KS1 – Newsletter – 8.5.26

We hope you all enjoyed having an extra day off this week! We have welcomed Miss Nodding into Key Stage One this week, as she takes over from Mrs Salam who is now on maternity leave.

We have continued to think about the life of Neil Armstrong in English this week. We read lots of different things about him and decided whether we thought they were facts or additional information that could be true, but could have been written for interest. We then wrote sentences about Tim Peake travelling to The International Space Station, including the use of common exception words.

In maths, year one have been learning how to add equal groups. They have been using repeated addition to count sets of objects and pictures. In Year Two, one group have been focusing on fact families for multiplication and division. They have noticed the relationship between multiplication and division, being the inverse. The other group have been finding fractions of a number. This week, they have been finding fractions with different numerators eg ¾, 2/3 etc…

We have continued to look at animals in Science and this week have been focusing their habitats. We have thought about what each animal needs to survive and how creatures like fish need to be in water, but others live in trees. Some minibeasts like to live in dark damp places, and other animals live in fields or gardens.

Computing was quite a tricky one this week. After making our own pictograms using PurpleMash, we used the programme again to retrieve information. We looked at flow charts and answered questions to find the correct solution.

Year One have continued with The Carnival of the Animals in music. This week, they focused on the donkeys, tortoises and elephants. They moved like the animals, listening out for key things in the orchestra. Year Two carried on with their ICT work on Purple Mash, creating an accompaniment for ‘Twinkle Twinkle’.

In food technology, the children have been looking at the fact astronauts need to eat a healthy diet when they are training. Today, they created a salmon salad. They chopped up all the ingredients, before doing a taste test. In design technology, the children began to think about how to make their rockets. They began by practising the skills of sawing.

We were also looking at healthy foods in our PSHE lessons. We thought about what food goes into each category and how it is important to eat some of each food group. We thought about which foods we could eat, but less of and which foods it was good to eat all the time or plenty of. We then designed our own meal based from what we had learned.

In art, the children were using chalks to design a planet. They thought about what colours to use and how they could blend them. They decided whether it would have rings, craters, mountains etc… We have also begun a new artsmark project, designing our own planets, using different sized circles to draw around. We then chose whether we were going to paint them, use stamps, chalks or sticking materials to complete our design.

We finished the week with our alternative PE. One group experienced golf for the first time, looking at how to hold the driver and putter and practising hitting the ball accurately. One group was doing Pilates and the other group enjoyed another session of fencing.

Dates for your diary.

Monday 11^th May – 2.45pm Year One Parent’s phonics information meeting

Monday 8^th June – Cannon Hall Farm trip (Please log on to Arbor to pay)