Swagbagging!!!!

Hi there!

What on earth is the title of this week's blog?! You might well ask...

A number of staff across the school attended a course this week, the theme of which was 'Big Writing'. Not a reference to the size of the script which your child writes, but more a development of the quality and quantity of their writing. Enthused by some of the ideas, each teacher returned to school, eager to try some of them with the children...thus 'SWAGBAGGING' came to fruition!

Why not try this out at home. All you need is your child's home reader or any magazine or newspaper that you are reading. They will also need a 'SWAGBAG', which could just be a sandwich bag with the word SWAG written on it! Read it out loud to your child and get them to 'steal' any WOW words that they think are interesting - particularly adjectives or adverbs. Then, get them to write it down on a piece of paper and put it in their swagbag. At the end of the week, empty out the swagbag and they will find that they have lots of words that they now can try to incorporate into their writing. This also works if you use 'POSH' words during conversations, which they can also try to swagbag!

You will laugh, furrow your brow and amaze at the number of times that your child pretends to grab the air during conversations...they are swagbagging your vocabulary!! We would love to hear of any successes you have at home with this.

Literacy

A great opportunity to use some swagbag skills this week, as we move onto looking at Information Texts.

Using the children's own interests as a starting point, they will pose their own questions about what they want to know about what interests them. In shared reading, we will be using information books (or ICT sources) to find answers, exploring how to use an index and alphabetical order. We will also be reviewing dictionaries and glossaries to find definitions of words from reading. The children will also be expected to know some of the differences between fiction and non-fiction texts. The children will also learn how to use the Smartboard as a presentation tool for them to display their information text and photographs or drawings. Maybe some children could even write an information section on this blog next week to inform you of what they have been doing this week!

http://www.kidsgowild.com/animalfacts information about animals which will help the children who chose this as their area to write about

http://www.settle.co.uk/local.htm an example of how an information text can be set out

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/wild/pets/ a great site from CBBC

http://www.abc.net.au/oceans/alive.htm information about animals of the sea – good for interaction

http://www.topicbox.org.uk/browse.php?item_ID=5426&subject=English&topic=Text%20-%20Non-chron%20report a non-chronological report on elephants. This link takes you to a powerpoint that can be downloaded to view at home.

Numeracy

The children did really well with their multiplication investigations last week, so this week, we are moving onto looking at division.

A really good visual way of doing this is with, yes you've guessed it...food! Instead of using sweets or biscuits, why not try this will grapes or raisins? Begin with dividing amount into 2. Start with 10 raisin each and divide them between 2 people. Make sure your child can tell you how many you have EACH - 5.

Then move onto showing them how this looks when it is written down:

10 ÷ 2 = 5

Can they spot how the numbers can be manipulated to make the multiplication sum?

2 x 5 = 10

By the end of the week, the children:

MUST: Be able to bein to subtract a 1 digit number from a 2 digit number: subtract by counting back to a multiple of 10.

SHOULD: Be able to introduce multiplication as repeated addition:record facts using x and =

COULD: Be able to understand division as grouping.

http://www.rainforestmaths.com/ click on Year 2 and the division. Fancy a challenge? Why not click on Year 3 or even 4 division?

http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/jeather/maths/dictionary.html bookmark this site! It will be so useful when trying to work out the definitions for any mathematical vocabulary. Not only is it an online dictionary, it also has practice examples for you to try.

http://www.wmnet.org.uk/resources/gordon/Hit%20the%20button%20v9.swf an old favourite - just click on the division facts although the others will be just as valuable!

http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc/grouping_and_sharing/eng/Introduction/default.htm division as grouping or sharing

http://www.sums.co.uk/playground/c3a/playground.htm I loved this site! Choose easy to begin with, but then you will be able to move on to the more challenging section

http://www.amblesideprimary.com/ambleweb/mentalmaths/dividermachine.html begin with level 1, but as you become more familiar with all the tables, you will be able to move onto levels 2 and 3.

Here I Am

We continue with the final week of our Holidays and Holydays topic, where the children will consolidate all their work on the Holy Spirit and Pentecost. Please see the links from last week to support our RE curriculum.

Science

The children will be reviewing all the work done on plants so far this term and completing a short assessment to enable us to move on.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/7_8/plants_grow.shtml
http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc/factors_plant_growth/eng/Introduction/default.htm http://www.topicbox.org.uk/browse.php?item_ID=5584&subject=Science&topic=Life%20-%20Plants click on the cress picture to download a great powerpoint which explains how you can help plants grow well.
http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc/factors_plant_growth/eng/Introduction/default.htm this is actually a KS2 site, but I think the children will be able to access the ‘main session part 2’ section. Ask them what ‘hypothesising’ means!
http://www.walkers-crisps.co.uk/flavours.html click on the GB potatoes link at the top and then ‘from field to crisp.’ This is a really interesting site!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/5_6/growing_plants.shtml can you find the right conditions for the plant to grow? http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/7_8/plants_grow.shtml a little more challenging http://www.topicbox.org.uk/browse.php?item_ID=5584&subject=Science&topic=Life%20-%20Plants this is a really useful powerpoint to download and keep for the whole of the topic. It is aimed at Year 3, but we really do need to push the children on, as their knowledge on this subject is very good already. http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks2/science/plants/index.htm click on the seed growth leaf for a great animation of what a seed needs to grow. http://www.crickweb.co.uk/assets/resources/flash.php?&file=plantlabelmx a very simple resource to drag and drop the labels onto the right part of the plant. As you move through this site though, you will be expected to explain the functions of each part. This is also really useful in supporting the literacy for this week. http://plantsinmotion.bio.indiana.edu/plantmotion/earlygrowth/germination/germ.html how fascinating! You will need to sit with your child for this, but the use of stop motion photography is fantastic. Just click on the sunflower germination – it’s really interesting! The movies for flowers are also beautiful!

PE KITS

As the weather seems to more promising at the moment, we are going to try to make the most of the great otudoors for their PE sessions. A few of the children have mentioned about their pumps being a bit uncomfortable, so maybe a check on them would be useful. We will send their kits home this Friday to enable you to check them. Many thanks with this.

Have a good week!

Year 1/2 team

In my imagination...

Thank you to all parents who supported parent's evening this week. Many of you completed the questionnaires which were available and we will be collating all the responses and letting you know some of the main points which were raised. Your responses and suggestions are very useful and will help to take our school forward for the benefit of all the children. Many thanks with this. You will also have received a copy of a reading survey, in each of the classrooms. If you took it home to complete, we would be grateful if you could return it to school as soon as possible.


National Union of Teachers Strike action - 24th April


As you will have heard on the news, the National Union of Teachers has called for a national day of strike action this Thursday. The school has been working with Warrington Borough Council and local union representatives to determine how we manage the situation. A risk assessment has been completed to determine whether the school can open or whether full or partial closure is appropriate.


Due to this, the school will be partially closed on Thursday 24th April.


This means, that the children in Mrs Malone's class and Mrs Pinto-Edwards' class must NOT report to school on Thursday. Mrs Worrall's class must come to school as normal.


We apologise for the inconvienience this will cause.

Literacy

We conclude our work on Fantasy stories, by writing a story which includes the setting, characters and objects that they have been working on over the last two weeks. The children will be encouraged to use the 'memory technique' which they used when writing the Cinderella story before Christmas. If you click on the December/January links on the right hand side of this page, you will see a reminder of this.

They will also be using the story mountain framework to help them plan their story, to ensure it has a beginning, middle and a good ending. See if your child can show the actions to go with these 5 story elements:

• opening
• build up
• something happens
• events to sort it out
• ending

http://www.midlandit.co.uk/education/writingtips.htm tips for helping you to write stories

http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/writing_a_story_opening click on 'open this resource' to use this link

Numeracy

This week, we move onto investigating multiplication. The children will learn the vocabulary associated with this, including lots of, sets of and the word multiple.

We begin by focussing on the 2, 5 and 10 times tables. The children will be expected to know the tables both forwards and backwards (or ascending and descending). By learning these now, it will really give the children a headstart when the go to Key Stage 2 - they will certainly be well on their way to a bronze award for multiplication!

By the end of the week, the children:

MUST: Be able to count on and back in 10’s from any given number up to 100; say the number that is 1 or 10 more or less.

SHOULD: Be able to count in 2’s, 5’s and 10’s and recognize odd and even numbers.

COULD: Be able to understand multiplication as “lots of “ and use the x sign.

http://www.wmnet.org.uk/wmnet/custom/files_uploaded/uploaded_resources/852/multipletables.swf multiplication dartboard as a fun way to practice those tables

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks1bitesize/numeracy/multiplication/index.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks1bitesize/numeracy/division/index.shtml why not give yourself a challenge and see if you can work out how this links to multiplication?

http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc/times_it/eng/Introduct/default.htm we will be using this site in school to support the introduction of the topic - why not have a sneak peek beforehand!

http://www.freewebtown.com/weddell/mw/tables_backwards/tables%20speed%202510.swf how fast can you work out the answers?

http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/Ghostblasters1/gbcd.html this was very quick! Can you get rid of the ghosts which are a multiple of 10? Click on the arrows to the left or the right to change the multiples to 2,5 or 10.

http://www.e-gfl.org/e-gfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/teacher/other/Spark/Spark2005/catch_numbers/play.html

use the arrow keys to catch multiples of the two times tables.

Science

We continue with our work on plants this week, and the children will plan and carry out their own investigation to see who can grow the best plant. They will be able to select their own equpiment, decide on where they are going to test their idea and predict what they think will happen.

Links from last week will support our learning this week, or why not have a go at this experiment at home this week? Who can grow the best cress? Why could it go yellow? What happens if we give the seeds to much water? What if the plant gets too cold? Too hot?

Here I Am

This week we move on to our Relate section of Holidays and Holy Days. The children will
learn about Pentecost and the coming of the Holy Spirit to the disciples.

http://www.request.org.uk/main/festivals/pentecost/tellme/pentecost_01.htm information about Pentecost - roll over the speech bubbles to find the answers

http://www.refuel.org.uk/curric/festivals/pentecost/index.html although this is aimed at Key Stage 2, it is a useful resource for you to share with your child to gain a deeper understanding of what happened at Pentecost

St George's Day - Wednesday 23rd April

For lots of information about our patron saint, why not visit http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/stgeorge.html Maybe you could use the dragon as a character in your fantasy story this week!

Thank you for all the many positive comments we received last week and we look forward to your continued support and working with us in your child's learning.

Year 1/2 team.

Use your senses!!

We had a great week last week – we even went to the Cinéma Worrall, complete with popcorn! Of course this was to introduce the theme of fantasy worlds, which the children have really become absorbed in. More about that later on...

We also had a visit from a theatre company, showing a production called ‘The little princess’. The theme was anti-bullying and the children really took home the message. Many thanks to Mr. Barker for organising this.

Parent’s Evening

This week sees our two formal parent’s evenings on Tuesday (3.30-6.00) and Wednesday (6.00-7.30). As you can appreciate, there are 30 children in each class and so times and very tight on both evenings. The teachers have prepared a series of targets for your child for reading, writing, numeracy, science and personal and social development, which you will receive at your appointment. If there are any issues which you wish to discuss in more depth, please do not hesitate to make an additional appointment at another time. Many, many thanks for your understanding with this.

National Year of Reading

As you read last week, the whole school are taking part in lots of activities to promote and foster a love of reading. Mrs Narraway has asked me to inform you of a book exchange which she has organised. There is basket outside Foundation Stage classroom, which has an array of books for parents. If you would like to borrow one, then please feel free to take one and return it when you have finished. All that we ask is, that you follow a ‘one in – one out’ rule. Why not have a look through the books that you have at home this weekend and place them in the basket on Monday? We could eventually have our very own St.Vincent’s Library!

Literacy

As mentioned earlier, we made a great start to this topic last week, watching excerpts of films such as Labyrinth, Star Wars, and The Wizard of Oz, whilst eating popcorn! The children have gained some great ideas, which they are chomping at the bit to use this week.

We will be looking at still pictures of fantasy settings and going on a sense walk around them. If they were parachuted into the setting, what would they be able to see, smell, hear, touch and maybe taste? They will also be coming up with at least two characters who they would like to take with them on their fantasy journey.

Have a try at this at home. Look at the picture below and see how many adjectives you can come up with. Why not extend this to using similes – as cold as ice; as warm as toast.

When the children are completing their writing activities this week, the children:

MUST
To try to make sure that someone reading their writing does not need to have it explained to them
To be able to use a full stop in the correct place
To show that their spelling demonstrates they have thought about the sounds that words make
SHOULD
To use a connective to join two shorter sentences together
To use at least one adjective in each sentence
To make sure ideas follow each other in sequence
To be able to use a question mark when needed
COULD
To use specific nouns – instead of ‘dog’ use terrier
Describe characters and events rather than jumping from one event to another
To begin to use speech marks

Phonics
This week we move on to some of the trickier sounds. Remember we were taught a rule for spelling a school and then we found lots of exceptions? Well, we will be doing the same this week, so expect some furrowed brows when your child is writing at home this week!

We will be looking at the ‘zh’ sound. Words such as treasure, television, usual, pleasure, usual. The children will learn that it is the ‘s’ that makes the sound.

We will also be looking at different ways of pronouncing the vowel sounds. Is it a long or a short sound? You could help at home by making sure that you child knows all of the five vowel names and sounds.

Be a vowel detective! Take a page from a magazine or newspaper and a highlighter pen. Highlight all the vowels they can see. They should be able to tell you that every word has to have at least one vowel. Then, take the investigation a stage further, and see how many different sounds the letter ‘a’ can make. You can do this for every vowel.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks1bitesize/literacy/phonics/index.shtml this is great site to practice all the phonemes learned so far.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/phonics/index.shtml we have used lots of this site this year, so why not have a look back to review some of your favourites.

http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/wordmaker_long_vowels_2 looking at i, o and u long vowel sounds

http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/wordmaker_long_vowels_1 looking at a and e as long sounding vowels

http://www.ictgames.com/wordreader.html use this to practice spelling of those sneaky high frequency words – thay or they?

Numeracy

We move back to work on number activities this week. We will be adding and subtracting 10 and multiples of 10, such as 20, 30, 40 etc. We will also be looking at adding and subtracting 9 and 11.

9 and 11 are ‘nearly’ 10. So, when adding 9 to a number, add 10 and then take 1 away. Similarly, when taking away 9, take away 10 and add 1.

30 – 9...
Say 30 – 10 = 20
Then give one back = 21

Once the children have mastered this, they should be able to add and subtract 19 and 21, using the same method.

A really useful numeracy tool to have at home for this, is a hundred square. We will include one with this week’s homework, so find a place on the front of a cupboard or fridge to use throughout the year!


By the end of the week, the children:

MUST: Be able to add by counting on. Be able to add two multiples of 10 by counting on in 10’s.
SHOULD: Be able to subtract a multiple of 10 from a 2 digit number by counting back in 10’s.
COULD: Be able to add and subtract 9,11, 19, 21 by adding and subtracting 10 and 20.

http://www.ictgames.com/fairy2.html adding 9 fairy

http://www.ictgames.com/100huntadd9.html use the 100 square to add 9 to the target number

http://www.ictgames.com/100huntadd11.html adding 11


http://www.ictgames.com/technowithflock.html this made me laugh! A tortoise, with goggles jumping +10, -10 on a number line!!

http://www.mathsonline.co.uk/nonmembers/gamesroom/bugs/bugrace3.html a game to play in pairs to add 2 two-digit numbers

http://www.wmnet.org.uk/resources/gordon/Function%20wheel%20v6.swf click on the add and take wheel to guess the function of each wheel.

http://www.ictgames.com/countonconvict.html find the difference between two numbers

Science

We continue with our topic on plants and growth this week. We will be setting up an investigation which we will carry out next week, looking at the conditions we need for plant growth.

They will also be posing questions which they want to find the answers to, such as:

· Do all plant need light to grow?
· What happens if a plant doesn’t get light?
· Do plants need water?
· What would happen if a plant was put in the fridge?

Then we will plan a series of investigations which will be able to answer these questions.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/7_8/plants_grow.shtml

http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc/factors_plant_growth/eng/Introduction/default.htm

http://www.topicbox.org.uk/browse.php?item_ID=5584&subject=Science&topic=Life%20-%20Plants click on the cress picture to download a great powerpoint which explains how you can help plants grow well.

Thank you for all the support you have given us and your children so far this year and we look forward to seeing you all at parent’s evening this week.

Year 1/2 team.

In a land far, far away...

Well we can certainly tell that many of you continued to work hard over the holidays, as the children came back refreshed, eager and willing to work hard last week, so a huge thank you! We assessed all of the children’s reading ages last week and we are so pleased at the progress they have made. We will inform you of their scores at Parent’s evening along with any new targets which they have. What is evident, is that the children are making the links between the letter patterns they are learning and looking for them in their reading – this is FANTASTIC and will certainly help them on the way to reading for pleasure!

Student teacher

We have two final year teaching students starting with us for 7 weeks, commencing on Monday. Lauren Scott will be taking Foundation Stage and Laura Davin will be taking Mrs Malone’s class. Mrs Malone will be in school throughout this time and will continue to support her own class, as well as working with Year 2 children from across the 3 classes, on numeracy and phonics work. As Mrs Narraway also has a student with her class, she has very kindly offered to work with some Year 2 children to develop their writing skills. This will be of great benefit to the children, as they will be able to work in smaller groups, all working towards the same objectives – plus there will definitely be copious amounts of paint and glitter around!

PE Kits
There have been a number of children without PE kits this week and so we have a plea. Please could you check that your child has kit in school which fits them, including pumps now, as we will be going outside more now that summer is here (and I wrote that without laughing!) If they have outgrown their t-shirt, shorts or pumps, we would be very grateful for them in school, as we would like to keep some spare kits ‘just in case’.

National Year of Reading

Tuesday of last week, saw the launch of National Year of Reading, and courtesy of Mrs Narraway, our Literacy leader, we have some fantastic activities to use across the whole school with this.
During each month, we will be focussing on a particular area of reading. These will be published, so that you may support us at home. For this month, we are encouraging the children to look at WHY we need to read.

· To be able to find out where we are going – maps, road signs
· To find where foods are in the supermarket
· To find out which platform our train leaves from or which gate the plane leaves from; just think of when you use your own reading skills?

Of course there are hundreds of reasons why we need to be able to read, but for this month, why not read signs, labels, timetables etc. while you are out and about. Also, why not set aside some family reading time? Switch off the TV for an hour and even if you just let your child see you reading a magazine, they will see the importance of reading and the pleasure which can be gained once they have mastered the ability to decode words.

Literacy
This week, we start a new unit on Fantasy stories – a brilliant topic, which will really get the creative juices flowing! Fantasy is imagined worlds, or is based in the movement between this world and an invented world. A key feature of the fantasy genre is the use of a ‘doorway’ or ‘portal’ that connects the ‘real’ world with the fantasy one: for example, the rabbit hole in Alice in Wonderland, the wardrobe in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Ever watch Primeval on a Saturday evening? That had a portal whereby they could escaped from the latest threatening dinosaur!

In fantasy, dragons may fly, witches exist or trolls live under bridges, and so the roots of fantasy and its themes lie back in traditional tales. The possibility of using magic allows the writer to right wrongs without the messy business of reality creeping in!

Because fantasy stories often involve a journey or quest, we will be beginning the week looking at lots of different examples of fantasy settings and using the ideas to help us make our own maps to use when we write our stories later on in the topic. You could help by encouraging them to suppose ‘what if…’ as a way of capturing a good idea: ‘what if…you shrank to the size of a mouse?…you could be in two places at once?…you could travel back in time?….your pet cat started talking?’ etc. It also helps to borrow a setting from a well-known story and create a new story using the same place.

We will also be looking at extracts from films which are based on fantasy worlds. If you fancy watching a DVD, or a trip to the cinema, then why not choose a film such as The Wizard of Oz or the new film, Horton Hears a Who? Or you could watch one of my favourites, The Chronicles of Narnia (the BBC have some great videos of the series they produced many years ago!)

http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/english/englishC6.htm click on Alien Worlds for some great images to use for describing purple seas etc!

http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc/learn_y4/main.asp?lesson_path=year_4/story_openings/&lesson_file=story_openings.swf&language=eng although this is aimed at older children, I think the language used for this story opening, really shows them how to use adjectives to set the scene.

http://www.midlandit.co.uk/education/writingtips.htm some great writing tips

Phonics

The children are doing really well with their phonics work and we are moving quite quickly through the objectives. Time did run away with us last week, so we will be spending some time reviewing the following patterns:

a-e, e-e, i-e, o-e, u-e
http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc/16022007/wordmaker_vowels3/lesson.html

http://www.kented.org.uk/ngfl/games/sound_buttons_v14.html click on the ‘split’ tab at the bottom, and then use the alphabet to make words.

http://www.kented.org.uk/ngfl/games/phaseThreeAS1_v2.html for more practice using sounds already learned, then this is a great site to use. Click on the arrow above the rainbow to move through the sounds.

http://www.kented.org.uk/ngfl/games/ you can download any of the phonics games from here to play off-line

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/longvow/poems/flash/fpoem10.shtml poem to support the i-e sound

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/longvow/poems/flash/fpoem6.shtml same idea, but to support the a-e sound

Numeracy

This week, we will be looking at 3D shapes. We will be reviewing the names of 3D shapes which they have learned last year, but this time, the children will have to be able to identify them from just a picture, rather than being able to handle the shape. They will also have to describe the properties of the shapes, in terms of sides, edges, vertices (corners) and faces.

Why not play a game at home of What am I? Ask your child to describe a shape with 3 attributes :

· I have one curved edge
· I have two flat, circular sides
· You will often find things wrapped around me
· WHAT AM I?
· A cylinder!

By encouraging them to use adjectives to describe the shapes, it will also support them when describing their settings in fantasy worlds.

By the end of the week the children:

MUST: Be able to begin to use the names of common 3D shapes and describe features of familiar 3D shapes.

SHOULD: Be able to use the names of common 3D shapes and sort 3D shapes.

COULD: Be able to describe features of 3D shapes including number, types of faces and properties.

http://www.ictgames.com/Y2shape.html

http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/online/longshape3d.html

http://www.interactivestuff.org/match/maker.phtml?featured=1&id=15 wait for the arrow to appear which says ‘ready to play!’

http://www.rainforestmaths.com/ click on Year 2 and then 3D shape. The quiz will really help describe the shapes!

Science

After a very successful science week last week, we continue with our topic on plants. The children already have a fantastic knowledge of this, so we are able to forge ahead with great speed onto more challenging objectives.

The children will learn:

· that humans eat some plants;
· that potatoes are roots;
· where crisps come from.
· that plants have roots, leaves, stems and flowers and they will learn about the functions of each of these parts
· that we can eat different parts of a plant.

http://www.lgfl.net/dbmaterial/web/learning%20objects/ls/Year%201%20Science/home/?verb=view click on the whiteboard lesson

http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc/factors_plant_growth/eng/Introduction/default.htm this is actually a KS2 site, but I think the children will be able to access the ‘main session part 2’ section. Ask them what ‘hypothesising’ means!

http://www.walkers-crisps.co.uk/flavours.html click on the GB potatoes link at the top and then ‘from field to crisp.’ This is a really interesting site!

Here I Am

We begin our new topic of Holidays and Holydays. The children will:

RECOGNISE :That the children recognise a special holiday.
REFLECT: That the children reflect on their own and others’ special holidays.
RESPECT: That the children appreciate that everyone needs rest and re-creation.
You should also receive an RE newsletter this week, informing you of the topics which we will be covering this term, with ideas of how you may support them at home.

History

We started our topic on Famous people last week, and the children were spellbound when we read the story of Florence Nightingale – particularly the boys! They were fantastic at comparing the differences between modern day medicine and hospitals in Florence’s time.
This week, we will be looking at the journey which Florence made and be able to locate and label the places she visited on a world map. They will also be looking at reasons why journeys in the past took longer and were much more dangerous. They will also be writing an account of Florence’s life, using captions from last week to support their writing.

http://www.snaithprimary.eril.net/flo2.htm

http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/files_uploaded/uploaded_resources/11134/Crimeanwar.pdf the photographs are really useful from this site

Parents Evenings

We have received many requests for parents evening times last week, although many of you have asked for the same time slots. We would ask that you try to be as flexible as possible in the time which you are allocated and we will try our very best to allocate the time slot requested. Many, many thanks for your understanding with this! Should the time you are allocated be unsuitable, then please see your child’s teacher and we will try to arrange an alternative when possible.

Have a great week!
Year 1/2 team.