Today we had a visit from Simon, the Animal Man, to support our learning about animal classification in Science. We learned about mammals, reptiles, amphibians and some invertebrates and some of us even faced our fears and held creatures we were nervous of meeting!
Money
We have been learning about money in maths over the last couple of weeks. Please could you practise making specific amounts of money with different coins with your child. This could be through playing games such as shops or going to an actual shop and helping your child to pay. If possible, please also include giving change.
Year 2 – You also have a calculation using money sheet to complete. You might want to do this with your grown up.
Multiplication
Next week, we are moving on to learning how to multiply. Please could you practise the times tables at home, focusing on 2, 5 and 10 times tables. Remember, you can also log on to Times Tables Rockstars to keep practising.
This week we have been learning about winter in our environment and the winter weather. We have explored the signs of winter in our school garden and how it has changed since we last looked at our environment in December. We collected leaves, seeds and other things that we could find and made ice windows.
Welcome back to a new year and new term. I hope you had a fabulous Christmas!
We’ve got lots of exciting things planned this term to help our learning about our new topic – Voyages of Discovery.
We are going to be learning about significant explorers and adventurers, their achievements and the impact that they made on the world around them. We will be looking in depth at the lives of Christopher Columbus, Ernest Shackleton and Felicity Aston. In Science we will be learning about the Animal Kingdom, and will have a visit from Simon Airey, the animal man, to enhance our learning.
Our P.E. days have changed this term, while swimming lessons are ongoing. Year 2 will be swimming each Friday for 5 weeks from 17th February. Children will need to come to school in their P.E. kit every Thursday and Friday until Easter. For this term there will no P.E. on a Monday.
To find out more about the focus in our areas of learning this term, our topic map and subject knowledge organisers are available at the following links.
Voyages of Discovery Topic Web
Haughmond Spring 2023 Knowledge Organisers
Thank you,
Mrs Gregory
This term we will be having a change to our P.E. days as all the children will be having swimming lessons before Easter. P.E. days, therefore, will be Thursday and Friday. Please could you ensure that children come into school dressed in P.E. kit on these days.
Many thanks.
This week Pimhill and Haughmond have performed their 2022 Nativity, Baarmy Bethlehem, in front of two full audiences of parents, family and friends. All the children performed fantastically and have made al the staff very proud with the way they have learnt their lines and songs.
Thank you to all those who came along to support the , helped with learning scripts and provided costumes for the characters.
Today in Haughmond we learnt about the symbolism of the poppy in remembrance. We watched the video attached below, joined the national 2 minute silence and found out about Walter Tull’s significance in WW1. Then, this afternoon we decorated poppy biscuits.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/watch/poppies
This week, Haughmond were visited by Hannah from Shrewsbury Museums and took part in a workshop to enrich our learning about Charles Darwin and why he is a significant person in history. We explored timelines using a range of artefacts, learnt about his life and work and made observations in his style using quill and ink! We really enjoyed our morning and learnt a lot of facts!
Today in Haughmond we had a visit from Lisa who runs Shropshire Falconry at Battlefield. She brought 5 different owls with her to launch our English topic, based on the book The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark. We learnt lots of facts about owls and were lucky enough to hold either Chris or Sid the owls. Biscuit, the long eared owl, flew over our heads to show how quietly owls are able to fly. One of the owls, Severus, was a black barn owl, which we found especially interesting, but our class favourite was Solo, the great horned owl who could wave hello and goodbye!
This week for your homework I have sent home with you number formation sheets and a times tables mosaic. There are 90 questions on the mosaic so you don’t have to do it all at once!
Over half term, please keep up with your reading and Times Tables Rockstars if you use it. Also, here is the link to the punctuation superheroes game we looked at in English today. https://www.bbc.co.uk/games/embed/small-town-superheroes?exitGameUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fbbc.co.uk%2Fbitesize%2Farticles%2Fzncgvk7
Bomere Heath CE Primary School
The Crescent,
Bomere Heath,
Shrewsbury,
SY4 3PQ
Tel: 01939 290359
Executive Headteacher: Mrs Julie Ball
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