On Wednesday Class 2 joined forces with Class 3 for a glorious day out at the Shropshire Hills Discovery Centre. Every child did the school proud and it was an absolute pleasure taking them. They all had memorable experiences which we feel will enhance and enrich their future studies for both Science and Topic work this term.
In English Class 2 have been doing revision for their phonics screening which is starting on Monday. They have also done some verbal and written work about caring for their natural environment. They have used emerging persuasive language which they have attempted to incorporate within their written work. They finished the week identifying verbs within their Alfie novel text and planned a leaflet to correspond with their experiences they had at the Shropshire Hills Centre.
In Maths they have continued with their work on Fractions. They initially found quarters of shapes and amounts. Then they moved onto finding quarters of quantities by sharing equally with apparatus. The children have also started using mental Maths involving halving small numbers.
In Topic the children have been in the great outdoors investigating common plants and trees in their school grounds. They are currently working towards doing some conservation work which would aim to monitor and protect the plants and wildlife in their immediate natural surroundings.
In Science the children have been doing a bean plant investigation. The beans are all planted and potted and are now ready to be cared for and monitored by the children.
Spellings have gone home again this week. There is also an additional phonics reading list for some of the children with some real and nonsense words for them to practise.
A big congratulations to both Evie Herbert and Ashanti for getting Star of the Week trophy. They have both worked extremely hard in lessons and have both shown real improvement with their reading too.
Have a lovely weekend together and I look forward to seeing you all on Monday.

Mr Mavin