Welcome 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!

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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.

Wow Work

They've done it again!  Well done Woodpeckers for topping the Reading and Doodle charts again.

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.

As the term came to an end today the sky was filled with flurries of snow (only directly over Upton Infant School though!).

We would like to thank all our children and families for their support in this first term and wish you all a very Merry Christmas!

This morning, our children kicked off the day with an Olympic champion.

Following last week's fantastic sponsored Festive Fun Run, our top three fund raisers went with Mr Churchill to open the new Aldi store.

Kate French, gold medal winner at the Tokyo Olympics, cut the ribbon and then followed up with a 'virtual assembly' at school where the children got the chance to ask her questions. You can see Kate French crossing the finish line here.

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It's been a busy week at school as we head towards Christmas.

What we have been doing this week

This week in literacy, the children have written their 'Superhero Writing' to show what they have learned over the last couple of weeks whilst we have been looking at the story of 'The River'.

In maths, we completed our work on money. Children have been finding and adding to make totals.

In science we completed our work on materials, with the children planning and carrying out their own investigation into waterproofing. 

What we are learning next week

In maths, we will be doing some Christmas - themed 'elf maths' each day next week. The children will be carrying out problem solving activities involving the four operations.

In our writing lessons next week we are going to be reading and writing Winter poems.

Next week, we will be honing our singing skills in readiness for our Christmas singing after school on Wednesday. We will also be doing some seasonal art activities.

There are no new spellings to learn for next week.

Wow Work

They've done it again!  Well done Woodpeckers for topping the Reading and Doodle charts again.

Today the children took part in their sponsored festive fun run. It was a cold and crisp day, perfect for running laps around the school. They looked very festive in their Christmassy running outfits.

The children's laps and total distance was recorded, and each child will be bringing home a certificate to show how far they ran.

Sponsorship money is still coming into school, but the total raised so far is £1500.

Well done children for your super running and fund raising, and thank you to our families for your generous sponsorship.

Since the beginning of December, cheeky little elves have been spotted all around Upton Infant School. They seem to be getting into a lot of mischief wherever they go...

The Year Two children have been learning about materials in science over the last couple of weeks. Today, they heard the story of the Little Pigs and the Gingerbread Man and helped the pigs to investigate the best material to use to make the Gingerbread Man an umbrella to stop him getting soggy.

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As of Monday we will start filming our Christmas play, please can all costumes be in by Monday morning. If there are any issues or questions please let us know and will be do the best we can to help. 

What we have been doing this week

This week in literacy we have extended sentences using 'and'. The children wrote some fantastic sentences based on 'Stick Man'.

In maths, we have been recapping everything we have learnt so far in Year One. We have also explored numbers to 20 and represented it in lots of different ways. Please see the knowledge and skills organiser.

This week we have been extremely busy rehearsing for our Christmas Play and we have continued to be 'brilliant artists'. 

What we are learning next week

Next week in literacy, we will be writing a letter to Santa to persuade him to put our new friend called Holly onto the nice list. 

In maths, we will be focusing on numbers to 20. Please see the knowledge and skills organiser.

Next week we are going to film the Christmas Play, remember to keep practising your lines! 

Wow Work

WOW Frogs! You have earned yourselves 2 extra play times this week because of your brilliant Doodle Maths score and reading score. Well done Frogs!

Welcome to Year Two's blog. 

It was lovely to see the children and staff in their festive jumpers today and starting to get into the Christmas spirit. Our Christmas tree is looking very colourful now!

What we have been doing this week

This week in literacy, we have been continuing our writing using the story 'The River'. The children wrote their own stories based on the river in the present tense, ensuring the use the correct  tense in their writing.

In maths, we began  to learn about money. We familiarised ourselves with the different coins and notes, and used them to make different amounts of money.

In science we began to learn about materials - how they are used for different purposes, their properties and how they can be changed. You can see the 'knowledge and skills organiser' here.

What we are learning next week

In maths, we will continue to look at money. We will be finding totals, working out change and finding the difference between amounts.

In our writing lessons next week we are going to apply our learning from the last two week about 'The River' and invent our own stories, thinking about adjectives, adverbs and interesting vocabulary.

In our science lessons we will continue to learn about materials. We investigate which materials are waterproof, planning a fair test, making predictions and drawing conclusions. You can see the 'knowledge and skills organiser' here.

There are no new spellings to learn for next week.

Wow Work

Once again, we have had some fantastic learning across the curriculum. See some of the super work in the photos below. 

Guess who's done the double again this week? Well done Woodpeckers for topping the Reading and Doodle charts again.