Welcome to Year 1 and 2!

Your teacher is Miss Littleford

Our Learning this Week

English

This week the children have moved on to writing an informational text, using their learning from geography about Madagascar. The children spent some time planning the information they would use on each page, including a subheading for each page to tell the reader what they are reading about. The children then used their plan to write the first pages of their book, focusing on making sure each page has a subheading and that we are using as many writing features as possible.

Maths

This week we have begun learning to read the time. We started the week by making our own clocks with moving hands, to help us with this topic. We discussed the hands and their function, and how they move around the clock. We then moved on to learning to recognise o'clock times and half past. 

Topic

This week we completed a history unit on the life of Sir David Attenborough. We learnt about his work as a broadcaster and conservationist. The children learnt about key events in his life, ordering them on a timeline. We then compared his childhood to ours, looking at the differences in a variety of areas of life including entertainment, toys, travel and school life. We then reflected on his work, thinking about inspiration we could take from him. The children wrote their own pedge to help the environment, focusing on reduce, reuse and recycle.