17th May 2018
We are so proud of how hard all of our children have worked this week! Year 1 have produced some fantastic information booklets about penguins (their chosen animal) and Year 2 have had a fantastic attitude during their SATs. We still have reading paper 2 to complete next week and then we will be rewarding the children with a little tea party!
Thanks for all your continued support!
Mrs Sim and Mrs Featherstone
14th May 2018
Dear parents and carers,
This week is SATs week for the Year 2 children. We will be taking our time and making sure that the children have as much fun as possible. There is no pressure placed on the children-we are so proud of how much they have already achieved!
Mrs Sim and Mrs Featherstone
22nd April
Dear parents and carers,
Hope you’ve all had a great weekend! We only have 3 weeks until the Year 2 have their SATs tests. They have all worked really hard, but we are concerned with the maths mental arithmetic test-we seem to have forgotten some of our facts and methods after the long Easter break. In the next 3 weeks, if you have any spare time, please could you practise any of the following:
* adding and taking away one and two digit numbers
* the 2, 5 and 10 times tables and the division facts
*number bonds for 10 and 20 (two numbers that add together to make 10 and 20)
Last year’s mental arithmetic test is available at the web address below to give you an idea of what is expected of the children:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/key-stage-1-tests-2017-mathematics-test-materials
Many thanks for you continued support. We are so proud of all the children and how hard they work every day!
Kind regards
Mrs Sim and Mrs Featherstone
18th April
Today, we turned our classroom into a doctors surgery and took part in some drama! This was to give us some experience to write about in our recount writing next week. We all had a slip of paper explaining our illness, then we walked to the doctors, checked in with the Receptionist Mrs Featherstone and visited Doctor Sim. Some of us were given prescriptions or hospital appointments too! We had so much fun and created some excellent story boards after!
14th March
Today is Kindness day at school! We started the day by receiving a compliment from Mrs Sim and Mrs Featherstone. The compliments were written on hearts and were already on our desks when we came in! Our challenge today is to give someone else a compliment.
5th March
We have had a lovely cosy morning reading bedtime stories by lamp light and drinking hot chocolate. Then, we chose our favourite stories and wrote book reviews! What a great start to our World Book Day!
18th February. Dear parents and carers,
I hope you’ve all had a fun and relaxing half-term! We are excited to see the children tomorrow. It is a really busy half-term as we count down to the Year 2 SATs tests which take place at the start of May, but we will still be having a lot of fun along the way!
Just a reminder that spelling club has now come to an end on Mondays. The children have made superb progress and are excellent spellers! Well done to all the children who worked so hard!
See you all in the morning-have a fun last day of holiday!
Mrs Sim and Mrs Featherstone
22nd January
Today, we are doing a cricket taster session with Marsha from All Star cricket. It is so much fun and is available at Hunwick and Willington Cricket clubs. We will be bringing home leaflets tonight!
15th January
Dear Parents and Carers,
As part of our history topic this half-term we are looking at toys old and new. To help us, please could your child bring in a toy that belongs to them, a toy that belonged to you and a toy that belonged to a grandparent? Toys will be labelled and kept safely in a box for a couple of weeks while we look at and investigate the toys, but we will take great care of them. Please could toys be brought into school by Friday.
Many thanks
Mrs Sim and Mrs Featherstone
Activities, Visits and Trips 2017
21st December
Dear parents and carers,
Wow-what a term! We have loved every minute of working with your fantastic children this term and we are bursting with pride at the amount of progress they have all made! Today is Mrs Featherstone and I’s last day before the Christmas break, so we would like to take this opportunity to thank you for all your support and wish you all a very merry Christmas! The children will be binging home their red book bags and P.E. kits home tonight. They have been given reading books for the holidays, so they don’t need to bring their book bags tomorrow. Our P.E. co-ordinator, Mr Vincent has also bought every child a school P.E. kit, so the children will not require shorts and t-shirt after the holidays. All we ask is that, for now, you provided them with plimsolls or trainers.
Please take care and we look forward to seeing you all back in school on Monday 8th January-please don’t forget book bags!
7th December
We had great fun at Lydia Street Church this morning for The Christmas Journey. Ask us all about it tonight and see if we can remember the Christmas story.
4th December
We had great fun at Lydia Street Church this morning for The Christmas Journey. Ask us all about it tonight and see if we can remember the Christmas story.
14th November
Today we had an anti-bullying day in school. We watched a video about what bullying actually is and how we can deal with bullying without ‘using our fists.’ Then, we played an emotions board game, worked in groups to answer key questions about bullying and made anti-bullying posters.
Yesterday, we had a multi-faith day in school. We made Peace Mala bracelets which are symbolic double rainbow bracelets that promote friendship, respect and peace between of all faiths and none; all cultures and lifestyles.
9th November
Ethan’s Granddad Billy came in to talk to us about what school was like when he was young. He brought lots of artefacts for us to look at and gave a brilliant talk about school life in the past. We really enjoyed his visit.
9th November
We had a visit from the fire brigade last week. They came to talk to us about how to stay safe on bonfire night.
20th October
Today in Class 2… we have been sharing our news through role-play! After planning and rehearsing (just like real news reporters) we then performed our news to the class.
We definitely have some future actors and actresses among us!
12th October
We’ve had a fantastic day at Beamish and even took part in a Victorian lesson!
09th October
Dear parents, wow what a week last week was! We are still bursting with pride with how sensible and well-behaved our class were during our Ofsted inspection. They worked so hard and were polite and courteous too! Thank you too all the parents who came in to our parent event and gave such lovely feedback about our school as well!
04th October
On Monday, we arrived in school to a surprise from the Aliens! Treat for writing to them about our school day and a challenge to make a Victorian cup and ball toy. It was so much fun!
25 Sept
We have had lots of fun at spelling club this week! We built the words with Lego then did rainbow spellings for a multi-sensory approach!
22 Sep
It’s been SUPER-noisy in Class 2 today – we have been singing and exploring short and long sounds with instruments!!!
Many thanks for your support.
Mrs Sim and Mrs Featherstone
Sep 6
So we went hunting for their treasure and we found a box full of objects from schools from the past 100 years! For our new topic, we have decided to find out about school life in the past! We were so excited!
Wow! The summer has sped by. We hope you have all had a fabulous break and managed to enjoy some sunshine! Teachers are back in school today getting ready to welcome you all back tomorrow. We are so excited to see all of our lovely children again. Please, don’t forget to bring you child’s book bags and full P.E. kits. Also, please make sure uniform, P.E. kit, coats etc are all labelled!
This term, out topic is all about our school. We would love to interview past pupils, so if you do know anyone who used to come to our school and would be wil,ling to talk to our children please do get in touch!
Enjoy the last day and see you all bright and early tomorrow for the start of a fantastic year!
Mrs Sim and Mrs Featherstone.
11-May
And….that is SATs OVER!! We are immensely proud of all of our Year 2 children. They have all worked their socks off and tried their best and that is just testament to their fabulous attitude to their work all year. We are celebrating this afternoon with a picnic on the field with Reception and Year 1, who also work so hard each and everyday.
Mrs Sim and Mrs Featherstone
26th April
Jim Lad the pirate has asked us to write information books about his sea creature pets. Today, we are looking for important information and highlighting key words. This is a tricky skill as we have to be very selective, but we are very good at it!
25th April
Today, we had a message from Jim Lad the Pirate! He needs someone to look after his pets when he goes on holiday, but he needs someone who knows all abut sea creatures! We told him we would like to help him out in some way, so he sent us a challenge. We had to use information books to find out if some of the sea creature he sent us were true or false.
6th April
Yesterday we added our own lines to a new verse for Little Boy Blue. Today we worked in groups to pick our favourite lines and create a group poem on Purple Mash.
23rd March
Today was Maths Day. We had a visit from Professor Tagtivate and we played some really exciting and fun maths games!
23rd March
Today, we planned a new adventure for the boy in the Oliver Jeffers stories. We had some exciting plots!
16th March
Today, we investigated a range of sources to find out about the race to space.
13th March
Today we have tried to learn our weekly spellings using a technique called ‘rainbow spellings’. You write a word in a pale colour then re-write over the top in different colours to practise it. Try it at home to practise this week’s spellings.
8th March
Yesterday, we had our Class reading event. Thank you to the mums and dads who came in to read with their children. It means so much to the children and it helps to reinforce the message that reading is so important! Remember, try to listen to your child read 3 times a week.
6th March
This morning, we started our new topic on shape. We had to hunt for 2D and 3D shapes on the yard-we were very excited!
6thMarch
On Friday, we went on a trip to the Baltic in Newcastle and we walked along the Quayside. We walked over the Millennium bridge and the swing bridge.
2nd March
Today was World Book today. We all dressed up and headed down to the library, where we looked at the books and listened to some stories. Our children really enjoyed it and would love to go back with our parents!
16 February 2017. Yesterday Class 2 took part in Equality day! We read lots of stories about different types of families such as King and King, And Tango make three, Heather has two mummies and The family book. We learnt that not all families have a mum and dad. Then, we made rainbow flags and printed our hands in rainbow colours too.
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