05 November 2010
What a busy term so far full of great learning! Year Six have read two class novels and finished one topic of our SEAL work. We have moved rapidly on to our fourth unit of learning in Maths and are half way through are very exciting and interesting topic on Vile Victorians.
We have learnt to play cricket, had some rugby coaching and have just started a multi skills games unit with PE specialist students from Leeds Met University.
The Year Six Tuck Shop is up and running and is a roaring success. Health week was fantastic and hugely informative and our Science topic on Materials was completed with great detail and enthusiasm. Now we’re all looking forward to our next half term and all the learning, experiences and fun that will bring.
Researching our Design Project
The budding designers in Year 1 are wanting to make their own playground. As part of our research, we went into our own playground to see what designers before us have achieved!! While we were there, we had a bit of fun investigating how to use the equipment!! Watch this space to see our own designs. 
Maths: Understanding Data
In Maths we have been collecting data on Class 2’s favourite toys and showing our findings in bar charts. Some of the bar charts the children have created this week have been incredible. They can answer questions about a bar chart, too: What is the most popular toy? What are the two least popular toys? Also, they can draw a pictogram to show their findings. In one of our lessons, we wanted to find out Class 2’s favourite football team. Disappointingly, Manchester Utd was the most popular team so I took that out of our findings. Here, Cubes group represent our data in the form of a 3-D bar chart.
Literacy: Instructions
Follwing on from writing their own instructions, Class 2 have had the opportunity to make something. We decided to make some sandwiches so why not ask your child for your favourite one and they should be able to make it for you! Here are some pictures of the fun learning:
To tie in with our topic this term, Toybox, the children this week will be learning how to make a paper aeroplane – so I apologise in advance if your home turns into a landing strip. At the end of this week, ask your child to instruct you to make a paper aeroplane and see if they can use:
- time connectives (then, after, first, finally etc)
- numbers for a list
- ‘bossy’ verbs (place, fold, put, bend, touch, go)
Practical Maths
One of our Year 1 pupils estimated that there were 30 Smarties in his box. He then counted them and wasn’t far off. There were 27!
Next, he sorted them into colours and wrote down the correlating number and number name.
The whole class enjoyed learning how to estimate and write number names.
Enjoying Golden Time
Class Assembly
Well done to the whole class for an excellent effort with their class assembly!
Don’t forget ‘Relax and Read’ every Wednesday!
Class Novel: A Bad Spell for the Worst Witch
Following on from our first class novel (‘The Worst Witch’), Class 2 have entered into the world of Mildred Hubble again in ‘A Bad Spell for the Worst Witch’. If you answer a question right about the story then you become one of the lucky ones to wear Mildred Hubble’s own hat!
Those who wear the hat are said to inherit her magical powers. Luckily none of the children have turned me into a frog yet!
New Literacy Module: Instructions (Video)
The children have started their new literacy learning, which is all about instructions. We have been practising reading and writing instructions, and even doing the actions!
Tomorrow we are going to see if we can write some instructions on how to make a sandwich!