Well done Class 4 for another fabulous week! We have been doing lots of super learning this week.

Maths: Year 1: We have been working on our fluency with our times tables. It has been lovely to hear about (and see the progress of) the children using times tables rockstars. Please support your child with their 2,5 and 10 times tables.

Year 2: We have started our new topic on fractions. This week we have been focusing on halves and thirds. We have split shapes and groups of objects into equal parts.

Literacy: This week we have been panning our own jungle story. We looked at description using our senses and characters thoughts and feelings. We will write and edit our stories next week.

Geography and DT: This week we have been learning more about Brazil. We looked at the temperatures and found it was much warmer in Brazil than the UK! We tried a variety of tropical fruits as part of our DT lesson that the children prepared themselves. It was great to see so many children trying different fruits.

Reading and homework: Last week your child was reassessed in phonics, some children have moved groups and other children have stayed in the same group. Please read with your child three times per week at home and bring reading books and records into school everyday.

Please return homework on a Thursday so it can be marked and new homework issued before the weekend.

I hope you have a lovely weekend!

Miss Wright

It has been lovely to see so many happy smiley faces this week ready for a new term.

Topic overview:

This half term the topic is Brazil and I have attached the overview which will show what your child will be learning in each area of the curriculum. Summer 1 – Brazil Overview

PE/ forest school:

These days will remain the same as last half term.

Wednesday – PE kit and long hair tied up.

Thursday – Wellies.

Homework/ reading books: 

Homework will be sent home on a Friday. Please return this by Thursday the following week.

Reading books will be given out on a Monday morning and need to be returned on a Friday. Reading books need to be brought into school every day. Reading diaries also need to be brought into school every day as some information from phonics sessions are recorded in them.

Knowledge day: 

We started the half term with a knowledge day exploring what we already know about Brazil and identifying what we would like to find out. We then created posters about Brazil using the information that we learnt through videos and pictures. In the afternoon we learnt about festivals and carnivals. We made masks and coloured them brightly then added feathers and sparkle.

I hope you have a lovely weekend!

Miss Wright

Wow! This half term seems to have flown by! We have learnt lots of new information, had some very exciting visitors and are enjoying learning outdoors in the sunny weather.

We were very lucky to have a pirate come into school to visit us this week. We had great fun learning some pirate songs and a jig. We found out all about the different Jolly Roger flags that each pirate has. We are still on the lookout for the treasure that is hidden in Shawbury!

This week we practiced two songs that we sung at Church this morning. It was lovely to have all of KS1 in the Church for the Easter Service.

Maths: Year 1 have been focusing on their 2, 5 and 10 times tables this week. We have enjoyed listening and learning the words to the BBC bitesize times tables songs to help us to remember.

Year 2: We have completed our unit of work on shape this week then practiced lots of reasoning and problem solving questions using words and models of proof.

Literacy: This week we have been writing instructions. Class 4 were super at helping explain to an alien how to make a jam sandwich! We have practiced using imperative verbs and the present tense within our instructions on how to be a pirate.

Homework: I have give the children a homework grid with lots of different ideas to choose from and complete. There is a range of activities for all and hopefully it might also give you a few ideas for things to do over Easter!

Reading: Your child has come home with their next reading book this week. Please read this with your child and fill in their reading record. I look forward to giving out lots of reading certificates after half term!

I hope you have a sunny, enjoyable and safe break.

Miss Wright

We have had a great week in Class 4!

English: We have been exploring pirate themed poetry this week. We have used our sense to write a descriptive poem then used our phonics knowledge to create tongue twisters!

Maths: Year 1 have been finishing off their topic of capacity and volume. We have had a lot of fun practically exploring the capacities of different containers and ordering them from empty to full.

Year 2: Continuing on our theme of shapes the children have been counting and comparing the number of vertices and edges 2D and 3D shapes have. We have also been looking at repeating patterns and created some of our own using the maths shapes.

History: This week the children have been comparing the differences between the 16th century, when Grace O’Malley was alive and the 21st century. We found it very interesting that they cooked using fire instead of ovens and they wore very different clothes!

Homework: Class 4 have been sent home with spellings, writing and maths activities that link to and consolidate the learning we have undertaken in class. Please support your child to complete this ready to be returned on Thursday.

Reading: Please ensure that your child brings their reading book and reading record into school every day. The children may read to an adult at any point in the week and the children read every morning as part of our ‘DEAR’ (drop everything and read) time. Thank you for your support with this.

I hope you have a restful weekend.

Miss Wright

Well done to all of Class 4 for working so hard this week on their assessments! It has been lovely to see all of the progress that the children have made this year.

Science: As part of our science topic and British Science Week the children built a habitat for a penguin in forest school. The children researched penguins habitats and worked in groups to try and recreate this.

PSHE: This week we have been focusing on financial needs and wants. We had a super debate where the children have to try and persuade and justify why their item should be a need or a want.

The children have spelling homework in their homework files. As we have been doing assessments I have not set maths and writing homework. Please could children practice their times tables using times tables rock stars. It would be great to see the activities that the children have completed as part of British Science week. These resources have been shared on the school website.

Please ensure that your child brings in their reading book every day as we are having ‘DEAR’ (drop everything and read) time every morning.

Have a lovely weekend!

Miss Wright

Well done Class 4 for another amazing week!

Literacy: This week the children have created a story map based on our book ‘The Night Pirate’. The children have then written and edited and improved their stories. We have been focusing on writing in past tense, adding the suffix ‘-ing’ and using a range of conjunctions.

Maths: Year 1 have been continuing to learn about mass and weight before moving onto capacity and volume at the end of the week.

Year 2: Have started to look at shapes and their properties before moving onto lines of symmetry later in the week.

On Friday both year groups have been practicing their two times tables and completing retrieval and arithmetic questions. It is great to see the progress that the children have been making through using times tables rockstars.

Topic: This week we have been learning all about Grace O’Malley. We heard a story about Grace and acted out key events. Year 1 then recorded key events and Year 2 wrote a timeline for her life.

DT: This week in DT we have learnt how to make lever and slider mechanisms. We will use these skills in our final project which is making a pirate ship.

Homework: Class 4 have brought home spellings, a maths sheet linked to their learning this week and a writing activity. Please support your child to access and complete this work.

Reading books: Your child brought home their new reading book on Monday. Please ensure these are retuned each Friday so your child has access to a new book each week. We encourage reading the book at least three times in a week as it improves fluency and comprehension.

Have a lovely weekend.

Miss Wright

What a fabulous start to the new half term! This week started off with a knowledge day so we could explore all about our new topic ‘Pirates’. The children enjoyed finding out about Grace O’Malley the pirate, looking at pirate outfits and making pirate ships.

Literacy: Our current book is “The Night Pirate” written by Peter Harris and Deborah Allwright. After reading the book we used a story map to role play and act out the story in groups. We have created a wanted poster for the main character to practice out character descriptions. We did some ‘hot seating’ putting ourselves in the shoes of Tom the main character and then wrote a diary entry from Tom’s point of view.

Maths: Year 1: We have continued to work look at length and height of different objects and how we can compare these objects when using non standard measurements. Later this week we moved onto looking at weight and mass of objects. We have been using balance scales to visually see which item is heavier.

Year 2: We have been looking at tally charts, block diagrams and pictograms. The children have been making their own pictograms and block diagrams to show the number of certain objects in our classroom.

Science: This week we have started our new topic habitats. We have been thinking about the forest school habitat and what makes that a perfect home for the animals and plants that live there.

It was lovely to see all of the children dressed up yesterday. I enjoyed hearing the children talk about their favourite books, characters and stories.

Homework has been sent home today, please can this be returned next Thursday.

Reading books will be going home on Monday and these should be returned each Friday.

Forest school and PE days will remain the same as last half term.

Wednesday PE kit.

Thursday – wellies.

I hope you have a lovely weekend.

Miss Wright.

Wow! It’s the end of the half term already! I am so proud of class 4 for the progress that they have made this half term. It is amazing to see budding historians, scientists, writer, mathematicians, athletes are more emerging.

Literacy: This week the children have written their own rhyming poems to describe the conditions in the hospitals during the Crimean war. We first looked at other poems for inspiration then explored rhyming words. The finished poems are fabulous, see if your child can remember some of theirs to tell you.

Maths: Year 1 have been focusing on length and height. We have been comparing objects visually then using cubes or rules to numerically compare the objects.

Year 2 are learning statistics skills. The focus this week has been tally charts and pictograms. We have been developing and using different keys and explaining why they are best for the pictogram that the children have drawn.

Science: This weeks science lesson finishes off this terms learning about the microhabitats in our school. The children drew the habitat forest school and identified all of the microhabitats within. We then discussed the types of animals that would live in each microhabitat.

Reading books: Your children have been reassessed to determine which colour reading books they will be bringing home next half term. For half term all children have been encouraged to bring home a sharing book from our book corner. Please continue to read your child’s reading book with them this week as reading the book 3 or more time increases your child’s fluency and understanding.

Homework: Your child has brought home maths, literacy and spelling homework to be completed. Please access this work with your child and give support where needed. A polite reminder that homework should be completed in pencil. Well done to all of the children that brought their homework in each week on time they received a certificate yesterday!

I hope you have a lovely half term!

Miss Wright

Well done Class 4 on another fabulous week. It has been great to hear the children discussing their day each afternoon focusing on what they have learnt instead of what they have done.

Literacy: Class 4 have written some amazing adventure stories this week. We have focused on writing a beginning, build up, problem and a resolution. As always the children have been using lots of wow words and amazing adjectives!

Maths: Year one have been using their times table knowledge to count in 2’s and 5’s. Then we moved onto a new area focusing on length and height. We have been measuring objects using cubes.

Year two: We have been drawing and interpreting tally charts and pictograms this week. The children spotted that we count our house points using a tally chart!

Science: We have been exploring the habitats in our school grounds and seeing how many minibeasts we can identify. We will compare these findings to the same activity we completed in November to identify the differences between autumn and winter.

Homework: Please access and support your child to complete their homework. There is spellings, maths linked to their learning this week and a creative writing task.

Have a lovely weekend!

Miss Wright