Please see below a change of Menu for World Book Day on Thursday 7th March.
Communications
Beech Class Newsletter 23.02.24
We’ve had a great first week of Spring 2. To start our topic of Growth for this half term, in English we have read the story ‘Monkey Puzzle’ by Julia Donaldson. The children really enjoyed joining in with the repeated parts and thought it was funny the butterfly kept getting it wrong! We have been learning some wonderful new words – sorrowful, frustrated, bewlidered, persevere and triumph – see if they can remember them and what they mean. They have drawn and written about their favourite character from the story and also enjoyed imagining what might come out of an egg that butterfly finds in the forest! Some interesting and brilliant ideas!
They have also been creating some lovely artwork of the animals, which will be going up on our display in the corridor. We will share a picture for you to see when it is complete.
We have also talked about other things that grow, that we will learn about this term, emphasising that only living things (plants, animals and humans) grow and this week focused on animals and their babies, talking about which ones hatch from eggs and which give birth. We have also started a little project to design and build a carrier to keep an egg safe. If you have any small cardboard, plastic or other boxes or containers you were going to recycle, we would be really grateful if you could donate them to us for them to use. Thank you.
In Maths we have learned about 9 and 10. They have been exploring and finding the numerals or numbers of objects, representing the numbers themselves in different ways and comparing them to the other numbers they know. Next week we will look at one more and less, doubles and number bonds to 10.
In Phonics we are continuing to practice the sounds we learned last half term, revisiting them daily and working on our blending and fluency. It is really important the children sound out the words e.g. “c-oa-t” then blend to read “coat” whilst they are still developing their blending skills. If they are finding this tricky, you can model for them but it is important they still say the sounds before the word so they learn to do it more confidently themselves rather than just learning the words by sight.
Just in case you’ve not seen it I posted a memo on Tapestry recently asking if you would be willing to share a family photo to put up in our new home corner after the big half term move round. We just thought it would be lovely for the children to have a picture of their family up on the wall to share and talk about. If you would like to do this please email beech@crowmoorschool.co.uk, add it as an observation on Tapestry or pop a copy in their bag and we will copy it and return it to you.
Have a lovely weekend – hopefully it will be a little drier!
Miss Jones & Mrs Kenny
Sycamore Class Newsletter 23.2.24
Good afternoon,
This week we have started reading our new book Rumaysa which the children are really enjoying. We have looked at historical stories in our writing sessions and the features that are used.
In Maths, we finished our unit on fractions and then looked at addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
Remember to continue to practise times tables as well as mathletics at home.
In Science, we are looking at scientists and inventors this half term. We looked at changes to environments and deforestation and the work of Gerald Durrell.
Have a great weekend.
Mrs Fairclough and Mrs Brunyard
Chestnut Newsletter 23.2.24
What a great first week back! All the children have settled back into the routines and are working hard in all their lessons.
Phonics is becoming more tricky as we move through Phase 5 and the way different sounds (phonemes) are represented in words. All these words have the /or/ phoneme but spelt differently: author, door, walk, fork and dinosaur. It’s no wonder the English language is so tricky to master!
We have enjoyed reading ‘Chicken Licken’ and meeting all the characters. Our writing has been a setting description using adjectives.
In maths we have been learning to measure. First with cubes, then using a ruler to measure in centimetres (cm). We know that it is important to start at zero on a ruler.
The children have enjoyed using the iPads to research about the Arctic. They have made a list of what they would need to take on a trip to the Arctic.
Thursday 7th March is World Book Day. The children are invited to dress-up as a character from a book. They can bring their book with them to share in the class.
PE is back to being on TUESDAYS and WEDNESDAYs only. This week the children used their imaginations to dance like Jack Frost of a cold frosty morning.
Have a fab weekend,
Mrs Dowell, Mrs Armstrong and Mrs Savory
Willow – 23.2.24
Good afternoon,
The children have worked very hard on their return to school. In maths, we have finished out unit on fractions, decimals and percentages; the children achieved some very good end of unit scores. In English, some of the children have written some great newspaper articles about the main event in our class book – Pig Heart Boy.
In science we have began our unit on animals by looking at the circulatory system. In history we have continued our look at the Anglo-Saxons, Vikings and Scots.
Please keep encouraging the children to read it is so important.
Hope you have a great weekend,
Mr Reynolds and Miss Nicholas
Incident Today
Today an unauthorised person came onto site. The incident was dealt with immediately and in accordance with school policies. At no point were children at risk of harm.
Shropshire Star Article
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PE in Elm – Year 2
Hey!
PE will be on Monday and Tuesday this half term.
Can you please make sure your child is in their PE kit on these days.
Many thanks,
Miss Shadbolt.
Beech Class Weekly Newsletter 9.2.24
This week our book of the week was Poles Apart by Jeanne Lewis. The children have enjoyed following Mr White the polar bear and the penguin’s trip round the world to get back to the South Pole, making models with the construction kits of some of the landmarks they passed, and using found resources to make boats to travel across the sea. They have also written shopping lists and created their own picnics for Mr White.
In maths they have learnt about mass using balancing scales and explored the capacity of a range of containers, comparing them and putting them in order to show greatest to least capacity.
In phonics this week the children have been working on reading and writing longer words such as lemon, market, farmyard, rooftop, bedroom using the ‘chunking’ method and reviewing all the tricky words we’ve learned so far. We have also been completing some phonics assessments so we know which sounds and tricky words we need to keep practising after half term.
We had a lovely chat about why we were all dressed in our own clothes today and talked about what mental health was and why it was important. The children shared their favourite things to do and thought about what was special to them. We had a real range of answers from things to places and people. E.g. “my X-box”, “my toys”, “my house”, “the beach”, “watching the rain”, “looking for rainbows”, “hugging my mum on the playground after school” and “just my family”
It was their last Monday PE session with the coach this week. After half term PE will be on Fridays only.
Have a lovely half term break and don’t forget to read, read, read!
See you Monday 19th February.
Miss Jones & Mrs Kenny
Sycamore Class Newsletter 9.2.24
It was great to see so many parents at parents evening.
Here’s a reminder of the link the children can use to practise their times tables:
Multiplication Tables Check – 2023 – Timestables.co.uk
Please also make sure if your child has read at home, it is recorded in their reading records. The children can write it in themselves.
Today the children all looked fantastic, dressed up in clothing and colours that make them happy. They talked about what makes them happy and how we can ensure others are happy, making sure that we use kind words and actions.
This week we’ve been looking at poetry in English. After analysing a poem, we planned and wrote our own. The children have really enjoyed our reading sessions on ‘The Thieves of Ostia’ which we finished reading this week.
In Maths, we’ve been adding and subtracting fractions.
In Design and Technology, we had a go at putting the thread through the eye of the needle and doing a running stitch. We will continue to work on this ready to help us make our Stone Age clothing.
This half term the children have enjoyed learning about Islam in our RE lessons. We have looked at how festivals and prayer show what is important to Muslims.
Our Golden Certificate winner is Ella. She has really grown in confidence and is contributing much more in class, Well done and keep it up.
We hope you have a brilliant half term.
Mrs Fairclough and Mrs Brunyard