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