Next week is Place2Be's Children's Mental Health Week.  Over the week, we will be completing activities linked to this year's theme: 'This is my Place'. You can find activities and discussion starters, along with further information here: Children's Mental Health Week 2026 Mrs Brown

This week, we are continuing with the theme:  Word families based on common words, showing how words are related in form This includes words such as: interfere intercept interject intertwine interim internal intersperse interloper interest interrupt

 We have been busy learning all about multiplication this week in maths. We used a range of concrete materials and pictorial representations to help us understand multiplying 2/3 digit numbers by 1 digit numbers. In history, we researched and made factfiles about some of the Ancient Mayan gods.

Our spellings this half term are drawing from high frequency words and those words we see commonly misspelt.  Our spelling words for the week commencing the 2nd February are:  ·       giant ·       right ·       along ·       beautiful ·       morning ·       believe ·       England ·       friend ·       once saw

  Story focus : Percy the Park Keeper stories by Mick Inkpen. Literacy focus : we have daily Phonics and handwriting sessions.  We have individual reading sessions, practising our blue Phonics book or reading books. Some of us have started writing captions, 'holding' the phrase and then writing it with fnger spaces - quite tricky! Please see previous post about writing.  Maths focus:  subitising and composition of 5. We enjoyed singing 5 Little Speckled Frogs and used out fingers and objects to help us see how 5 is made. 5 is made of ___ and ___. What do you see? (subitising)                                                                        PE Focus:  we had to have a change this week and used the scooter boards instead of gymnastics. They are always fun!  Science focus :chan...

 Yesterday in maths, the children were learning to add on within 20.  To do this, they were using a 20 frame telling a First, Then and Now story.  For example:  First, there were 10 children on the bus.  Then, 6 more children got on the bus.  Now, there are 16 children on the bus.  The children were counting on from 10 to get their answer. 

 This week, our spelling pattern is: Word families based  on common words, showing how words are related in form and meaning This includes words such as:  commit committee transmit submit commitment emit permit intermittent omit unremitting