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Welcome to Year Two

Dear Parents and Carers,

Welcome to Elder Class. The children have settled in beautifully and we have enjoyed our first week back. The children enjoyed hearing the story ‘Watch Out Wilf!’ during story time.

Next week we will be starting our topic ‘Wish You Were Here’ where we learn about the Isle of Wight and compare it to Australia.

On Tuesday 14th September we will hold our ‘Meet the Teacher’ session where we will share with you the routines and learning in year two. Please see the email from Mrs Saunders for further information.

We hope you have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Bibby, Miss Bennett, Mrs Killy and Mrs Glanville 🙂

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Welcome to Year One

Dear Parents and Carers,

Hello and welcome to Willow Class. The children have settled into the new classroom  and it has been lovely hearing about their summer adventures. We are looking forward to sharing our learning with you each week on this, the year one blog.

This week we have started our topic ‘To Infinity and Beyond’ where will be learning about space explorers. In class we read the book ‘Aliens Love Underpants’ and used adjectives to describe the aliens.  Next week we will start our new class text ‘Bob Man on the Moon’.

On Wednesday 15th September we will have our ‘Meet the Teacher’ meeting. This will be an opportunity to share the routines and learning of year one with you all. Please see the email from Mrs Saunders for more information.

We hope you have a lovely weekend,

Miss Luetchford and Mrs Sharon 🙂

 

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KS1 Sports Day Fun

Today we enjoyed our KS1 Sport’s Day. The children loved working through the carousel of activities  and showed great sportsmanship as they cheered each other on.

Congratulations to Mr Stocking who (only just) won the KS1 Teachers’ Race. Here are a few pictures from the day.

Thank you so much to Mrs Bibby for organising this brilliant day for us all.

The KS1 Team 🙂

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Garden and Animal Explorers

Last week we enjoyed our visit to Kew Gardens. We went on a picture treasure hunt where we explored the gardens and then had lots of fun in the Children’s Garden.

This week we were very lucky when we got to meet and learn about some farm animals. Thank you to Miss Cronin for organising this lovely visit.

During our Victorian workshop in June we learnt the story ‘How the Ice-Cream Got its Cone’. This week we retold the story in our English Books.

In phonics we have been reviewing the sounds we have learnt this year.

There are words containing a variety of sounds for the children to practise reading and spelling available on the Spelling Shed website: https://play.spellingshed.com/#/login

 

We hope you have a lovely weekend,

Miss Luetchford and Mrs Sharon 🙂

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Florence Nightingale Museum on Monday!

Dear Parents/Carers

The children have had a an excellent week of learning and finishing up work after our busy test filled week the week before.

The children started our last maths topic on mass and capacity, learning how to weigh objects in grams and kilograms.  We thought of questions to ask Florence Nightingale in Topic and wrote a diary as if we were Florence in English. In Art, the children practised printing different shapes using various colours.

Next week we have an activity filled week for our final full week in Year 2. On Monday, we are going to the Florence Nightingale Museum. A quick reminder that the children need a packed lunch, and will be wearing their normal school uniform with their school hat. On Thursday, the children will be meeting farm animals and on Friday we are having our sports day.  Amongst these exciting days, we will be finishing our maths and topic for Year 2 and we will be starting to prepare the children for the transition to key stage 2!

Have a lovely weekend, (It’s coming home!)

Mr Stocking and Mrs Killy

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SATs are finished!

Dear Parents/Carers

This week the children have sat their end of year assessments. We delivered them as mock SATs, with the children answering a previous years paper. We have spent a lot of time preparing the children for this and they worked incredibly hard, and everyone is very proud of them. The children showed fantastic resilience and determination to work through several tough tests. The children sat 2 maths tests (arithmetic and reasoning), 2 reading tests, a spelling test, and a punctuation and grammar test. The results of which will be in their school report at the end of the year. 

Today the children spent the day doing different fun activities. We had a rock-based music lesson, a drama lesson in which the children become news anchors and earlier in the week we practised team building using the parachute. Outside of our assessments, the children completed our last RSE lesson, in which we learnt the correct names for most body parts. The children completed their Windrush Day kites in art and we learnt about food chains in science.

Next week, we will be returning to a semblance of normality,. We will be finishing our time learning and beginning our final maths topic of Year 2 – capacity and volume. In English we will be looking at several famous women from the book Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History. In guided reading we will be reflecting on our favourite books and talking about what we like and dislike about them. In R.E. we will be finishing our look at Buddhism and in Science we will be ending our habitats topic.

Have a lovely and restful weekend, the children have certainly earned it!

Mr Stocking and Mrs KIlly

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Another Busy Week in Year One

This week we have been writing information pages about Windrush Day. We learnt about the Windrush Generation and the importance of the day.

In R.E we drew a storymap to sequence the Creation Story. Next week we will be starting our new R.E unit about Judaism.

On Wednesday, the Year Sixes’ performed a few of their songs from the show ‘Alfie’.  Year One loved it, especially ‘A Hard Knock Life’. Well done Year Six.

In phonics we have been reviewing the following sounds:

aw (yawn at dawn)

or (shut the door)

There are words containing these sounds for the children to practise available on the Spelling Shed website: https://play.spellingshed.com/#/login

 

Please note that this week bookbags will be sent out later than usual.

We hope you have a lovely weekend,

Miss Luetchford and Mrs Sharon 🙂

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A diverse week of fun!

Dear Parents and Carers

This week has been school diversity week and we marked it in several ways. The children continued their learning on historically significant women by learning more about Rosa Parks and Catherine Duleep Singh. The children wrote a non-chronological report on Rosa Parks and her impact on racial equality, and we acted as historical detectives when looking at photos of Catherine Singh’s life. Singh was a courageous British Indian woman born in Victorian England. She went on to help Jewish families escape Germany prior to World War 2 with her partner Lina Schafer. On Tuesday, the children also learnt about and celebrated Windrush Day though music, poetry and art.

Amongst our topic learning we have also continued our revising our Year 2 learning and the children are ready to complete their practise SATs next week. One revision tool we have used is the interactive games on BBC bitesize. The children have enjoyed continuing their learning on a different platform. Two good games are:

English grammar, punctuation and spelling:  https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zd63xyc/articles/zncgvk7

Maths revision:  https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zjkphbk/articles/zf4sscw

General revision:  https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/levels/z3g4d2p

The children have worked very hard since half term to practise and prepare for these tests (we have called them quizzes), and I know everyone will do their best.

Have a lovely weekend everyone!

Mr Stocking and Mrs Killy

 

 

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A Dip for Mr Grinling

This week we have written our set of instructions to teach Mr Grinling how to make the dip tzatziki.

We then followed our set of instructions and made the dip in class.

We enjoyed eating it!

In maths we have been partitioning and comparing numbers. Next week we will be continuing place value and finding one more and one less of a number within 100.

This week the children performed their first ever class assembly to Year Two, Mrs Warner and Mr Quinn. The children spoke with great clarity and performed their songs beautifully. Mr Quinn was so impressed with all of the facts they shared. We will be sharing a recording of the assembly with you next week.

In phonics we have been reviewing the following sounds:

er (better letter)

u-e (huge brute)

ure (sure it’s pure)

There are words containing these sounds for the children to practise available on the Spelling Shed website: https://play.spellingshed.com/#/login

 

We hope you have a lovely weekend,

Miss Luetchford and Mrs Sharon 🙂

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Meeting Mr Grinling

This week we started our new class text ‘The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch’.

In the story we met an industrious lighthouse keeper called ‘Mr Grinling’ whose lunch kept being stolen by some pesky seagulls. We learnt about the jobs Mr Grinling had to do and wrote an explanation text explaining how to be a lighthouse keeper.

In maths we have been  learning how to order and partition numbers within 100. We used dienes to show how many tens and ones were in a 2 digit number.

In science we have started our new topic ‘Materials’. We sorted materials into a Venn diagram.

In R.E we have started our new unit’ What Responsibility has God Given us to Look after the Earth?’. In class we read the Creation Story and wrote down parts of the story we found puzzling. We then walked to St Matthew’s Church where Mother Helen and Father Alistair showed us the parts of the church and answered our questions.

This week in phonics we have been reviewing the following sounds:

ea (cup of tea)

ee (what can you see?)

ir (whirl and twirl)

There are words containing these sounds for the children to practise available on the Spelling Shed website: https://play.spellingshed.com/#/login

We hope you had a lovely (hopefully dry)  weekend watching the England match,

Miss Luetchford and Mrs Sharon 🙂