Category: Learners Class

Learners class are bursting with pride, as one of our class has this week become a published author. Learners were delighted to share the wonderful story this week and join in with celebrations. We are extremely proud! What’s more, the Learner is donating all the money raised from the sale of the book to our school charity, the Zambezi Sunrise Trust – what a star! For more information of how to order the book, see this week’s newsletter.

This week, Learners have enjoyed being The Landlords in the school Nativity performance at St John’s Church. We were totally awesome and both performances were wonderful. 

In science this week, we have been finding out about George James Symons and were interested to know the meaning of a ‘meteorologist’. We have been watching the daily BBC weather forecasts and were surprised that the people who present these are meteorologists too! 

Learners are holding onto their hats for a fun packed Christmas week ahead, consisting of Christmas crafts with families, Christmas parties and dinner, the annual Christingle service in Church and a visit to the Christmas Pantomime. It’s the most wonderful time and Learners have had a fantastic 2024!

Learner love to learn 🙂

Learners have enjoyed science lessons this week. We have been thinking more about how ice and frost is formed. We have been enjoying watching the daily weather report and finding out about meteorologists. Since September, we have been recording what time the sun sets on the first of each month and we are interested to see how the days are shortening as we go into winter. We will continue to monitor this as we go through Year 2.

Learners Class had a wonderful evening on Thursday, where we enjoyed a movie and pizza night in order to raise money for The Zambezi Sunrise Trust. We changed into pyjamas and enjoyed a Christmas ambience of candles and Christmas lights, while we relaxed and ate some tasty treats! Our goal was to raise £100 and we raised £115, smashing our target!

We have begun to write our narratives around The Christmas Jolly Postman. Next week, we will focus on some character description of The Jolly Postman., using some expanded noun phrases and interesting vocabulary. We are beginning to use apostrophes for possession and contraction in our writing which is making our writing simply wonderful.

The Nativity practises are taking shape and we are going to be awesome in the performances next week. Please see the newsletter for the dates and time to join us.

Learners are totally amazing and are so keen to learn!

Christmas is well and truly approaching. The Nativity practises are beginning to take shape and we are all busy learning our lines. Learners have had a busy week in the classroom this week. We have welcomed families in to share with our maths learning, where each activity gave an ingredient of our typical maths lessons – eg maths key skills, number sense, times tables and problem and reasoning questions. We had a huge response to this and many families were able to attend, which was wonderful.

In RE, we have been busy learning about Advent and the traditions that occur in Christian lives. We discussed the meaning of the word Advent and why it was important for Christians to celebrate.

In English, we have completed our adverts to raise awareness for the Zambezi Sunrise Trust. We are busy making preparations for our own class fundraiser Movie Night. We have set our own target of £100 and are excited to see if we achieve it. We are all looking forward to enjoying a Christmas Movie and a slice of pizza together!

After a few frosty mornings, we have been looking at how frost and ice forms in Science. We were very interested to learn the freezing temperature of a liquid to solid and drew some wintry frosty pictures during the lesson.

Keep an eye on the diary dates in the newsletter, which will give you all the Christmas information you need.

Learners are looking forward to celebrating Christmas!

Learners Class have been working really hard on addition and subtraction in maths over the last few weeks..

This week, Learners have been using many strategies to aid their learning and are able to select the resource or manipulative that supports their learning the best. For some this is using ten frames, for others this is using a number line and for others this is using a place value chart or rekenrek.

Learners have access to all of these resources during each maths lesson. Using different practical resources is definitely deepening understanding. This week Learners have been adding and subtracting across ten.

Our history morning on Monday was a great success. We welcomed many families into Learners class to share in our history learning about Whitby now and then. Families were able to contribute and share their own knowledge with us and could reflect on the how Whitby had changed over time. Thank you to all who could join us. 

Learners have decided to hold a Christmas Movie Night, to raise money for the Zambezi Sunrise Trust. Look out for more details on this in this week’s newsletter.

Christmas is approaching and this week we have begun to practise the songs for our Christmas performance. Keep your eye on the newsletters and on Tapestry for any information around this!

The weather is starting to turn colder, so please make sure your Learner has a warm coat in school each day.

Learners are maths marvels this week. Well done Learners, you are awesome!

Learners have enjoyed art this week. Building on the skills we developed last half-term, Learners have been looking closely at primary and secondary colours. This week, we enjoyed mixing primary colours to match the colours of autumn leaves. We thought carefully about how to mix just the right amount and ratio of each colour. In some cases, we needed to add a little bit of white to make the shade lighter. There was a lot of concentration and Learners kept checking their c colours until they were happy with the match. Just like our focus artist Wasilly Kandinsky, we listened to some classical music as we painted.

In history this week, Learners have been comparing the changes over time of Whitby fish quay. We looked at old photographs taken by Frank Meadow Sutcliffe and recognised that there was less fishing in the town these days, but more fish and chip shops.

In maths we have been learning different strategies that will help us with addition and subtraction. We are becoming great problem solvers and are able to transfer our knowledge to answer reasoning type questions in maths lessons.

After writing letters to families in English before the half-term, we are excited to welcome our families into the classroom on Monday to share in our history learning. 

Learners have had the MOST wonderful week of history learning.

On Monday we kicked off the week with a drama session with Louise from Red House Theatre. The session supported our history topic of Whitby now and then wonderfully. We used our imagination to visit Whitby in the past. Through movement, we turned ourselves into the steam train, the Abbey and we even became sellers in the old marketplace. 

Back in the classroom, we used iPads to research how Whitby marketplace had changed overtime. We discovered that Elizabeth Botham had sold her bread from a basket in the marketplace before opening her first shop. We also found out that whale blubber had been sold to make oil. Most shockingly we learned that urine was sold at the marketplace, which was used as a cleaning and dyeing aid – we were certainly glad to live in Whitby ‘now’ rather than ‘then’.

On Wednesday we visited Whitby and were able to being all our learning to life. We visited Fortune’s Kipper shop, a shop that we had seen on Frank Meadow Sutcliffe’s photographs of old Whitby. We stopped at the marketplace and were able to use our imagination to become market traders again – this time in the actual same place. We spotted many Whitby Heritage Sculptures around the town, which gave us an insight into Whitby from the past – we particularly liked the ‘Herring Girls’ sculpture near the bandstand. We walked up to the park, where we visited Whitby Museum. The Museum was fascinating, we saw Frank Meadow Sutcliffe’s gallery of photos and delighted in seeing many local artefacts.

Learners class have had the MOST fabulous week and history this week has been awesome!

Learners love to learn 🙂

Learners spent the day in the forest this week. The sun was shining and the experience was delightful. It was a beautiful autumn day, the leaves were falling around us and we were able to spot signs of autumn and colour match the leaves we found. This consolidated our science topic around seasons wonderfully. 

Also in the forest, we were able to collect some descriptive language to inspire our poetry writing. We used our senses and recorded the things we saw, felt, heard and touched. Our poems are about our wonderful Earth, so being outside in the forest was the perfect place to gather inspiration. We are excited to write our poems and will keep you posted once they have been published.

We were delighted to attend Church on Friday to celebrate our Harvest Festival with families. Learners performed a song ‘Thank you for everything’. We sang confidently and it was clear how much we enjoyed the words in the song, it was lots of fun!

We are looking forward to our trip to Whitby next week, which will be consolide our history learning in class. We will be visiting Whitby Museum, the marketplace and spotting the sculptures around the town. The weather looks settled and we are excited to go.

We are looking forward to welcoming families into school this week for a reading workshop/event, to share the important aspects that make up reading. We will also have some resources from our Little Wandle, Catch-Up and Fluency programmes too.

Learners will also have a drama session next week, which we always really enjoy!

Learners are such enthusiastic learners!

Learners enjoyed a fun afternoon at a community sports event this week. We spent our time jumping, throwing, catching and running. Learners are great friends and have amazing team spirit, they cheered and supported each other through every activity.

Elsewhere in the classroom, we have been learning more about Islam. This week in RE we have been finding out about mosques and what happens inside. Learners always have open and meaningful discussions in RE and are fascinated to learn about different religions and their important traditions.

In English, we are looking closely at poetry. We have been enjoying a poem called “What is the sun” by Wes Magee. We have been writing expanded noun-phrases and alliteration in order to use these in our own poetry. Our poems will focus on our amazing earth and the natural wonders within. To inspire our vocabulary, we will visit the forest on Monday and be experience nature first-hand. 

We are busy practising our Harvest song, in order to perform in our Harvest Service in St John’s Church later in the week. It is always a happy celebration and Learners are excited to sing together.

Learners have such enthusiasm about their learning and are always so keen to come into school each day! This is such a joy to see. Learners, you are awesome!

Learners class have enjoyed some brilliant art lessons this week. On Wednesday we enjoyed a wonderful afternoon being artists. We explored painting and making different patterns using watercolours to see how different brushstrokes created different effects. Inspired by our focus artist Wassily Kandinsky, we listened to music while we painted. The classroom was focused and peaceful, as we enjoyed painting. Our sketchbooks are looking amazing and we are looking forward to sharing these with families at Parents Evening next week.

This week in English, Learners have been putting their finishing touches to their non-chronological reports around Global Goals. Learners have been passionate about the goals and have spent a lot of time understanding and clarifying meaning of each goals’ target. This depth of understanding is evident in the amazing pieces of writing produced throughout this writing topic. Well done Learners.

In science, we have been looking closely at the weather and have been filling in our own weekly weather chart. Thursday definitely provided a talking point as the rain was nothing sort of torrential. 

Learners are looking forward to sharing their achievements with families this week during Parents Evening. I certainly have many successes to share with you!

Learners love too learn 🙂