Friday 25th June

What a brilliant week we have had this week, the children have worked so hard!

This week’s learning:

English:
The children have continued to explore traditional stories from different cultures and this week read and learnt a few more Australian dreamtime stories – the children are really enjoying these stories. They have worked hard to use their VIPERS skills. They have tried their best to explore past tense verbs and find these in writing and use them in their own writing. The children have learnt a dreamtime story off by heart, verbally rehearsed this with a partner and also performed the story in drama! This was super exciting, the children loved acting as the Australian animals and performed the story so well!

Maths:
Year ones have explored place value to 100 this week and have concentrated on consolidating knowledge of identifying tens and ones within a number. They have also worked hard at comparing larger numbers and looking at whether the numbers are, less than, greater than or equals to.

Year twos have also been exploring place value and have been using place value counters and part whole models to explore different combinations of numbers to make a whole number. The children have enjoyed revisiting the place value charts and understanding their values up to 100. They have loved using all the resources to help them, with their learning this week.

Learning Adventure:
This week we have explored the coast and features of a seaside town. We explored and compared other countries too and continued to answer our Learning Adventure question: ‘How does our local area compare to the rest of the world?’

RE:
This week we continued to explore Judaism and this week we looked at what a Shema is. We then made our own Shema, we enjoyed making it look old when we used teabags to stain the paper.

Reminders:

• Please can bookbags come into school daily
• PE kits on Monday and Friday (Fit Friday) Please can we not have any jeans/ jeggings 

Friday 18th June

Good afternoon,
We have had a brilliant week in 1/2A, we have enjoyed making the most of the weather whilst doing our learning. 

This week’s learning:

English:
We have continued to explore traditional stories from other cultures, and we have read a range of Australian dreamtime stories. We love the story of ‘Why Tiddilick Laughed’. We have worked hard this week to identify features of a traditional story, we have revisited contractions and spent some time finding contractions within text and practicing writing contractions and also extending them. We have practiced orally retelling a story and ensuring we use expression in our reading whilst decoding tricky words.

Maths:
Year ones finished the genre of position and direction and completed the post unit test, where everyone tried really hard. We then started a new genre of place value to 100 and the children completed a pre unit test to explore their knowledge so far. Yesterday we practiced lots of different ways to count to 100. We counted in 1’s, 2’s, 5’s and 10’s. We worked hard to count different objects in 2’s , 5’s and 10’s and even tried to count in 3’s as a challenge.
Year two children have worked really hard this week exploring temperature. They started the week with an experiment in class finding and comparing the temperature of the warm classroom and ice cold things. They have worked hard to measure temperature and also learn how to read a thermometer.

PSHE:
This week we watched an assembly from the NSPCC where we learnt to ‘watch out, and stay safe’. The children listened really well and joined in well with discussions after about who they could talk to if ever they needed help. We then made some NSPCC 

RE: In RE this week we started to explore Judaism. We explored the Mezuzah and what this means to Jewish people. We then made our own Mezuzah with a partner.

Reminders:

• PE kits on Monday please ( black bottoms, red St Cleer PE top and trainers)
•  Please remind the children to put their book bags in the changing box when they have finished their book and you have written in the record.
• As the weather is turning nicer please remember to put on sun cream and brining in a sunhat and drinks bottle. 

Friday 7th May

Good Afternoon,
What a fantastic week we have had, the children came in ready a raring to go on Tuesday! Here is what we have been up to this week:

English
This wee we have started to look at out new topic of traditional tales. We explored and discussed a variety of different tales on Tuesday and Wednesday then for the rest of the week we have focused on The Three Little Pigs. We have enjoyed making a story map and worked hard writing sentences with a variety of conjunctions in them. The children have done brilliantly!

Maths
This week in year 1 we have started to look at Multiplication, we have done this through finding equal groups and this week looked specifically at making and drawing arrays. The children are fantastic at doing this, well done year 1!
This week year 2 have been continuing their learning on time. We have been solving problems involving finding the duration and intervals of time. This has really put our knowledge to the test but we have worked really hard at solving all of the problems.

Science
This week we have continued our learning on classifying animals. We looked at what the words vertebrate and invertebrate means and we classified animals into those that do and do not have a backbone. We found some very interesting animals!

Learning Adventure
This week we have been continuing to investigate our learning on 'How does our local area compare to the rest of the world?' We have been focusing on our map skills this week. We have drawn maps, used compasses and created our own map symbol. 

A few reminders:
- please can you make sure all jumpers a labelled, we have had lots of spare jumpers lying around the classroom with no names
-please write in the reading records when you have heard you child read, this makes book changing on a Friday easier :)
- PE on a Monday and Fitness clothes on a Friday (no jeans please)

Have a lovely weekend,
Miss Adams and Miss Treleaven 

Friday 23rd April

Good afternoon everyone Well,

Wow, what a brilliant week we have had! We have had such a lovely week of learning and fun!

English:
This week we have started a new genre: Non- Chronological Reports We have looked at non-fiction features in detail and have worked hard to research facts about Stickleback, Seahorse, and Pipefish. We have identified features of a fact file and have edited sentences to ensure they have capital letters, full stops and the correct punctuation at the end of the sentence. We have also begun to prepare our own fact file information to go with our aquariums. Today we painted our aquariums for our final fact file next week.

Maths:
In maths year one children have worked hard at revisiting addition and subtraction, we have added small and larger numbers using lots of manipulatives such as cubes, number lines, dinosaurs, and bead strings. Today we worked really hard to solve addition and subtraction word problems.

Year 2 have worked super hard at learning about time this week. This week they have concentrated on ‘o’ clock and half past- it has been great fun using the clocks.

Science:
This week started to look at animals, including humans. On Tuesday we classified lots of different animals into 6 different groups: Amphibians. Fish, Mammals, Insects, Reptiles and Birds. We found it sometimes very tricky to classify an animal!

Learning Adventure:
We started a new question in learning adventure this week: How does our local area compare to the rest of the world? This week we explored our local area, how we come to school, do we live near or far? Where are the local places we visit often and rarely? Lots of children visit Siblyback lake lots! They love it! Next week we are going to look at maps and go for a walk in St Cleer to find key points of interest on the map.


Notes:
- Fridays – Fit Friday PE clothes
- Mondays – PE kits please 
- Please could I ask a massive favour, when you hear your child read please could you write it in their reading record. It makes it easier for us to change books as we know they have read it :)

Have a lovely weekend and see you on Monday,

Miss Adams and Miss Treleaven 

Friday 26th March

Good Afternoon Everyone,
What a fantastic week we have had this week and we have done lots of work! You have all come in with a brilliant work attitude and ready to go!

English
This week we have been getting ready to write our own fantasy story. We have been thinking about the setting, main characters and the dilemma. We have written out our plans and we are ready to write our stories next week. The children have come up with some fantastic ideas and I cannot wait to read them!

Maths
Year 1 - This week the children have been busy learning about capacity. They have been using a wide range of containers to think about 'what holds the most', using language like greater than, less than and more than. They have done brilliantly this week, well done year 1!

Year 2 - This week year 2 have been continuing to learn about fractions. This week we have been specifically looking at finding 1/4 and 1/3 of a number and a shape. We have been thinking of strategies to make it easier for ourselves and have been using our knowledge of halves to find a quarter. Year 2 have also been superstars this week! Well done!

Science
This week we were linking our learning on the seasons to hibernation. Thinking about what seasons animals hibernate in, why would they hibernate and what animals do hibernate. We have written some lovely fact files about these animals. 

RE
This week we have been continuing to think about Easter and how that is symbolised. We thought about all things linked to Easter, what we like about Easter and what Easter means to Christians. We discussed the importance of eggs and why we have them at Easter, we talked about how they are a symbol of 'new life'. The children then designed their own Easter egg. We had some very beautiful designs!

Learning Adventure
This week we have been thinking about the Queen of Hearts jam tarts. We wrote some brilliant recipes for Jam tarts on Thursday and today we had a go at making them! They looked very yummy and I am sure they tasted amazing!

A few reminders:

• Monday is PE day, please wear your PE kits to school
• Please could we have any empty toilet rolls for our wind socks we are making on Tuesday.
• Fit Friday on Friday's - PE clothes only please and preferably no football kits
• Please can we make sure spelling books are in school daily, the children do lots of practicing throughout the week in class of their spellings.