Monday 26th June

Welcome to our blog.

Sport’s day

Tuesday afternoon at 1.15. If the weather seems to be improving suddenly can you make sure that the children come to school with sunscreen on already and wear a hat. The children will be wearing their uniform PE kit and we would appreciate if you could make sure that their pumps still fit. Thank you very much.

Homework

Normal spellings and sentences were sent home his week.

RE

This week we will be continuing our topic BEING SORRY. The children will be exploring that we have choices and

The children will start to find out about Jesus and how he looked for people to help who were sinners. They will be retelling the story of Levi and Zacchaeus. The children will be thinking about forgiveness.

Year 1



Maths

This week we will be completing a variety of numerical activities. We will be writing the ordinal places in numbers and words, and solving ordinal number problems. We will also be completing activities where we write numbers in words, and completing 1 more/1 less and 10 more/10 less sums as well as recording as many sums as we can that make 10, including additions, subtractions, repeated additions and divisions if possible.



English

This week we will be finishing the poem we started last week and completing a poetry comprehension. We will continue to focus on mini-beasts and write an acrostic poem and a shape poem using a variety of describing words, about mini-beasts.

Year 2 Maths

This week the children will be focussing on money in maths. They will be adding and subtracting money and will be using diagrams and pictures to help them.

English

This week we will be using lots of books by Anthony Brown. The children will be saying what they like and dislike about books. The children will be using conjunctions and adjectives to improve their sentences and they will be writing a blurb for Willy the wimp. The children will also be reading the gorilla by Anthony Brown.

English 1 / 2

For the last two weeks, we have been looking at the book Biscuit Bear by Mini Grey, which the children really enjoyed. This week we will be moving on to look at another one of her books, 'The Adventures of the Dish and the Spoon'. From this book we will be making predictions based on the front cover, writing our own blurb for the book, using adjectives to describe the characters and responding to the plot, events and characters.

We will also be completing spelling activities and guided reading.


Maths
We will spend another lesson looking at fractions, as this is something that the children found difficult last week. We will then be moving on to exploring and using cuisenaire rods and the bar model to represent number bonds to 10/20 (y1) and be using the bar model to help us understand and solve addition problems. 


Science
This week, we will continue with our topic 'Materials'. We will be thinking of ways to describe the materials, looking at their properties and commenting on the suitability of materials for a specific purpose.

Best wishes

Mrs Harding

Mrs Sarsfield

Miss Birchall

Mrs Pinto Edwards

Monday 19th June

Welcome to our blog.

We hope that you are enjoying the glorious weather.

Can we remind you that the children will need sunscreen that they have to put on themselves and a sun hat.  A bottle of water is essential for them in this weather. We will be practising for our sports day too this week so the children will be out side and will need protection from the sun. Thanks.Thank you.

Homework

Normal spellings and sentences were sent home his week.

RE

This week we will be continuing our new topic BEING SORRY. The children will be exploring that we have choices and sometimes we choose well and sometimes we choose wrongly. The children will be thinking about their own good and bad choices.

I was happy when….

I was sad when…….

The children will be listening to a short story about being sorry.

The children will start to find out about Jesus and ho he looked for people to help who were sinners.

Year 1



English

This week we will be focusing on poetry. We will be learning to read poetry with the correct rhythm and expression. We will be reading poetry that rhymes and finding the words at the end of lines that rhyme and poetry that doesn't rhyme. We will be writing our own poem about minibeasts.



Maths

This week we will be focusing on adding and subtracting, including solving missing number problems. We will link some of this work with money and also with multiples of 10, making 100 and 200.

Year 2 Maths

This week we will be practising our skills of solving word problems by using bar modelling. The children will learn to use diagrams more in their problem solving. For example:

There were 4 flowers in each row. How many flowers were there are 10 rows

4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4

The children will be focusing on multiplication and division this week Then they will be challenged to solve problems with all four rules using bar modelling.

English

This week we will be having a writing week. The children wil be reading the book Spinderella. They will be recalling the book, writing a diary and a report. They will also be learning all about spiders and have been asked to find out about them or bring in books/information.

English

This week, we will be continuing with work related to our book ‘Biscuit Bear’ by Mini Grey. We will be designing and creating our own biscuit bears and writing a character description about them. We will then move on to writing instructions about how to decorate biscuit bears, before moving on to re-writing the story of biscuit bear from another character’s point of view. The children have really enjoyed working on the book so far!

Maths

This week we will be revising measurement as this is an area that the children seem to be struggling with. We will be looking at reading scales on measuring jugs and thermometers, telling the time and fractions. You can support your child with this at home by referring to an analogue clock regularly and asking the children to say what time the hands are showing. Y1 children need to know o’clock and half past, whereas Y2 children need to be able to tell the time to the nearest 5 minutes.

Science

This week we will be starting our new topic ‘Materials’. We will be going on a materials hunt around our school, identifying materials and their uses in our school grounds. We will be looking for glass, wood, plastic, metal etc. Children need to be able to distinguish between the object and the material that it is made from. We will also be looking at properties of materials.

 Best wishes

Mrs Harding

Mrs Sarsfield

Miss Birchall

Mrs Pinto Edwards

Monday 12th June

Welcome to our blog.

Welcome back to the final half term of the year. The year has gone really fast and before we know it we will be in July.

Phonics tests

Please remember that the Year 1 have a phonics test

this week  and any Year 2 who didn’t achieve the expected level in Year 1 will resit in at the same time. The children have to read 32/40 words which include some alien words that are made up.

RE
This week we will be starting our new topic BEING SORRY. The children will be exploring that we have choices and sometimes we choose well and sometimes we choose wrongly. The children will be thinking about their own good and bad choices.

I was happy when….

I was sad when…….

Year 1
English
This week we will be focusing on phonics - reviewing all phonemes by playing games, using computer games, and a variety of phonics activities. Also we will be reading a variety of words- compound words, words ending in 'er' 'est' and 'ing' and words with an apostrophe for a contraction. We will also be writing a recount of our holiday and completing some grammar activities.


Maths
This week we will be reviewing and extending our multiplication skills, using the 2x, 5x and 10x tables. Also we will be counting in 2's. 5's and 10's. We will be reviewing the names of 3d shapes and programming the beebot to travel along a route on a beebot mat.

Year 2 Maths

This week we will be practising our skills of solving word problems by using bar modelling. The children will learn to use diagrams more in their problem solving. For example

Jake had 63 football cards and he lost some. Now he has 38 football cards how many did he lose?

Draw a bar

63
	45

English Year 2
This week we will be having a writing week. We will be using the book Biscuit bear to write a narrative, a description and a set of instructions.

The children will read the book and get to know the story. They will be using talk for writing.

Year 1 / 2 English

This week will begin with Year 1 children completing a range of phonics activities in preparation for the Phonics Screening Check. We will be revising all of the sounds taught so far and looking at strategies to help the children recognise and read these sounds in both real and alien words. Whilst Year 1 children are working on their phonics, Year 2 will be planning and writing a recount of their school holidays, remembering to use the features we have learnt about so far e.g. time phrases, noun phrases to describe, suffixes etc.

Later in the week, we will be looking at the book ‘Biscuit Bear’ by Mini Grey. We will be reading the book together and from this book we will be writing a diary entry of one of the characters and a set of instructions on ‘Decorating Biscuits’.

Maths

This week, we will be looking at multiplication. We will be thinking about how multiplication is used in ‘real-life’ e.g. counting pairs of socks in 2s. We will be looking at different ways to show the concept of multiplication, for example through arrays or repeated addition. Year 2 will also be looking at the inverse of multiplication and how we can use division to work out missing number problems.

 Science Yr1
This week in our science lessons, we will be looking at seasonal changes in Spring and Summer. We will be learning about the differences between deciduous and evergreen trees and thinking about how the weather changes throughout the year.

Science Yr 2
This week we will be identifying materials and will be thinking about their uses. We will be looking at the materials to build a house. The children will be drawing a house and labelling the materials used.

Best wishes

Mrs Harding

Mrs Sarsfield

Miss Birchall

Mrs Pinto Edwards