This week’s spelling homework is a list of words due to be tested on Thursday 21 June.
We have been learning to read contraction words. Here is a list of words to learn – don’t forget to include an apostrophe.
Year 1: I’ll, don’t, didn’t, can’t, it’s
Year 2:
I’ll, don’t, didn’t, can’t, it’s, wouldn’t, shouldn’t, haven’t, shan’t, won’t
…honesty.
What is honesty? Honesty is being trustworthy and truthful in our friendships, our relationships, our school and our community. We understand that we need to be honest and truthful with others when working together as a team.
The challenge for us is: How can we be honest in our daily lives? How can we encourage people to be honest? What can we do to fix it if we forget to be honest?
Why did the Church Council choose this Christian value? ‘Everyone needs to be honest because Jesus’ disciple [Peter] wasn’t honest [when he denied Jesus].’ (Year 3 Church Council member)
How can I support my child at home? Talk together as a family about the consequences of not being honest. Encourage your child to write a story or draw a picture to show what happens when people are dishonest – your child can bring the stories in to school to add to our class reflection areas.
This week, we went to Scholes to watch a production called The Greatest Fairy Tale. Have a look at some of the recounts the children wrote about the trip.
Fleur
What a splendid trip I’ve had! Yesterday, I went to Scholes Primary School to watch a show. Year 2 were all partners with reception and year 1 were partners with each other. The hole of school except F.1 went to watch the show. I was partners with Lucas. We went into the hall and a man was trying to read the story but two pigs kept interrupting him. In the story there were only three characters but the main characters were stupid pig, simple pig and clever pig. The story was about The evil queen was changing the fairy tales around. For instance, Jack and the Beanstalk. you should know the tale. It’s about a boy called Jack and his mum were very poor so one day. This was different Jack’s mother’s foot fitted into Cinderella’s slipper so the prince had to take her to his castle.
Evie
What awesome day I had! We went on the coach and I sat next to Louie. When we got there we played tig in the small playground. Then, we went inside the play. The play was about the fairy tales all muddled up. They only had until midnight to fix it. The evil queen wanted to marry Prince Charming but so did Jack’s mother. The big bad wolf ate Little Red Riding Hood, Red’s granny and stupid pig. Then, suddenly snow white heard a knock on the door and it was the 8th dwarf.
Lilly
What an amazing trip I had! On Tuesday, we went to Scholes Primary School. We travelled on a coach. It took 15 minutes to get there. I was partners with Dexter. When we got there we played in the playground. We played tig with Daisy, Fleur, Jemima, Evie and Jessica and it was fun. Then we went into the hall to watch a show. It was 3 characters playing all of the fairy tales. It was funny When the man put the show on Mrs Rowley and when he said do you have any cell phones. Jacks mum marries the prince because the shoe fits but the price was supposed to marry Cinderella.
This week’s spelling homework is a spelling task and is due on Thursday 14 June.
Year 1 have a phonics task to complete. It has a range of phonics activities, such as reading real and nonsense words, to complete.
Year 2 have a Common Exception Words word search to complete. At this point in the year, year 2 children should be spelling the majority of the Common Exception Words correctly.
This week’s homework is creative and is due on Thursday 14 June.
This half term, our topic is Honesty. We have talked about the importance of honesty and what honesty means: always telling the truth.
This week’s homework is to show what honesty is. It could be a picture, a drawing, an acrostic poem, a model or even a story showing someone being honest or dishonest.
The annual survey of parents and carers is open for you to tell us your views. Thank you to the parents and carers who have completed a survey so far.
We’ve extended the closing date for the survey to 22 June to give even more of you a chance to tell us your views.
Thanks
At St James’ CE Primary, we’re always keen to hear your views.
Visit the survey site and respond to a series of statements – either agree / agree strongly or disagree / disagree strongly (or say that you don’t know). There’s also the opportunity to add any comments you may have. The survey should take you about five minutes – maybe a bit longer if you add lots of comments. The survey is open until 11 June.
Thank you for sharing your views.
This term, we have been looking at ‘Inventions that changed our world’. We’ve looked at how the telephone was invented and, this week, we moved onto how Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s designs changed the world we live in.
Isambard Kingdom Brunel is famous for designing radical bridges and pushing the boundaries in shipbuilding and tunnel building. We used some of his designs to influence our own bridge building.
The task: To create a bridge 50cm wide and strong enough to hold a toy car.
Materials: cups, paper straws, cellotape, glue, scissors and paper clips.
Here are some of our designs.
We created our own design then worked together as a group to decide on the best design. Then, we set about building our creations.
Here are our finished results. This week, we shall be evaluating our bridges. What was the best thing about them? Did they work? What would we do better/differently next time?
This past fortnight, Year 1 and two have been looking at the poem The Owl and the Pussycat.
We have learned to use adjectives before a noun (year 1) and to write expanded noun phrases (year 2).
Then, we learned to add these into sentences and wrote a description using them.
After that, we learned all about rhyming words – we had great fun trying to find as many words as we could to rhyme. We used these words to write our own class poem of the Owl and the Pussycat.
Finally, we wrote our own rhyming poems based on the Owl and the Pussycat. Here are a selection of Year 1 and 2 poems. 
Nicholas, Yr2
Jessica, Yr2
Jacob, Yr1
Leah, Yr1
This week’s spelling homework is a list of words due to be tested on Thursday 17 May.
Group 1
All of these words are based on our phonics learning over the past two weeks.
boy, toy, joy, flew, new, knew
Group 2
All of these words are based on our phonics learning over the past two weeks – the sounds we know can often have an alternative pronunciation.
head, happy, acorn, was, what, why, they, how, now, low
Group 3
All of these words are based on our phonics learning over the past two weeks.
lamb, crumb, thumb, limb, know, knew, knight, knee, gnome, knock, knot