Monday 27th June

Welcome to our blog this week. The term is racing away and we only have four weeks until the summer holidays.

 

Sport’s day

We had a great few Sport’s day practices however we were rained off by terrible weather. At least the children enjoyed practising the PE skills which form the basis of our Sport’s day.

Here are a few pictures.

 

 

 

Rio Games

Key Stage One and Foundation Stage children took part in the Warrington Rio Games 2016 at the Orford Hub on Wednesday 22nd June 2016. There were over 28 schools and 1000 pupils taking part in the event across Warrington. Our children were able to participate in many events throughout the day, the events included yoga, art, music, samba dancing, reading, clay modelling, obstacle races, parachute, golf, bowls, space hoppers and skipping. The children were a credit to the school and loved every part of the event. Well done children!

 

European week
The children had a great week learning lots about Europe, France and Spanish. We did lots of activities from food tasting tortillas, language work, especially French with Mrs Harding, Spanish language work and learnt about their culture too. The year five even helped Year2 to make 3d footballs which challenged us all!!

Diary for the next few weeks.
Thursday 7 July transition day 1
Friday 8 July transition day 2
Thursday 7 July Key stage one disco
Thursday 14 July school trip
Friday 22 July Leaver’s Mass and end of term.

 

Year 2/ Year 1/2 /Year 1

RE/Come and see week.

This week we are spending a lot of our time learning about other religions. We are going to start with learning about JUDAISM and then move onto ISLAM.

We will be learning about Jewish family life, about the Shabbatt and the synagogue. In Islam we will be leaning about places of worship, family life and culture and Muslim families.

English Year 1 /2

In English this week the children will also be reviewing frontal adverbs, how to identify them and use them to add interest to their sentences.
The children will also be doing a reading comprehension.
 
Maths Year 2/ year 1 / 2
This week we will be doing some mastery of Maths concepts. We will be learning in greater depth about finding totals through addition and subtractions sentences, finding missing numbers and splitting up or partitioning numbers.
We will be also investigating even numbers.

We will be testing the children on their x 2, x 3  x5, x10 tables. Some children are completing tests with both multiplication and division on them too.

Please make sure that your child has instant recall of these timetables.

Mrs Sarsfield

Year 1

See above planning for Judaism and Isalm.

Maths

We will be learning about missing numbers and using number lines for adding and subtracting.

Have a good week.

The 1 / 2 team.

I can divide by  grouping things. I know what  divide means.

I can divide by  grouping things. I know what  divide means.

 

Monday 20th June

Welcome to our blog this week. This term brings us to the final chapter of the year and it is very busy . On Thursday we will be sending out homework too.

Friday 24 June sports day

Thursday 7 July transition day 1
Friday 8 July transition day 2
Thursday 7 July Key stage one disco
Thursday 14 July school trip
Friday 22 July Leaver’s Mass and end of term.

EUROPEAN WEEK

This week we are having a European week. We will be doing lots of activities throughout the school while the football is on and as we approach the Olympics. we are practising sports day a lot too this week.
There are a few children without their kit or their pumps are too small. Please can you make sure their pumps still fit them. 
 
We hope the sun flowers have grown and feel free to bring them back to school to plant around the grounds. The children have enjoyed planting the seeds and also the bedding plants.

We hope to start going to the allotment this half term to plant flowers and vegetables.

Year 2/ Year 1/2

RE
We will be continuing with our new topic RULES. We will be exploring that every day there are rules for different places such as home, school and the neighbourhood. We will be looking at what happens when rules are broken. We will be thinking about what happens when we have no rules.

Maths Year 2

This week we will be linking all Maths to football and countries. We will be using tallies, drawing bar charts of favourite football teams and also making 3d nets of footballs.

We will be testing the children on their x 2, x 3  x5, x10 tables. Some children are completing tests with both multiplication and division on them too.

Please make sure that your child has instant recall of these timetables.

English

This week we will be basing all our work around different countries. We will be learning about France and Paris. We will learn some French vocabulary linked to greetings and weather.

We will be concentrating on Spain and Spanish too. We will be learning about classroom equipment . We will be finding out about Spanish life as well as cooking tortillas.

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=spanish+colors+song&view=detail&mid=3020268EA4DB69FF3CD53020268EA4DB69FF3CD5&FORM=VIRE

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=spanish+food+song+for+kids&&view=detail&mid=5D15CCC3B319B59D48855D15CCC3B319B59D4885&FORM=VRDGAR

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=french+weather+song+for+kids&&view=detail&mid=3E474C020EFBC7B3073E3E474C020EFBC7B3073E&FORM=VRDGAR

Mrs Sarsfield

Year 1
English
This week we will be learning all about Europe and then we will be concentrating on Spain. We will learn about Spanish life and Spanish numbers, colours and days of the week. We will learn what classroom equipment is called too. We will be reading a Spanish version of aliens love underpants. We will be singing lots of songs too. We will be making  tortillas too.

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=spanish+colors+song&view=detail&mid=3020268EA4DB69FF3CD53020268EA4DB69FF3CD5&FORM=VIRE

Maths

We will be solving problems using European teams as a stimulus too.

Have a good week.

The 1 / 2 team.

Monday 13th June

Welcome back after a two week half term holiday. This term brings us to the final chapter of the year and it is very busy busy.

Friday 17 June Non uniform day for summer fayre tombola.

Friday 24 June sports day
Thursday 7 July transition day 1
Friday 8 July transition day 2
Thursday 7 July Key stage one disco
Thursday 14 July school trip
Friday 22 July Leaver’s Mass and end of term.

We hope the sun flowers have grown and feel free to bring them back to school to plant around the grounds. The children have enjoyed planting the seeds and also the bedding plants.

We hope to start going to the allotment this half term to plant flowers and vegetables.

Year one and two had a good time being taught ICT by year 5/6.

Phonics test

This week we will be reviewing lots of phonics because we have all of year one and a few year 2 sitting the test this week. It is an individual test when the children are tested on the reading of a mixture of real and unreal words.

Here are a few sites to practise some phonics.

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

http://www.magickeys.com/books/phonics.html

http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/PicnicOnPluto.html

http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/BuriedTreasure2.html

http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/eeAltSpellings.html

http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/aiAltSpellings.html

http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/PlanetaryPlurals.html

http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/PondLifePlurals.html

Year 2

RE
We will be starting our new topic RULES. We will be exploring that every day there are rules for different places such as home, school and the neighbourhood. We will be looking at what happens when rules are broken.

Maths Year 2

This week we will be reviewing topics that we have noticed the children need reinforcements with.

We will be reviewing:

MONEY

We will be recognising coins, adding money and giving change. We have already covered this but we need to review it again because in the recent sat the children struggled with this sort of question.

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

We will be completing a mental maths test too.

We will be testing the children on their x 2, x 3  x5, x10 tables. Some children are completing tests with both multiplication and division on them too.
Please make sure that your child has instant recall of these timetables.
 
English
This week we will be basing all our work around instructions. The children will be learning all about different instructions for making toast, making a jam sandwich and making a cup of tea.

The steps to success will be:

Title – how to
Bossy verbs
List of things
Time phrases
Firstly, secondly, next, finally
Safety warning
Extra information and pictures.
 
We are busy testing the exception words all the time.
http://www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/t-l-5089-new-common-exception-words-years-1-and-2-word-mat

Year 1/2

English
In Grammar this week the children will be using all their knowledge on nouns, proper nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs to write silly sentences.

 We will also be looking at the format of different letter writing and the key features of a letter.

 We will read “Goodnight Space” by Michelle Robinson. Discuss the story and how it has been inspired by Tim Peake.

We will show a power point about Tim Peake and his adventures so far.
We will ask the children some key questions below:

·         When did Tim travel into space?

·         How old is Tim?
·         Which country did Tim travel into space from?
·         What jobs has Tim done before he became an astronaut?
·         What did Tim have to do for part of his training?
·         What jobs will he do in space?
 
We will be looking at the format of different letter writing and the key features of a letter.

In pair what qualities do they think would make them a good candidate to be an astronaut?

The children will apply in writing and explain why they wish to become an astronaut. They need to provide evidence that meets the required personal specifications.

Maths

This week in maths we will be revisiting inverse operations and how we can use these to check our answers.  The children will also recapping the value of digits unto 4 digit numbers and will then be using all their mathematical knowledge to solve various maths investigations.

http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/interactive/numbers.htm#Place

 

The children will be tested on their 2 times tables. Please make sure that your child has instant recall of these times tables.

Mrs Sarsfield

Year 1
English

This week we will be reviewing lots of phonics work because of the year one phonics screening test. We are then reading the lighthouse keeper’s lunch and writing a diary.

Maths
This week we will be reviewing shape and moving onto measurement  and problem solving with odd and even numbers.

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

Have a good week.

The 1 / 2 team.

I can divide by  grouping things. I know what  divide means.

I can divide by  grouping things. I know what  divide means.