Year 1

Hello Year 1, we hope you all enjoyed your Easter and were lucky enough to have some Easter eggs!

Whilst you have been at home the dinosaur has been out and about in the school grounds looking for signs of spring. 

Take a look at the photos and see how many signs of spring you can spot. Can you name any of the plants and flowers?

 

 

 

 

 

 

This year we have been thinking about which areas in the school  make a good shelter for the dinosaur.  He needs to be safe, have water and food.  Which of the photos do you think show the best place for the dinosaur to live?  Where do you think he is camouflaged best, why?

Can you find signs of spring by looking through your window or whilst you are outside?

Next week you will be sent your first Home Learning activities.  Below are the ICT links we have included in the pack if you want to start to look at these already. 

 Remember if you find a good idea yourself you could share this with a friend.

https://spellingframe.co.uk

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAxW1XT0iEJo0TYlRfn6rYQ

https://whiterosemaths.com/

https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resources/covid19-school-closures

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/

https://classroomsecrets.co.uk/free-home-learning-packs/

From the Year 1 Team

Easter Holiday Week 1

Hello Everyone!

We thought it would be a nice idea for us to share what we've been doing over the first week of the Easter holiday! First, we wanted to say a massive well done to everyone for all the hard work you've done at home over the last few weeks. We know it's a really strange time for everyone, but you're doing amazingly well!

Mr Jones, Ms Cooper, Miss Croud and Mrs Vaughan have been at school this week, making the most of the sunshine and completing some fun activities with the children. We've been playing games, building dens, finding Easter eggs and even painting something special to show our appreciation for the NHS workers. Each day, the children have painted a different colour of the rainbow on large pieces of paper. Once they had finished, we  put them all together to make one, beautiful picture, that we have displayed outside of Early Years. Here is a picture for you to have a look at!



We hope you have a great Easter weekend!

Year 2 Update from Year 2 Teachers

Hello Year 2!



We wanted to post a quick update to share what we’ve been doing over the past few weeks at school. All of the Year 2 teachers are missing you all very much and it’s been extremely strange being at school without you all there with us. We are sure that you’ve all been working hard at home and having lots of fun.



During the first week, Mr Jones and the children spent a lot of time out in the garden helping Mr Allcroft. We did some planting, watering and even decorated the garden. We painted flowers, made butterflies and hung bees from the shelter! We used all of these activities to help us with some writing too. We created stories about bees, wrote letters and we made sets of instructions on how to plant sunflower seeds so the other children could follow them and have as much fun as we did.

During the second week, Miss Jones and Miss Davis helped the children to tell the time to the nearest five minutes. They also used the symbols for greater than, less than an equal to order different amounts of time. In English the children created their very own superheroes with unique costumes and powers and wrote all about them. The children really enjoyed playing board games like scrabble and monopoly to practice spelling and maths skills.



Challenge

Why don’t you try and make something that would look great in a garden? It could be a butterfly or a bee, just like we did. It could be another insect or even a garden gnome!  Once you have made it, write some instructions on how you did it. Remember, your instructions should include: Title, introduction, ‘You will need’ and your steps. Give it a go!



You could also create your very own superheroes – think about their secret identity, their costume and their superpowers! You could then write your own descriptive paragraph to tell someone else all about them!



We also made sure we didn’t miss listening to David Walliams telling us stories from his ‘Worlds Worst Children’ book. You can also listen to him if you click on this link:



David Walliams is reading a story every day for 30 days. Listen, or catch up, here: https://www.worldofdavidwalliams.com/elevenses/



















We hope that you are all staying safe and hope you have a good holiday!



Year 2 Team

Year 1

Spring Term

This half term Bird World visited Year 1.  We found out more about birds, reptiles and mammals and loved meeting the different animals.  In particular we found out more about the owl, tortoise, chinchilla and guinea pig that  visited our classes. 

 Whilst you are at home can you research these 4 different animals, for example what do they eat, which part of the world do they live in?

Thinking about the groups birds, reptiles and mammals can you draw other animals that belong to these groups?  If you have pets at home which groups do they belong to, how do you know?  Are there other groups of animals we have not mentioned?

We made amazing 'pop up' toys in our DT lessons.  Some of our ideas included space themes, under the sea themes or animal themes.  Whilst you are at home can you make a  different moving toy or picture? 

 

Once Upon a Time

In Early Years, we have been really enjoying traditional fairy tales. Our role play areas currently are Granny's Cottage from Little Red Riding Hood, a shoe shop from The Elves and the Shoemaker and a Fairy Tale Castle.

We all had great fun making gingerbread men and hope they tasted as good as they looked!

We will be finishing this topic with a Fairy Tale Ball on Friday 3rd April. Please come dressed as a character from a fairy tale. We are very excited about it!

Year 2 - Splish, Splash, Splosh!

This term started with a very exciting visit from Captain Rockycliffe! We learnt all about pirates, real ones and fictional ones. We had great fun acting out the story of the Pirate Cruncher and had some amazing ideas about the sorts of adventures pirates have.

We also got to design and make our very own pirate ship. Then we tested it to see if it was waterproof or not!

We are now moving on to our topic "Be the Best",  where we will be thinking about superheroes.

We will be pretending to be superheroes and come up with different powers we would love to have.

Out of This World!

Out of This World!

At the beginning of the Spring term our kitchen garden was turned into a spaceship landing site! 

 We arrived at school to find pieces of the spaceship hidden in the vegetable patch BUT where had the alien gone?

The Year 1 classes thought of different questions to ask the alien including 'Where were you trying to fly to?', 'Do you go to school?' and 'What planet are you from?'.

We wanted to find out more about the planets in our solar system and had fun exploring the Science Centre in Winchester.  We particularly enjoyed designing and testing our rockets to see which rocket would travel the furthest.  We thought of different names for our rockets including Zoomblaster, Flying Fire, Mars Blaster and Bobby and Alex!  In the planetarium we learnt more information about planets and constellations and spent some time in the afternoon investigating the Explorer Zone.

In our DT lessons we researched space buggies and practised joining materials in different ways before we designed and made our own amazing space buggies!