Lower School (KS1)

We have had a wonderful festive time in school this last week with crafts, parties, a panto visit, a Christmas dinner and so much fun. Here are some photos of the things we have been doing. 
 

We wish all our families a wonderful Christmas break.

Mrs Kemp and Mrs…

The children practised lots of maths skills making their cards this year as they measured lengths of material to make a tree. We have been learning about shapes and their properties in our maths lessons so we had lots of talk about shape as they created. 
 

Our reception children have been learning lots about shapes this week, naming them and their properties, drawing and going in shape hunts. Sadly I didn’t manage to get any photos of them!

They have also been investigating the numbers 4 and 5 …

Our Year 1 & 2 children have been developing their understanding of place value this week using place value charts. 
 

They are making great progress!

Our Year 1 and 2 children are busy developing their understanding of place value at the moment. They have been learning how to groups tens and ones to help themselves solve problems with number.

Today they played a game when one child created a representation of a number less than 50 using base…

Our art and design project linked very well to our Geography based topic called ‘Our Local Area’ as we investigated maps as a stimulus for drawing. 
 

The children began by looking at a series of images of maps and sorted them into groups. They sorted them into: old and new, real and…

Our Reception children do lots of counting and recognising numbers activities indoors and outdoors as they learn to develop their knowledge. Here are a few photos of a few activities they’ve done recently…

We love maths! Our Year 1 and 2 children have been learning doubles and near doubles and then applying their knowledge to help them solve addition and subtraction problems. 
 

In these photos (taken over a few days) you can see the children playing different games. The first two games asked…

Our Reception children have been improving their fine motor skills and developing their understanding of patterns. They have been talking about shapes and colours and created their own repeating patterns. 
 

We learnt all about the Hindu festival of lights called Diwali. We read a beautiful book called One Diwali Day by Dev Kothari and illustrated by Aditi Anand which created lots of questions and discussion. Our year 1 and 2 children then wrote facts and created fact files whilst our Reception…

In our geography lessons we have been learning about our local area. After lots of different learning finding out where in the world we live, looking at aerial photos and doing activities the children have drawn a map of our local area.

Phonics plays a big part in how we teach the children to read and write. When we are teaching the children the sounds that letters make we need them to say pure sounds (t not tuh) so that they don’t say any extra sounds when they come to blend them together to read the word. Take a look at this…