This Week's Learning in Year 1

This Week's Learning in Year 1

 Literacy

In Literacy this week we have been following the journey of recycling when it is put out on the curb in the orange bags. The children were fascinated with the process of where it went and how it was used. 

The children then wrote about this process in their books, using picture prompts to help encourage independence. 

Maths 

This week in Maths we have been looking at making equal groups and arrays. Arrays are a visual or practical (cubes) way of representing multiplication. See example picture:

The children have been making arrays using cubes and drawing pictures of them in their books. Next week we will be focusing on doubling.

History 

This week in History we have been continuing with the Tudors. We have been comparing life now to life in Tudor times. We baked some bread using a Tudor recipe and a modern day recipe and really enjoyed getting stuck in with the baking. After, we compared the finished products. Almost all of us preferred the taste of the modern day bread, we thought it was very strange that the Tudor recipe contained black treacle!

Science

We are continuing to explore materials and their properties. This week the children used recycling to create new objects. Some were games, some were toys and some were just creative pieces of art. The children spoke about different properties of the materials e.g- water proof, strong, bendy, soft, hard. We then took a proto of them with their creation and printed it out for the children to label. 

Many thanks 

The Year One Team

Year 1- Celebration Certificates Week 2

  

Year 1- Week 2 Celebration Certificates

In Walnut Class, Dunsin, for always working hard in every lesson. Dunsin is a role model to others in her class and always does her '3 jobs'. Well done Dunsin!

In Apricot Class, Teddy, for always having an enthusiastic approach to writing. Teddy is growing more confident with his writing and this week has been able to use conjunctions and apply his sounds, keep up the brilliant work Teddy!

In Beech Class, Sophie, for her effort in maths this week. Sophie has been working hard on her multiplication and showing her working out by drawing groups and arrays.

In Walnut Class, Flynn, for independently writing about why we don’t drop litter. Lovely work Flynn!

In Apricot Class, Tayla, for her writing on where recycling goes once you’ve put it in the bin. Tayla applied her sounds and used time connectives in her brilliant writing. Great work Tayla!

In Beech Class, Billy, for his excellent writing. Billy has been working hard in his sounds in phonics and is using his word mat to include them in his writing.

In Walnut Class, Mason, for working hard this week at baking bread and Tudor bread. Mason confidently shared his thoughts and ideas with others in his group. Fantastic work Mason! 

In Apricot Class, Gabi, for designing and creating a brilliant game with junk modelling. Gabi used different materials to create his game and was able to describe their properties. Well done Gabi!

In Beech Class, Zayd. After learning about time this week in class. Zayd wanted to create a resource that helped him.  Zayd made a watch in class and inspired others to do the same.

Happy teacher award- Archie S in Walnut Class for working very hard with his work station activities. 

Have a great weekend!

The Year 1 Team

Year 2 certificates 30.4.21

Well done to our certificate winners in Year 2!

Rowan

E for Excellence - Reagan for his hard work in Maths he has shown great understanding of multiplying numbers together using a variety of methods.

Star Writer - Rosie for her hard work in Literacy this week, she has been working hard to improve her sentence structure by including capital letters and full stops.

Certificate of Presentation- Francesca, for working hard to ensure her work is always neat and presentable.

Mulberry

E for Excellence - Manreet - For being a great role model to everybody. Manreet is always kind and polite to her friends and teachers and will always try her best!

Star Writer - Grace - For creating some great sentences about noises she could might hear in a busy city.

Certificate of Presentation - Shivanshi - For working hard to make sure her handwriting is neat and joined.

Pine

E for Excellence - Poppy-MAe for her fantastic effort using commas correctly in her writing this week.

Star Writer - Manuella for working hard to apply her sounds and write independently.

Certificate of Presentation- Callum for working really hard on his handwriting this week!

Year 2 - Week One Celebrations

Year 2 - Week one celebrations 

 

                                      Year 2 has had an EXCELLENT start to the new term and have been awarded with certificates  for their hard efforts. 

Here are this weeks winners:

E for E - 

Pine- Lewis 

Mulberry -  Lucas 

Rowan- Louie-Ray 

Star writer - 

Pine- Aisha 

Mulberry-   Darci

Rowan- Sahir

Resilience- 

Lillie-Rose

Certificate of Presentation- 

Mulberry - Jake 

Rowan - Areya 

                                              Have a great week! 

                                                      Year 2 team 

Planting In Year 2

Planting In Year 2 

In Science, we have been looking at plants. Last week, we planted some beans using 'hydroponics'. The children enjoyed creating their green house using zip lock bags and have been watching how their beans change each day.

We discussed what conditions plants need to grow and have been practicing using the correct vocabulary for the different parts of the plants.

After observing the plants all week, we noticed that they were soon outgrowing their bags! We decided to plant some outside so that we could continue to watch them grow. Some children even decided to measure their bean plants and drew tables to keep track of how much taller they grow each week. A great way to practice measuring in standard units!

Year 2 will be professional gardeners in no time! Keep a look out for some more of our science activities this half term.
 

Year One- Home Learning

 

Good morning,

We have provided a timetable with activities for you to follow. We have provide 3 activities but understand that many parents will have commitments and may not be able to complete all of the activities. 

Click here to access todays timetable

Have a lovely day.

kind regards 

The Year One Team 

Year 1- Week One Celebration Certificate

 

 

Year 1 - Week 1 Celebration Certificates

Elliot in Walnut, for fabulous maths work this week. Elliot was working hard with his 10 times table. Well done Elliot!

Jide, in Apricot, for completing his number sentences that had been set and then doing more number sentences independently. Fantastic work Jide, keep it up!

Abdul-Aziz, in Beech, for his efforts in literacy this week. Abdul-Aziz has had some thoughtful discussions about what we could do to help look after the planet. He then wrote down his ideas independently, using a sound mat for support. He used his neatest writing and re-read his work checking for full stops and capital letters.

Amelia, in Walnut, for writing about how we can look after our environment.

Kemar, in Apricot, for writing a brilliant sentence about recycling. Kemar thought of his sentence and then used his sounds and finger spaces to write it down. Great work Kemar, well done!

Teddy, in Beech, for working hard in phonic and learning his sound. He has also been using his sound mat in class to help him spell new words.

Resilience- Lemar for joining in with carpets sessions and trying his tasks. Well done Lemar!

Resilience- Archie T- for working hard with his sounds and reading this week. Well done Archie! 

Resilience - Adra, for thinking carefully about her reasons for looking after the world and for working very hard to make sure her sentences were perfect, well done Adra!

Reciprocity - Louis, for working extremely hard this week. Louis completed both his History and Literacy work completely independently and to a high standard, super work Louis!

Reciprocity- Darren , for the amazing way he has settled into Beech Class. Darren joined us on Monday with a big smile on his face and has been working hard in class and making lots o new friends. We are very happy to have Darren as our newest member!

Have a great weekend!

The Year 1 Team

Year 1- Week 1 Learning

Week 1- Welcome back!

Hello!

We have loved being back this week and getting stuck straight into our learning.

Literacy

We have started a new topic based around the book called, 10 things I can do to help my world. 

The book has prompted lots of interesting discussions about what we do and the things we could change. The children have been do some writing about what they do to help the environment. 

In literacy next week we are looking at what happens to our recycling when we put it in our orange sacks and leave it out on the pavement ready for collection. 

Maths 

This week we have been have been practising our 2, 5 and 10 time tables. We have also begun to look at multiplication, grouping equal amounts and adding the groups together. 

In maths next week we are looking at arrays and how to show our working out by drawing arrays.

Science 

We are linking science in with out book '10 things I can do to help my world' and we are looking at materials. We started by sorting and classifying them into categories such as; plastic, paper, mental, wood. Then the children discovered that some objects were made from more than one material. We then used a Venn diagram to dort the objects, looking closely at all the materials it was made from. 

In science next week we are looking at how to just at least 3 different materials to make something new. We will be naming the materials and discussing the properties of them. 

History 

In History next week we are following a Tudor recipe and making Tudor style bread, We will discuss how the Tudors would cook bread and how we now cook bread and why. 

Outdoors

As part of our wider school plan to plant more flowers and vegetables in the school grounds, Year 1 have planted lots of flowers and vegetables this week. We look forward to taking care of them and watching them grow.

Have a great weekend! 

 

Year 2 - Week 4 Celebration Certificates

                                      

Year 2 have had a EXCELLENT week  and have earned themselves lots of certificates.

Here are this weeks winners:

E for E - 

Pine-  Aida for her fantastic story writing! Aids used her story mountain to write her own version of ‘Lost and Found’.

Mulberry -  

Rowan - 

Star writer - 

Mulberry- Ryan - For his fantastic version of 

Rowan- 

Pine -  Eleni for working hard on her story writing this week

4Rs- 

Reflectiveness - Megan - For reflecting on PSHE lessons and spreading her positivity across the whole of Year 2.