Pearl Class - Year 1/2
Meet the team.
Miss Yardley class tacher
Mrs Taylor LSA
Mrs Dyson HLTA (PPA cover)
Long Term Plan
The link to our long term plan is below:
Key Information
PE day is Thursday so please send children to school in their PE kit ready for their session.
Homework day is Friday and all children will bring their homework home in their reading folders. This must be returned the following Friday.
Phonics 3 Day Read books are sent out every Friday after the third read in school. This book will come home for a week so that you have plenty of opportunities to read with your child. This must be returned the following Friday so they can bring home their new book. Failure to return your phonics book may result in a fine to replace.
Library day is on a Friday where children will have access to the school library and our new outdoor reading courtyard when weather permits.
Singing sessions are on a Tuesday and we will have a warm up, followed by three songs - these will be shared with parents for practicing at home!
Continuous learning
Year 1
Bonds to 10
Bonds to 20
Common exception words (please ask if you would like a copy of these)
Year 2
Bonds to 20
2, 5, 10 times tables and divisions
Common exception words (please ask if you would like a copy of these)
2 times tables and division facts
5 times tables and division facts
10 times tables and division facts
Our Learning journey
Songs for our singing session that we have practiced so far are:Warm up - Choon Baboon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5ibRYDBFTw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaW_4MWSE6I
Song 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYb2QfjKe_4
Our Worship song this half term is Thankful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUagDfVPAH8
Other songs you may enjoy sharing together at home:
Here is the link for our school song which all the children know well and would love to practice at home too.
Nothing more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIuy1a9IdHk
Autumn 1 in Pearl class
Autumn 1 Topic Web Autumn 1 Homework Web Autumn 1 - Values Mat
In English we introduced our new English text through a hook day where we made Robots and then in Year 1 we named our Robots and in Year 2 we wrote a description about our Robot. We got very creative and had some wonderful ideas! Our new text is No-Bot.
Citizenship enrichment.
This half term our enrichment focu has been citizenship. We have learnt lots about people who help us out and about in our community. We have leanrt what they do, how they help and what skills they hold to make the effective at their job role.
We learnt about dentists and then used play dough to make our own teeth and toothbrushes! We also learnt about paramedics, police, shop assistants, firefighters and mechanics.
Design Technology
In DT we were designing a car using the wheel and axel mechanism. We evaluated existing products, designed our own cars and then made them. Once we had completed our cars we evaluated them and made changes where neccessary to ensure we had a orking product.
Autumn 2 in Pearl class
This half term was filled with many more exciting learning opportunities and experiences. We had our Art enrichmet week focused around drawing skills and portraits. The children created some amazing pieces!
We also had our allotment visit, Christingle service at church, Peace concert and Nativity.
We had so much fun at the allotment and we had the chance to get hands on too.
Art enrichment
Art - still life
Christingles
Spring 1 in Pearl class
This half term our value is courage.
Our songs:
We will be singing lots of songs in school in our singign worships and weekly singing sessions. Please find the links to the songs below so you can share together at home.
Spring 2
Our learning this half term has been about the History of Saltaire and our key person was Sir Titus Salt.
The children were fascinated by our English text 'Titus Salt and How He Built Saltaire'. We were very lucky to be able to get in touch with Emily Parkin who is the author and illustrator of the book and we sent her all of our questions. She made a video for us answering the questions and we were very excited she had taken the time to do this.
Art
In Art we learnt the skills needed to effectively create our clay tiles to represent our interpretation of buildings that would fit into the architecture of Saltaire.
We looked closely at the detail we could see on the buildings in Saltaire and then we explored our surrounsings and collected items we could draw around or could use the pattern on to print into our clay. We drew sme examples of what these would look like and then designed our final tile. We used all the skills we had learnt and were really proud of our creations!
Maths
We got resourceful! We made our own clocks as visual aids to help us make, tell and identify time. We used them effectively and they reall helped us to practice the skills of telling time on clocks.
RSE
In RSE we explored what team work, listening and working together really looks like. We were set a challange and given the only resources we could use; a paper cup, a rubber band and 4 pipe cleaners. We watched a short video of our challenge and then we needed to work with our partner to recreate what we had seen and successfully work together to pick up the cup and move it! It was trickier than we first thought but we worked really hard to use our reciprocity and we all managed to be successful!
Summer 1
VE day - we took our learning outside and held a KS1 street party to celebrate the peace in Europe.
DT
Our DT learning this half term has linked to our English text - Jim and the Beanstalk. Our Let's say was ...
Let's say now you have got new teeth for your Giant, he needs to know what a healthy snack is to help him take care of himself.
We decided that a fruit kebab would be exactly what he needed! We wnjoyed tasting the fruits to decide what we wanted to use and then we desgned, made and ate it to be able to evaluate it!
