week commencing 12.5.25

What a fantastic week at school, this half term in PSHE we've been learning about relationships. The children have enjoyed acting out different scenarios to find solutions to these problems. In RE we've been learning about how different people from different religions pray and we looked at some Jewish clothing. In French the children wrote sentences to say which school subjects they like and dislike.

Their English work has been about balanced arguments. They went outside to physically sort some reinforcing and opposing conjunctions. Our Maths work has been furthering their knowledge of decimals, including putting numbers in descending order and rounding to the nearest integer.

Finally the children have started some amazing Pointillism pictures that they will be adding too next week, they have thoroughly enjoyed learning about Pointillism and experimenting with the paints.

 

week commencing 6.5.25

What another amazing week of hard working children. The children had lots of fun in English learning about limericks, they really enjoyed writing their own and making them as funny as they can. They liked reading them out to their classmates and making each other laugh.

The children were introduced to decimals and have worked hard understanding tenths and hundreths.

 

week commencing 29.4.25

This week the children have been working really hard, in English the children continued on from the skills they learnt in their adverts to produce some amazing persuasive writing. They used the skills they have developed to write a letter to the Prime Minister explaining the negative effects of deforestation and why he should help stop it. 

In Maths, the children continued looking at time and duration, they looked at how long things take by finding the difference between two clocks. Although this was tricky the children worked really hard to develop their understanding. Furthermore, the children have been doing some amazing reading both at school and at home. Well done class 2, keep it up!

 

week commencing 22.4.25

What a busy first week back, the children have now got some really exciting visitors in school. We have 10 beautiful spring chick as well as the return of the class tadpoles. The children have really got back into routine working hard. In English, they have started looking at adverts, designing their own advert for their robot that they have been designing this week. 

In Maths the children have started looking at time, although being a tricky subject they are working extremely hard. They have started looking at the Amazon Rainforest in Geography and their new topic in Science is Skeletons and Muscles. There has been some amazing reading done over the holidays so well done!

 

week commencing 7.10.24

This week we began a new text in English: Mrs Noah's Pockets, a story based on Noah's Ark. The children have been working on their retrieval and inference comprehension skills and have written similes to describe the weather.

In maths we have begun to use the column method for addition and have been practising our individual target times tables (The children all know which times table they are learning and enjoy singing and dancing to 'BBC supermovers' as well as lots of online games, do join in with them at home!)

Our RE topic this half term has been about God's messengers. The class were very inquisitive as we learnt about the life of Harriet Tubman.

The week ended with experimenting with different components in electric circuits. It was lovely to hear all the scientific language that the children were using.

Finally, can I thank you for the effort you are putting in to help your child learn their spellings, there were so many children who got all the spellings correct today, it was fantastic!

 

Week Commencing 30/9/24

This week has been another busy week and it is lovely to see al the children working so hard. We’ve had two visitors in school this week. We’ve had a visit from Timmy the tin of tuna to talk about the foodbank. We also had a visit from Primary puppets who did a lovely performance teaching the children all about kindness.

English: Continuing on with our story ‘Jim and the Beanstalk’, the children have became young authors. Planning, writing and editing their own version of the story. They have had so much fun creating different problems for their giant and finding a solution to there problem.

Maths: This week the children have looked at and learnt about Roman Numerals and being able to add Roman numerals.  They have also started their next unit which is adding and subtracting numbers that require ‘carrying’. They have looked at adding number where it effects the number in the next column.

French: This week the children were introduced to pets and how you would tell someone what kind of pet they have.

Science: The children have been focusing this week on debating the use of fossil fuels, learning all about renewable and non renewable energy sources and which ones are better for the environment.

Music: The children have started learning the songs to sing in their Harvest Assembly as well as playing instruments along side the song learning the notes.

This week has been a busy week and we are really proud of the children’s attitude to learning. Please continue to read with them at home. The children will need there PE kit on Monday and Wednesday until half term.