Today, to mark the end of our learning about The Great Fire of London, we built our own city with the houses that we designed and made in DT. We made sure that the houses were close together, just like they were in London in 1666, and we put our own St. Paul’s in the middle of the ‘city’. Then, Kris set our city on fire! It was very exciting! We watched how the flames travelled from house to house, and finally to our cathedral in the middle. It was very dramatic when it finally collapsed!
Today, all the children had the opportunity to visit Leaton Church to take part in our Harvest Festival. It was lovely to be able to be back in church and take part in the service along with Rev Hannah Lins.
The classes each performed their own harvest song that they have learnt in their music lessons with Mrs Kessel-Fell this half term. Grinshill, Stiperstones and Wrekin also shared some more of their learning about harvest around the world and sharing a recipe for harvest, along with sharing some poems and prayers that they had written.
Thank you for all the generous donations that you sent in with your children.
The short course has 6 modules but includes all the essential information you need to know about dyslexia. The videos are only 2-3 minutes long so don’t become overwhelming.
The training modules cover identification, an explanation of the neurological processes affected by dyslexia, intervention strategies, accommodations and the use of technology. Each module is followed by a short quiz to test knowledge. The training can be done on a smartphone, tablet or computer. The course takes about 2 hours but can be completed in bitesize chunks and a certificate is awarded when the course is complete!
Here is the link to the Open the Book worship that we have shared in school with the children this week.
On Friday we visited Aston Hall in Birmingham as part of our learning about fire this term. We explored the house and took part in a workshop all about the Great Fire of London. We dressed up as some of the important people from the story, including Thomas Farriner and Samuel Pepys. We also learnt to write with a quill, in the same way that Pepys would have written in his diary. We had a great time!
We would like you to practise forming numbers correctly at home. This means you need to think about making sure they are facing the right way and are formed carefully so that they can’t be mistaken for a different number. If you are writing 2 digit numbers you need to check that you have got the digits in the right order so that numbers like 12 don’t look like 21!
Here are some activities that you can download and do at home to help you practise.
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This week in their spelling lessons, Year 2 will be focusing on adding –s and –es to the ends of words and knowing how to know which is the correct ending to the word they are writing. They will also be learning about what to do when they need to add an ‘s’ to a word ending with ‘y’.
The words they will be focusing on include:
The children will not be tested on these words, but we will be challenging them to be including them in their writing and looking for application in their work.
Today we have been making the frames for the houses that we are going to use to make a replica London street from 1666. We measured the wood and then cut it to the right lengths. We sanded the ends down and explored different ways to join the wood and make the best frames. Next week we will finish the houses ready to burn them down in our own Great Fire!
In the next couple of weeks, we are going to be electing our new School Council members. For your homework we would like you to write a speech, with your grown ups, to present to the class about which school council you would like to be part of and why you should be elected.
The school councils we have are:
In Science we have been looking at our local habitats. We explore the wooded area on the school field and recorded what we found in our wildlife notebooks.
Bomere Heath CE Primary School
The Crescent,
Bomere Heath,
Shrewsbury,
SY4 3PQ
Tel: 01939 290359
Executive Headteacher: Mrs Julie Ball
Office Manager: Maria Whittaker
