Monday 10th October

Welcome to our blog.

The children had a great week last week. Below are display pictures created by Mrs Harding's and Miss Pinto Edward's classes. Also pictures of a Maths lesson taking place in Year One.

 

 

 

 

 

Reading

Please can you make sure that your child is heard read at least three times a week and please put a comment in their diary. Reading is the key to everything at school. We can’t promise to respond everyday but we will throughout the week. Thank you for your support.

Homework

Homework was sent out last Thursday and we please ask you to return it on a Monday. We will be testing the children on their weekly spellings on a Friday. In year 2 the children should have received their login details for my maths and there are some activities set for them to complete over the rest of this term.

In year Two we are testing the children on their two times table. We are practising all the time using a 100 timetables that the children fill in each week trying to beat their previous score.Thank you for your support on this.

RE Families/Belonging

The children will be finishing the topic on Families and moving onto the topic BELONGING. The children will be thinking about different things that they belong to. They will be designing a class badge and thinking about how they feel about belonging to a group.

Phonics

A few helpful sites.

http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/freeIndex.htm

http://www.magickeys.com/books/phonics.html

http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/PicnicOnPluto.html

http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/BuriedTreasure2.html

http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/eeAltSpellings.html

http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/aiAltSpellings.html

http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/PlanetaryPlurals.html

http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/PondLifePlurals.html

English Blog for Year 1 / 2

The children will be reading the story “Aliens love Underpants”

We will be investigate the rhyming in the story and looking at the spelling patterns for each pair of rhyming words.

The children will write a sentence about their aliens expanding noun phrases but using commas in a list.

For example:

My alien has green slimy skin, blue sparkly eyes and a body with black fur.
The children will be focusing on the following questions during their reading session.
Can I talk about my favourite words and phrases in stories and poems?
Can I answer and ask questions?
Can I make predictions based on what I have read?
 

Mrs Sarsfield
English
This week we will be using Autumn as a focus to write poetry using lots of describing words and phrases. We will also continue improving our handwriting and the reading and writing of the high frequency words. 

 

Maths
This week we will be counting in 2's - conkers, acorns and leaves. We will  use conkers as a unit to compare weights of objects using a balance. Eg find an object that weighs less than 15 conkers.


Year 2 English
This week we will be learning about contractions like can’t, wont, mightn’t and we will also be practising our handwriting and completing a comprehension. Our writing this week will focus on writing poetry. We will be taking an autumn walk and using our senses to think about the autumnal leaves and colours.

 
Year 2 Maths
The children will be adding and subtracting numbers mentally including 2 digit numbers and adding together three one digit numbers.

We are starting to practise mental maths tests every week and also are completing a test with 100 timetables on. We are concentrating on x2 at the moment. The children did really well last week in their first try and some children managed to finish the whole lot


Topic

https://www.activityvillage.co.uk/neil-armstrong

http://www.space.com/15519-neil-armstrong-man-moon.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/21/newsid_2635000/2635845.stm

Last week we had fun acting out a journey to space. Using our imagination, we climbed into our rocket, fastened our seatbelts before taking off and explored the moon and planets.

This week we will be coming to the end of our topic work on Space and Famous Journeys. We have thoroughly enjoyed learning about the planets, the moon and the stars. We will be finishing off the topic by looking at the famous Neil Armstrong and his famous quote “one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind”.

We will also be finishing off our rockets so that they can go up on display in our classrooms! 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/science-environment-34985274

http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/zctgq6f

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/solarsystem/space_missions

http://www.spacekids.co.uk/learn/

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=rockts+in+space&view=detail&mid=64E1D9F0F008EB66BF3664E1D9F0F008EB66BF36&FORM=VIRE

Best wishes
Mrs Harding
Mrs Sarsfield
Mrs Pinto Edwards
Miss Birchall
Mrs Lockett

 

 

Monday 3rd October

Welcome to our blog.

Reading
Please can you make sure that your child is heard read at least three times a week and please put a comment in their diary. Reading is the key to everything at school. Thank you for your support.

Year 2 had a great time acting out the story of the ginger bread man last week. They played snap too to help them learn their numbers in digits and words.

Homework

Homework was sent out last Thursday and we please ask you to return it on a Monday. We will be testing the children on their weekly spellings on a Friday. In year 2 the children should have received their login details for my maths and there are some activities set for them to complete over the rest of this term.  All year two children have my maths homework. Thank you for your support on this.

RE Families

The children will be finding out how Jesus was cared for by his family. They will be writing a prayer thanking God for all the wonderful things in our world. They will be making a collage of birds, trees and animals and recognising how much God loves them. We will be finishing this topic this week.

Phonics

A few helpful sites.
http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/freeIndex.htm

http://www.magickeys.com/books/phonics.html

http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/PicnicOnPluto.html

http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/BuriedTreasure2.html

http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/eeAltSpellings.html

http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/aiAltSpellings.html

http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/PlanetaryPlurals.html

 

http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/PondLifePlurals.html

English Blog for Year 1/2

The children will be using their senses to gather information about autumn time. They will be going for a walk around school and looking for signs of autumn.
The two poems the children will be focusing on are below:
Autumn       
Red and orange leaves                        
Little leaves red and orange
Crunching leaves                                      
Little leaves fall to the ground
Cold wind blowing                                    
Little leaves crunch and rustle
Autumn is all around                         
Little leaves in Autumn       
In pairs the children are going to draft their first copy of their Little leaves Poem.
White on Whiteboards

Little Leaves

Little leaves red and orange
Little leaves fall to the ground
Little leaves crunch and rustle
Little leaves in Autumn
To do at home:
Can they see any signs of autumn when walking to school?
What can they hear?
What can they see?
What can they smell?
What can they touch?
Websites to look at:
http://www.poetry4kids.com/
http://www.fizzyfunnyfuzzy.com/
http://storyit.com/Classics/JustPoems/
http://www.dltk-holidays.com/fall/fallpoetry.htm

 Spelling Test

The children will have their weekly spelling test on Friday.

Maths 1 /2

The children will be continuing writing numbers in words and we will be starting a new topic of ordering lengths, mass and recording results using the greater than and less than signs and using the equals sign too.

https://www.mathsisfun.com/equal-less-greater.html

Mrs Sarsfield
English
This week we are continuing to learn to write the alphabet in capital letters, to support the use of capital letters to start sentences and foe names. We will be reading the book 'Going on a bear hunt' and writing simple sentences using high frequency words correctly. We will also continue learning to read and write more high frequency words to improve our reading and writing.

Maths

In Maths we will continue to learn to count in 10's and begin counting in 2's. We will also focus on positional words such as : over, under, next to, besides, in front, linking this with the book 'Going on a bear hunt'.

Year 2 English
This week we will be learning  grammar, handwriting and writing again.
We will be learning and practising how to write noun phrases in sentences.
The white, giant snowman…..
The bright, shimmering sun…..
The small, black ant….
The tall, ugly giant….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slidHnMR1yE

Year 2 Maths
This week we will be practising our number work.
The children will be practising adding and subtracting to 20 and learning facts up to 100.
5+4+6=
70+20=
7+2=

 Topic
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/clips/zy89wmn
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/clips/zj3ygk7

This week in our topic work, we will be looking at The Moon. We will be researching into what the moon looks like and how the moon is the only thing in space in which people have travelled to and landed on!
We will be thinking about if we were to go to the moon, what would we take with us?
We will also continue to design and make our rockets!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/science-environment-34985274

http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/zctgq6f
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/solarsystem/space_missions
http://www.spacekids.co.uk/learn/

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=rockts+in+space&view=detail&mid=64E1D9F0F008EB66BF3664E1D9F0F008EB66BF36&FORM=VIRE

best wishes
Mrs Harding
Mrs Sarsfield
Mrs Pinto Edwards
Miss Birchall
Mrs Higgins
Mrs Lockett

Monday 26th September

Welcome to our blog.

Reading
Please can you make sure that your child is heard read at least three times a week and please put a comment in their diary. Reading is the key to everything at school. We can’t promise to respond everyday but we will throughout the week. Thank you for your support.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

International Languages day
On Monday we celebrate International languages day. The children will be learning different ways of saying hello and good bye. The children will be learning days of the week and colours in Spanish.

Homework

Homework was sent out last Thursday and we please ask you to return it on a Monday. We will be testing the children on their weekly spellings on a Friday. In year 2 the children should have received their login details for my maths and there are some activities set for them to complete over the rest of this term. Thank you for your support on this.

RE Families

The children will be listening to stories for the Bible and learning about how families care for one another. They will be finding out how Jesus was cared for. They will be writing a prayer. They will be making a collage of birds, trees and animals and recognising how much God loves them.

 Phonics

A few helpful sites.

http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/freeIndex.htm

http://www.magickeys.com/books/phonics.html

http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/PicnicOnPluto.html

http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/BuriedTreasure2.html

http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/eeAltSpellings.html

http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/aiAltSpellings.html

http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/PlanetaryPlurals.html

http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/PondLifePlurals.html

English Blog for Year 1/2

Grammar and Punctuation

The children will be working on the following questions during their lessons:

·        What are punctuation marks?

·         Why are they important?
·         What punctuation marks do you know?
The main focus this week will be question marks and how we use them. The children will be learning about whether a sentence should use a question mark or a full stop.

Writing Focus

The children will recap the story “The tiger who came to tea” and recap the key questions about the book from their book review.
Where is the story set?
Who are the main characters?
What happened at the beginning, middle and end?

The children will be looking at how we can extend a sentence using an adjective. The children will be recounting the story and using language such as stripy, enormous, kind and thirsty.

Spelling Test

The children will have their weekly spelling test on Friday.

Maths 1 /2
The children will be completing a cold task before the learning. The children will be asked to write numbers in numerals and words. Throughout the week the children will be practising their numbers up to 100. They need to learn how to spell them too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0dJWfQHF8Y

Mrs Sarsfield
English
This week we will be learning to recite the alphabet and form the letters correctly both in lower case and in capitals. We will also be using the book 'Mr Grumpy's Outing' to stimulate reading and writing activities, and will continue to learn to read and spell high frequency words.

Maths
We will be counting in 10's and 2's and will start to learn the pairs of numbers that make a 5 and a 6 using practical equipment and recording using the + and = signs.
Year 2 English
This week we will be settling into a routine of grammar, handwriting and writing again.
We will be learning about the past and present tense and we will be writing sentences of our own showing our learning.  We will also be using the Ginger bread man for talk for writing and for a final piece of writing at the end of the week. The children will be drawing out the story and will be talking to a partner retelling the sequence of the story.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slidHnMR1yE

Year 2 Maths
The children will be continuing writing numbers in words and we will be starting a new topic of ordering lengths, mass and recording results using the greater than and less than signs and using the equals sign too.

https://www.mathsisfun.com/equal-less-greater.html

Topic
During our topic lessons this week we will be looking at the different reasons why people travel into space.  Space travel allows scientists to understand what it is like in space. Probes are often sent into space to take pictures of the planets, in particular Mars, so that scientists can see what the surface of the planet is like. We will be looking at the different planets and thinking about what we would see if we went to space.

This week we will the answering the question 'How can we travel in to space?'. We will be looking at rockets and labelling the features of rockets such as the nose which is pointed to help the rocket push through the Earth's atmosphere.

We will be coming up with design ideas for our rockets and will start to make rockets from the kitchen roll tubes.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/science-environment-34985274

 http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/zctgq6f
 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/solarsystem/space_missions
http://www.spacekids.co.uk/learn/

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=rockts+in+space&view=detail&mid=64E1D9F0F008EB66BF3664E1D9F0F008EB66BF36&FORM=VIRE
Best wishes

Mrs Harding

Mrs Sarsfield
Mrs Pinto Edwards
Miss Birchall
Mrs Higgins
Mrs Lockett

 

 

Monday 19th September

Welcome to our blog.

Thank you to everyone who came to the Induction meeting last Tuesday. We hope you found it informative. This week the children will be really settled into school life again.

Reading

Please can you make sure that your child is heard read at least three times a week and please put a comment in their diary. Reading is the key to everything at school. We can’t promise to respond everyday but we will throughout the week. Thank you for your support.

RE Families

We will be thinking about how families love and care for us. The children will be designing a family activity that shows caring and love in a family. The children will learn about God’s love in the Bible. The children will be learning what a psalm is and will be making up a class psalm. The children will be making a brick house for a display to show how a family loves and cares for each other.

Phonics

A few helpful sites.
http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/freeIndex.htm

 http://www.magickeys.com/books/phonics.html

http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/PicnicOnPluto.html

http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/BuriedTreasure2.html

http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/eeAltSpellings.html

http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/aiAltSpellings.html

http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/PlanetaryPlurals.html

http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/PondLifePlurals.html

Mrs Sarsfield

English
This week we will be continuing to improve the reading and writing of high frequency words through a variety of games and activities. We will also be reading the book 'Whatever Next', which links with our topic Journeys. We will be writing simple sentences about baby bear, using correct spellings of the high frequency words, and we will be writing a postcard home from the moon by baby bear.

Maths
We will continue learning to count and write with the correct formation, the numbers 0-100, both forwards and backwards. We will also begin to learn to count in 10's and 2's, focusing on using practical equipment to count with. We will start to write number sequences in 10's and 2's.

English Mrs Pinto/Miss Birchall
This week the children will be practising their handwriting and will be learning all about the tiger who came to tea. The children will be completing lots of work around this book.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqifY7ium4Q

English
Mrs Harding
This week we will be settling into a routine of grammar, handwriting and writing.
We will be learning about the past tense and will be looking at funny bones to help us too. We will also be using the Three Billy Goats Gruff for talk for writing  and for a final piece of writing at the end of the week. The children will be drawing out the story and will be talking to a partner retelling the sequence of the story.

 https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Three+billy+goats+gruff&view=detail&mid=B8A627D4B9DFD56C3158B8A627D4B9DFD56C3158&FORM=VIRE

 Year 2 Maths
The children will be continuing with counting in 2, 3 5, and 10 forwards and backwards. The children will be using number sequences.

Topic
During our topic lessons this week we will be looking at the different reasons why people travel into space.  Space travel allows scientists to understand what it is like in space. Probes are often sent into space to take pictures of the planets, in particular Mars, so that scientists can see what the surface of the planet is like. We will be looking at the different planets and thinking about what we would see if we went to space.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/science-environment-34985274

 http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/zctgq6f

 http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/solarsystem/space_missions

http://www.spacekids.co.uk/learn/

Best wishes
Mrs Harding
Mrs Sarsfield
Mrs Pinto Edwards
Miss Birchall
Mrs Higgins
Mrs Lockett

 

Monday 12th September

Welcome to our blog. The children had a good first week back and hopefully they have settled in to the new routines.

 

Please can we ask you to hear your child read at least three times a week. Reading has the biggest impact on a child’s progress, development and self-esteem. Please can you make sure you make a comment in diaries to please.
There will be an induction meeting on Tuesday the 13^th of September at 3.15pm. There will be a crèche available.

All uniform needs to be named as it saves a lot of time and money.

PE kits need to be in school and we will send them home every half term.

Children can bring in a photograph of their family for an RE display.

RE – Families

This week we will be thinking about our own families and how we spend our time with families.
We will be looking at a picture and finding out how families show that they love and care for each other.

Topic – Journeys with a space theme.

We will be thinking about why people want to travel into space and why we would like to go into space.

English Year 1 / 2

The children will be celebrating 100 years of Roald Dahl birthday on Tuesday. We will be celebrating the famous book author throughout the week through a variety of activities. We will l looking at the sentence structure and fabulous language that is incorporated into his books.

We will be looking at the different book covers of many of his famous books including The BFG and James and the Giant Peach.

Below are some website that the children can explore more about Roald Dahl:

https://www.roalddahl.com

 English Year 2

The children will be having a week full of Roald Dahl activities concentrating on the BFG. The children will be learning about ant bullying through the book, they will be learning about friendship, designing their own giant, designing an anti bullying poster and also different book covers. We will be putting up bunting for Tuesday too.

Happy Birthday Roald!

English Year 1

Will be doing some activities on Roald Dahl and will be practising to read and write high frequency words and use them in simple sentences. We will be handwriting the alphabet too.

Maths Year 1

We will be counting on and back towards 0 to 100 adding on 1 and taking away 1.

http://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/5-7-years/counting

Year 2 Maths

The children will be reviewing place value so that they recognise different digits. They will be counting in 1, 5’s and 10’s from any number.

http://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/7-11-years/ordering-and-sequencing-numbers

We hope everyone had a good first week back.

Best wishes

 Mrs Harding

Mrs Sarsfield
Mrs Pinto Edwards
Miss Birchall
Mrs Higgins
Mrs Lockett

 

Monday 5th September

Welcome to our blog. Welcome to a new year.

This will be updated every week and will provide messages, events and details about what your child is learning. We will also provide some web sites. We upload photographs most weeks too. Please put us on your favourites.

This week the children will be settling in and getting used to new routines and rules. We will be discussing class rules and will also be going over our behaviour policy.

A few things to remember:

 

There will be an induction meeting on Tuesday the 13^th of September at 3.15pm. There will be a crèche available.

Your child will receive a diary on Monday. This needs to come to school every day.
Your child will receive a reading book. Please make sure you write comments in diaries.
All uniform needs to be named as it saves a lot of time and money.
PE kits need to be in school and we will send them home every half term.
Children can bring in a photograph of their family for an RE display.

We will be starting to think about some of our new topics.

Topic – Journeys with a space theme.
RE – Families

Assessment
This week we will be hearing the children read and testing them on the exception words for year one and two. We will also be assessing the children in phonics.
 

We hope everyone has a good first week back.

Best wishes

Mrs Harding

Mrs Sarsfield
Mrs Pinto Edwards
Miss Birchall
Mrs Higgins
Mrs Lockett