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Hot Chocolate Friday!
Fri 28 Jan 2022What better way to celebrate Friday than with a hot chocolate!
This collection of superstars have really impressed their teachers by their super attitudes and were rewarded with a hot chocolate. Well done!
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Year One Blog 28th January 2022
Fri 28 Jan 2022Welcome to this week's Year One blog.
What we have been doing this week
This week in literacy, the children have been learning what a noun is and how to add the suffixes s and es to make these plural. They have began to use this to write sentences linked to their story 'How to Catch a Star'.
In maths, we have continued with our addition of numbers within 20 and have focused on using number bonds to 20 and adding by making 10. We have done this with both tens frames and part-part whole models.
This week we have been brilliant mechanics and we have been looking at a variety of moving pictures. We have learnt how to make both sliders and levers and will be using these skills next week to make our own moving pictures.
What we are learning next week
Next week in literacy we will be focusing on using capital letters in our writing. We will apply our knowledge of making nouns plural in our writing as we come up with different ways the boy from the story could catch a star.
In maths, we will be introducing subtraction within 20 and applying our knowledge of addition to use related facts. We will use tens frames and number lines to complete our subtractions and begin to problem solve.
In Design and Technology next week we will be designing and making our own moving pictures using our skills to creating levers and sliders. We will then be evaluating our moving pictures. You can find out more by looking at our Knowledge Organiser.
Wow Work
At the bottom of the page you will be able to see the fantastic work the children have produced this week. Well done Year One!
The Otters have an extra play this week for their amazing efforts on Doodle Maths, well done Otters!
The Frogs have an extra play this week for their amazing efforts reading, Well done Frogs!
Doodle Maths Stars
(total number of Doodle stars earned per class)
Otters
Extra playtime
Frogs
Ducks
352
306
124
Weekly Reads
(How many children in the class have read 3 times)
Otters
Frogs
Extra playtime
Ducks
14
20
16
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Year Two's Blog - 28th January
Thu 27 Jan 2022Welcome to Year Two's blog.
What we have been doing this week
In maths this week we have been learning about division. We have learned about sharing and grouping, and using our knowledge of the 2 x multiplication facts to divide by 2. Here's our knowledge organiser for this topic.
In literacy, we began to explore 'grandmas' in fiction . (Take a look at the overview here.) We will looked at Grandma Kranky in George's Marvellous Medicine, which you can watch a fabulous reading of the story by Rik Mayall here.
Our wider curriculum focus was Geography. We found out about the world - including the oceans and continents. Find out more in our knowledge organise here.
What we are learning next week
In maths we will continue to work on division. We will be dividing by 2 and using this to explore odd and even numbers. We will also use our 5 and 10 x facts to help us divide. Here's our knowledge organiser for this topic.
In literacy, we will continue to read George's Marvellous Medicine. (Take a look at the overview here.) Many children are excited to be reading a Roald Dahl book, many of them sharing his books that they are reading at home. We will be writing our own character descriptions using expanded noun phrases to describe, and conjunctions to extend our sentences. You can hear the George's Marvellous Medicine being read by Rik Mayall here.
We will continue our Geography learning this week. We will compare the different continents and research one to find out more about it. Find out more in our knowledge organise here.
Next week's spellings
Set A
(for children doing RWI)
Set B
(for children not doing RWI)
We are recapping our set 2
sounds for spelling
player
way
three
sheet
night
light
Words containing the 'gn'
and 'kn' graphemes
making the 'n' sound
knock
know
knee
gnat
gnaw
gnome
Wow Work
No change at the top of the charts thus week. Well done Woodpeckers for topping the Doodle charts again. And, excitingly, the Squirrels have topped the reading chart this week for the 2nd consecutive week, so both classes have earned extra playtime.
Doodle Maths Stars
(total number of Doodle stars earned per class)
Woodpeckers
Extra playtime
Foxes
Squirrels
504
151
345
Weekly Reads
(How many children in the class have read 3 times)
Woodpeckers
Foxes
Squirrels
Extra playtime
12
13
18
Take a look below to see some of the learning which has been going on in Year Two this week.
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Year One's Blog 21st January 2022
Thu 20 Jan 2022Welcome to this week's Year One blog.
What we have been doing this week
This week in literacy, the children have been learning how to write a magazine article to inform. They have used their knowledge of creating questions and responses.
In maths, we have introduced adding numbers to 20 and we have used tens frame and number lines.
This week we have been brilliant historians and we have been learning about how space travel has changed over the last 60 years!
What we are learning next week
Next week in literacy we will be introducing 'Catch a Star'. We are looking at nouns, capital letters, full stops and how to sequence a story.
In maths, we will continue to add numbers with 20. We will do this by adding by making 10 and using number bonds to 20. Please see more information by looking at our knowledge and skills organiser.
In Design and Technology this week we will be introduced to pop up books. The children will explore how these work and will begin to make their own levers and sliders ready to make their own pop up book the following week. You can find out more by looking at our Knowledge Organiser.
Wow Work
At the bottom of the page you will be able to see the fantastic work the children have produced this week. Well done Year One!
The Otters have an extra play this week for their amazing efforts on Doodle Maths, well done Otters!
The Frogs have an extra play this week for their amazing efforts reading, Well done Frogs!
Doodle Maths Stars
(total number of Doodle stars earned per class)
Otters
Extra playtime
Frogs
Ducks
491
368
120
Weekly Reads
(How many children in the class have read 3 times)
Otters
Frogs
Extra playtime
Ducks
14
17
13
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Year Two's Blog - 21st January
Thu 20 Jan 2022Welcome to Year Two's blog.
What we have been doing this week
This week, the children have continued to look at 'The Day the Crayons Quit'. The children have written letters from the perspective of a classroom object, in the style of 'The Day the Crayons Quit', using the skills we have developed over the two weeks. (Take a look at the overview here.)
In maths we have been using arrays to multiply, and beginning to learn our 2, 5 and 10 x multiplication facts. (Find out more about their learning here.)
In our Design and Technology sessions we have followed our plans to make and evaluate our sandwiches. We hope that you tried them at home and enjoyed them! (Find out more here.)
What we are learning next week
In maths, we will be learning about division. We will be learning about sharing and grouping, and using our knowledge of the 2x multiplication facts to divide by 2. Here's our knowledge organiser for this topic.
In literacy, we will begin to explore 'grandmas' in fiction . (Take a look at the overview here.) We will begin by looking at Grandma Kranky in George's Marvellous Medicine, which you can watch a fabulous reading of the story by Rik Mayall here.
Our wider curriculum focus switches to Geography next week. We will finding out about the world - including the oceans and continents. Find out more in our knowledge organise here.
Next week's spellings
Set A
(for children doing RWI)
Set B
(for children not doing RWI)
Words ending with 'ed' suffix
walked
jumped
banged
passed
dressed
cleaned
Words containing the 'c' grapheme
making the 's' sound
race
ice
cell
city
fancy
price
Wow Work
They've done it again! Well done Woodpeckers for topping the Doodle charts again. But, excitingly, the Squirrels have topped the reading chart this week, so both classes have earned extra playtime.
Doodle Maths Stars
(total number of Doodle stars earned per class)
Woodpeckers
Extra playtime
Foxes
Squirrels
431
114
235
Weekly Reads
(How many children in the class have read 3 times)
Woodpeckers
Foxes
Squirrels
Extra playtime
15
15
17
Take a look below to see some of the learning which has been going on in Year Two this week.
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Year One's Blog 14th January 2022
Fri 14 Jan 2022Welcome to this week's Year One blog.
What we have been doing this week
This week in literacy, the children have been learning how to write questions and answer questions. They have learnt how to use question marks.
In maths, we have continued to partition 2 digit numbers within 20 into tens and ones using both concrete and pictorial resources.
This week we have been historians and we have been learning about historically significant people. We have been learning about Tim Peake and his mission to the International Space Station in 2015.
What we are learning next week
Next week in literacy we will continue to read 'Man on the Moon'. We are going to use this book to create a magazine article using what we have learnt from writing and answering questions.
In maths, we will continue to compare and order numbers. Please see more information by looking at our knowledge and skills organiser.
In history this week we will be looking at how space travel has changed over the last 60 years!
Wow Work
At the bottom of the page you will be able to see the fantastic work the children have produced this week. Well done Year One!
The Otters have an extra play this week for their amazing efforts on Doodle Maths, well done Otters!
The Frogs have an extra play this week for their amazing efforts reading, Well done Frogs!
Doodle Maths Stars
(total number of Doodle stars earned per class)
Otters
Extra playtime
Frogs
Ducks
509
185
35
Weekly Reads
(How many children in the class have read 3 times)
Otters
Frogs
Extra playtime
Ducks
11
20
14
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Year Two's Blog - 14th January
Fri 14 Jan 2022Welcome to Year Two's blog.
It's the end of another busy week!
What we have been doing this week
This week, the focus of our literacy learning has been based around the story 'The Day the Crayons Quit' which you can read here. On Monday, the children came into the classroom to find that their chairs had all gone on strike and left!. Thankfully, they managed to convince the chairs to come back. The children have been writing about 'The Day the Crayons Quit' using contractions, conjunctions and exclamation sentences. (Take a look at the overview here.)
In maths we have been learning about multiplication. The children have been learning about the multiplication symbol and adding equal groups. (Find out more about their learning here.)
In our Design and Technology sessions we have been learning to be 'Brilliant Chefs' - learning about healthy eating, learning food preparation skills and planning our own healthy sandwiches. (Find out more here.)
What we are learning next week
In maths, we will continue to learn about multiplication. We will be recognising and using arrays to multiply, and beginning to learn our 2, 5 and 10 x multiplication facts.
In literacy, we will be writing letters from the perspective of a classroom object, in the style of 'The Day the Crayons Quit', using the skills we have developed over the two weeks.
In our Design and Technology sessions, we will be 'Brilliant Chefs' once more, making our sandwiches and designing the packaging.
Next week's spellings
Set A
(for children doing RWI)
Set B
(for children not doing RWI)
Words ending with 'er' and 'est' suffix
quicker
quickest
harder
hardest
slower
slowest
Words containing the 'g', 'dge' or 'ge' grapheme
bridge
fudge
charge
gem
giant
magic
Wow Work
They've done it again! Well done Woodpeckers for topping the Doodle charts again. But, excitingly, the Squirrels have topped the reading chart this week, so both classes have earned extra playtime.
Doodle Maths Stars
(total number of Doodle stars earned per class)
Woodpeckers
Extra playtime
Foxes
Squirrels
475
185
181
Weekly Reads
(How many children in the class have read 3 times)
Woodpeckers
Foxes
Squirrels
Extra playtime
10
13
15
Take a look below to see some of the learning which has been going on in Year Two this week.
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Brilliant Chefs!
Wed 12 Jan 2022The Year Two children are being 'Brilliant Chefs' for the next two weeks, honing their design and technology skills to plan and make a healthy sandwich.
This week they have been learning about healthy eating, and practicing their food preparation skills. The children have been learning safe techniques to peel and grate, and to spread butter evenly and carefully.
The children have also been learning safe techniques to chop and slice, as you can see in the photos below.
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Year One Blog 7th January 2022
Fri 07 Jan 2022Welcome to this week's Year One blog.
What we have been doing this week
This week in literacy, the children have been learning about and writing both acrostic and list poems.
In maths, we have been partitioning 2 digit numbers within 20 into tens and ones using both concrete and pictorial resources. This has included using diennes and part, part whole models to represent our numbers.
This week we have been focusing on wellbeing and reinforcing our class charters.
What we are learning next week
Next week in literacy, we will be reading 'Man on the Moon'. We are going to use this book to create questions to ask Bob (a character in our story) about what life in space is like. We will then write responses to these questions. We are also going to learn about the suffix 's'.
In maths, we will be finding one more and one less than numbers to 20. We will also be comparing and ordering numbers. Please see more information by looking at our knowledge and skills organiser.
In history this week we will be looking at historically significant people and we will be focusing on space.
Wow Work
At the bottom of the page you will be able to see the fantastic work the children have produced this week. Well done Year One!
The Otters have an extra play this week for their amazing efforts on Doodle Maths, well done Otters!
The Frogs have an extra play this week for their amazing efforts reading, Well done Frogs!
Doodle Maths Stars
(total number of Doodle stars earned per class)
Otters
Extra playtime
Frogs
Ducks
238
136
64
Weekly Reads
(How many children in the class have read 3 times)
Otters
Frogs
Extra playtime
Ducks
6
13
11
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Year Two's Blog - 7th January 2022
Fri 07 Jan 2022Welcome to Year Two's blog.
Happy New Year everybody. Although it has been a short week, we have packed a lot in and had an exciting start to 2022!
What we have been doing this week
This week, the focus of both our literacy and maths has been 'Professor Puffendorf's Secret Potions'. You can read the story here. The children have been following instructions to make potions and devising their own potions, writing their own instruction. In maths lessons, the children have been carefully measuring using measuring cylinders to make their potions.
What we are learning next week
In maths, we will begin to learn about multiplication and division. You can see what we will be doing over the next couple of weeks by taking a look at the knowledge organiser. We will be focussing on learning the 2x, 5x and 10x multiplication facts, so any help practicing these at home would be very welcome!
In our writing lessons next week we are going to be reading 'The Day the Crayons Quit' (You can read it here). The children will become immersed in the story, reading and writing letters from crayons and other classroom objects! We will also be recapping on exclamation sentences, contractions and conjunctions
Next week, we will be chefs. The children will be planning, making and evaluating their own sandwiches. Find out more by reading the knowledge organiser here.
Next week's spellings
Set A
(for children doing RWI)
Set B
(for children not doing RWI)
Tricky words:
undo
unwell
unkind
unlock
untie
unpack
Words beginning with the 'un-' prefix
improve
move
prove
after
people
eye
Wow Work
They've done it again! Well done Woodpeckers for topping the Reading and Doodle charts again.
Doodle Maths Stars
(total number of Doodle stars earned per class)
Woodpeckers
Extra playtime
Foxes
Squirrels
386
186
111
Children are just starting to get back into the habit of reading 3 times a week after the Christmas holiday. The Woodpeckers and the Foxes have tied, with 10 children in each class reading 3 times this week.
Weekly Reads
(How many children in the class have read 3 times)
Woodpeckers
Extra playtime
Foxes
Extra playtime
Squirrels
10
10
8
Take a look below to see some of the exciting work which has been going on in Year Two this week.
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