English – English this week we have mostly been revisiting areas already learned. Year one children have recapped on questions, singular and plural and the days of the week. Year 2 have been looking at previous practise reading and SPAG papers and learning how to answer the questions correctly. We have also discussed the importance of reading questions carefully.

Maths – Year 1 children have been using number lines this week to add and take away. They have worked really hard and shown a good understanding of this! Year 2 have looked at 2D and 3D shapes and revisited properties of shape. We have also completed a practise reasoning paper and gone over this together in class – identifying any misconceptions.

Phonics – Year 1 have looked at the alternative spelling of the ‘ow’ phoneme. Year 2 have revised present and past tense.

Geography – We started our new topic ‘Weather Experts’ this week, the children enjoyed identifying the different seasons and talking about weather expected in each season. We also discussed the difference between seasonal weather and daily weather.

Spellings – To be tested Friday 5th May 2017.

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Just a little reminder that it is Bank Holiday Monday and next week I will not be in school as I am on my Forest School course, Mrs Lupton will be present in my absence.

I have returned the SATs Booster books back to Year 2 children today. Please feel free to now work through these at your own pace, completing any pages you wish. We will complete the Year 2 tests, week beginning Monday 15th May.

Thank you for your continued support.

Miss Edwards

English: This week we have finished off our instructions unit, we make Chocolate Easter nests and then wrote a set of instructions on how to make them.

Maths: We have had a revision week in maths, year 1 have been revising work on number bonds to 10 and 20 and year 2 have been finding 1/4 and 3/4 of amounts.

Science: We finished our Science topic ‘Materials’ this week looking at different inventions and the materials that are used to make them.

History: To finish our ‘Castles’ topic the children have designed their own personal shields.

Spellings: Spellings to be tested on Friday 28th April.

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Homework: Year 1 are coming home with an Easter Diary that I’d like them to fill in over the holidays. I would like year 2 to complete pages 12 and 13 in their Maths SATs book and pages 16, 17, 18 and 19 in their English SATs books. They have also got a copy of the Easter Diary if they wish to do this activity.

Have a love Easter Break!

Miss Edwards

The children had a fantastic day on Monday at Chirk Castle! There are many more fantastic photos to appear on the website, I will do my best to get these on this weekend 🙂

English: We have continued with our instruction writing and looking specifically at time vocabulary e.g. first, second, next, then, after that, etc. The children have enjoyed making up their own special creature and writing instructions on how to catch it.

Maths: We have finished off our work on position and direction, the children enjoyed playing on the play ground with PE equipment and following instructions on where to place the objects e.g. inside a hoop, on the left hand side of the bench… year 2 children also recapped on clockwise, anticlockwise, 1/4, 1/2 and 3/4 turns and continuing patterns of shapes.

History: In our topic this week the children designed their own coat of arms and wrote about their favourite things to decorate it.

Phonics: Year 1: alternative spelling for the ‘oa’ and ‘m’ phoneme.

Year 2: alternative spellings for the vowel phonemes.

Spellings: Spellings to be tested on 7.4.17

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Homework: I would like year 2 children to complete pages 10, 35 and 36 of their KS1 Maths SAT Buster book please and hand in for Friday 7th April. If year 1 children could have a practise at counting in 2’s, 5’s and 10’s this would be great as we have been doing this in some of our starter lessons in maths.

Have a good weekend!

Miss Edwards

English – This week we have been describing characters feelings in books. The children have had some Grammar lessons. Year 1 have been using adjectives and suffixes ‘ed’ and ‘ing. Year 2 have been using contractions and suffixes ‘ful’, ‘ness’ and ‘less’.

Maths – We have been recapping on telling the time. Year 1 telling the time to the hour and half hour. Year 2 to the quarter hour and some have been challenged to the nearest five minutes.

Science – The children enjoyed their lesson experimenting with different materials, they were discussing whether materials could bend, squash, stretch etc and find out if they return to their original shape.

Spellings – To be tested on Friday 10th March

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Homework – Thank you for the homework handed in this week. I would like year 2 children to complete pages 12 and 13 (conjunction/joining words) and 20 and 21 (apostrophes). Please could they hand this in on Friday 10th March.

Thank you for your support.

Have a lovely weekend!

Miss Edwards

English – We have been looking at non-fiction reports and how these tell us information. The children have then had a go at writing their own non-fiction text about ‘Ourselves’.

Maths – This week we have been learning about money and how to make amounts in a variety of different ways using different coins. The children enjoyed playing an interactive game at the start of a lesson, this is the link if they wish to play it at home: http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks1/maths/money/play/popup.shtml

Phonics – Year 1: Alternative spellings of the ‘ai’ phoneme.

Year 2: Continuing with homophones.

History – The children have been learning about taxes in the medieval times and how these were spent on castle repairs.

Science – We have been investigating natural and man-made materials and sorting them into groups.

Spellings – 17.2.17 spellings

Homework – The children have been provided with homework to complete over half term, due in: 3.3.17. Year 2 children have been given two booklets for SAT test paper practise accompanied by a letter explaining how I’d like them completed and Year 1 have an A3 sheet on days of the week and money.

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Have a lovely half term!

Miss Edwards

English

We have continued our work on grammar this week…

Year 1: Using exclamation marks in sentences, adding ‘ing’ to words and to add ‘s’ to show a plural in our writing.

Year 2: Using commas in a list, reading and writing compound words and using apostrophes to show possession.

Maths

This week we have been learning about fractions.

Year 1: Finding ½ of a shape, finding different ways to make ½, finding ½ of a quantity and a set of objects.

Year 2: Finding ½, ¼, ¾ and 1/3 of shapes and quantities.

Phonics

Year 1: New graphemes – ou, ie, ea, oy and ir.

Year 2: Adding suffixes – ing, ed, er, est and y.

Homework

The children have been provided with a fractions worksheet for homework this week. I would like this to be returned by Friday 2^nd December.

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Nativity

Thank you for the support you have been providing the children with learning their lines. Next week we will be visiting the church whenever we have the opportunity. Please could you ensure that your child has a coat and appropriate clothing for making this visit as we expect it to be chilly!

Spellings

Spellings to be tested Friday 2^nd December.

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Have a good weekend 🙂

Miss Edwards

Just a little update about what we have been up to this week…

English

This week in English we have been looking at the settings in fairy stories e.g. a castle setting in Sleeping Beauty, gingerbread house in Hansel and Gretel, etc. We have also taken part in more role play to act out our favourite scenes, used adjectives to describe the settings (year 1) and written expanded noun phrases (year 2). The children have enjoyed drawing their favourite setting and describing it to a partner.

As homework this week, I have provided the children with a sheet to draw their favourite fairy tale character. I would like the year 1 children to write adjectives around their character to describe them e.g. beautiful, funny, scary, etc. Year 2 children have a similar sheet however I expect them to write expanded noun phrases to describe their character e.g. She was lovely, beautiful and caring. Year 2 if you can add a conjunction and extend your sentence further…even better!

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Maths

We have completed a second week looking at addition.

Year 1 – Year 1 started the week learning how to recognise one more/one less than a given number to 20. Then we explored how to add small numbers together mentally by starting with the larger number and counting on. We have also looked for patterns in addition sentences and have ended with addition word problems today.

Year 2 – Year 2 have learned how to partition 2-digit numbers into tens and ones using base ten. We then focussed on adding 2-digit numbers together, adding tens first then the ones to combine the two for an answer. Year 2 then recapped on adding 10 to a 2-digit number using a 100 square (as some children found this difficult last week), the children that grasped this were extended to add 20 and 30 to 2-digit numbers. Today we have completed addition word problems.

Phonics

Year 1 – Have been recapping on the ‘ch’ and ‘th’ phoneme.

Year 2 – Have been looking at the ‘j’ sound spelt ‘g’ before ‘e’, ‘i’ and ‘y’ e.g. gem.

Spellings

Here are this week’s spellings to be tested on Friday 7^th October.

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Have a great weekend!

Miss Edwards

Class 2 spellings handed out this week to be tested on Friday 30th September.

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Have a lovely weekend!