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Miss Quinn gave birth to a beautiful boy, Tommy Jax McCarthy, just before Christmas on the 22nd. She has promised us a visit towards the end of term (with some special time in Maple Class. We all offer her and her partner our congratulations. A very special Christmas present!
This Week:
Friday, 12th January, 9am – Parent Information Meeting – Writing – How we and you can support your child with learning to write. This academic year, we as a school are completing a project about improving our writing skills with a concentration on formation and handwriting and spelling. The meeting will start with EYFS and all the way to Year 2 so lots of important information for all parents. There is more information on the back of your child’s calendar that they will be bringing home.
Well Being Activities
Monday – Connect – Send a secret code letter to someone
Tuesday – Take Notice – Senses 5,4,3,2,1 Eg think of 5 things you can see, 4 things you can hear etc
Wednesday – Be Active – Cosmic yoga adventure
Thursday – Keep Learning – Blindfold puzzle game
Friday – Give – Feed the birds
English
Reading
Phonics and Spelling Sessions
Homophones
oi or oy
Y2 CEW
2x sessions of phonics for reteaching taken from end of T2 assessments
Writing – Composition
Hot Seat Character from ‘Look Up’. Ask questions of each other as if they were characters from the story shared last week.
Learn bout the features of writing a diary entry and create a plan for one of your own as the main character from the story.
Write a diary entry as the main character, Rocket.
Handwriting including a dictated sentence.
Maths
| Mental Oral/Warm Up: Counting on and back to 100 Daily count Flashback 4 each day | Learning Objectives: Count vertices on 3D shapes Sort 3D shapes Make patterns with 2D and 3D shapes Recap addition Recap addition | |||
Wider Curriculum
Computing – Continuation of Coding Unit
Science – Investigate the different life cycles of animals. Look for similarities and differences.
History – Complete a starting assessment task for History. looking at sequencing and Timelines.
R+WV – Investigate the question – Who is Jesus?
PSHE – My learning strengths
Music – Chronology –
To listen and respond to music from the Renaissance era verbally and through dance.
To compare different types of music from the Renaissance era.
PE/ SHINE PE – Gymnastics