Good afternoon everyone,
This week we have been learning about trust. We have talked about how difficult it is to trust someone and how some people find it much harder to trust than others day. We learned about the importance of trust but how trust needs to be earned and cannot be achieved without being an honest, caring person. We learned how Jesus teaches us how to be trustworthy and that we can shine our light so that others trust us like we trust Him.
In school, we continue to focus upon our class community and on supporting each other with their emotions. We continue to use our STOP approach when someone does something we do not like and have also been focusing upon resolving conflicts in a healthy, mature manner. We discussed how admitting to a wrong choice is always the first step in repairing a broken relationship with a friend or teacher. We also discussed how it is important that we do not respond to one wrong choice with another as this can cause much more upset. We ask you to focus on this vocabulary of right and wrong choices with your children at home and help them to understand that wrong choices do not make us a bad person, but rather are an opportunity for us to learn and grow. Accepting the things we do wrong can be hard and choosing not to respond to others wrong choices with our own wrong choices is something we aim for for all our children.
English - This week we delved deeper into Lost and Found. We planned and wrote our own stories about how the penguin got to the boy’s house in the form of a letter and did lots of work on identifying adverbs in the story and experimenting writing our own adverb sentences. We learned that adverbs can go into several different places in a sentence and that this can make our writing more interesting.
Maths - We have continued to focus on addition and subtraction word problems. We have now pushed onto word problems where we need to do more than one thing to solve them. This has been tricky but we have been proud of our progress.
Science - We learned about a coastal habitat and explained how some of the living things in the sky, on the beach and in the shallow sea are adapted and suited to their habitat.
RE - We explored the story of Jesus feeding the 5000. We retold the story as a newspaper article and then used the story to write about how we can be like Jesus, discussing how anything we offer to Jesus can be made even better.
History - We explored Florence Nightingale and how she improved nursing and hospitals.
PE - In indoor PE we continued to work on balances with our partner and performed to the class. In outdoor PE we continued to develop our dribbling, passing and trapping skills with a football.
Computing - We learned how to select, copy and paste text and images into a word document.
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
Times Table Test
Last week, we did our first times table test. Lots of children could not recall their five times table facts. Therefore I have set this again as a practise for a test next week.
Maths
Money worksheet.
English
Mary Seacole reading comprehension activity.
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 - Macie - for working so hard on her handwriting in History.
Writing Award - Jacob - for a super letter from the penguin.
Maths Award - Finlay - for his excellent verbal reasoning and problem solving.
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.
I hope to be able to organise Assess, Plan, Do, Review and SEN meetings to discuss and update targets for your child if they have a plan in place. I will be in touch to arrange these when possible.
Have a lovely weekend,
Mr Whetnall, Mrs Bowdell and Mrs Gibbons
