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Year 1 & Year 2

Spring Term 2025

Welcome back to school. And welcome to 2025 too. We hope that you have enjoyed the break and that you are ready for a fantastic Spring term.

We have lots of exciting learning planned for this term, starting with our trip to the Woodside Wildlife Park in Lincoln in a few weeks time. When we are there, we will get chance to see lots of endangered animals with our own eyes. It will be brilliant.

 We will also be conducting lots of our 'Mind Up' sessions this term, looking at using our senses in a mindful way. We look forward to see what you think to mindful tasting.

Looking forward to seeing you all soon,

Mr. D, Miss Pulfrey, Mrs Green, Miss Leadenham and Miss Welch 

Homework

This term, we shall continue to send home books for reading. Please make sure that you read and get an adult to write in your reading diary. If you read 4 or more times in the week, you will get a house point every Friday.

We will also be sending home a list of spellings on a Friday, plus a Maths sheet and some handwriting. Homework is due in on a Thursday and spellings tests will happen on a Friday.

To begin our new project learning, we visited the Woodside Wildlife Park near Lincoln to see lots of different endangered animals. It was a very cold but amazing day. 🐍🐒🐊

We have been learning this text about The Blue Whale. It has a lot of information that is useful to us. 🐋

As part of our PSHE learning, we have been following the Mind Up Curriculum. It was created by the Goldie Horne Foundation and teaches us all about being mindful and looking after our mental health. In this sessions we did some ‘Mindful Seeing’. It was cereal to see how the colour changed a we added more to the water. 🔴🟡🔵

Continuing our Mindful learning, we have being doing some Mindful Movement. As part of this we were learning why it is important to move as part of staying healthy. 🏃🏃‍♂️

Today, we have looked at mindful movement, but focused on balancing. We had to see how focussed we could be to balance the blocks on top of each other. 🧱

In science we have looked at various different types of animals and then grouped them together. We worked in groups to stick photos of the animals into the correct group. What great team work and synergizing from everyone! 🐶🐰🐭🐹

As part of our computing learning, we have been using a search engine to find the answer to some questions about dinosaurs. 🦕 🦖

In DT we have been making a sculpture of an endangered animal. We have explored different methods of sticking and attaching materials together, evaluating how strong they are. It has been lots of fun. 🐅

We searched for signs of winter in our playground this term. It was fun to see some of the different things that happen during winter. We took some photos of our findings - including a photo of the tree at the front of school. ❄️🥶

As part of our new unit of learning in English, we talked about any talents that we might have. Some children shared dancing, swimming, whistling and even football skills with us. It was great to talk about the differences that we have. We then got a letter from the Little Brown Bushrat to say how had he was feeling that he had no talents. 

Autumn Term 2024 🍁

Welcome back to another year here at Denton C of E School. It has been lovely to hear all about your summer holidays and to see how much you have grown too.

This term we will be learning all about 'Great Britain' or the 'United Kingdom'. We will be looking at each of the different countries and learning to name the capital cities too.

Our topic web will give you more information regarding all of the subjects we will be learning this term.

See you all soon,

Mr. D, Miss Pulfrey, Mrs Green and Miss Leadenham 

Homework 📚

This week, we have sent some books home with children. They will have 3 books:

• A black and white RWI book from their group,
• A colourful RWI 'book bag' book,
• A 'Reading for Pleasure' book.

Children should be able to access and read the RWI books, but will need to share the RfP book with someone.

If you cannot get into school today, please use the resources above to make sure that you do not miss the steps in our learning.

There is a year specific maths sheet for the session.

There are also lots of winter poems to look at and enjoy. Then we have the poem that we will learn and use to help us to write own own all about . . . A SNOWMAN! So go outside, make a snowman and send us a photo on the school email address.

To begin our science learning, we searched for ‘everyday materials’ in our classroom. We worked with a partner to label some. It was fun to name them. 🥼

Every Wednesday evening, Mr. D runs an after school club called ‘A Book and a Bite’ club. As part of this club, children will read different books and share them with their friends. They will then complete different activities based on a book that Mr. D reads to them. In the first week, we looked at Elmer. It was great fun. We even had juice and biscuits! 🍪 

When we came in on Monday, a strange case had been left in the classroom. W spoke about who it might belong to and came up with a long list of people. We decided it must belong to one of the adults in school - but then learnt that it belonged to a well known bear from Peru. 🧸

In science, we explored how materials feel and describing them. The year 1 children stuck some materials onto hands and wrote words underneath. It was good fun. 🥼

We have looked at the creation story from the Qu’ran. We looked at the difference between this story and the Christian creation story. ☪️

We have been looking at counting and grouping of objects, including cubes. We have counted in different ways and using different objects. 🧮

As we develop our understanding of parts and wholes, we have been using a part whole model to break numbers up and remake them. We then used this skill to write and create number sentences. All great work! 🧮

As part of our RE work, we read the parable of ‘The Most Patient Man’ from the Qur’an. Afterwards, we discussed as to whether Allah’s actions were fair or unfair. It was interesting to hear all of the different arguments for both sides. ☪️

We explored floating and sinking this week. We chose various objects from around the classroom and tested to see if they would float or sink. ⛵️

We had a short autumn walk and found signs of autumn. We looked on the group and in the air. We used all of our senses to tell us lots of information about what happens in autumn. 🍂 

For World Mental Health Day, we explored our ‘Mind Up’ work a little more. We spoke about well being and what it means to have good mental health. We even sat down to complete some colouring and have a drink and biscuit. We had a very relaxing time and will do that more often. 🌳

We looked at doubles and near doubles, using manipulatives (objects) to help to show these in various ways. We had a lot of fun exploring. 🧮

We have looked at different behaviour and what is expect of us in school and out of school. We chose behaviours that we thought were ‘good’ and ones we felt were ‘not good’. 👍👎

Today we had lots of fun exploring the flexibility of different materials. It was great to explore how flexible materials like nylon, paper, metal, wood and elastic are. We also explored how flexible a chocolate bar is . . . we even got to eat it after we tested it. Well done to the person who could stretch it the furthest! 🥼

As part of our project work, we learnt about Remembrance Day and why it is important to Britain. We watched a video that was created to show a rabbit in the battlefields. We then created and made our own poppies for the display in the church.

'We will remember them' 🌺

To answer our question of ‘How is Britain Great?’ we has a special ‘Bonfire Day’ at Harlaxton. We were visited by a theatre company who told us the story behind Bonfire Night, including facts about the people and events that happened. It was really fun! 🎆🎇

We had a special visitor in. George visited Denton from the PSHE team in Lincolnshire. He talked to us all about the tools we can use to have a healthy body and mind. The tools he gave to us were really helpful. 🧘‍♂️

As part of our new English unit, we will be looking at writing a winter poem. We have been learning the poem ‘I’m a great big Snowman’. As if the weather knew, we went and played in the actual snow, making snowmen and throwing snowballs. It was great fun! We then watched the Snowman film back in the warm. ☃️

Our children had some visitors today when an adult came into school to read a book with us. It was a lovely session to hear so much talk and excitement about BOOKS and how amazing they are! It was a fantastic session. Thank you so much for joining us. We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did. 😊 📖

We discussed Margaret Thatcher and her importance in British history. We then thought about some questions that we would have asked her if we had the chance to meet her. 🇬🇧

As part of our learning, we were set a piece of my style homework to research and present information about somewhere in the UK. These are just some of the many we have looked at already. 🇬🇧

As part of our science learning, we have investigated how transparent object are. We held up an object to see whether the light was showing on the table underneath. It was good fun. 🧱