Author: Miss Gledhill

This week, we’ve had a special focus! It’s been all about money. Here’s what we have been up to:

In maths, we’ve  been learning to recognise the value of different coins and notes. We practised ordering them by their value and explored how many 1p coins are needed to make the same amount as other coins.

In our Living and Learning sessions, we’ve been thinking about how people earn money and how to manage it wisely. We discussed the importance of being careful with our spending and prioritising what we need before buying things we simply want. We also talked about how keeping our money safe is very important.

Finally, we considered how we can use our money to help others. This led to a thoughtful discussion about charity, and the children voted for our new school charity which will be revealed next week!

People earn money by working.   Deacon

We keep our money in the bank.   Luna

I am saving up my money to buy a toy.  Elsie

It’s good to give some money to charity to help others.  A

 

Last week, we took part in a democratic vote to choose our new Junior Leadership Team representatives from year 2.

We wrote some brilliant speeches explaining why we should be chosen to be a JLT member.

Congratulations to the two fantastic and newly elected JLT members.

Here are their speeches that won them their places on the school JLT.

 

 

Help at home: What does it mean to take part in a demographic vote?

We have continued to explore tens and ones in our maths lessons.
This week, we have been adding tens and ones together.

We learned that if we have 40 (or 4 tens) and we add 3 ones, the total is 43.

We used Base 10 equipment to help us see this visually. By finding the correct number of tens and ones, we could clearly see the total amount when they were added together.

We are becoming more confident at recognising how numbers are made up of tens and ones and using this to help us add!

 

 

Help at home: Can your child choose some tens and ones to add together. They could draw out the Base 10 or show you a part whole model that we have been using.

Our living and learning this week was all about respect.

We have been looking at what is means to be respectful and why it’s so important. The children talked about how we can show respect to others by listening carefully, using kind words, and taking care of our classroom and belongings.

We explored real-life examples, acted out respectful and disrespectful situations, and discussed how our actions make others feel.

Respect is when you are kind and share- Isaac

It’s saying thank you to the ladies at lunchtime- Gracie

Respect is doing what you are told by your mum and your teacher- Deacon

It’s playing with your friends and sharing- A

Not listening is not respectful- Thomas

 

Our maths learning has been all about multiples of 10. We’ve  been practising counting in 10s and adding 10 more and finding 10 less. Although adding multiples of 10 sounds tricky, if we know that 3 = 4 = 7, then 30 + 40 = 70.

We started to think about tens and ones. We’ve been making 2- digit number using Base 10 to represent the tens and ones.

 

We then looked at groups of objects and thought about how we could figure out the amount by grouping the tens and counting the left over ones.

Help at home: Choose a 2 digit number with your child and see if they can make or draw the number. You can find virtual Base 10 online if needed.  

Hi,

I just wanted to let everyone know that our new library time will be on Tuesdays.

If your child would like a swap their library book, please ensure they have it packed before Tuesdays.

This week’s Living and Learning was all about using our manners.

Good manners are the thoughtful words and actions we use to show kindness and respect to others.

We discussed what we already do to show good manners such as smiling and saying please and thank you.

We discussed how our manners make our school a nicer place and help everyone to learn.

The children shared lots of fantastic suggestions for showing good manners, such as:

It’s rude to interrupt someone unless it is an emergency- Frankie

I always smile at other people- Zubie

I look at people when they are speaking to me – Austin

Help at home:  Chat about times when you have used good manners.

This half term, our geography topic learning is based around where we live in the world.

We started by looking at the earth and noticed the sea and land. We found out that the land is split into continents and we live in Europe.

After finding Wetherby on our map, we thought about the scale of towns, cities, countries and continents. The children labelled some concentric circle to compare the sales of these places.

We then looked more closely at the United Kingdom. We learnt about the four countries and where we can find them on a map.

Help at home: Can you child remember the four countries that make up the United Kingdom?

Why not explore Google Earth together and find familiar places?