Columns method
We’ve been learning to add using the column method this week. Please practise at home as much as you can.
Music with Mrs Parkes
We love having Mrs Parkes for music again. Today we sang Christmas songs and learned a song with a dance.
Fine motor and gross motor fun!
We enjoyed hammering sticks into pumpkins today! It was a super activity to build our fine and gross motor skills!
Balances
In PE we’re learning balances this half term. We started by learning the airplane pose, the dolphin pose, the stork pose, downward facing dog and upward facing dog yoga positions.
The value of Service through the story of Esther
Today we started our new term by looking at the story of Esther and how she saved her people. We will be looking at this more in the coming weeks.
What to expect when in the Early Years.
Here is a helpful document to give you an idea of child development across the Early Years.
file://tssmat.internal/Staff/a.coleman-harris/Downloads/What-to-expect-in-the-EYFS-complete-FINAL-16.09-compressed%20(1)%20(1).pdf
Websites to try out at home!
Top Marks Early Years Sections has a range of activities for both Nursery and Reception- https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Search.aspx?Subject=37
Phonics Play phase 2 phonics games for Reception- https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/2
Phonics Play phase 1 phonics games for nursery- …
Colourful calculations
Year 2 enjoyed being creative in maths yesterday. They were answering 2 digit add 1 digit sums using their chosen methods.
Can you practise adding over the half term holiday? What methods will you use?
Super subitising!
Today class one developed their subtising skills further! We talked about what we could see and how we saw the conkers on our big piece of paper. We could see a 1, a 2, a 3, a 1 and a 1 and that is also 2, a 2 and a 1 and that is also 3! We could see so many different numbers! We drew around the…
Wedgwood trip part 2
Here’s a picture of us touring the Wedgwood museum.