Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas! Have a happy and healthy holiday. Thank you for all your hard work this term, both in school and at home.
Countries and continents
This afternoon, we completed a challenge that Mr Wilks has set us. The big question we had was which continent has the most countries at the World Cup? We used atlases to help us find out which continent each of the 32 countries are in.
Then, we worked as a class to create a bar chart.
Help at home by asking your child questions about our bar chart. Some ideas:
- How many countries does Africa have at the World Cup?
- Do any continents have the same number of countries at the World Cup?
- Which continent has 1 country at the World Cup?
Active for Advent
In our PE sessions this half term, we’ve been thinking about movement. We know that we can move at different speeds, heights, directions and that we can move in many different forms of travel. It seems that our favourite form of travel is jumping in Year 2!
More recently, we’ve been completing a series of movement challenges. Help at home by staying active over Christmas – use our Advent calendar!
Feeling festive!
In Year 2 this week, we’ve completed some Christmas themed challenges. Have a look at what we’ve been getting up to!
Help at home by counting baubles together, finding the longest piece of tinsel or talking about your Christmas tree using adjectives. There’s lots of Christmas challenges that are fun and keep us learning!
Christingle and Christmas Production
What a busy week we’ve had in Year 1 and 2. On Wednesday, we went to church to celebrate Christingle. The children did a fab job singing their song ‘In a Stable’ and holding their candle very carefully.
We’ve also performed our Christmas production three times to an audience. We are all so proud of how well they all did.
Christmas events
It’s a busy time of year with so many things happening. Here is a reminder of the Christmas events taking place over the next two weeks:
Wednesday 7th December, 2pm: Christingle Service at St James’ Church
Thursday 8th December, 2.15pm: Early Years and KS1 Christmas play
Friday 9th December, 9.30am: Early Years and KS1 Christmas play
Tuesday 13th December: Christmas dinner
Wednesday 14th December: Early Years and KS1 parties (non-uniform)
Thursday 15th December: Ks2 parties (non-uniform)
During our productions, we will be raising money for our new school charity voted for by the Junior Leadership Team. This year we will be supporting Cancer Research UK.
Author: Bethan Woollvin
Yesterday, in KS1, we were lucky enough to have a special meeting with popular author, Bethan Woollvin! Not only does she write stories for children, she illustrates them, too. She delivered a virtual workshop all about her book ‘Little Red’. Ask your child what happens in the story! We read the book together and were shown how to draw our own Little Red character. We had a fantastic morning and many of us feel inspired to become authors and illustrators.
Living and Learning
Over the next three weeks in Living and Learning, we are exploring mental health. We began this series of learning by discussing and identifying emotions.
The children had to look closely at the facial expressions of different characters and decide which emotion they might be feeling.
Topic
In our Topic learning today, we continued to compare optical art by our feature artist, Bridget Riley. We commented on how there are lots of patterns in her work – the arrangement of colours or shapes in a logical order. We made our own patterns in the classroom.
Then, we compared Bridget Riley’s art work using a Carroll diagram. We looked at lots of different features – shapes, colour, patterns, and if the picture appeared to be moving.
Christmas is coming!
Our Christmas performance is fast approaching and we are so excited to perform for everyone! This is a reminder that children, if they have them, need to bring their scripts into school each day. Also, any costumes in named bags need to be in school by Thursday 24th November 2022 and letters for tickets to be returned as soon as possible. These were sent out last week in children’s bags.
Thank you! From the Early Years and Key Stage 1 team.