Spring 2 Week 3

To kick start Science Week we had a Science Workshop on Thursday. The children learnt about air pressure and made slime. At the end of the day, the whole school watched a rocket launch. Next week, the children will take part in more exciting and engaging Science activities.

In maths this week the children have been learning to draw arrays to help them solve multiplication questions. While in English we have been writing and identifying different sentence types.

Home learning

Spelling – homophones

two, to, too, blue, blew, one, won, ate, eight, bare, bear.

Mathletics and spag.com activities have been set.

Have a lovely weekend

Miss Pringle

 

Spring 2 Week 2

This week we celebrated World Book Day by dressing up as out favourite book characters, sharing stories and swapping books with others.

We also combined our computing skills with our RE knowledge this week, to make Popplets that explain the actions of Lent.

We have also been busy preparing some lovely mixed media pictures for Mothers Day.

Home learning

Spelling 

kindness, sadness, happiness, goodness, fitness, closeness, quietness.

Spag.com activities have been set.

Mathletic activities have been set.

Have  a lovely weekend

Miss Pringle

Spring 2 Week 1

Welcome back! We have been busy this week preparing for Lent. At the start of the week we made our Lenten promises, then we took part in an Ash Wednesday Service at school. This gave us time to reflect on our promises and ask God to forgive our sins.

 

In Maths we have been using different strategies for addition. I have been very impressed with the reasoning children have used when explaining their mathematical thinking.

In English we have written list poems about our favourite colours. The children have been very imaginative and descriptive.

In Science we have looked closely at microhabitats in the school grounds. The children have enjoyed researching some of the minibeasts and plants they have found.

We were fortunate enough to be invited to watch the Dame Alice Owens Gym and Dance dress rehearsal on Tuesday. This was an inspirational way to conclude our gymnastics unit. We are now moving on to invasion games in PE.

Have a lovely weekend

Miss Pringle

Home learning

Spelling and handwriting – ‘ment’ and tricky words

excitement, enjoyment, placement, oh, they, with, people, could, would, some.

Maths – mathletics activities have been set.

English – please check your child’s bag for a spag.com letter with instructions and passwords. I have set two suffix activities online.

 

 

 

Spring 1 Week 4

We have written letters of apology in English using contractions, conjunctions and expanded noun phrases.

In Maths we have used our number bonds to 10 to add two and one digit numbers. We have also been using beadstrings to help us with addition and subtraction.

We have enjoyed sharing our habitat home learning with each other and researching different habitats in Science. If your child still has this home learning at home please send it in with them on Monday.

In PE we have been learning to climb the ropes! I have been very impressed with everyone in gymnastics so far this term.

Home learning

Spelling – very, little, other, girl, they, have, went, with, people, because, oh.

Reading – please read and sign reading records.

Maths – mathletics has been set.

 

 

 

Spring 1 Week 3

We have had a busy week of learning in Year 2. In English, we have read a written letters of complaint to other classes from various objects in their classroom.

In Maths, we have been interpreting bar charts, pictograms, tally charts and also adding with regrouping. The children have demonstrated their understanding using resources and recording using the necessary written methods.

In PE, we have been using our gymnastics skills on the large apparatus and putting our dance skills to the test, with GoNoddle!

It was lovely to see so many of you at our class assembly on Thursday – I’m sure you’ll agree that the children read beautifully.

Home Learning

Timestables Please log onto timestable rockstars and practise the 2, 5 and 10 timetables.
Reading Please read to an adult and sign your reading record.
Science Our new topic is living things and their habitats. Please make an A4 poster about habitats. You might like to use this PowerPoint to help you.

animal-habitats-powerpoint

Spelling

biggest, fastest, fittest, widest, easiest, busiest, funniest, tiniest.

 

Practise the spellings and write them into your handwriting books.

 

 

Have a lovely weekend.

Miss Pringle

Spring 1 Week 2

This week we have learnt about Buddhism. We have thought about what makes us happy and compared the similarities and differences between Buddhism and Catholicism.

In Science our new topic is Living things and their habitats. We have investigated and sorted different things into groups titled; living, dead and never alive. Next week we will be looking closely at different habitats.

In English we have written persuasive letters but next week we will be writing letters of complaint.

In Maths we have been interpreting pictograms.

Home learning

Your child has taken home their lines for assembly next week  – please help them learn them over the weekend.

 

Spring 1 Week 1

Happy New Year! I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas. Thank you for the  generous gifts and cards.

Our PE focus this half term is Gymnastics. We have focused on body tension, ways of travelling and balances on different apparatus this week

In Religion,  we have read the story of the Three Wise Men visiting Jesus. We have also learnt about the meaning of Epiphany, written Epiphany prayers and identified Epiphany symbols on Christmas cards.

In Maths, we have been collecting and sorting data into tables.

In English, we have read The Day Crayons Quit and explored the different emotions of the crayons. We have also been learning to use persuasive language and used apostrophes for contractions and possession.

PE days are Tuesday and Wednesday this half term.

Home learning 

Spelling suffixes – ful and -less

helpful

beautiful

careful

careless

hopeless

fearless

Reading – please read with an adult everyday and ask them to sign your reading record.

Maths – ten tally questions have been set on Mathletics.

Have a lovely weekend

Miss Pringle

 

Autumn 2 Week 8

Miss Shea and I would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Thank you for all your cards, gifts and support this Term.

Please bring your holy Christmas cards in to school in January.

See you all in 2023!

Miss Pringle

Autumn 2 Week 7

What a fun filled week we’ve had! On Tuesday we enjoyed playing in the snow together; building snow people, sledging and making snow angels.

We have also enjoyed performing our Wriggly Nativity to the whole school and the parents. I’m sure you’ll agree that the children performed brilliantly.

On Wednesday, we all had Christmas lunch together and sang Christmas carols, which was lovely. We had a wonderful time at the panto yesterday and had a lot of fun today as well – partying, meeting Santa and getting Christmas ‘tattoos!’

Have a lovely weekend

Miss Pringle

 

 

KS1 Snow Day Activities

Good morning,

Here are some fun and educational activities that you and your children could carry out on your ‘Snow Day’, should you so wish.

  1. Numeracy: Build a snowman. This is a great opportunity for your child to work as a team and to use problem solving skills. Can you create more than one and order by height? Can you make a repeating pattern using pebbles on your snowman? Can you make a symmetrical snowflake?

  1. Science/ Reversible and Irreversible changes: Experiment with the science of snow. Put some snow in a few bowls and conduct your own melting test. Where does it melt the fastest – on a radiator, in the fridge, under the bed? How long does it take to melt in each location? Once it’s melted, what happens if your put it back outside or in the freezer?

  1. Art: Make some snowmen pictures. Use cotton wool and card, encouraging your child to cut and stick independently. Use food dye to create art on the snow (felt tips work too).

  1. English: Write a poem about the snow. It might be like this:-

Snow is ________________________________________________________________________

Snow is _______________________________________________________________________

It ________________________________________________________________________

Snow is ________________________________________________________________________

Snow is ________________________________________________________________________

It ________________________________________________________________________

Or an acrostic poem, like this:-

S___________________________________________

N___________________________________________

O___________________________________________

W__________________________________________

  1. Maths/P.E: Draw a chalk target on an outside wall, line up some snowballs and shoot to score. Award different points for hitting different areas and keep tally with a score chart making sure to count in twos, threes, fives or tens.

  1. Numeracy: Make cakes or biscuits. Encourage your child to read the scales when weighing out the ingredients.

  1. Art: Paper snowflakes are easy to make using only white paper and scissors. Cutting helps develop fine motor skills and hand-eye co-ordination.

Or draw a snow globe using this tutorial https://youtu.be/FeYJAGqmNs4

Other online learning:

CBeebies also have activities and learning games that your children will enjoy. http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies Enjoy a selection of numeracy and literacy games for KS1 children on www.ictgames.com/ resources.html.

Enjoy the snow and wrap up warm

Miss Pringle and Miss Lambie