25th March 2013

Well can you believe we have reached the end of another hard working term? For some of you, your child only has one term let in the infants, before they venture over the other side of the hall - but don't worry! There is still lots to do in KS1 before they start the transition, and they are more than ready for the next stage in their learning journey.

This week, we will be completing our assessments of the children, and also there  are lots of activities planned in the run up to Easter. Of course, as we are in school during Holy Week, there will be a focus on understanding the Easter Story.

It would be helpful if you were able to go through this with your child at home beforehand. A copy can be found at http://www.topmarks.co.uk/christianity/easter/easter.htm

Monday

·         completing assessments and making notes about the Easter story to help us with our writing

·         checking our multiplication and division facts for 2,5 and 10 times tables

Tuesday

·         Easter Gardens - Juniors

·         Egg rolling in the afternoon - please remember to hard-boil them first and then decorate them. Also, please remind your child that they will be thrown away afterwards

Wednesday

·         Preparations for the Easter Service

·         Phonics assessments

Thursday

·         9.00am Easter Service. You are very welcome to join us, but please remember that space is limited in the hall

·         The afternoon sees our annual Easter Bonnet parade, which the children all love! Please send the bonnets in on Thursday morning only, as we have limited space to store them in school

Many thanks for all your support over the last term, particularly those of you who have been commenting in your child's diary when you have heard them read. It really does make a difference.

Have a very happy and Holy Easter, and we will see you when we return after the holidays.

Year 1/2 team

18th March 2013

First of all, a huge thank you for your generosity last week, for our school fundraising for Comic Relief. The children should be really proud of themselves that their donations all contributed to the £75 million that was raised on Friday night. Well done!

This week, we will be looking at improving our writing of Information Texts through looking at Dinosaurs. The children have been enthralled by the unexpected arrival of an egg on the playground, which arrived for Foundation Stage last week. When it hatched into our sand tray, they were so excited, that they asked if they could do some work on them too!

So, we are doing just that, and producing fact files for the children in Foundation Stage to help them with their reading!

If they would like a sneak preview, and start to gather some ideas for their writing, have a look at these sites to help:

http://www.kidsdinos.com/

http://www.mantyweb.com/dinosaur/

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/kids-only/dinosaurs/

http://funschool.kaboose.com/time-warp/dinosaurs/

http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/dinosaur-flashcards.htm

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/dinosaurs/

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/dinosaurs/

 

This week in Maths we will be working on problem solving. Now the children are familiar with addition, subtraction, multiplication and division they will be using and applying their knowledge to a range of word problems.

Year 1 children will learn how to work out how to solve simple word problems using addition and subtraction.

 

Year 2 children will learn how to work out how to solve simple word problems using all 4 operations.

It is important that your child is confidently able to know and use the language of maths. To enable them to achieve this target, they need to understand all of the words which mead adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing.

Adding:- add, adding, plus, more, increase, altogether, and, sum of.

Subtracting:- take away, minus, leaves, subtract, less than, fewer, difference between, decrease.

Multiplying:-  times, multiply, product, lots of, groups of, double.

Dividing:- share, divide, half,

Some websites to help:-

 

http://www.mathplayground.com/WordProblems/GrandSlamMath_A_secure.swf

 

http://www.mathplayground.com/WordProblems/GrandSlamMath_B_secure.swf

 

http://www.mathplayground.com/mathhoops_Z1.html

 

http://www.wmnet.org.uk/wmnet/custom/files_uploaded/uploaded_resources/850/Buy2items.swf

 

http://nrich.maths.org/primary-lower

 

http://www.counton.org/games/virtualmathfest/

 

In our topic work, the children will be learning about that the clothes needed to keep baby warm or cool are different all over the world. The  children will study pictures of natural fibres like cotton and wool being used around the world. The children will  select a piece of fabric & suggest a suitable climate for baby to wear it.

Homework

Can we remind you that Maths homework is given through the My Maths website, and children are expected to complete it each week online. If you have any difficulties in accessing this, please do let us know through your child's diary.

On the subject of diaries, thank you to the parents who have completed the new reading sheet in the diaries. We have seen an increased number of comments written in them this week from you,  and the children have been so keen to tell us, it has been a pleasure to see!

Easter Bonnets and Egg Rolling

Just a quick reminder about our Easter Bonnet and Egg Rolling competitions next week. I hope you are all getting creative at home? We can't wait to see them, but just a word of warning - PLEASE make sure the eggs are hard-boiled, as 100 being rolled and subsequently broken, does tend to generate a certain aroma!!

Have a good week.

 

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4th March 2013

Well that was a busy first week back wasn't it?

English

This week, we will continue with our comprehension sessions, where the children will need to use their inference and deduction skills to answer questions about the text. They will also be writing about their favourite books in preparation for World Book Day on Thursday, where they will be able to come to school dressed as their favourite book character.

We would like them to draw/paint/make a collage of their favourite book cover this week for homework and write a small book review of it. We will display these in our class book corners, so the bigger, more sparkly the better! We will publish some photographs next week!

Maths

This week in Maths we will be working on counting on and back in 2s, 5s and 10s which leads into the beginning of multiplication. This will involve recognising odd and even numbers up to 100 and the X sign as multiplying a number.

Year 1 children will count on and back in 1s or 10s and say the number that is 1 or 10 more or less up to 100.

Year 2 children will count on in 2s, 5s or 10s; recognise odd and even numbers;  and understand multiplication as ‘lots of’ and use the × sign

It is important that your child is confidently able to know and use the language of multiplication to achieve this objective and as always your support at home is valued. It is never too early to start to learn times tables beginning with the 2, 5 and 10 x tables.

Have a look back at last week's blog for website to support you with this at home.

Book Fair Open - World Book Day – 7 March 2013

Our School Book Fair will be open from Tuesday 5 to Friday 8 March – 3.00 to 3.45 pm. Please come along and support your school. School will benefit from commission on every book purchased.

The £1 World Book Day Vouchers may be used at the Fair.

 

Message from FOSV

The treasure hunt shoe boxes should all now have been handed in, these are being inspected today to decide our winners! May I say how impressed I was with the effort and enthusiasm everyone has shown towards this event.

Everyone should be very proud of themselves for taking part. Comments I have received by parents suggest we have all particularly enjoyed this activity - a big thank you to parents for supporting your children. Please may I ask that sponsor money should be collected and brought in to school by Friday 8th March. The winners will be announced on Monday 11th March. Well done everybody!! A big thank you to our 'Disco Divas' Helen Moss and Debbie Monk, who always work so hard to organise the school discos. Everyone enjoyed the Junior disco on Tuesday despite the short notice (apologies for that!) The Infant disco will be held next Thursday 7th March. Thank you to all parents/teachers who have lent their support or supervised - your help is very much appreciated!!

Warrington Borough Council Proposed event schedule for Warrington Bombing 2013 Anniversary Event - Saturday, 16 March 2013 Time	Activity
12.00pm	Arrival Music: ‘Across the Bridge of Hope’ (Male Voice Choir) whilst invited guests take their seats
12.05pm	Welcome:
12.08pm	Short Speeches:
12.13pm	Readings: Children and young people – including friend of Tim and those involved in the creation of the River of Life
12.22pm	Peace Prayers:
12.24pm	Rainbow Balloon release (to music – You Raise me up by Aled Jones)
12.27pm	Minute’s Silence – Looking upward.
12.28pm	Doves Released.
12.29pm	Reflection – Fruit of the Spirit:
12.30pm	Bridge Street and the River of Life: Stephen Broadbent
12.32pm	Choirs Sing: ‘Love can build a bridge’. - Great Sankey High School and Barrowhall Primary School Choirs
12.37pm	Shared Blessing:
12.43pm	END OF BRIDGE STREET EVENT

 

Have a good week everyone.

Year 1/2 team

 

 

11th March 2013

The children all looked fabulous in their costumes this week for World Book Day - a big thank you to all of you for getting them ready!

In Literacy this week, we will be working on improving our Grammar skills, in particular, being able to use capital letter and full stops in the correct place, including for Proper Nouns. We will also be looking at using correct terminology when talking about grammar.

Some websites to help with spelling and grammar:

http://www.topicbox.co.uk/english/word_spelling_activities/

http://www.ictgames.com/lcwc.html  This will help with Look Say Cover Write Check spellings

http://www.kenttrustweb.org.uk/kentict/content/games/literacy_menu.html

 

This week in Maths we will be continuing our work on multiplication and beginning division.

Year 1 children will add by counting on, not bridging a multiple of 10 other than 10 or 20; and add two multiples of 10 by counting on in 10s.

Year 2 children will Introduce multiplication as repeated addition; record facts using × and =; and begin to understand division as grouping.

It is important that your child is confidently able to know and use the language of multiplication to achieve this objective and as always your support at home is valued. It is never too early to start to learn times tables beginning with the 2, 5 and 10 x tables.

Some websites to help:-

 

http://www.wmnet.org.uk/wmnet/custom/files_uploaded/uploaded_resources/850/carrollv4.swf

 

http://www.taw.org.uk/lic/itp/itps/Grouping_1_3.swf

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/starship/maths/crosstheswamp.shtml

 

http://resources.oswego.org/games/Ghostblasters1/gbcd.swf

 

http://www.arcademicskillbuilders.com/games/penguin-jump/penguin-jump.html

 

http://www.wmnet.org.uk/wmnet/custom/files_uploaded/uploaded_resources/850/carrollv4.swf

 

http://www.amblesideprimary.com/ambleweb/mentalmaths/testtest.html

 

http://www.amblesideprimary.com/ambleweb/mentalmaths/dividermachine.html

 

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

 

http://www.wmnet.org.uk/custom/files_uploaded/uploaded_resources/846/3bears.swf

 

On Thursday afternoon, there will be a fundraising afternoon in the hall to raise money for Comic Relief. If the children bring plenty of change, they can take part in raffles, quizzes and lots of other exciting activities. On Friday itself, the children can come into school wearing something RED AND they can also wear SLIPPERS, to show how comfortable we are, and that some of the people we are raising money for are not.

We will let you know how the children got on with their book covers next week - we hope you enjoyed doing them and that you had some great discussion about your child's favourite book, as well as your own?

We hope you all have a relaxing Mother's Day and that the children have shared their cards with you!

Year 1/2 team.