Year 1

What an exciting week this week with the YES Day on Thursday. We were allowed to break a set of rules so we came into school with coloured hair and nails, some fancy dresses and lots of exciting things we shared with our friends. In English, we continued reading the book The Day The Crayons Quit, and extended our learning by using adjectives, conjunctions and writing in first person. We’ve even created a comic strip in our books to practice our dialogue writing. In maths, we continued exploring numbers to 50 by grouping them into tens and ones. We have also continued our learning from the previous term by estimating where missing numbers go on a number line, but this time up to 50. In history, we continued with our learning about monarchs by creating a fact file about Queen Elizabeth II. In DT, we created more moving mechanisms but this time by using a lever and a pivot.

  

                                      

Key Messages

• Key vocab: ‘numbers up to 50’, living, dead, never alive, monarch, pivot, lever

• KIRFs: finding one less with numbers to 30

• PE days are Wednesday and Friday, please wear the appropriate PE kit 

• Please bring in reading books to change on Monday as we will not be able to change them any other day of the week

• We are looking at the faith of Islam this half-term in RE, if any families who follow this faith would like to come and talk about this to their child's class, please let their teacher know

 

Year 2

The week started with a wonderful opportunity of meeting the Turkish artist Dilara Karraagac, who taught the teachers and children the beautiful marbling paint technique. We were so lucky to share this experience with the children and plan to display their art work in our shared area. As we continue to look at life in 1666, the children have looked at what a person's’ lifestyle in this time would be like and how to convince someone to live in London during this time using their knowledge of key factors, such as how fire was used, how people did their shopping and transport. During the week we were able to watch Mrs Balaram make a fire and talk about how fire spreads so quickly and think about how it affected our senses so we could write interesting sentences as Boxton, escaping the fire. 

What fun we had on YES DAY, where the children even got to be teachers for a little bit and enjoyed telling everyone how to write sentences!

                

                

Key Messages

• Key vocab: Guru Nanak, spiritual leaders, St Paul’s Cathedral, London Bridge, Tower of London, Monument, 

• Writing focus: We are practising many skills such as inverted commas, expanded noun phrases and possessive apostrophes but full stops and capital letters are something we are always revisiting! Please focus on this.

• We have organised a school trip to Bocketts Farm, for 14th March. 

• We are looking at the faith of Sikhism this half-term in RE, if any families who follow this faith would like to come and talk about this to their child's class, please let their teacher know.