24th April '26
We have had another busy week "living life in all its fullness". The week started off with Year 2 looking at the features of a newspaper report as they are going to write their own newspaper report linked with the story of Cinderella that we have been reading. We discovered that newspaper reports have a headline, an introduction, information, pictures and captions.
We learnt how to use an apostrophe "s" when something belongs to somebody. We wrote about Cinderella and The Fairy Godmother. We also discovered how to form adverbs, words that add information about the verb. Hopefully these grammar points will appear in our newspaper reports next week! In spelling Year 2 have been thinking about apostrophes again, but this time when they are forming contractions, for example, can't and couldn't.
In maths we have been thinking about doubles and halving a number. This has been linked with the two times table. We have also learnt about odd and even numbers and we have discovered that the even numbers are in our two times table. They are getting very good recalling their facts for this times table!
In science Year 1 and Year 2 continued to think about life cycles. The children found out about the life cycle of a sheep. We discovered the names for the sheep at each part of the life cycle. First you have a lamb, then this grows into a yearling or a hogget at about two years old. You then get a fully grown sheep, a ram or a ewe. The children then had to design a place for the sheep to live - a field with plenty of grass to provide food, trees that can help provide oxygen, water, lots of room to exercise and a shelter for when it gets very cold in the winter.
In art Year 1 and Year 2 had a go at sculpting with paper. We wanted to see what we could do with paper. Have a look at what we managed to create using just paper and glue!
As the sun continued to shine, it was soon time for our PE session with Coach Tom and this week we were given the opportunity to explore a range of different activities based around navigating space. We particularly all enjoyed developing our skills when navigating the hurdles!
We particularly enjoyed exploring the different sized hurdles and testing just how good our running and jumping skills were!
Just look at how high we can go!
This term Coach Tom is helping us to develop the skills that we will be using on sports day, with the rubber dots helping us to work out where we needed to put our foot once we had jumped over the hurdle! This really helped us with developing our speed as we raised across them....
We could hardly believe that it was Friday already and this week we were merging what we had learnt about newspapers and our sequencing of Cinderella! It was time to become journalists and plan our very own newspaper report all about the spectacular ball that Cinderella had attended!
We can't wait to write our newspaper article next week!
As we draw to the end of another week, we often like to look back and think about how we have shown perseverance this week and it has been wonderful to see it happening so often throughout the day. From persevering with their writing this week, using our have a go books and phonics mats to develop their own independence in their writing and never giving up in Maths, even when adding pence and pounds together can be a bit tricky, we have seen great examples of perseverance!
With this in mind, as you go into your weekends, it would be lovely if you could think about ways you have shown perseverance this weekend and share it with us next week!
Have a wonderful weekend and enjoy the sunshine!
