KS1 – Newsletter – 27.1.23

It was fantastic to see so many of you at our Maths workshop on Monday. We hope that you found it helpful, to understand what your children do in their Maths and fluency sessions and how we teach them to use tens and ones frames to answer their addition and subtraction questions. If you have any questions, please do come and talk to a member of staff.

We have swapped around the book we are reading in English this week. Year One have begun to read ‘The Great fire of London: Unclassified’ and Year two have begun reading ‘Vlad and the Great fire of London’. Year one have been focusing on the features of a non-fiction book, looking at how it can be read in any order and a contents page can be used to find the page of what they want to find out about. We have also begun to look at the features of a newspaper and what a newspaper report might include.

In Maths, Year One have ben looking again at how numbers are represented. They have been thinking about place value and putting random numbers into order. They have been using terms such as greater than, less than and equal to.

Year two have been doing some assessments during this week. This will help us with our planning to know exactly where the children are at, what they are able to do and what they need more support with.

We had a very special helper to aid us with our Geography lesson today, when one of the Co-op robots brought us a delivery! We loved seeing it it arriving across the road! This linked with computing as we have been looing at algorithms and how they are a set of precise instructions. We know that the bot needed a set of instructions to make it way correctly to school. We then looked at a map and thought about the route it could have taken to get from the shop to our school. We used our compass skills knowledge to describe the route the robot took on a gridded map, saying instructions like ‘One space East, One space North-west’.

The children have been focusing on colour in Art this week and ensuring their knowledge of which colours are primary and which are secondary. They have then been mixing primary colours, with their fingers, to create secondary colours.

In Music, Year one have been looking at tempo, fast and slow, and learned a new singing game called ‘Button, you must wander’. Year two looked at dynamics, loud and soft. They listened to Ravel’s Bolero and composed a piece of music with a crescendo (getting gradually louder).

Again, the children are split into two groups for DT. One group were designing a fire engine to make and the other group were learning about fruit and vegetables. They focused on these food groups on the eat well guide. They were practising the claw and the bridge hold for cutting as they made fruit kebabs.

We have been learning about the weather and changes in the seasons. We then worked in groups to make weather vanes and rainfall gauges.

Year One learned a new story in RE this week that is known in the Christian and Muslim faiths. They heard about how Joseph was given a multicoloured coat by his dad and his brothers sold him as a slave. They learned about how he had dreams and interpreted dreams of others, which helped people when there was a famine. Year two learned about how Jesus taught in parables (stories) which related to things that they could understand. The focus was on how these stories had a specific meaning that Jesus wanted to teach people to help them understand more about God.

Key Dates:

Next week is week 2.

PE Kits needed for class 1 on Thursday and Classes 2 + 3 on Friday

10.2.23 – Dress to express yourself

10.2.23 – Break up for Half term