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