Term 2, week 1

A busy start to the term, despite there only being 4 days of children being back. We have started a new topic: Our World, and children began learning about the 7 continents and where our continent is. We then looked at which countries made up The United Kingdom, and discussed the difference between a globe and a map. Children were excited to use Google Earth to find our school and some were even able to find theirs and their grandparents' houses! In music, we started to learn the songs for our end of term nativity play, Camel-Ama-Ding-Dong (and yes, you did read that right) - more details to follow!

In maths, children were learning how to subtract within 20 and used a variety of manipulatives to help them with this, before moving on to pictorial and abstract learning.

In English, we have met some of the six sisters who look the same but have different hairstyles: Annie for a, Dina for d, Gaia for g and Olive for o. Next week, we'll meet the other two; Cara for c and Queenie for q.

Our PE lessons are on Wednesdays now since we have the new coach, Ross, who took the children through their paces learning about fitness and the importance of warming up and cooling down in particular. We look forward to more sessions with the coach. In science, children looked at animal characteristics, drew their animal and decided if theirs had fur, scales, eyelids, legs, claws and/or feathers, and in computing, children started looking at how to take a good photo, and when and where they should take a photo, especially of people.

Finally, a reminder it is our class assembly on Friday 20th November to which you are all warmly invited. This is where the children will showcase some of their learning so far.

Mrs Ord, Mrs Giles and Miss Walker