In Maths this week, we are learning about position and direction!

We can now describe movements using the following vocabulary:
up, down, left, right, forwards, backwards.

We can now describe turns using the following vocabulary:
clockwise, anti-clockwise, full turn, half turn, one quarter turn, three quarter turn.

Look at some of our fab work and learning on our IWB!

This week, Class 6 have been learning about multiplication! We understand that the ‘x’ symbol in Maths means ‘groups of’. We’ve been learning to complete multiplication calculations for our 2, 5 and 10 times table. We wrote the calculation to match the pictorial representation before moving onto solving abstract calculations and missing number problems.

Year 2 are very lucky as Emily Hopper from the NHS Healthy Minds Team will be coming in to talk to us about our emotions, feelings and behaviour every week to help us understand and take care of our mental health a little more! This week, we met some characters and will be exploring their home life, mindset and characteristics alongside various scenarios to help us in our own lives. We are starting to understand that our thoughts influence our beliefs and our actions that follow. We have control of our thoughts and we can change them to become more positive to positively impact our behaviour.

In the Autumn term, we first concentrated on consolidating our learning from Year 1 and made numbers up to 20 using tens and ones. For example, 16 has 1 ten and 6 ones. We had a go at using our large part whole models and our practical equipment before drawing our own representations! We did a wonderful job.

This week, we have been learning all about the reason for celebrating Bonfire Night – Guy Fawkes and how his plan to blow up the Houses of Parliament FAILED! What a relief… We retold the story and also wrote our own letters to Lord Monteagle, warning him to stay away from the building on that frightful night. In D&T, we also made fantastic rockets! Check out our brilliant work below.

We have been recapping our learning from Year 1 this week and made sure we were super confident with counting in 2s, 5s and 10s! We discussed the patterns that formed to help us recall them and to deepen our understanding.

We then moved onto counting in 3s! We played ‘Number Detective’ and made our own counting in 3 number cards in pairs. One person closed their eyes and the other person stole a card! Their partner tried their best to work out which one was missing… We had some excellent detectives – so good that we had to make it harder by stealing 3 and 4 cards at a time!

Take a look below to see our marvellous multiples!

We have been exploring our new reading area this week as it’s been transformed into a crazy Minion Land! We can now pick a minion to read to, encouraging us to read more frequently and eagerly throughout the day. Take a look below!

On Friday, Class 6 had the extra special treat of being visited by ‘Hoopstarz’ who taught us all how to hula hoop. We now know that hula hooping consists of rocking forwards and backwards and not side to side or in a circle – who knew!

Not just that, but after cracking the perfect hula hooping technique, we were taught tricks! We had an excellent go at hula hooping while jumping, running on the spot and criss-crossing our legs. Below are some pictures of our fantastic hour of fun – check out the hula hoop houses we can now make with 6 hula hoops! We can’t wait to showcase our hula hooping skills on the yard during lunch times.