Monday 10th July

Welcome to our blog.

Sport’s day

This has been rescheduled for the final week on Wednesday afternoon.

Boat museum Friday

The children are getting excited and please keep an eye on the weather! The children will need a packed lunch or order one at school. Please could any outstanding slips and monies be sent in thank you. We now have enough help thanks.

Homework

New spellings and sentences were sent home last week.

The year two spellings may have seemed a little easier but it is essential that they know the difference between all the basic homophones. For example – their/there/they’re/ etc. Thank you for your understanding.

RE

This week we will be learning about other religions. The children will learn about Judaism and Islam.

English

This week we will be using the book 'Superworm' as a stimulus to write about the main character and write a letter to the main character. We will also be writing some instructions to make a bug hotel, which links with our topic of minibeasts. 



Maths

This week we will be learning about positioning objects on a grid and reading a grid reference. We will learn to write instructions to move an object on a grid to another position using words such as :forwards, backwards, right, left.

Year 2 Maths

This week the children will be focusing on a few topics that they need to work on. We are going to learn how to compare shapes, identify place value and measure length. We will be learning these concepts again and deepening understanding.

English

This week we will be having a focus on Judaism and Islam. The children will be learning about a Shabbat and the story of Moses. The children will also be learning about Muhammed.

Year 1 / 2

English

This week, we will be doing some work on poetry. We will be looking at the text ‘Rumble in the Jungle’ as a stimulus. We will move on to describe animals and write our own verses of a poem about a jungle animal using words that rhyme. We will also be working on reciting a poem in groups and performing it as a class.

Maths

We will be using the skills and knowledge that we have learnt this year in our maths lessons and we will be applying this to problem solving in a money context. We will be given a budget and we will be designing our own gardens. We will have to ‘buy’ plants and flowers and employ staff to work at the garden to keep it clean.

Topic

In our topic lessons, prior to going on our trip, we will be looking at what life was like on a canal boat. This will tie in with our history focus on ‘transport’ and our art work, where we are creating our own canal art.

Best wishes

Mrs Harding

Mrs Sarsfield

Miss Birchall

Mrs Pinto Edwards

Monday 3rd July

Welcome to our blog.

Sport’s day

This has been rescheduled for the final week on Wednesday afternoon.

Homework

New spellings and sentences were sent home his week.

The year two spellings may have seemed a little easier but it is essential that they know the difference between all the basic homophones. For example – their/there/they’re/ etc. Thank you for your understanding.

RE

This week we will be continuing our topic BEING SORRY.

The children will be thinking about forgiveness. They will be drawing a candle and inside will be writing about how they can show kindness and be a light that shines in the dark. The children will thinking about how they can be like Jesus.

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.

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Year 2 Maths

This week the children will be focussing on multiplication and division. The children will be practising their skills and deepening their understanding of these number concepts.

English

This week we will be using lots of books by Anthony Brown. The children will be using Anthony Browne books to plan a story. They will be seeing how he stats books and writing their own starter. They will make up their own problems and will be using adjectives and noun phrases. This week we will be having a real focus on handwriting.

English 1 / 2

This week we will be continuing with our work based on the book 'The Adventures of the Dish and the Spoon' by Mini Grey. This book is based on what happened after the dish and the spoon ran away together at the end of 'Hey Diddle Diddle'. This week we will be looking at nursery rhymes and we will be planning and writing our own story based on one of these rhymes. We will also be looking at how speech is recorded in speech bubbles and speech marks.

This week we will also be having a big focus on handwriting and will be practising daily.

Maths
In maths we will start the week by revising subtraction as this is an area where the children sometimes struggle. We will be recapping different strategies that we can use to subtract. We will then move on to using the bar model to represent subtraction and missing number problems
Science Year 1/ 2
This week we will be continuing with our materials topic and looking at the properties of materials and their suitability for different objects. We will be thinking about how we can answer the question 'What material makes the best umbrella?'. We will be planning and hopefully carrying out an investigation.

Science Year 2

This week the children will be designing their own boat using materials around them. They will be finding out about what materials and objects can be recycled and things that cannot be recycled.

Best wishes

Mrs Harding

Mrs Sarsfield

Miss Birchall

Mrs Pinto Edwards