English – This week the children have been enjoying poems about the Seaside. We have looked at poems that rhyme and don’t rhyme, are realistic and non-realistic, practised performing them and writing our own versions about our own experiences.

Maths – Year 1 children have been adding and subtracting this week, looking for patterns to help them work out other number sentences and using their number bonds to 10 and 20. Year 2 children have revised areas ready for SATs next week, we have looked at multiplication and division, fractions of shapes and amounts and shape properties.

Science – We went on a ‘wild plant hunt’ in our Science lesson and then came back to class to start our class experiment. We have planted four tomato plants and placed them in different conditions to see what happens: 1) water and sunlight, 2) water and no sunlight, 3) no water and no sunlight and 4) sunlight and no water. The children have made predictions about what they think will happen.

Geography – In our ‘Weather’ topic the children have been looking at weather forecasts and making their own predictions about what the weather will be like in the next few days. We then had maps of the British Isles and plotted on weather symbols according to a weather forecast.

Phonics – Year 1 have been looking at alternative spellings for the ‘ar’, ‘r’ and ‘s’ phonemes.

Spellings – Spellings to be tested 19.5.17

12.5.17 spellings

Just a reminder that the Year 2 children will be taking their SATs papers next week (15.5.17), they have all worked really hard in preparation for these and should already be very proud of themselves!

Have a great weekend

Miss Edwards