Week ending 23/9/11

One of the highlights of our week has to have been the police visit on Wednesday. They came to talk to us about keeping safe and in particular 'stranger danger'. PC Forrester showed us some of his equipment and we got to try on his jacket which was great fun, even Mrs Marks and Mrs Sibley had a go! They told us what to do if ever we needed to call the police and said how important it is for us to know our own addresses and phone numbers.

Also this week we ventured down to the green to look at trees. We were hoping to go further but it was miserable weather. We are going to be focusing on trees for our harvest celebration so look out for some tree poems soon!

In French this week we have been working on greetings and are getting far more confident at counting to 10. We have been playing lots of games to help us learn.

In dance we have been making warm up dances to some lively music. We will be teaching our dances to eachother over the term.

In science this week we have been finding out about how materials change and we had a practical lesson on Wednesday where we got to test lots of materials. A favourite was definitely the play dough!

There is a good programme on the internet which the children were shown which they will get chance to go on in school but lots were keen to have the address, so if you google bbc science clips characteristics of materials that should take you to it. It is quite a tricky programme but as we progress through our topic we will understand it better!

Well done to Otto this week for being worker of the week. He is a good listener and good at getting on with his work.

Also well done to Josh Morgan for getting the spelling trophy for September for making good progress with his spellings.

Sunday 18th September 2011

Class 2's focus this week has been on making a start with our Victorian topic work. The children have worked hard on creating Victorian timelines and finding out more about Queen Victoria. Did you know that she has been the longest reigning British monarch and was on the throne for 63 years!! Ask your children what else they know about her!!

This weeks homework was to linked to our topic by finding out more about your Victorian ancestors! Thankyou to those who have brought in photos of their ancestors, we would welcome any more to copy and add to our display.

Congratulations to Kim who is our Pupil of the Week. She has been particularly helpful around the class and assisted the year 2 children feel very welcome to Class 2. Thank you Kim!



A quick reminder that swimming begins this Thursday. The children will end the day at the usual time providing that we don't get too held up at the Cowcombe Hill roadworks.

First week back

We have only been back a week but I am sure everyone would agree it seems like much longer already! We started the week with no tears - well done everyone!!! Welcome to our eight new year twos who have settled in very well.
On Monday we had a busy but relaxed day. We wrote about our holidays, decorated hot air balloons for our porch with things we like and bright colours and we set up our class rules which are;
* We are nice to each other.
* We look after school property and each others.
* We don't talk when someone else is.
* We work hard and we don't waste time.
* We move around safely.
These are displayed in our classroom and will be reviewed regularly. Everyone signed them to say they agree to follow them.
Also this week we have started some French. Our aim is that everyone will be able to count to ten fluently soon! Some children can do this already and will be going further and helping others as well as having a go at some French maths. Speaking of maths, we had lots of fun on Friday doing maths with sweets. We discovered it was very hard to estimate the number of sweets in a pack and explored lots of ways of counting.
We ended the week with some well earned golden time, see pictures below.
Next week (on Tuesday) we will be having class elections to elect two class reps from each year group to be on the school council. On Monday the children will have chance to speak to the class about why they would make a good class rep (if they want to)...
Thanks to everyone who attended the parent's meeting on Wednesday. Hopefully you found it useful. The majority of information was on our newsletter for those who couldn't make it. One thing to note was that the lucky child who gets Patch (our class dog) will also be bringing our class hand towels home on a Friday to be washed! We hope this is acceptable to everyone.
Well done to Joshua Wilson for being awarded our first star pupil of the week! Although, everyone has been working very hard and has made a positive start to the year which is brilliant.


Sweet maths...




Golden time

The girls enjoy our new 'writing table'.