KS1 – Newsletter – 9.12.22

It’s been a very exciting week in Key Stage One, with our final rehearsals and performance on Thursday. Thank you to everyone who came to support the children. They loved performing for you and we are very proud of them all.

We had some very cold walks for our Geography trips at the beginning of the week. The children worked well in pairs looking out for physical and human features in our local area and recorded them on a chart as we walked.

In English, Year One have been looking at letters and what needs to be included in a letter. They each wrote a letter to Santa telling him lots of things about themselves and telling him what they’d like for Christmas. They also asked Santa questions like ‘How do you fit all the toys on your sleigh’. They looked at lists of toys ad selected the correct phonics to spell them. Finally they wrote about the Christmas play and the role that they played. Year two have been reading ‘The Little Christmas Elf’. They have used this as a stimulus to ask questions and use question marks. They have followed this up by beginning to plan an adventure story involving an elf.

In Maths Year one have been focusing on their subtraction skills. They have been using Number lines and other resources to help them subtract. They have also been doing subtractions in word problems and other reasoning problems. In year two, their focus has switched to subtracting two two-digit numbers. They have done this by drawing out the biggest number in a tens and ones chart and then subtracting the smaller number by crossing out the tens and ones.

In Science, we were thinking about how to keep our bodies and minds healthy and focusing on how we can keep ourselves clean. We thought about washing our bodies, cleaning our teeth and wearing clean clothes. We realised that we all need to eat healthily, do exercise and have a good sleep each night. Doing exercise and things that we enjoy, can help to keep our minds healthy too.

We have been looking at some key women in our history lessons. This week our focus was on Mary Seacole. We learnt about what she did, some of the problems she faced because of the colour of her skin and how she was loved by the soldiers because of her selfless care for them. We then compared Mary Seacole to Florence Nightingale, noting that they were both nurses in the Crimean war and they both received awards. We looked at how Florence Nightingale made sure the hospital and patients were clean and how Mary Seacole used herbal remedies to make the soldiers better.

Key Dates:

Next week is week 1.

PE Kits needed for Monday.

Christmas jumpers be worn again this week

Monday 2^nd January is a bank holiday. We will see you back in school from Tuesday 3^rd January.