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What a fantastic week we've had in our mixed Year 1 and 2 class! We've been busy learning, creating, and exploring new ideas across all subjects, and the children's enthusiasm has been brilliant.
Star Learner of the Week: Maia! A huge congratulations to Maia for being our Star Learner! She has shown kindness to others throughout the week and demonstrated great determination in Maths, especially when working through some tricky problems. Well done, Maia! Literacy Last week, we focused on our Phonics assessments. Everyone worked really hard to show how much they've learned this term, and we are very proud of the progress they've made. Maths In Maths, we’ve been diving into subtraction. The children have been practising with both single and double-digit numbers, and they are starting to get really confident using their strategies. Design and Technology Our Moving Monster toys are complete! The class has done a brilliant job creating their monsters using pivots and a linkage system to help them move. The designs were fantastic, and each one was unique—well done to all the budding engineers! PSHE This week, we had an important discussion about bullying. We talked about what bullying can look like, how it makes people feel, and what we can do if we see or experience it. The children showed great maturity in their understanding. Science In Science, we explored how shadows are formed. The children learned that when an opaque object blocks a light source, a shadow is created. We had fun experimenting with different objects to see how their shadows changed size and shape. History Our History lessons took us into the world of the famous scientist Stephen Hawking. We explored his incredible achievements and how his discoveries changed the way we understand space and time. The children were fascinated by his story! Reminders Harvest Festival is coming up this week, and we can’t wait to celebrate together. Children's Book Look is also happening this week! Don't forget to come and have a look at all the fantastic work your child has been doing so far this term. Kind regards, Mrs Budiman
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Class Blog - Year 1 and 2
What a fantastic week we’ve had in Year 1 and 2! There has been so much learning and excitement across all our subjects. Let’s take a look at what we’ve been up to. 🌟 **Star Learner of the Week**: Wade 🌟 A big congratulations to Wade, our Star Learner of the week! Wade has shown amazing dedication in all his work, especially in Literacy and DT. Keep up the great work, Wade! 📚 **Literacy** This week, we wrapped up our stories based on the book *Oliver's Stick*. The children did a fantastic job adding their own creative twists to the story, and we couldn’t be prouder of their hard work. Each story was unique and showed how much effort and imagination the children put in. Well done, everyone! ➕➖ **Maths** In Maths, we’ve been working hard on addition and subtraction. The children are growing more confident each day, and it’s been great to see them using different strategies to solve problems. Keep practising those number bonds and subtraction facts at home! 🎨 **DT (Design Technology)** This week, we explored how to draw a dragon’s head for our exciting toy project. The children are designing a dragon that will use a special linkage system to move! Everyone's designs are looking fantastic, and we can’t wait to see how these will transform into a working toy. 🔬 **Science** We became real scientists this week, creating our own **Reflection Checkers**! The children used their checkers to investigate which surfaces around the classroom are reflective. They were very excited to find out which materials reflected the most light! 📖 **History** In History, we learned about the inspirational story of **Mary Seacole**, a brave woman who helped care for soldiers during the Crimean War. The children were amazed by her courage and the important role she played in history. We had a great discussion about why her story is still important today. It’s been another busy but wonderful week! The children have worked incredibly hard, and we are so proud of their dedication and enthusiasm. Have a lovely weekend, everyone! Mrs. Budiman 😊 Beech Class Blog – Week of Learning Highlights!
This week in Beech Class, we have had an exciting time full of learning, teamwork, and brilliant achievements! A special shoutout goes to our *Star Learner*, Harper! Harper has shown incredible determination and motivation in her writing. She has worked exceptionally hard, making great strides in her storytelling and sentence construction. Well done, Harper, we are so proud of you! Literacy 🌟 In Literacy, the children have been exploring the wonderful world of 'Stanley’s Stick'. We have been sequencing our story sentences, focusing on making sure the story flows in the right order. Year 2 have been working extra hard to write larger quantities of work, producing more independent writing. It's fantastic to see their confidence and creativity growing! Year 1 have been focusing on building strong sentence construction skills. They are learning how to use capital letters at the start of sentences and full stops at the end. They’ve made great progress! Math 🧮 In Maths, we completed our learning on place value and wrapped up the unit with assessments. Everyone gave their best effort, and now we’re diving into our next exciting topic: 'Addition and Subtraction'! The children are enthusiastic about their new challenges and are showing brilliant problem-solving skills. History 🔍 In History, we learned all about the remarkable 'Marie Curie'. The children were fascinated to discover her legacy as a pioneering female scientist. We discussed her important work and how her discoveries still impact the world today. The children were inspired by her bravery and determination. Computing 💻 This week in Computing, we explored the different types of technology we find in the world around us, both inside and outside our homes. The children enjoyed spotting everyday tech such as streetlights, traffic lights, computers, and kitchen appliances. They learned how technology helps us in so many ways every day. PSHE 🤝 In PSHE, we had a thoughtful discussion on 'How to Be a Good Friend'. The children shared some wonderful ideas on kindness, listening, and how to support each other. It was lovely to see how much they care about being kind and considerate to their classmates. --- What a fantastic week it’s been in Beech Class! We are looking forward to another exciting week of learning and growing together. Keep up the great work, everyone! 😊 **Year 1 Class Blog - What We've Been Learning This Week!**
This week in Year 1, we've been busy with lots of exciting learning across all our subjects! First, we want to give a HUGE congratulations to Amelia, our *Star Learner* of the week! 🌟 Amelia has been a fantastic role model to her classmates, showing kindness, patience, and hard work in everything she does. Well done, Amelia! Literacy In Literacy, we’ve been working on creating leaflets inspired by the book 'Here We Are' by Oliver Jeffers. The children did a brilliant job using the book’s themes to write and design their own informative leaflets. We are so proud of their creativity and hard work! Maths In Maths, we’ve been continuing with our place value learning. We've been focusing on numbers up to 20 and even looking at numbers up to 100! The children have been using number lines to help them understand one more and one less. It’s great to see them growing in confidence with these important number skills. Science In Science, we explored how light travels. The children made *slit boxes* to show how light travels in straight lines and how it reflects off objects. It was such a fun and hands-on way to learn about light, and everyone was fascinated to see it in action! Design Technology (DT) In DT, we’ve started planning for our 'Moving Monster' project! We discussed who we will make our monsters for, thinking about the different people who might love a creative, moving monster toy. The children are full of wonderful ideas and we can’t wait to get started on building these! PSHE In PSHE, we talked about feelings and how they can affect our bodies. The children shared their own experiences and we discussed what we can do when we feel different emotions, like excitement, sadness, or anger. It was a great opportunity for everyone to reflect and think about how to handle big feelings in a healthy way. It’s been an incredible week full of learning and fun! Keep up the great work, Year 1! Have a lovely weekend! Mrs Budiman **Year One Class Blog – Weekly Round-Up**
What a fantastic week we’ve had in Year One! Let’s dive into what we’ve been learning. 🌟 **Star Learner of the Week** A huge congratulations to Brooke, our star learner this week! She has shown amazing effort in all her work, especially during Literacy and Maths. Well done, Brooke! 📚 **Literacy** In Literacy, we have begun to plan for an exciting project. We're going to make leaflets based on our class book *Here We Are* by Oliver Jeffers. The children have come up with some wonderful ideas, and we can’t wait to see their creativity shine through! ➗ **Maths** In Maths, we have been working on place value to 20 and beyond. The children have been super focused as we explore numbers, their values, and how they fit together. Keep practising at home, too! 🤸♂️ **PE** This week in PE, we had some fantastic gym lessons with the Saints coaches. The children learned new gymnastic skills, and everyone had lots of fun jumping, balancing, and tumbling their way through the lessons. 💻 **Computing** In Computing, we explored the different types of technology around us in the classroom. The children were excited to point out all the gadgets and devices they see every day! 👑 **History** In History, we’ve been learning about famous people, and this week we focused on George Stephenson, the "Father of Railways." The children loved hearing about his incredible contributions to transportation. 🙏 **Thank You to Our Parents** A big thank you to all the parents who attended the information evening on Wednesday. We really appreciate your time and support, and we hope you found the session helpful. We’ve had a busy and wonderful week, and we’re excited for the learning adventures ahead. Have a lovely weekend! Lots more bee bots fun today. We have got very good at drawing detailed maps and programming the bots. We have learnt left and right, 1/4, 1/2 and 3/4 turns and clockwise and anti-clockwise. It was tricky to program the bee bot with a string of instructions. Earlier in the week we worked with year three on Scratch programming.
We had a lovely visit to the church today. Reverend Spence showed us around the inside and outside of the church and explained many of the objects and the activities that take place in the church. The children asked some excellent questions. In Maths we had a no pencils lesson. We worked in groups to create a map and to write a program for the bee bot to move around. We use the language of position and direction. We talked about what makes a good team leader. Well done! Have a lovely weekend. Dear Beech class, What a lovely week we've had! We wrote up our animal stories with Mrs Ahmad, and now all have a book which we are really proud of. We had a lovely trip to Rosemoor which started with a bit of a blip when the coach was 10 minutes late. It was very exciting travelling on the coach, and the children enjoyed spotting windmills, herds of cows and fresh hay bales. Our morning at Rosemoor was spent in the classroom, learning all about how plants grow and potting our own nasturtium seeds. We hunted for interesting leaves and petals through the rose and cool garden. There were many members of the general public who asked us what we were up to and who were impressed with how curious the children were. In the afternoon, we had free time and decided to head through the tunnel to the stumpery and the play area. The giant see-saw was a big hit and the children soon learnt how to work as a group to move it back and forth. It was very special watching the children enjoy themselves and we are very thankful for such super day out! We have continued learning about time in maths, moving onto telling the time to the nearest 5 minutes. We looked at number bonds to 60 today and realised that they help us when telling the time 'to' the hour. For example, when the minute hand is pointing towards 35 on the starter clock, the time is 25 to the hour. We also found out that the 5 times table is very helpful when telling the time. Time is very confusing to learn and as grown ups we make a lot of assumptions about what is obvious. When we start looking at misconceptions, a lot of the rules of reading analogue clocks are not obvious at all. Take away the minute markings and adults can still read a clock, but for a child 10 minutes to 2 and 10 past 10 look very similar. (see the example below) In English today, we wrote recounts about our day out. We focused on using time adverbials, adjectives and technical words to structure our writing. I was very impressed that children could explain germination really clearly. Finlay was chosen to be a seed at Rosemoor and other children poured water, soil and provided heat in order to help him grow - this made the learning really memorable for the children! In Science today, we consolidated our Rosemoor trip by recapping the main parts of a plant, germination and pollination. We really enjoyed using cheese puffs to mimic pollen. We finished off the week by having some golden time in the nature area. Have a lovely weekend! Year 2 team Hi everyone, Apologies for the late blog - it has been a busy few days. Mrs Ahmad and I are so proud of Beech class for completing their SATs tests. Over the week we covered 2 reading papers, an arithmetic and reasoning maths paper. The children were really mature in their approach - trying their hardest but also very relaxed. While the KS1 SATs are no longer statutory, they are very helpful and support us in our assessment of how your child is doing. As well as SATs, we also continued reading analogue clocks. It's very important we are confident reading half past and quarter past/ to as we are soon moving onto telling the time to the nearest 5 minutes. If you get a chance over the holidays, please practise this. The format we use in year 2 is "quarter to 7", "half past 9" etc, rather than 6.45 and 9.30. Bringing this in too early will confuse the children if they are not secure at this stage. In Science this week we learnt more about materials. We thought about how to sort materials and worked in teams to think about different ways of sorting. Thinking scientifically (rather than colour, use, size) we grouped into raw and synthetic, waterproof and absorbent and soft/ hard/ bendy etc. It was nice to see the class talking in small groups, taking turns and listening to each others ideas respectfully. In PE, we looked at the difference between jogging, sprinting and running. We learnt that a marathon runner would easily beat us in a 100m sprint race and then carry on running at the same pace for 2 hours to complete a world class marathon time. We jogged around the long track and sprinted along the 100m track. We thought about how our bodies felt when we were jogging and sprinting. We also practised the hurdles, making sure to jump using our dominant leg. Well done Beech class - it's been a fantastic half term. Have a great rest! Year 2 team Hi everyone, What have we been up to in Beech class this week? In English, we have finished writing our own versions of Tadpole's promise. We followed a repeating pattern of events and key phrases. We thought about how animals change and about broken promises. We have looked at a practise SATs reading paper and talked about some strategies for answering the questions. In Maths, we have been looking at different types of questions ready for our SATS tests next week. We learnt to read the question carefully and underline the key words. We also learnt to double check our answers for small mistakes. With Mrs Ahmad we have been practising how to read the time to the nearest quarter of an hour. One thing to practise before next week is adding and subtracting 2 digit numbers mentally by counting back and forth in 10s and 1s. In Science, we went around the school hunting for natural and synthetic materials. We talked about natural and manmade objects and learnt all about plastics. In Art, we enjoyed working with clay to make models! In PE, we have been comparing jogging and running. We also looked at how to jump, how to run up and land properly. In RE, we carried on talking about forgiveness. Jude made an excellent point that if we don’t get things wrong, we will never learn. Everyone makes mistakes – the important thing is that we are sorry and forgive ourselves and each other. I have sent home quite a lot of homework this week – please don’t panic, as this will be for 2 weeks. If your child would like to do it all before next week, they are SATs style questions and will benefit them before the tests next week. If you would prefer to spread the learning over 2 weeks and half term, then that’s absolutely fine. Have a great weekend! Year 2 team Greetings, Beech Class! It's been quite an exciting week filled with lots of learning. Let's dive into what we've been up to.
In English, we've been reading a lovely story called "Tadpole's Promise". It's all about promises and how things change. We've been thinking about how we change, just like tadpoles turning into frogs. Then, we got creative and planned our own stories using pictures. Our stories had two animals and three broken promises. It was fun to let our imaginations run wild! Math has been all about fractions. We've been learning how to understand fractions better by linking them to food - like when you have a piece of something and want to know how much of the whole it is. We've also been comparing fractions, which means figuring out if one piece is bigger or smaller than another. We finished the week with a quick assessment on fractions. Next week, we will be looking at time and doing some SATs revision. In Science, we've been doing a hands-on experiment. We wanted to know which materials soak up water and which ones don't. It was fascinating to see how different things act when they get wet! We took a trip back in time to Ancient Egypt during history class. With some toilet paper, we pretended to be mummies! It was a fun way to learn about what Ancient Egyptians did with their dead. In Religious Education, we talked about forgiveness using a story about a disciple named Matthew who was a tax collector. We wondered why it can be hard to forgive our friends sometimes but easier to forgive family members. We thought that was because we communicate better with our family and we're more used to having ups and downs with them. We learnt that forgiveness is central to the Christian faith and that we can all be forgiven if we are sorry. In PE, we've been getting active and enjoying the wonderful weather! We've been analysing how our bodies move when jumping and practising running and jumping over sets of mini hurdles. It's been a blast moving our bodies and having fun with our friends. In assembly, we met Frank, who showed us how he lives an active and very positive life with a significant disability. He talked to us about trying our best and being kind to each other. He taught us to celebrate our differences and accept each other for who we are. The children had some excellent questions. Beech Class, you've all been awesome this week. Keep up the great work, and let's keep exploring and learning together! |
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