Diwali – creating Rangoli patterns

Today, we have been looking at the festival Diwali. We linked our story sequencing skills and the use of FANBOYS to a lovely story called Dipla’s Diwali. Then, this afternoon we went outside with Miss Albone to create some beautiful Rangoli patterns.

The Scarecrows’ wedding

What a lovely way to end our week! We finished off our lovely week of learning with a scavenger hunt around our school looking to make our own twist on the Scarecrows wedding list. Their list was linked to their farm and the surroundings, so we changed a few things to make it more autumnal…. Read more »

Class 2 spellings & My Maths

This weeks spellings are: little, all, just, have, with, about, their, there. These may look easy but these have been taken from the children’s writing books where they are not using the correct spellings whilst writing. My Maths homework is due and new my maths homework will be on Wednesday. I will chase for this… Read more »

The Scarecrows’ wedding!

This week in Class 2, we are putting our focus on Harvest and why we celebrate it. To start off our learning we are reading a brilliant Julia Donaldson book called The Scarecrows’ wedding. We have started making a story board about this story and did lots of sequencing this morning too. We were very… Read more »

Salt dough and baking!

Well, we have had a very busy week in Class 2! We have been looking at fossils…Mary Anning, different types of fossils (trace …) and ammonites. Make sure you ask the children about their baking (what type of fossil is it?) And how we made our very own ammonite fossil… Well done for such a… Read more »

Hopscotch Phonics

Morning all, We have been working really hard on our Phonics daily and trying to make it easy to do, fun as well as practical. Our latest activity is nice and simple – all you need is your sounding out skills and chalk! The rules: Single sound is a single jump. Digraph is a simple,… Read more »

Tricky and high frequency words

Good morning everyone, Please find attached Phase 2-5 tricky words and the 100 High frequency words. We do lots of learning around these (spelling, reading & recognising), especially our phase tricky words so any additional help at home is always great. Thank you for your ongoing support and please let us know if you need… Read more »

Spellings, tricky and HF words.

Good morning all, I have been setting weekly spellings since the start of term (which I will continue) but these will continue with blog posts only and not using print outs. If you cannot access the blog, I will have the children to write down their spellings at the start of the week for them… Read more »

Earrings on P.E Days

Hello all, Please remember that on P.E days (Tues a.m. and Fri a.m. – Class 2 and Tues p.m. – Class 1) earrings can not be worn. If earrings are worn that day, the child must be able to take them out independently. Tape can not be worn over the earrings as this is against… Read more »

English parent workshop

First of all, a big thank you to those who were able to make it to this mornings workshop. Myself and the children thoroughly enjoyed having you in to see how we approach spelling. For those who missed it, please do no worry. I will upload my power point below as well as pictures and… Read more »