Class Teacher: Mrs Hollinshead
Teaching Assistants: Mrs Whiteside and Mrs McGrath
Welcome to Beech Class. This Class has a combination of Year 1 and Year 2 children and is part of Key Stage 1.
Please check this page regularly to see updates of what we are learning.
We strongly believe that all children should experience high quality books that enhance literacy skills and inspire them to read. We aim for children to develop a love of reading and this will help motivate them to write.
To help with this we are sharing a fabulous and highly recommended list of ‘100 Books to Read…’
Reading Spine takes place daily in every classroom where the children are read to. Each of the books help to develop the imagination of our children and equips them with language. We want our school to be a place where children are read to, enjoy, discuss and work with high quality books. We use the Pie Corbett Reading Spine so that children have access to high quality texts and develop a love for reading!
Would you believe it? The three little pigs have visited our classroom! They left some construction materials for us and the big bad wolf has been sending us letters with challenges to complete. We are working hard to write our own version of the three little pig’s story.
We will be working on making our sentences superb, with a focus on punctuation, adding extra information by adding a joining word as well as adding some exclamation marks to show expression.
Year 2 children will be exploring spelling rules through the spelling programme, No Nonsense Spelling.
Reading:
Year 1 children will be continuing their phonics lessons, recapping the sounds they have learnt so far and then moving onto Phase 5 Letters and Sounds. Click the link below to find lots of fun games to play to reinforce the sounds we are learning.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/english-games/5-7-years/letters-and-sounds
Our topic this half term is, ‘How we grow and stay healthy.’ We will be looking at the life cycles of butterflies and humans as well as thinking about what humans need to survive. We will work up to designing a TV advert promoting healthy living.
We are going to be looking at structures and thinking about what makes them strong. Our challenge is to build a structure that won’t be blown down…should the big bad wolf decide to pay us a visit!
We will be continuing to use Purple Mash within our lessons, cross curricular. In our ICT sessions, we will be looking at spreadsheets, looking at how we use technology outside of school. We well consolidate our knowledge of online safety throughout this half term.
We have made a solid start to our learning using Maths No Problem.
Year 1
We will continue to gain a secure knowledge of the place value of numbers to 10 and then to 20. We will also be working on addition and subtraction, using lots of practical resources to help us.
Year 2
We will be working to secure our understanding of the four operations, developing mental and written methods for completion as well as completing tasks in the area of shape, space, measures, money and fractions. We will also be focusing on learning our 2, 3, 5 and 10 times tables. We will be practising our counting and making sure our place value knowledge is secure.
We are going to be exploring the story of Creation for the next few weeks and writing our own thank you prayers for the parts of Creation that we enjoy the most. As Christmas approaches, we’ll be thinking about why we give and receive gifts.
