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Year 3 – Beneath the Shadows

How can we been at the final half term of Year 3? Last week we had a super week where we focused on the children’s well-being. We did this through two super books that the children loved! The first book was ‘The Boy, the mole, the fox and the horse by Charlie Mackesy’ which we used to create some of our own sayings and art work. We also wrote recipes for mending a broken heart, using our recent instruction skills to complete the ingredients and the method required.

The other book we focused on last week was called ‘The Barnabus Project by The Fan Brothers’. This is a stunning book all about some animals that have found themselves in a secret lab deep under ground of a perfect pet shop. They are classed as failed as they are a mixture of two animals but Barnabus sees the perfect opportunity to escape. This is a super book that led to our wonderful creations of our own failed or unique animals. Hope you love our pictures. 

 

 

Today, we completed an online escape room to discover what our new project is. The children had several clues to recover the code to escape the light house, where we had been trapped. The children worked in unison with a partner to solve the clues for our new project, Beneath the Shadows, this will be a science project. They have then brought home a copy of their knowledge organiser, with some of the facts we will be learning. Do share this together. Below is a copy of our knowledge organiser and topic web for you to see what we are learning this half term.

Beneath the Shadows Topic Web
knowledge organiser Science

Thank you for your on-going support,

Year 3 Team 

 

Flower Power in Year 1

Year 1 have had a great start to our new project, ‘Flower Power’. We have started exploring our school grounds looking for flowers and seeing if we can name any. The children had great fun creating their own flower inspired artwork using paper, collage, paint and pencils. Please see the attached ‘Knowledge Organiser’ and ‘Topic Web’, at the end of this post, for further details about what the children can expect throughout the project and about their learning.

In maths this week we have been exploring our numbers to 100, continuing to practice counting in 1s forwards and backwards. The children have been ordering their numbers and comparing them, talking about which is greater or smaller and why. We are going to now start using our knowledge of numbers to help us find one more or less than a number and also start thinking about the value of our different coins. Maybe you could explore money with your child at home and see if you can make different totals with 1p, 2p,5p and 10p coins.

Reading and Numbots Challenge: Thank you for all your support with the children’s reading challenge last half-term. The children loved doing it and so we are continuing with it this half-term, where the children can receive a sticker and RP for reading at least four times each week. We have also started a Numbots challenge, where we are challenging the children to login to Numbots and play for 20 minutes over the week. If they achieve this, they will receive a maths sticker and RP. Please contact us if you have forgotten your login details.

Thank you for all the support you are giving your children with their learning. If you have any concerns or questions, then please remember to contact us on Year1@stmarksce.org.uk

Year 1 Team

2021 Year 1 Flower Power knowledge organiser

2021 Year 1 Flower Power Topic Web

Our Amazing World

blankWhat a fun week we’ve had in Year 2! We’ve begun learning about ‘Big Cats’ in our English work and are having lots of fun learning about Leopards, Cheetahs and Tigers! We can’t wait to write our own non-chronological reports to share with you. Please see our Knowledge Organiser and Topic Web below for more details of our new topic : Our Amazing World!

Knowledge Organiser Our Amazing World Summer 2

Our Amazing World Topic Web

The children have settled back into school really well and we can hardly believe that this is our last half term with them all. It’s been an unusual year but it does seem to be flying by. 

In Computing, we are going to be linking our learning about habitats with a very different type of habitat: Space and the International Space Station. We started to look at this during the week and next week we will begin using the new school Chromebooks to further explore this topic. To complete this, the children will need to be able to log into their Google Classroom accounts. Please can you make sure the children know their login details for Google Classroom (or write them on a piece of paper to go in their book bags). We will be using them on Tuesday next week and every Tuesday until the end of term. If you can’t remember them, then please see use the link on our Google Classroom login page to help you reset it https://www.stmarksprimary.net/gc/. There is a useful video here too.

Numbots: We have introduced a new challenge to Year 2 to go on Numbots for at least 20 minutes per week. If they do this, they will receive a special shiny Numbots sticker. We will also give out our usual certificates each week for when they complete each challenge and for special effort or achievement.  

TT Rockstars: This is a great way for your child to learn their times tables and we ask that they go onto TTRockstars for half an hour for their homework this week. You can access it via our website using the same login details and password that the children have for Numbots. 

Bug Club: Please can children aim to read at least one book per week on Bug club and to complete the related quiz. This is another useful tool to support children’s reading and understanding. 

Spelling Shed: Remember, we test the children on their spellings each week. These spellings should also be practised at home and are available via Google Classroom on your class page or on Spelling Shed. 

We have a fun few weeks coming up with lots going on. We look forward to sharing the children’s work and experiences with you. As ever, if you have any questions or concerns, please don’t hesitate to contact us using our email address: year2@st.marksce.org.uk

We hope you enjoy the good weather over the coming weekend. Please send your children in with sun cream, water bottles and sunhats next week as it looks like we will have a warm start to the week.

Kind Regards, 

The Year 2 Team

Year R topic update and newsletter

What a wonderful time we all had learning about ‘People Who Help Us’ last half term! The children were so engaged in this topic and motivated to learn more about each job role; the uniforms these people wear, the equipment they use and the vehicles they drive. Discovery Time was a busy hive of activity every day which was fantastic to see! 

Thank you for helping your children with their reading challenge last half term. The children are enjoying it so much that we are continuing it this half term and new cards will come home on Tuesday 8th June.

We hope you have enjoyed the sunshine during the Half Term break and we look forward to welcoming the children back and starting our next topic ‘Stomp, nibble, crawl, exploring animals great and small’ after Half Term. 

Click here to read our latest Year R Newsletter. 

Thank you, The Year R Team.

 

Great end to the term in Year 1!

What a great end to the term we’ve had in Year 1!

The children have enjoyed exploring the woods in and outside of school. They loved their walk into the woods, where we looked at the different colours, the variety of trees and even built houses for the mini-beasts. We also visited the meadow alongside school, where we explored the different flowers and enjoyed a story in the sunshine. Back in school, the children enjoyed learning about recount writing and wrote recounts of their visits.

In maths, we have been learning about numbers to 100 and thinking about how they are smaller or greater than each other. The children have been learning how to partition the numbers into tens and ones, e.g. 53 is represented by 5 tens and 3 ones. We have been practicing our counting everyday so that we can count in our ones up to 100 and then back again.

Thank you for helping your children with their reading challenge this term and the children are enjoying it so much that we are continuing it next term. Remember if you have any questions or concerns about anything, then please contact us on year1@stmarksce.org.uk. We hope you are all enjoying the sunshine during your half term and look forward to our next project, ‘Flower Power’ starting after half term.

Year 1 Team

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