Month: April 2021

Dear Parents and Carers,

We have had another week of hard work and enthusiasm from the children. Spelling Shed spellings have been set. There will be two lists on Spelling Shed over the weekend, the children’s list they will be tested on and the common exception words I posted on Monday. The children have also brought home a small booklet focusing on common exception words. This is to practise at home and can be completed over the course of the term. Common exception words are words that aren’t spelt phonetically, the children also know them as tricky words.

This week we finished our learning on length and height, we wrote diary entries from the perspective of Alfie the tortoise. The children have enjoyed reading Esio Trot, we are starting to discover Mr Hoppy’s plan and Alfie doesn’t seem too pleased about it! In RE the children learnt about the story of the Buddha and drew storyboards to display their understanding. In ICT and Art the children researched an inspirational women, copy and pasted a picture to then draw in their sketch books. In our history lesson, we learnt about our first famous woman; Florence Nightingale and her impact on hospitals and modern nursing.

Next week, we are looking at position and direction in maths, we will be publishing our diaries and moving on to narrative writing in English. We will be learning about Mary Seacole and how she overcame adversity to help others. We will be learning about the Sangha in our RE lesson and the children will be adding colour using oil pastels to their famous women portraits.

I hope you all have a lovely long weekend!

Mr Stocking and Mrs Killy

Dear Parents/Carers

Last week the children hit the ground running with their return to school for the summer term. They all showed excellent enthusiasm for their learning and all seemed happy to be back amongst their friends. As the country opens up, we can hopefully return to some normality at St. Matthew’s this term.

For spellings this week, I haven’t set any specific spelling lists, but rather posted the common exception words that all of the children need to try to know by the end of Year 2. From Friday I will be starting our Spelling Shed properly, similar to how it was in the Autumn term, with the children having a spelling test the following Friday.

Last week, we began to look at length and height in maths, recapped on some of our grammar learning in English, thought about life processes in science and started to learn about Buddhism in RE. Our topic this term is ‘Famous Women throughout History’, in which we will learn about various pioneering women who had significant impacts on the lives of people during their times, as well as the lasting impact we still feel today. The children will be learning about Rosa Parks, Florence Nightingale, Emmeline Pankhurst, Queen Elizabeth II, Mary Seacole and Junko Tabei, amongst other famous women. To start our topic, the children have been thinking about significant women in their own lives. In Guided Reaidng, the children have started to read Roald Dahl’s Esio Trot.

This week, we will be continuing to look at length in maths, we will be writing diaries from the perspective of Alfie the Tortoise in English and learning about microhabitats in Science. In history we will be learning about Florence Nightingale and her impact on nursing, and in RE the children will be looking at the story of Buddha in greater detail.

These blogs will be going out on Friday again from this week, I hope you all had a lovely weekend,

Mr Stocking, Mrs Killy and Mrs Fenwick