We will be very busy in class!

In maths, Year 1 children will be learning about Place Value and the value of every number up to 10, so they can visualise quantities in their mind's eye.

The Year 2 children will be building on their understanding of Place Value to 100, partitioning numbers into sets of ten and ones.  They will face the challenge of partitioning numbers into different groups of tens and ones, such as 62 = 6 tens and 2 ones, but 62 can also be any combination of tens of ones, for example 4 tens and 22 ones, or 3 tens and 32 ones etc. That is a challenge for all of us as it involves very good addition skills!

In the second half of this term, Y1 will be exploring addition and subtraction to 10, while Y2 will be adding and subtracting numbers to 100, rooting their learning in their knowledge of bonds to 10.  Please keep practising the number bonds to 10, as they are the key that unlocks so much mathematical understanding.  

In Phonics, Year 1 will be applying their super grasp of letter sounds, digraphs and trigraphs that they learnt in EYFS to read and spell new words and short sentences. They are moving on with their learning of Phase 5, during which they will  revise and learn all the ways to make long vowel sounds in words.  We hope the children will continue to love reading and develop their fluency through reading their home readers regularly.  The digraphs they will focus on during the first half term are:

 ay, ou, ie, ea, oy, ir, ue, aw, wh, ph, ew and oe. 

During the second half term, we will be learning: au, ey, a-e, e-e, i-e, o-e, u-e, c, y and al.

Please help your child spot these digraphs in the words as they read their home-reading books.  Being a "digraph-spotter" is a very important skill! 

The focus of the Spelling for Year 2 is to identify vowels and consonants to see how words are constructed.  The children will be exploring different ways of spelling sounds in words, such as all the ways of spelling the "g" sound - "ge," "dge" etc.  This builds on all the work the children did when learning to read these groups of letters in Year 1.  The spelling patterns, digraphs and trigraphs the children will work on during the first half term are:

soft g, ge, dge, kn, gn, wr, ey, c saying s, il, o saying u, a saying o, and  a/al saying all.

In the second half term we will explore how to make various "s" sounds in words and how "or" and "ar" can make different sounds, depending on word structures.  There is also a focus on homophones, such as "sea" and "see."

Our work in English started with some strange footprints suddenly appearing in our book corner! Mr. Marshall apparently saw a strange beast in the classroom on Tuesday evening. The children have written questions to ask Mr. Marshall what he saw and have made Wanted posters using the descriptions of the beast from Mr. Marshall's responses.  Has anyone else seen this beast? 

Here are a few pictures of our fun times last year.  I hope we will be able to add many more from this school year, too.

To start, here are some pictures from our visit to the Hindu Temple in Preston and our visit to St. Leonard's church, Samlesbury, which all Class 2 children attended.

As always, Mrs. Carins and I (Mrs. Marshall) love our children.  This is why we do our job!