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19 October 2021

French outdoor learning

Check out class two’s fantastic Autumn french leaf men.

The children have been carefully collecting their autumn leaf colours - rouge, orange, jaune and marron and designed the key parts of their french leaf men and labelled the correct parts - la tête, les bras, les jambes and les…

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18 October 2021

Wednesday's Wedgwood Trip

This Wednesday we're going on a trip to the World of Wedgwood. 

 

Please drop off and collect children at normal school times, wearing their school uniform. 

Children will need: 

School uniform

A coat

A packed lunch 

A bottle of water

Please ensure children can carry their…

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18 October 2021

Next half term

What a busy half term it's been! We've had so much fun in Class 2 and we've all learnt so much in the past 2 months. 

Topics for next half term: 

Science - growth and survival - We'll be looking at what we need to survive, and lifecycles. 

Dance and Drama - lifecycles (linking with our…

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14 October 2021

Sketching

These are our wonderful sketches of Josiah Wedgwood. Next we will paint them using watercolours.

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13 October 2021

Josiah Wedgwood

We started to learn about Josiah Wedgwood today in preparation for our trip next week. We learned the dates that his was born and died, then looked at the school history timeline to compare with other events we know about throughout history. We also started to sketch portraits of Josiah Wedgwood…

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12 October 2021

Topics coming up before the half term holiday

Here is an overview of the topics in each subject for the next two weeks. 

 

Maths - Year 1 and 2 have both just started adding and subtracting numbers. Year 1 are working on adding and subtracting numbers to 10. Year 2 are working on adding and subtracting numbers to 100, and using the…

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8 October 2021

Split digraph treasure hunt

Today we went outside for a split digraph treasure hunt. Split digraphs are words that make a sound with two letters apart. For example:

time - the I-e are making the sound together. 
Here is a video explanation about split digraphs:

https://www.twinkl.co.uk/teaching-wiki/split-digraph

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8 October 2021

Part whole models

Next week year 1 will continue to learn about part whole models in maths. Today went outside to make part whole models. Any work you can do on this at home would be fantastic. You can find out more information about part whole models on the white rose website. 
 

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7 October 2021

Music lessons

We had a lot of fun learning to write musical notation with Mrs Parkes in music yesterday.

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6 October 2021

Harvest service

Class 2 really enjoyed the harvest service today. We talked about how we grow, harvest and cook fruit and vegetables in our poly tunnel and raised beds. We also showed amazing listening and respect in church!
 

Thank you to all who attended and for donations to the Rugeley Food…

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5 October 2021

Monster Phonics Parent Webinar

We use Monster Phonics to teach phonics throughout St Mary's. Monster Phonics are hosting a free parent webinar to explain how their programme works and how you can support as parents, at home. It will greatly benefit your child if you can support them at home with learning to read and spell.…

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5 October 2021

PHSE

Today we worked with Mrs Smith to talk about what values we need to be a good person. We discussed our Christian values and what we do to show these values. 

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