Distance won’t stop us!
What a fantastic start to our distanced (but brief) home learning!
Thank you to everyone who got stuck in, contributed lots and made me smile with your enthusiasm.
Check out some of our highlights below…
I loved Yusayrah’s creative poem where she’d highlighted her spellings!
Have a look at Pollyanna’s dramatic writing about losing a pet just as she was about to take cover in an air raid shelter!
I’m loving the presentation here! You can clearly see how the number lines show what’s going on in her head for those mental subtractions.
Alishbah sent in her learning and said she had fun today which is always fantastic to hear.
Keep up the hard work, team!
Plants
Our new science topic this half term is…
With each topic, we have vocabulary for the children to learn and use. Here are the words and their definitions for this topic. We often make up actions to match the words to help us remember them. Ask your child about these words at home – can they remember what they mean?
Our first lesson back in school was to learn about the parts of a plant. This video helps to understand the different parts and what their jobs are.
Can your child name the parts of the plant shown below?
The class worked in groups to compose their own plant made up of all the different parts.
We’re also taking part in the Grow your own potatoes project.
The first job was to plant the potatoes.
We’ll be observing the potatoes as the plants start to grow.
Finally, if there are any budding gardeners in the class, this article gives some ideas for children to do at home.
Let’s rock for Red Nose Day!
Hello to all of you Times Tables Rock Stars,
This Friday is Red Nose Day and the people at TTRS have come up with a great challenge to raise some extra money.
Prices for a new nose start at 50,000 coins so we’d best get saving.
We’ve got until Friday – Red Nose Day. Let’s do our bit to help the nation reach that £5,000 target.
TTRS Tournament winners (wb 08 March)
Hello again to all of the Times Tables Rock Stars out there,
How are we all settling back into school? I hope you are all enjoying yourselves as much as all the teachers are!
BREAKING NEWS:
The results are in. We have our ROCK STARS OF THE WEEK.
Recording an average score of 1490, the winners this week are Y3!
That’s now four times in a row – AMAZING!
Which class will knock Y3 off top spot this week or will they claim their fifth successive victory?
Now that we’re back in school, there’ll be opportunities to play in class as well as at home. Give your teacher a nudge as the week goes on if you’ve not yet had a chance to play. If you’d like to play at home and would like a reminder of your login details, let your teacher know.
All the best TTRS!
Fantastic first week back!
We have had a fantastic week and been really impressed with how well all the children have settled. It feels like they’ve never been away!
Topic
For the rest of this half-term we will be learning about plants and growing. We will be planting herbs and vegetables outside and growing sunflowers inside. We will read and retell the stories- Jack and the Beanstalk and The Tiny Seed.
Phonics
Over the next few weeks we will recap all the sounds from phase 3 of Letters and Sounds.
Set 6: j, v, w, x
Set 7: y, z, zz, qu.
Consonant digraphs: ch, sh, th, ng.
Vowel digraphs and trigraphs: ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, ar, or, ur, ow, oi, ear, air, ure, er.
Don’t forget there are some really good games to support this learning on Phonicsplay
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Maths
We will recap the learning of 6, 7 and 8 next week and begin to talk about addition and subtraction. The children will have opportunities in their play to compare sets of objects saying which set has more and which has fewer.
PE
Next week, we will be having PE on Wednesday and Friday. Please send your child to school in their PE kit and remove earrings.
Keep sending those ‘wow’moments.
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A Great Week Back
A huge well done to all of Year Two for their return to school. They adjusted well not only to coming back in but to having a new face at the front of the class while Mr Parker gets to know his new son.
We’ve had a really positive start to our Maths learning. The children have shown that they’ve really retained their knowledge of place value, completing lessons enthusiastically and taking on challenges positively.
We’re ready to get planting in Science next week to find out what plants need to grow and the whole class love the idea of having a venus fly trap in the room so I’ll get shopping this weekend!
Chronology has been the word of the week in our History lessons. We’ve created a timeline of our life and will look at some heroes of the past in our upcoming lessons. Speaking of heroes: ask your child what hero they created in their Writing learning this week. There were some brilliant heroes around the room with some very clever enemies to go with them
Period product scheme
- have forgotten their products
- cannot afford products
- have started or come on their period unexpectedly
Football skills
In PE today. the children were learning some football skills. After mastering keeping control of the ball, the class then learnt how to stop the ball.
With a partner, the children practiced passing the ball and using their feet to switch the direction of the pass to another player.
We will be doing our PE lessons outside (if the weather allows) so please ensure your child has an outdoor kit with suitable footwear.
TTRS Tournament winners (wb 01 March)
Hello again to all of the Times Tables Rock Stars out there,
Firstly, welcome back to school. We’ve missed rocking out with you.
Hopefully last week’s was our final tournament from home. Everyone has been working so hard and… What’s that?
BREAKING NEWS:
The results are in. We have our ROCK STARS OF THE WEEK.
Recording an average score of 993 , the winning class is Y3. That’s a third successive win – WOW!
Surely they can’t make it four wins in a row with another victory this week. Can they?
Now that we’re back in school, there’ll be opportunities to play in class as well as at home. Give your teacher a nudge as the week goes on if you’ve not yet had a chance to play. If you’d like to play at home and would like a reminder of your login details, let your teacher know.
All the best TTRS!
Welcome back
Today, we were able to welcome our children back into class. It was lovely to see so many smiling faces first thing this morning. The children have had a great day and have all settled back into school life. We started our day by sharing our feelings and emotions. Following this, we have had a fairly relaxed day and have spent a lot of time chatting and catching up with each other.
Here are a few quotes from the children.
I’m so happy to see my friends.
I’m looking forward to being able to play with my friends.
I have missed my teachers.
I feel excited but a little bit nervous ,too!
I feel really proud of all the home learning I managed to do!
My family are very proud of me.
I feel really cool to be back at school.
Please can you return your child’s reading books, library books and home learning books as soon as possible – thank you.