World Book Day was a fun day in Violet class. Miss Trunchbull taught all the children and some of the costumes were fantastic. As you can see in the photos, although we had lots of fun and giggles, the children all worked very hard!! Thank you for making this whole day special!
Today the first session of our Primary Engineer Course began after school. The chosen children were a delight and along with Mrs Dixon, Mrs Frazer and Miss Guthrie they all worked hard to achieve and enjoyed themselves. We have already got some innovative ideas from the children about what kind of vehicle they would like to create. We will update you each week as the work grows…for now here are some photos from the beginning!
Thank you to all the parents who were able to attend the reading talk today. As promised here is the link to the 2016 reading papers 1 and 2 for those of you who wanted to have your own copy. If you were unable to attend and would like more information, please get in touch with either of the Year 2 teachers.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/key-stage-1-tests-2016-english-reading-test-materials
Please remember, as parents and carers you are also educators of your child – please communicate with us about your child’s reading progress in their reading diary, or speak to us personally. Thank you for your support!
Letters have gone out today (13th Februrary) regarding the exciting new after school engineering club. If you wish your child to be considered for a place please try and return your consent form as soon as possible.
Violet class have been coding and debugging (working out problems) at The Word today. We have learned so much, not only about coding and putting instructions into the computer to make things happen, but also how to work together as a team to achieve something that was quite difficult. Lots of children kept trying even though their models didn’t work as first, and those that persevered were rewarded as their models were fantastic! Thank you to Mrs Hayward for all our learning today. Another big thanks to the parent helpers!
We have enjoyed yet another fantastic trip at the OpenZone at ‘The Word’ today it’s been all about coding. We used ‘wedo’ Lego to build moving models, we wrote the code to make them move using coding software for ‘wedo’. We also explored a free ‘coding’ website called hour of code. We had to make the angry birds squash the pig by following our code (instructions). Huge thanks to Mrs C from the OpenZone for helping us do some great learning about coding.
Follow this link for hour of code https://studio.code.org/hoc/1
English – this week we are building on our recount work and will be writing about our trip to China town. We have learned that recounts must be:
in the past tense
in the right order with a title and subheadings
be interesting.
We have already looked at our trip photographs and put them in the right order. We are also learning to use words like first, next, then, a while later and finally to order the events of our day.
Maths – we are learning about fractions again – halving and quartering shapes. We are also learning about fraction equivalents for example one half is the same as two quarters. We are remembering how to write fractions using the notation 1/2 and 1/4. Look our for some homework on this later this week!
Curriculum – We are artists this week, and will be learning about the Chinese Willow story and patterns on plates and cups. We will be using blue, black and white colours, to create different shades of blue, this pattern will then be put onto our own paper plates.
Last Thursday we enjoyed a fantastic trip to China Town to support our learning in Geography. We have been learning about the country of China in Asia and the Chinese Culture. as part of this we went to China Town in Newcastle. We looked at the beautiful arch as you arrive in China town, we then walked up Stowell Street searching for Chinese writing and lanterns. We visited the Chinese supermarket where we bought some decorations to help us to begin thinking about Chinese New Year. We then went on to a Chinese restaurant called Laus 202 where we were treated to a delicious Chinese Meal. What an excellent trip! Exemplary behavior from all of our children too, well done!
We have been learning how to read scales that go up in 10’s. This week we have returned to school and loved making our cocktails. Here is our recipe if you would like to try it at home!
50 ml of pomegranate juice
60 ml of mango juice
70 ml of orange juice
Try and let your child use a jug to measure out their own ingredients, they did very well at school! We have also been learning that there are 1000 ml in 1 litre.
