Good morning everyone,

Year One have thoroughly enjoyed Health Week this week. We have been super busy this week taking part in lots of different activities and learning. Here’s a list of some things we have been up to:

• Pro Strike
• Cheerleading
• Tennis
• Tag Rubgy
• Parachute activities
• Gymnastics
• Dodgeball
• Learning how to make an emergency call (our homework is to learn how to use our parents’ phones when making an emergency call and to try and learn our home addresses!)
• First Aid
• Water and Sun Safety
• Tasting lots of fruit in class and at the tuck shop (some we liked, some not so much!)

Check out our lovely pictures!

What a jam packed week! Hope you all have a lovely, restful weekend! Miss Walker and Mrs Days x

Good morning everyone!

Phonics

Well done to all of the Year 1 children who completed their Phonics quizzes a couple of weeks ago – we are very proud of you! Year One are fantastic using their sound buttons which really helped the children to not only read the words, but to also identify graphemes, digraphs, trigraphs and split digraphs.

Maths

Year 1 have been learning position and direction recently. We have been consolidating our directional and positional language such as ‘left’, ‘right’, ‘below’ and ‘above’. The children did a great job describing position during their Maths lesson.

PE

On Thursday, Year One have been continuing their topic ‘Games’. On Thursday, Year One enjoyed learning about the rules of dodgeball and absolutely loved playing the game!

Our visit to Lanchester Library

A couple of weeks ago, Year One walked down to Lanchester Library to enjoy some lovely books in celebration of the Queen’s Jubilee. The library staff read ‘Peppa’s Royal Party’, ‘The Queen’s knickers’ and ‘The Queen’s handbag’. The children LOVED all three books and especially loved learning about the different types of knickers the Queen wear to lots of special occasions! Year One were excellent and sensible and they loved our trip to the library!

We hope you all have a lovely weekend everyone. Miss Walker and Mrs Days x

This week Class 2 have had a lot of fun creating their own glove puppets! They took inspiration from this term’s History topic of Seaside Holidays and the Punch and Judy shows which were very popular in Victorian times. Using their designs from last week, the children used a card template to carefully cut out shaped pieces of felt. Then they used a running stitch to join the two pieces of fabric together. The best part of the lesson was adding decorations by sewing on eyes, ears, buttons, mouths etc… The children have created wonderful, appealing puppets and they quickly gained confidence threading their own needles, though tying knots was the tricky part! Mrs Smith and Mrs Troy were very impressed by their diligent, careful work.  

We finished our history topic by asking when and how seaside holidays became popular. We learned that the Royal Family were very keen on trips to the seaside, especially King George III and holidays became popular and more accessible with the arrival of the train. Year 2 are very keen historians and love learning about the past!  

Finally, this week along with Reception Class and Year 1, Year 2 spent Tuesday afternoon learning German! They quickly mastered some basic phrases, including greetings and numbers to ten. They are looking forward to learning more German in the future. 

Have a relaxing and enjoyable half term holiday! 

From Mrs Smith and Mrs Troy and Jack. 

Good morning everyone!

Maths

Year One have been learning about position and direction this week. On Wednesday, we practised our use of directions by directing our partner (who had their eyes closed) to their spot on the yard. We had to use language such as ‘take 3 steps forward, take 1 step backwards, turn one quarter to the left).

History

Year One had fun on the laptops by dragging Kings and Queens on to a timeline in the right order with the help of Miss Walker. We have also been learning about Grace Darling, a lady who lived in Northumberland who also made history by going out to the stormy sea with her father to save 9 sailors. The children loved learning about Grace Darling using BBC’s True Stories and had to listen out for answers to inform their fact file.

Art

Look at Year One’s beautiful collages inspired by the Rainbow Fish using different textures!

Enrichment Day

Well done to everyone for taking part in lots of activities during enrichment days this week! Well done to KS1 for their participation in rounders and for their lovely jubilee crafts that they did with Miss Walker.

Have a lovely half term break everyone! Miss Walker and Mrs Days x

This week Class 2 have been exploring the world of puppets during their Design Technology lessons. We started off looking at simple finger puppets, then we looked at a range of puppets made from different materials such as wood and metal. We discussed as a class how the puppets had been made, how they moved and which we preferred. We then examined puppets made from fabric and evaluated them following a set of criteria. The best part of this week’s lesson was designing our very own puppet! We are now looking forward to making them following our designs and trying to achieve a good finish….

On Monday this week, we continued to explore the theme of  ‘Opposites’ in our PE lesson. Based on the arrival of Spring, the pupils have now created a dance, incorporating the movements we have used so far this term.

In our history lesson this week, we became Victorians enjoying a holiday at the seaside. The pupils wrote postcards and letters home to friends and family members to describe their holiday on the coast. The pupils included lots of fascinating facts that we have learned about this term. Popular topics included bathing fully clothed, eating fish and chips and ice-cream and watching Punch and Judy Puppet Shows!

Here is some of the work produced by Albie and Emelie:

Finally, this week, the Year 2 children have finished their formal assessments in English reading and Maths. The pupils have all done their best and worked hard. Many enjoyed the tasks and asked if they could do more?!

Have a relaxing weekend!

From Mrs Smith, Mrs Troy and Jack, who has been an invaluable member of Class 2 over the past fortnight. Thank you for all your help Jack!

Good morning everyone!

Maths

Year One have been counting to  100 this week as well as counting in 2s, 5s and 10s. We are fantastic mathematicians and enjoyed using cubes and counters to help us count in multiples. Miss Walker and Mrs Days are so proud!

English and Phonics

Year One have started a new book called ‘Small Knight and George and the Royal Chocolate Cake’. This week, we pretended to be the main character in our class book and wrote royal invitations to invite everyone to a special  party to welcome the King and Queen. We have also been reading and sorting real and nonsense words and applying all of our phonics sounds that we have learned in Year One.

Science

Year One have been learning all about seasonal changes between Spring and Summer. We discussed how the amount of daylight changes between Spring and Summer and discussed important events that happen between Spring and Summer such as Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Easter and even some of our Year One’s birthdays! We talked about what we wear between Spring and Summer and created a class bar chart. We compared our bar chart to others we have done in previous seasons to see how our clothes have changed across seasons.

DT and Art

Year One designed their very own castles over the Easter holidays and used their design plans to create their very own castles. Just check out their amazing work! Sadly, we couldn’t put pictures of everyone’s castles but we can honestly say that they were all brilliant! Mrs Days has also been teaching Year One how to print in the style of William Morris. On Tuesday, the children collected their own leaves and created their very own nature prints – look how brilliant they are!

Well done for a fantastic week, Year One! We hope you all have a lovely weekend. Miss Walker and Mrs Days x