Good afternoon everyone, welcome back and Happy New Year!
We hope you all had a peaceful Christmas and spent quality time with your loved ones. It may seem like Christmas is now over but this week we celebrate the Feast of Epiphany, where the Wise Men had faith in God by following the guiding star to visit the new-born baby Jesus. We think about their gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh and consider what gifts we can give to Jesus ourself. During our time in Mass on Friday we focused upon the offertory and how this a time when we can offer Jesus our own ‘invisible gifts’. Can we be kind, caring, respectful, helpful and patient?
English - This week we have been planning and beginning to write our non-chronological reports on shipwreck coral reefs. We have thought about sentence openers, headings and subheadings and technical language to make our texts informative and interesting.
Maths - We have finished our work on adding two-digit numbers together and have progressed on to exploring subtracting a two-digit number from a two-digit number. We have focused upon using tens and ones and drawings to help us to do this.
Science - We have looked at what makes something alive. We revisited the seven life processes and realised that living things will do all of these. We learned to differentiate between things that are currently alive, were once alive and things that have never been alive using the life processes to guide us.
RE - We have thought about Epiphany and the Wise Men’’s visit. We have talked about the gifts we can offer Jesus in our actions and treatment of others. We also explored the story of Jairus’ Daughter as part of our topic on Jesus’ miracles. We discussed and wrote about the happy and sad parts of this story.
History - We revisited significance. We considered what this means and what the difference is between someone who is significant to us personally and someone who is significant to the wider world. We wrote about significant people and explained what they did which makes them so memorable and important.
PE - In indoor PE we have begun our gymnastics unit. We explored different jumps including tuck jumps, star jumps, twist jumps and pencil jumps. Our outdoor session was focused on throwing and catching.
Computing - We explored keyboards and typing. We learned about the home keys and home row and how this helps us to type much more quickly and eventually without looking. We practised typing our own names and realised we can use the shift key to create capital letters.
Art - We have been looking at ripping paper to create positive and negative stencils for drawing.
Please continue to practise the Year 1 and 2 Common Exception Words - both reading and spelling!
Please practice learning the 2, 3, 5 and 10 times tables as later this half term we will be having times table tests on these.
Other Tasks
Spelling
Mr Whetnall’s group - 10 -ly words.
Mrs Bowdell’s group - 6 -ly words.
Reading
Example SATS reading paper to complete at home.
Maths
Subtracting two-digit number worksheet
Computing
Please visit the typing club website from a device with a keyboard (f you have one) to be able to practice touch typing.
As always, the MOST important way that you can support your child is by reading regularly! Please do this as regularly as possible over the break!
Golden Award -
Writing Award -
Maths Award -
Discipleship Award -
The Wednesday Word is now available online, rather than the paper copies we used to send home pre-covid. Please click this link to access this week’s gospel.
Have a lovely weekend,
Mr Whetnall, Mrs Bowdell and Mrs Gibbons
