Weekly update 15th September

Information

 

 Many thanks to all of you who attended our Induction meeting on Wednesday evening. We hope you found it useful and we are looking forward to working with you in partnership throughout this year.

Mrs Malone and Mrs Pinto-Edwards

 

This week, Mrs Malone and Mrs Pinto-Edwards will be accompanying the Y6 children to Conway and we are sure they will have a great time. Mr Hughes, who works in Key Stage 2, will be working in Mrs Malone's class this week, alongside the rest of the team. Mrs Sheerin will in class as normal on Monday and Tuesday with a supply teacher covering the remainder of the week.

English

 

We continue our topic of Journeys with a story called ‘Mr Gumpy’s Outing’. One day Mr Gumpy decides to take a trip along the river in his boat. But the children, the rabbit, the cat, the pig and lots more friends decide to join him. Everyone's having a lovely time until the animals start kicking, bleating, hopping and flapping and the boat starts to rock. What will happen...?

 Maths

 

This week in Maths the children will be learning about 2D shape and symmetry.

Year 1 children will begin to use the names of common 2D shapes and describe their features.

Year2 children will do all of the above but also sort 2D shapes according to their properties. They will also begin to recognise line symmetry and make symmetrical patterns.

 

http://baileytraining.co.uk/resources/ma_num/swf/shapeGate001.html

 

http://www.priorywoods.middlesbrough.sch.uk/forkids/findout/shape/shapes.htm

 

http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc/ngfl/maths/greg_morgan_symmetry/index.htm

Topic

 

In our Topic lessons this week we continue working on Journey’s.

After reading The Owl and The Astronaut poem (http://fizzytingle.deviantart.com/art/The-owl-and-the-astronaut-34368562) our focus will be on journeys into space and we will primarily be looking at what it is like to be an astronaut.  What is in space and what it may feel like to be in space.  The children will be asked to come up with a range of adjectives to describe what it may look like, feel like and smell like.

We will explore why we want to travel into space and where people have sent rockets and probes to in space.

Using the poem and whole class discussion the children will then be tasked to describe their thoughts as they travel through space – what do they think of…dream of…look forward to…. and worry about.

PLEASE NOTE: this lesson precedes an exciting challenge for the children.

Week commencing 22^nd September the children will work in small groups in designing and making their own spaceship.  PLEASE CAN YOU SEND YOUR CHILDREN INTO SCHOOL WITH AN EMPTY SHOE BOX THAT CAN BE USED (IT IS UNLIKELY THE SHOE BOX WILL BE RETURNED!).

Come and See

 Families

We will be starting the Reveal part of the topic. The children will be recognising the stories and psalms which reveal God’s love and care. Some children will be able to retell some of the psalms and something about Jesus’ childhood.

The learning focus will be: My family loves me and God loves all of us.

Key questions

·         How do members of your family show love and care to each other?

·         How do you show love and care?

·         Who loves and cares for everyone?

Activities you can do at home

·         Discuss situations that at home that shows family members loving and caring for each other o e.g. someone falling over, taking them swimming.

·         Draw/paint a picture of your family showing love and care.

Have a great week!!
The Keystage One team