What a fantastic week Team Indigo and Team Royal have had. Take a look at all our wonderful learning....

 

Maths

This week in maths we have been focusing on addition using a 100 square and even challenging ourselves using a 200 square! We learnt to add a 2 digit number to another 2 digit number, by partitioning the smallest number first, we then added the tens then the ones.

 

RWI/English

This week in RWI and English we have been concentrating on our set 3 sounds and re-reading our sentences to check it makes sense. We have also been checking for capital letters, spelling mistakes and full stops.

 

Topic

This week in Topic we have been historians and learnt about people from the past. We looked at Quin Shi Huang who was one of the most important rulers in Chinese history. We learnt that Quin Shi Huang wanted to live forever and built his own terracotta army! We thought we would have a go at making our own out of clay!

This week we have also learnt about Florence Nightingale, who became a nurse and helped soldiers who were hurt in the Crimean. We looked at a timeline of her life and why she was called ‘The Lady of the Lamp’. Later in the week we also wrote a letter pretending to be a nurse during the Crimean War just like Florence Nightingale.

To end the week, we learnt about Martin Luther King and about his famous speech in Washington. We learnt about Martin Luther King’s dream and how it showed our school values of Equality, Courage, Respect and Kindness.

 

SPaG

This week in SPaG, we have been focusing our learning on common exception words. We learnt to read and spell some of our common exception words through word searches, bingo and our favourite lesson, becoming a word detective and going on a scavenger hunt!

 

Love2Learn

Sent home Friday 30^th September to be returned by Wednesday 6th October

This week for your Love to Learn task, we would love for you to share with us who you are going to be dressing up as, for our people from the past day. You could showcase this in forms of drawings, photos, facts or even a poster! We will be sharing our learning towards the end of the week.

 

Harvest Festival

We have been learning two songs this week in anticipation for our Harvest Festival. We would love for you to practise the songs at home. Please find below links to the videos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExEJE1kDx7s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRQEQgyGAGA

 

Other News

Monday is our Sports Project day. Please can children still wear their full school uniform with trainers.

Tuesday is our P.E day. Please can the children come to school in their P.E kit. Just a reminder this should be blue or black shorts/trousers and a plain white top.

 

Doors will continue to open in the morning at 8:30am. Registration will be at the slightly earlier time of 8:45am (doors close at this time).

 

As the weather is beginning to get colder please can children bring in a coat which is clearly named.

We are also fortunate enough to have a woodland area at school where we can learn and explore and a playground that can accumulate many puddles. Please if you can, could your child bring in wellies that are named in a bag. We have facilities where they can be kept at school.

 

Read at 3

Thank you to all the parents, grandparents and adults that were able to attended last weeks Read at 3 with the children. It was lovely to see you all and hear everyone read. We welcome you all to come to hear your child Read at 3 if you can every Wednesday. Please note this is for the full 15 minutes and children will be unable to leave any earlier. The children will be ready for you to come and hear their wonderful reading at 3.

Please note this week on Wednesday 5^th October Team Indigo have unfortunately had to cancel their Read at 3. We will all see you the following week on Wednesday 12^th October.

 

Key dates to remember:

Friday 14^th October – We would like to invite the children to come into school dressed as someone from the past. These costumes can be completely homemade and there is no pressure to but a costume at all. We will be dressed in homemade outfits ourselves.

Additionally, on Friday 14^th October we would like to invite you to our assembly where we can show you all what we have been up to. More details to follow shortly.

Tuesday 18^th October – individual photos

Wednesday 19^th October at 9am Year 2 Harvest Festival

 

Term 1 ends Friday 21^st October

Half Term 22^nd -30^th October

Development Day – Monday 31^st October

Term 2 begins Tuesday 1^st November

 

Miss Hall, Miss Davey and Mrs Barlow