how to place them carefully end to end in order to measure correctly. We will also be using comparative language such as longer and the longest.

 http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks2/maths/measures/index.htm

 

English year 1

In English we will be focusing on using capital letters to start proper nouns - names, places, titles etc. We will be completing a simple passport with our name and addresses. We will also begin working on fairy tales, starting with the retelling of Snow White.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=II-OZIxS7Z0

Maths Year 2

This week we will be concentrating on measurement of length. The children will be learning about centimetres, metres and kilometres. The children will be measuring in centimetres and metres. They will be using a trundle wheel to measure the corridor or playground depending on the weather!

http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/maths/measures/measure.html#Measure

http://www.crickweb.co.uk/Key-Stage-1.html

 

http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks2/maths/measures/index.htm
 

We will also be practising telling the time every week.

We have been practising

·        clock

·        Half past

·        Quarter to

·        Quarter past

·        Five minute intervals too.

 

http://www.wmnet.org.uk/files/clock.swf

http://resources.woodlands- junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/measures.htm

 
English Year 2
This week we will be concentrating on grammar. We will be learning about plurals and making sentences make sense as well as using the correct punctuation. We will be learning about the prefix un as in unhappy, unfair and unforgettable.

Maths

Mrs Pinto/Mrs Sheerin
This week the children will be spending a week focusing on spelling, punctuation and grammar.

We will be recapping how to use and when to use a full stop, question mark and exclamation mark. We will be talking about how each sentence starts with a capital letter.

The children will start to come across ASBO words which are and , so but and or. We use these words to improve short sentences and make them longer.

We will also we looking at a variety of sentences such as commands, statements, questions. We will be talking about the question words: When? Why? Who? What? How? Which? Where?

Activity at home:

The children could look through their reading books and any other books at home and be capital letter spotter. Can they highlight the capital letter in each sentence with a highlighter, felt tip or crayon.

Maths Year 1 and 2
This week the children will be partitioning numbers in particular  they will be starting to partition 6 into pairs and write the addition. They will then go onto finding related subtraction facts. The children will then partition 7,8,9 and 10.

The children will also add/subtract 20, 30, 40, 50 to/from two-digit numbers.

http://www.mathszone.co.uk/count-and-understand/place-value-partitioning/

 

Topic

Being British

In our topic 'Being British' we will be labelling key places in Britain that are important in some way to us personally - such as the home of a favourite football team, home town of a family member. The children will be bringing home a homework sheet that they will hopefully be able to record places in Britain that mean something to them, which will help with this map work next week.

 Have good week everyone,

The 1 / 2 team.

Monday 9th November

Welcome to our blog. We have sent out play parts and costume letters. The children have made a great start learning their parts and learning the songs. I am sure you will hear them singing the songs around the house from now on. We will be spending a lot of time practising as well as teaching.

Friday - Children in need.
The children can wear something yellow and bring in some change to put on the outline of a Pudsey bear.

Phonics

Years 1 and 2 will be concentrating on oy, ir, ue, aw.

Year two will be reviewing some of the phase three phonemes that the children did not know when tested these are ow, ar, ai and ur.

http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/freeIndex.htm

English

Year 1 and 2

The children will be completing work about remembrance Sunday. The children will be learning about different wars. They will be making a poppy and also will be learning the poem ‘Flanders field. ‘

http://www.greatwar.co.uk/poems/john-mccrae-in-flanders-fields.htm

Maths Year 1

In Maths this week we will be continuing with learning about money: recognising the coins, knowing the value of 2p, 5p, and 10p coins, using coins to make values, adding coins to shop and find totals.

 

http://www.ictgames.com/moneyPage.htm

http://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/5-7-years/money

English Year 1

This week in English we will be designing a Remembrance day poster, after learning some facts about Remembrance day and the British Legion Poppy Appeal. We will be continuing with our focus on adding s and es onto nouns to create plurals, and also on alphabetical order - with lower and uppercase letters.

 

Maths Year 2

This week we will be concentrating on direction, position, turns and right angles.

http://nrich.maths.org/content/id/5560/Turn%20Man.swf

 

We will be reviewing clockwise and anticlockwise.  We will also be learning about units of measure and the need for units of measure. We will also be measuring in centimetres.

We will be adding and subtracting 9 with any two digit number.

We will also be practising telling the time very week.
We have been practising

·         clock

·         Half past

·         Quarter to

·         Quarter past

·         Five minute intervals too.

 

http://www.wmnet.org.uk/files/clock.swf

http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/measures.htm

Maths

Mrs Pinto/Mrs Sheerin

The children will be naming and describe squares, rectangles, circles and triangles.

Their main focus will be describing and recognising regular and irregular common 2D shapes. The will start to Make and describe polygons.

Some useful websites are listed below:

 

http://www.saintambrosebarlow.wigan.sch.uk/Infant_activities/daysofweek1.htm

http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/time/seasons.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5enDRrWyXaw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPzIbbvoiMA

http://www.ictgames.com/Y1shape.html

http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/online/memory.html

http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/frames_asid_114_g_2_t_3.html

http://www.coppschool.lancsngfl.ac.uk/Classwork/Classwork/flashaids/sorting_2d_shapes.swf

http://mathematics.hellam.net/maths2000/shapes.swf

http://www.interactivestuff.org/match/maker.phtml?featured=1&id=31

https://hwb.wales.gov.uk/cms/hwbcontent/Shared%20Documents/vtc/ngfl/maths/greg_morgan_symmetry/index.htm

http://www.innovationslearning.co.uk/subjects/maths/activities/year3/symmetry/shape_game.asp

Topic

Being British

This week we are starting our new topic ‘Being British’. We will be focusing on developing geographical skills by naming the countries that make up Britain, and their capitals, and finding out where Warrington is. We will also be naming the waters around the British Isles and using google maps.

 

Have a good week everyone

The 1 / 2 team