Year 2
Our new traversing wall.
Year 1 and 2 were very excited to go out at break time today and find the new traversing wall was finished and ready to go. This is a brilliant addition to our outdoor environment and will be great in supporting children to further develop their team work, confidence...
The best laid plans…
Our learning on Friday after break did not follow the plan, because we took a detour to explore more of the children’s questions in the moment they arose. It takes a lot of confidence to do this and a bit of skill and knowledge to do it well. As part of our focus on...
T2T and HL activities : Monday 13th January
T2T and HL activities : Friday, 17 January 2020 Write a My News piece about your weekend. Start with an exclamation sentence to engage your audience and then give lots of who, where, when, what details. Read your bug club book. On your book choosing day, choose a...
Our latest words.
Year 2's efforts to capture as many new and interesting words as possible is continuing. The children love being able to encounter a new word and rather than ignore it or be afraid of it, they capture it and bring it in for us all to share. This is having a very...
We love our reading assemblies.
We love our reading assemblies! For twenty minutes on a Thursday, year 1 and 2 come together to share and explore their reading books together. Today, the year 2 children were sharing their most recent reading text. The Year 1s were making sure the Year 2s read it to...
Our holistic approach to words.
In year 2, we've been trying out a slightly different approach to the new words that the children encounter, capture and share when they are reading at home. The reading team for that day will share their words with me before break in the reading club and then I...
Our creative designers!
The KS1 team were lucky enough to be able to host Kate Green, an artist working with Newton Abbot museum, for a day. Kate is working on display materials for the new Newton Abbot museum and was seeking ideas from local schools. Our local museum is a very special place...
A fantastic example of great team home learning.
It was wonderful to come into school this morning and have one family excitedly present me with the home learning they had all done together over the weekend. they had got their child to write a recount of the weekend, but did not help him at all, instead let him...
T2T and HL activities : Tuesday, 26 November 2019
T2T and HL activities : Wednesday, 27 November 2019 Write a My News piece about your weekend. Start with an exclamation sentence ‘What a great weekend I had!” to engage your audience and then give lots of who, where, when, what details. Read your bug club book. On...
Applying our learning from Road Safety week to our SUSTRANS project.
On Tuesday this week, the children in year 1 and 2 teamed up in mixed year teams to take on a creative challenge project. The challenge they were set was to create something which would help someone who was doing the same SUSTRANS project as them to do it safely. The...