We are mathematicians 🧮

16th January 2024Laura Godley

Today in Crew Godley we’ve been working hard to complete missing number addition in our magic maths session. We found this really tricky last week however the crew have blown me away today, showing they are getting smart by using our number facts to complete their number sentences independently.

We are Geographers 🌎

15th January 2024Nicola Robson

Today we began our brand new expedition by being geographers.

We recapped some of our previous learning from year 1 and talked about human and physical features. I was very impressed by how much you could all remember. Great work Crew Robson.

Chapter One Meet and Greet

15th January 2024Nicola Robson

Today the children in Crew Robson and Crew Godley had the pleasure of meeting their amazing Chapter One reading volunteers and finally put a face to the voice. The children read to their volunteer once a week via audio call and it is having a great impact on their reading progress. It was lovely to be able to say thank you to these wonderful people who make time in their busy jobs to read with our children.

Hedgehog in the park 🦔

15th January 2024Lauren Marsh

Today we started reading Percy the Parker keeper has a flying visit. We loved reading the first part of the book and experience what it must have felt like when the hedgehog was chilling under the tree in the park until bonkers fell down and bashed his head.

We looked up at the sky and shared what we could see, we then acted out what the hedgehog might have done when the conkers fell.

Experience day and feature finding in MI

15th January 2024Stacey McClare

Today we watched and unpicked a section of the Jungle Book film, thinking about how Mowgli feels in certain situations. We got into role, becoming Mowgli, making his feelings come to life. We were then introduced to our new writing genre, a diary entry. We started to think about what a diary is and the features needed. We explored a model text and then unpicked the different features. We talked about how a diary is different to our previous genres. We talked about our own experiences of diaries and if we write them at home. We then looked at Mrs McClare’s example of Mowgli’s diary and what was included. This afternoon we have moved onto some grammar learning- using time adverbials. We tried to build sentences together and with our partners. We will be applying everything we have learnt in our grammar lesson tomorrow.

Reading in MI

15th January 2024Stacey McClare

Today we recapped our previous vocabulary in reading by playing 4 corners! We loved playing this game! We thought about which word class the words belonged to and why. We read the words in context too to help us. We then read some of our text using a variety of reading strategies, we tried to do some text marking as we read. From here we tried to independently answer a range of fact and retrieval questions and also challenged ourselves with a green standard question. We used the knowledge we had gained in our previous demonstration comprehension lesson to help us to answer our questions.