It’s Friday and so home learning sharing day!

We have many Geographers in the class this week. Lots of map work! Many children have also continued to learn about Saints.

We have had a very busy week with a visit from Bishop Philip and a Remembrance service. Both days were very special and we were very proud of the children’s prayerful behaviour.

Have a lovely weekend!

Mrs. Luter

Miss Allen was on her way home on Monday evening when she saw a box by the side of the road. She brought it into school as it looked like it had been accidently dropped and we wanted to return it to its owner. She read a note inside to the children.

It was from an old man who we think may have played for a football team years ago. He said in his note that he was very confused and that Waterlooville had changed a lot over the years. He was no longer able to find a place to collect a prescription, buy a newspaper or post a parcel. So we set off to Waterlooville to see if we could help. We even managed to visit the library for a quick story before returning to school.

So we have become ‘Map Detectives’ this half term. We have drawn maps of our trip and will be writing to the man to tell him what we have found out.

Later we will be comparing our local area to an area in Africa and looking at our twin school Tyume Valley.

Attached is the home learning pyramid. Please complete one of the suggestions, or one of your own, this half term. You could also continue with or start a mini project about a Saint as our RE topic is Prayers, Saints and Feasts. Also please continue to read daily, practise number bonds (to 10, 20, 100), adding and taking 1 to and from any 2 digit number, adding and taking 10.

We look forward to sharing your child’s learning with you at parents’ evening.

Map Detectives autumn 2 – click on link to open home learning.

Mrs Luter and Miss Allen

As promised here are some photos of the ukulele concert that the children performed to parents in Giraffe class on Monday. It was wonderful! Well done children I was very proud. I am sure Elephant class are looking forward to their turn.

Today we made our superhero cars. Some of which were even complete with jet packs!

Have a lovely restful half term everyone. We will post the new home learning pyramid soon. In the meantime we are learning about saints in school so could you find out about a saint for home learning? Maybe a mini project? A prayer? A poster?

We look forward to hearing about the saints that your children find out about!

Best wishes for a happy holiday!

Mrs. Luter and Miss Allen

We have been learning about how to pray the Rosary. This afternoon we all prayed part of the rosary and found out about all the different prayers that we can pray using the Rosary.

In maths we have been learning how to find out half of and double of numbers. We have used the dienes to help us. We can find half of the tens number and then the units. We have then used this to help us to solve problems.

In literacy this week we have been writing our superhero stories. Children tell your mum and dad what happens in your story! We have been using a variety of punctuation, descriptive language and new vocabulary. We have also been applying a variety of sentence types that we have been finding out about.

Look out for letters and sounds home learning to be sent home tomorrow. We look forward to sharing home learning for the last time this half term tomorrow. Next half term we will be launching a new topic which we will contact you about soon.

If any of you are able to walk to Waterlooville with us in the first week back please contact us.

Mrs. Luter

We have thoroughly enjoyed sharing the children’s bird art this week there have been some very artistic creations. They have all fluttered off to be displayed outside Mrs. Bowen’s office. The children have really been inspired by each other and Phoebe has now even written her own book about birds. She had some grumpy birds who ate some fish… this reminded me to tell the children about the night I had had with my cat! Children tell your mums and dads about my naughty cat!

On Wednesday 21st we will be having a DT day and so we need your boxes in to make our Superhero cars with before then please.

Children will be bringing home the phonics that we have been working on during the week every Friday. Please look for the sounds in books and encourage children to identify alternative spellings. For example ay, ea, a-e, a ai, eigh and ey all make the same sound! This has been quite tricky for the children as you can imagine so the more practise they get the better.

Thank you again for all your support.

Giraffe class look forward to seeing you all at their ukulele concert on Monday 19th October at 11.15 in Giraffe class.

Mrs. Luter

Home learning has got off to a great start in year 2. Children really took on the challenge of creating some bird art we have had some wonderful designs which will be displayed around the school soon. (Closing date 16th October 2015.) We have also had a great response to the RE home learning and children have created some very informative posters about how to look after God’s creation.

This week children could continue to find out about their learning heroes. Or they could begin to think about their own ambitions in life and how they will achieve them. We look forward to hearing all about it!

Don’t forget to continue reading every night. Also practise number bonds and the 10, then 2, then 5 times tables.

Below is a picture of some of our wonderful home learning on display in the school library.

Today we have a little visitor. An artist in Chichester – Elsie Green has sent us a little pottery bird as part of the Share-A-Bird project.

The children have some exciting home learning this week – to create their own bird art.

Enjoy being creative and enjoy being part of the Share-A-Bird project!

This week we have been creating our own superheroes. We have been using alliteration, expanded noun phrases and similes to describe them. Today we are going to begin to create instructions for our superheroes. We have also designed cars for them and are looking forward to building them soon making sure that we have working wheels attached by axles. Please bring in a box in preparation. (Cereal box size or similar.)

Miss Allen’s class have written emails to superheroes and are looking forward to replies!

Also today we will be finding out about some people in history who have inspired us. Ask the children who they have found out about! Please continue with home learning on this topic. Use the Bloom’s Triangle to give you some ideas.

Have a great weekend,

Mrs. Luter and Miss Allen

Today a rather sad ‘superhero’ came to visit us. She has lost all of her powers. Her super car no longer does anything super, her weapon is a flop and her theme tune has run dry! We have decided that she needs some help and will be designing and making a new car for her, writing a new theme tune and creating a new super weapon.

Watch this space to see how we get on!

We hope that you are enjoying finding out about learning heroes for home learning, we look forward to sharing your children’s learning.

Mrs. Luter and Miss Allen

We hope that you are enjoying your last day of the Summer holiday!

We are busy making the school ready for your return.

Hopefully we will see you all at our welcome meeting tomorrow at 4.30.

Attached is your learning for this half term – all linked to our new learning context ‘We Are Learning Heroes’. Click below to open.

Learning Heroes – Aut1 PDF

See you tomorrow! Mrs. Luter and Miss Allen