We have had an exciting week with the arrival of Christmas Elves in our classroom!

Each day they have been leaving us a letter and a story to read, as well as chocolate coins for children that have been being kind and helpful or done some amazing learning. 

They have also been leaving us daily challenges to complete - such as working out how many different outfit combinations they could wear if they have 2 hats, 2 tops and 2 trousers...!

On Friday we had an exciting afternoon painting a car! This is to be raced at Great Yarmouth on 29th December by one of the Class 1 parents - we had a great time!

No home learning this week so please make sure to read your reading book and practice your spellings for this week - these are stuck in journals as usual.

Don't forget, our trip to the theatre is on Monday, so please remember a packed lunch and drink!

It has been such a busy week in Class 2 this week!

On Monday we talked about Remembrance Day and did our 2 minutes silence at 11am to give thanks and remember the brave soldiers who fought in the war. We saw lots of the veterans on the TV coverage had medals so we made our own medals too!

We went out for an autumn walk too and had to spot signs of autumn in our pairs and tick them off once we found them.

We have been working hard on our addition ( + ) skills and have been using different resources to help us. Year 2 even had a go at setting out their addition calculations in columns using base 10!

On Friday we went for a walk to Vicarage Grove and explored the woodland there for ideas for our own enchanted creatures that we will be working on next week! We had a great time and found lots of interesting things to help us start to imagine what might be living in the woodlands - and we managed to avoid the rain too!

Home Learning

Due Thursday 21st November

Year 1:

Year 2:

Please also read your reading book and practise your weekly spellings (stuck in reading journals).

We would like to thank all that came along to our assembly on Wednesday - I think you will agree the children did a super job from start to finish! 

WELL DONE CLASS 2!

In phonics we have been revising sounds we already know and then learning new ways to write the sound. We have also been practising our handwriting and writing in sentences with capital letters and full stops.

Year 2 have been working hard in maths finding addition and subtraction facts and this week we have extended this to numbers to 100 - we have used lots of resources to show different calculations and have used what we know to prove our answers... 

 50 + 50 = 100        5 tens and 5 tens equals is the same as 10 tens.

We have even had a go at 'changing' the value of our resources - we made a 'one' unit from our base 10 equipment worth 10 - then had a go with other resources such as a tens frame and even numicon! Very tricky maths but lots of children really understood the idea - AMAZING!

80 + 20 = 100     each cube is worth 10 so 8 tens and 2 tens is the same as 10 tens)

40 + 60 = 100    4 tens and 6 tens is the same as 10 tens

2 tens and 8 tens is 10 tens - so 20 + 80 = 100 

Thea was in the Golden Book this week for working so hard on her independent writing and making sure to always keep trying! Well done!




Home Learning
Due Thursday 14th November

Please also read your reading book and practise your weekly spellings (stuck in reading journals).

Year 1 :

 Year 2 :

This week we have continued to explore our environment and our work on habitats, going on a minibeast hunt and recording what we found.

Taking the 'rumpus' from Where the Wild Things are, we taking about what the Wild Things and Max might be thinking, feeling and doing at this point in the story - then we had a go at having our own Class 2 rumpus!

On Friday we had a go at some problem solving in Maths - we had to make patterns and sequences using different shapes and colours - sometimes we had to start with a certain shape and other times we had to use particular combinations of shapes together.
Each time we could only change 1 thing - the colour or the shape - which was quite tricky, but lots of pairs worked amazingly well together to solve each problem. Some pairs even found several ways to solve one example - FANTASTIC!

Home Learning 

Due Thursday 17th October

Again you have a choice of 4 tasks this week - please complete 1 of these in your book and return it to school by Thursday. 

If you are not sure what to do or you need any resources please ask and we will be happy to provide these for you.

Please also make sure you read your reading book to an adult and practice your spelling words.

Don't forget, Mr S is back with us at Wenhaston on Monday 14th to work with us some more. 

Parents/carers are again invited to come and chat with him at 2:15 and hear more about his approach to developing a lifelong love of thinking and learning. We hope to see lots of you there!

We have been getting outside for some of our learning this week - we have been hunting for minibeasts and their habitats and drawing and writing about the things we found. 

I wonder who lives here...?!

We also went on a sensory walk and recorded the things we saw, heard, smelt and touched. 

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In maths we have been comparing numbers using the language 'more', 'less', 'greater' and smaller.

Year 2 have also been using equality symbols ( <  >  = ) - also known as 'Charlie Croc' who is quite greedy and always wants to eat the biggest numbers!

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We have been busy learning the story 'Where the Wild Things are' and are getting really good at remembering the order of the story, using actions to help us! 

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Golden Book - This week in the Golden Book were Amelia (for being so kind and helpful towards her classmates, in particular the new Year 1 children) and Jake (for always trying really hard with all of his learning, even if he finds it tricky, and doing it all with a smile).

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Home Learning - 

Due Thursday 10th October

Home Learning books have been send home this week - please can these be covered with wrapping paper / sticky backed plastic etc as soon as possible to help protect them when they are being carried back and forth from school.

You have a choice of 4 tasks this week - please complete 1 of these in your book and return it to school by Thursday. 

If you are not sure what to do or you need any resources please ask and we will be happy to provide these for you.

Please also make sure you read your reading book to an adult and practice your spelling words.

This week we have used story mountains to help us think about the key events in a story - this will make it easier to retell stories!

We used 'Where the Wild Things are' and drew and then wrote about what happens at the beginning, middle and end.

We have been representing numbers this week in different ways - thinking about ordering and finding 1 more in Year 1 and focusing on the value of each digit in 2 digit numbers (tens and ones) in Year 2.

On Wednesday we talked about 'consequences' and decided that there are both good and bad consequences for behaviours! We decided on suitable consequences for lots of different behaviours and what would be 'fair'.

Thank you to all who came to our Harvest Festival today - and for all of the generous donations of food!

Don't forget to practice your spelling words and read your reading book to an adult over the weekend!

In our maths this week we have been practising counting accurately and representing numbers in different ways.

Our English work has been based on the book 'Where the Wild Things are' by Maurice Sendak - we have been getting to know the story this week (including some great role play!) and talking about the images in the book and what clues they give us.

We have been learning about maps in geography and talked about the directions on a compass and what they might be used for. We looked at the difference between a normal photograph and an aerial (or 'birds eye') photograph and then we had a go at building a model map of the classroom from above!

Please remember to practice your spelling words and read your school reading book to a grown up over the weekend.

Don't forget - our Harvest assembly is next Friday 27th September at 08:45am in the hall. 

We would love to see lots of you there!

This week we have been doing lots of practical maths to help us recognise numbers.

In English we have been thinking about story settings to tie in with our Enchanted Woodlands topic and have been describing different settings. 

We have also been creating our own fantasy setting pictures and used these to think about what we could see, hear, smell and touch if we were there.

I am already so impressed with the effort everyone is putting into their writing!

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Well done to all the children that made it onto our recognition board this week for showing us that they are ready to learn!

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The spelling words we have learned this week are stuck into your reading journals, please make sure you take some time to practice over the weekend, as well as reading your reading book to a grown up and talk about the story you have read afterwards.