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