Good afternoon everyone,
In this week’s school liturgy we learned about the story of the ten lepers who came to Jesus seeking help from a terrible illness. Jesus was able to heal them and in their excitement nine of the lepers rushed off. However, one leper remained and dropped to his knees, thanking Jesus for the amazing gift. This story reminds us of the importance of saying thank you to God and Jesus for all the good things that happen to us. We also need to ensure that we thank our family, our friends and the other people we spend time with.
English - We have continued our work on the story Sister for Sale as part of our stories with a familiar setting unit. We have retold a key scene from another character’s point of view, written a letter to an agony aunt seeking help with our problems in character and have begun to explore how we can incorporate dialogue into our writing using speech marks effectively. Our grammar focus has been upon expanded noun phrases.
Maths - We have finished our work by counting in 3s to solve problems. We have been so impressed by the children’s confidence in this. We have also explored scales on number lines and how we can read different scales, identify numbers and estimate numbers locations. Finally, we recapped our knowledge of number bonds to 20.
Science - We have learned about the four basic needs of animals: air, water, food and shelter. We have considered how different animals meet these needs and why they are so important. We have also considered the additional needs that animals have such as protection, sleep, space and love.
RE - We have been learning about the story of Baby Moses. We identified the parts in the story which are happy and sad and retold the story in our books.
History - We have learned about Samuel Pepys and why he was so significant. We explored his birth date, family, job, interests and education. We used this information to produce posters explaining Samuel Pepys’ life.
PE - We had our welcome assembly for our new reception children so were unable to use the hall this week. In our outdoor PE session we continued to practise passing and blocking balls.
Art - We used collage and paint to explore the story of Wilberforce the Frog.
Regular Tasks
Please continue with the regular tasks sent home previously (counting in 2s, 3s, 5s and 10s; reading and writing Year 1 and 2 common exception words)
Other Tasks
Spelling - Mr Whetnall’s group - soft ‘c’ (sounds like /s/). Watch this video for more information.
Mrs Bowdell’s group - ‘ss’ and ‘ff’ sounds. There is also a handwriting practise sheet for these words.
Maths - Fact family worksheet. Write the four related facts for each family. E.g. 3, 4, 7 is 3+4=7, 4+3=7, 7-3=4, 7-4=3.
English - Expanded noun phrases worksheet - Add an adjective in each space to create expanded noun phrases.
Writing - Common exception word handwriting practise worksheets.
As always, the MOST important way that you can support your child is by reading regularly!
Golden Award - Penny - for being the personification of living ‘life in all its fullness’ - she is kind, caring and very hardworking.
Writing Award - Layla - for working so hard on developing her cursive handwriting.
Maths Award - Willow - for excellent work estimating numbers on a number line.
Class Disciple Award -
On Thursday 20th October we will be having an own clothes day to raise money for the PTA. We ask for a £1 donation. This will be set up through parentpay.
Parent’s Day
On Friday 21st October our school is closed to the children for our INSET day. This has been assigned as our parent meetings day. Parents are invited to come into school for their face to face appointment. Appointments will run from 8.30am to 10.00 am, 10.20am to 12.30pm and 1.30pm to 4.30pm. Each appointment will be exactly 10 minutes and will just give us the opportunity to talk about how your child has settled in and any targets they may have. You should have received a message asking you to book an appointment. Please do so as soon as possible to give the best opportunity for appointments that suit you.
Please bear in mind that the 10 minute appointment time will need to be strictly adhered to to ensure backlogs do not build up and I will be using a timer to ensure that I remain on track. Please be assured that this is just to ensure that I keep to the timings to ensure no lateness. Thank you.
Have a lovely weekend,
Mr Whetnall, Mrs Bowdell and Mrs Gibbons
