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During Spring Term children have been learning about algorithms and how important it is to write the correct code. They have been programming BeeBot mice to move on a map and have created our own maps. Finally they created a sequence of actions and predicted where the mice would move on our maps before testing them.

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In ICT, they will continue creating and refining maps, building their digital mapping skills. In Geography, they will be identifying the countries and capital cities of the UK, developing their understanding of the United Kingdom and its key locations. In RE, they will be sequencing the events of the Coventry Blitz, helping them to understand the historical significance of this period and its impact. In DT, the children will be investigating axles and chassis, exploring how they work, and then applying their knowledge by making their working mechanisms.

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Your child will have been given their words to learn for the forthcoming sharing assembly. Please could you help your child read and learn their words. Thank you for your support.

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w/c 3/3/26

Tricky words this week: our, two, once, busy, friend, eye, because, laugh, move, improve, parents, shoe, beautiful, pretty, hour.

The lessons this week will be a review of all graphemes previously learnt.

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Our new book for Spring Term 2 will be Here We Are by Oliver Jeffers - a lovely book all about our living planet. The children will look at features of non-fiction books and write their own mini fact book.

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In RE, the children will be exploring the concept of rebuilding things that are broken or damaged, thinking about how relationships, communities, and lives can be restored through forgiveness, kindness, and hope. In Geography, they will be learning to identify and name the seven continents of the world, developing their understanding of the globe and where different places are located. In Design and Technology, the children will be investigating different types of vehicles and learning to identify and label their key parts, such as wheels, axles, chassis, and engines, helping them understand how vehicles are constructed and how they work.

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Phonics Screening Check information for parents and carers. APPLICABLE IF YOUR CHILD DID NOT PASS THE SCREENING IN YR1. IF YOU ARE UNSURE PLEASE SPEAK TO YOUR CLASS TEACHER.

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Phonics Screening Check information for parents and carers. APPLICABLE IF YOUR CHILD DID NOT PASS THE SCREENING IN YR1. IF YOU ARE UNSURE PLEASE SPEAK TO YOUR CLASS TEACHER.

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Please see the presentation above for information about the Phonics Screening Check in June and ways to help your child. You can also find useful resources on our website via this link. https://www.allsaintsemscotefederation.co.uk/page/?title=Phonics&pid=154

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w/c 23/2/26

Tricky words this week: move, improve, parents, shoe, thought, whole, who

/or/ augh/our/oar/are - daughter, board, score

Review sounds: ze / se / ce - sneeze, choice, please, noise

Suffixes ending: -ed / -ing - climbed / climbing

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To work in partnership with families, we’re sharing simple guidance on healthy lunchboxes and foods that are safer for our youngest pupils. Please open the above document to see all pages.

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Please can you start saving cereal and tissue size boxes for after half term when the children will be using them to design and make their own moving vehicles.

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In Art, we are experimenting with poster paints and watercolours, using watercolours to create self-portraits and working with clay to make 3D faces. In History, we are learning about the Great Fire of Warwick. In ICT, we are creating routes and maps. In PSHE and RE, we are exploring our feelings and thinking about how we relate to and care for others.

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Keep practising your inference skills when reading at home.

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We really enjoyed creating freeze-frames of part of the story of Vlad and the Great Fire of London (including our teachers!). Children wrote captions for the characters they were looking at.

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Our English has been linked to the Great Fire of London. Our story is called Vlad and the Great Fire of London. The book is laid out like a comic and is about a rat and a flea during the time of the Great Fire.

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In class, the children are learning about suitable materials in science by exploring the properties of different materials and their suitability for different purposes. They are using their senses to imagine what it would have been like to be in London in 1666, thinking about what they might have seen, heard, smelled and felt during the fire to deepen their understanding of this historical event. Alongside this, the children are creating a self-portrait using pencil in art, developing their observation and shading skills while carefully drawing their own facial features.

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From 2.2.26 - Our next Maths topic of the term will be multiplication and division. The children will start to look at equal groups, recognising the multiplication symbol and writing sentences. We will create arrays and learn the 2 and 10 times tables. This will follow with looking at sharing equally and on to division.

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w/c 9/2/26

Tricky words this week: busy, beautiful, pretty, hour, any, many, through

/sh/ ti - fiction, emotion

/sh/ ssi / si - mission, passion, mansion

/sh/ ci - special, magician

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w/c 2/2/26

Tricky words this week: friend, eye, because, move, improve, laugh, parents, shoe

/zh/ su si - treasure, vision, usual

/j/ dge - bridge, badger

/i/ y - gym, crystal, pyramid

/j/ ge - large, charge, manage

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w/c 26/1/26

Tricky words this week: our, their, two, once, busy, beautiful, pretty, hour

/ai/ eigh / aigh / ey /ea - eight, straight, prey, break

/n/ kn / gn - know, knock, gnaw, gnash

/m/ mb - thumb, climb

/ear/ ere / eer - cheer, here

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Thank you to all of the parents who came on the school trip with us today. The children had a brilliant day and loved exploring patterns, printing and making their own volcano's! Check out our photo section for some more pictures of the day.

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This week, the children are identifying trusted adults in PSHE and exploring material suitability based on physical properties in Science. In ICT, they are programming Bee-Bots with algorithms, while Art involves using various pencil grades to create portraits. We will also discuss why the Great Fire of London spread so rapidly and the religious significance of various Sikh symbols.

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This week we will be looking at different sources in History to help us learn about the Great Fire of London. In our PSHE session we will be thinking about how to keep our bodies safe through our Taking Care project. We will also have a great day at Compton Verney on Friday, where we will be exploring the galleries and different artists, as well as making our own artwork

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It is important when you read with your children that you are asking plenty of questions about the book. The children are improving with answering retrieval questions, where they can find the information within the text. However, many still struggle with inference questions. These are questions where the children have to read between the lines and make smart guesses based on evidence of what they have already read or what they can see. Have a practise using the picture above.

Questions

What is happening here?

How can you tell the men are putting in a lot of effort?

Why do you think the man at the back only has 1 hand on the rope?

How can you tell that these men belong to a club or a group?

Where might this event be happening and why do you think that?

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Yesterday the children had a visit from Claire from the Myton Hospices who challenged the children to raise some funds to support their valuable work.

Your child will bring home an envelope with information, should they wish to participate.

For further information please contact Claire McDowell, Community Fundraiser and Front of House Lead, Telephone 024 76841908

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As you will be aware, Miss Rushall has been working really hard in creating our new library. We are thrilled to be welcoming author Sam Usher on Monday to formally open the library and work with the children in class. It is very exciting for the children to meet a real author and hopefully it will inspire them to create stories of their own.

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As we continue with our story of Katie and Jack's adventure in London, please could you take time to talk about or research some of the most famous landmarks. These might include places such as St Paul's Cathedral, The Tower of London, Buckingham Palace, The London Eye, The Houses of Parliament and The Globe Theatre. This will aid the children with some of their written work in the next couple of weeks.

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w/c 19/1/26

Tricky words this week: friend, once, our, because, laugh

/f/ ph - phone, elephant, alphabet

/w/ wh - white, whistle, wheel

/ee/ ie - shield, field, brownie

/j/ g - giant, gem, gentle

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w/c 12/1/26

Tricky words this week: two, eye, thought, through, friend

/igh/ i - wild, spider, child

/ai/ a - paper, later, baking

/oa/ ow - snow, follow, window

/yoo/ u - music, unicorn, human

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w/c 5/1/26

Tricky words this week: any, many, who, whole, two

/e/ ea - feather, head, spread

/ur/ ir - bird, shirt, third

/ow/ ou - cloud, sound, found

/oi/ oy - joy, enjoy, annoy

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This week we will be learning how to give instructions to Beebots in ICT, helping us understand how to program and give clear directions. In science, we are going to explore how different materials can be changed by squashing, bending, and stretching them. We will continue to learn about the festival of Vaisakhi in RE. In history, we are going to act out the story of the Great Fire of London to help us understand what happened, and in art, we will be creating our own self-portraits using the collage technique.

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12.1.26 During weeks 2 - 4 we will start to look at money and learning about the value of all coins, adding them together to a total of £1. It would be great for the children to practise getting used to using money in a real life situation maybe spending some pocket money for a treat or helping to pay for shopping with coins.

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After writing our Christmas News Recount the children will be focusing on the text Katie in London.

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Please continue to read with your child at least 4 times a week and fill in their bookmarks. Mathletics is also set weekly along with homework on Thursday.

Thank you for your ongoing support. Please come and talk to us if you have any concerns.

The Year 2 Team

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Science will involve learning to identify and sort things into living, never lived, and not living categories, helping us understand the differences between them. In History, we are beginning to learn about where and when the Great Fire of London started, exploring the events that led to it. In RE, we are describing different celebrations and festivals and explaining why they are special to the people who celebrate them. We are looking at famous portraits in our art lesson and thinking about words we would use to describe the paintings.

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On Friday 23rd January we will be taking the children on a trip to introduce them to the world of artists and makers at Compton Verney. The children will take part in two workshops that will involve lots of open-ended resources for making and chances to talk, developing ideas and opinions.

Look out for the letter in the New Year with more details!

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We would like to thank parents and children for their kind gifts and cards the Year 2 staff received before Christmas. They are hugely appreciated. We hope you all had a restful Christmas break. It is great to see the children back in school this week after the holidays.

Please keep up to date with all the news on Padlet!

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We have been reading the beautiful story of the Nutcracker, watching parts of the ballet and listening to the music. Our writing has focused on re-telling the story in our own words and pictures.

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w/c 15/12/25

Tricky words this week: today, their, people, your, any

Our sounds focus are:

/oo/ /yoo/ ue - blue, argue, value

/oo/ /yoo/ ew - new, chew, threw

/oo/ /yoo/ u_e - cube, use, rule

/or/ aw - claw, saw, yawn

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w/c 8/12/25

Tricky words this week: were, one, says, here, today

Our sounds focus are:

/igh/ ie - cried, fried, tried

/igh/ i_e - time, like, inside

/oa/ o - go, both, over

/oa/ o_e - home, explode, stone

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15.12.2025

We have been super lucky to have had a live Zoom call with the author and illustrator Sam Usher today! He read one of his books and showed us how to draw a pirate! We are hoping to meet him in person in January! How exciting.

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This week in history, we’ll be looking at what life was like in the 1490s, when Christopher Columbus was alive, and comparing it to the 1960s, when Neil Armstrong went to the Moon. The children will also learn about modern explorers and think about where they would like to explore if they had the chance. In RE, the children will be thinking about different ways they can help people around the world.

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w/c 8.12.25 We will be starting to look at shape, at first recognising 2D and 3D shapes, then counting sides and vertices and finding lines of symmetry on 2D shapes.

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Monday 15th December - 2.45pm

Come and have a look at the work that your child has been doing in Year 2. The children really do enjoy sharing the hard work that they have been doing since September!

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w/c 1/12/25

Tricky words this week: eye, sure, pure, said, were, they

Our sounds focus are:

/ai/ ay - play, spray, crayone

/ai/ a_e - made, game, amaze

/ee/ ea - bead, read, treat

/ee/ e - fever, being, secret, she

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We are making our own Christmas cards and, in art, using Yayoi Kusama’s pumpkins as inspiration to draw and paint our own designs. In history, we’re thinking about space exploration and technology, and in RE we’re going to be discussing how we can help the world by showing love.

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w/c 24/11/25

Tricky words this week: laugh, because, eye, our, once, thought

Our sounds focus are:

/c/ ch - school, chemist, chef

/z/ ze - freeze, bronze

Recap and review of all graphemes learnt so far.

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We have sent home words for some children to practice for the carol concert. Please could you help your child to practice speaking out loud - they can have the words with them on the night if they need it, but they must be confident speaking them out loud please!

The Year 2 carol concert takes place on Tuesday 16th December at 4pm in the church.

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In Science, the children will learn about and sort images of things that are living, non-living and have never lived. In RE, they will explore the gifts Christians believe Jesus brought to the world. They will learn about Neil Armstrong and the first landing on the moon in their History lesson, and in Art they will use clay to create their own 3-D pumpkins.

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Sycamore class is really enjoying hearing about the children's favourite books from home through sharing our weekly Reading for Pleasure book.

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w/c 17/11/25

Tricky words this week: many, any, friend, through, two, your

Our sounds focus are:

/ur/ ear (e.g. learn, search, earth)

/r/ wr (e.g. wrong, wrapping, wrist)

/s/ st sc (e.g. listen, castle, muscle)

schwa /say - uh/ at the end of words (e.g. actor, sailor, colour)

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We are learning about how to take photographs using a camera, tablet or other digital device. Children have found out about taking landscape or portrait photos. They could have a practise at taking some photos thinking about the best way to take them!

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Next week we will be looking at a beautiful fiction text called 'The Crow's Tale' by Naomi Howarth. As we are looking at different authors, maybe you could look out for some other books by this author.

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To link in with our book and some geography work we are doing, Year 2 visited Tesco to find out where our fruits and vegetables come from. We found foods from 5 different continents.

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Yayoi Kusama inspired collage work.

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This week we are going to compare and contrast sea voyages now and in Christopher Columbus era in history. We will continue to think about how to be healthy in science and make some posters to help remind us of the key facts. We are going to be thinking about how we prepare for Christmas in RE and linking this to being creative in art to make something for our Christmas hoops.

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Control and properly washed hands - very little mould grew.

Hand sanitizer, wiping bread on an ipad and not washing hands were all mouldy! Yuk!

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In Science we have been looking at the importance of washing hands - the children thought the results were not very nice! We also practiced how to wash hands properly and wrote instructions to help remind us.

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Next week we will be looking at a new text and exploring different foods and traditions from around the world. This will link in with our learning about continents and exploring how far our food travels before it reaches our plate.

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Maple and Sycamore Spring Term Timetable

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Maple and Sycamore Spring Term Timetable

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This week, we will be exploring a range of exciting topics across our subjects. In geography, we will recap the continents and link them to where different foods are found, following our trip to Tesco. In history, we will learn about Christopher Columbus and explore the timeline of his first voyage. Our art lesson continues with our Yayoi Kusama topic, where we will create our own circle and dot collages inspired by her work. In PSHE, we are focusing on recognising our strengths and celebrating how unique we each are. Finally, in RE, we are developing our understanding of what Christians believe, learning that they see Jesus as someone who came to save the world.

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4/11/25

Today the Year 2 children met with their Reception Buddies. It was such a lovely afternoon and the children were brilliant. This is an opportunity for the Year 2 children to support younger pupils during their first year at Emscote. We will aim to meet buddies each term to do an activity together. Please help us to encourage your child to talk to their buddy at lunchtimes to check-in with them.

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w/c 10/11/25.

Tricky words this week: whole, whole, because, eye, people, thought, through

Our sounds focus are:

/or/ a (e.g. water, ball, wall, small)

/o/ a (e.g. want, salt, squash, wasp)

/air/ ear/ere (e.g. pear, bear, there, where)

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w/c 3/11/25.

Tricky words this week: once, our, laugh, eye, because

Our sounds focus are:

/ch/ tch (e.g. catch, fetch, itcy)

/ch/ ture (e.g. picture, future, nature)

/ar/ al (e.g. calm, half, calf)

/ar/ a (e.g. father, branching, mask, craft)

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w/c 3/11/25

In maths this term we are learning addition and subtraction bonds within 20 and related fact families. We are adding and subtracting 1s, adding by making 10, adding to and across the next 10 as well as subtracting across a 10. Please keep practising number bonds for 10 and 20 - knowing these fluently is really important!

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In Science, we’re learning about the importance of hand washing and how it helps keep us healthy by preventing the spread of germs. Our Religious Education lesson will focus on recycling, encouraging students to think about caring for our planet as part of their values.

In History, we will be exploring the fascinating journeys of Ibn Battuta, one of the greatest travelers of the medieval world. Meanwhile, in Art, students are going to be creating stunning, firework-inspired pictures using pastels, experimenting with colors and techniques to bring their designs to life.

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In PSHE we will be completing our network hands activity, which helps us think about who we can talk to in the holidays if we are worried about anything. In art we are exploring the work of Yayoi Kusama, a famous Japanese artist known for her use of repetitive patterns, especially polka dots and nets. This week we will be experimenting with different techniques to create polka dots. Our Science focus will be to design posters focused on how to keep healthy.

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The children were very excited to be making their own fruit salads this week. We clearly have some budding chefs among the children as we had lots of requests for the recipe.

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Here are the Little Wandle Rhymes to support accuracy in letter formation.

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w/c 6/10/25

The children have been collaboratively creating poems about Autumn this week. They worked in table groups and then practised them to perform in front of the class.

Out and About Poem

I hear the rustling sound of the leaves.

I see orange leaves falling down.

I like to wrap up warm.

I feel excited and happy.

I hear the birds tweeting in the glistening trees.

I see golden leaves in the trees.

I like to collect shiny conkers.

I feel excited because it is getting near Christmas!

I hear the crunching leaves falling to the ground.

I see the colours changing on the leaves.

I like to collect smooth conkers in Autumn that are shiny.

I feel cosy when I am next to the warm crackling fire.

I hear birds singing in the magnificent trees.

I see the glistening leaves on the trees changing colour.

I like to go on welly walks to collect big shiny conkers.

I feel cosy in my warm jumper.

I hear the rustling sound of the leaves.

I see orange and red trees in the distance.

I like to have hot soup and cover up warm.

I feel excited when it is Autumn time.

I hear the wind blowing in the trees.

I see dusty soil under my dirty feet.

I like to jump in piles of crunchy leaves.

I feel happy and cosy in my warm house.

Written by Maple Class.

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Next week, our learning will take us on a journey across Science, Design and Technology (DT), and Religious Education (RE). In Science, we will explore how to stay healthy by learning about the importance of a balanced diet, regular exercise, and good hygiene. We will then put this knowledge into action in our DT lessons by safely preparing a delicious and healthy fruit salad, using careful cutting techniques and understanding how to work hygienically. In RE, we will continue to reflect on times we’ve been kind to others, thinking about why kindness matters and how it is encouraged in many different religions. It’s going to be a great week of connecting our learning to real life!

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Thank you for all of the boxes, the children really enjoyed making their 3D town.

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Thank you for all of the boxes, the children really enjoyed making their 3D town.

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What a brilliant island from Ada with a very clear key and compass!

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Fruit and Vegetable A-Z. A great piece of homework from Inder this week. Well done!

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w/c 13/10 and 20/10. We will be assessing the learning so far from Little Wandle and recapping on sounds that children have found more tricky.

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We laughed lots reading Monkey Business.    Thank you Summer!

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One member of Sycamore class each week takes the Reading for Pleasure book home. We have really enjoyed being introduced to favourite books!

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Following on from National Poetry Day last week, we are going to be listening to, performing and writing some of our own poems next week. Please try and learn some short poems by heart that you could share with the class.

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In our topic, the Science lessons will focus on magnets and magnetism, while Design and Technology (DT) will involve learning about the internal structure and origins of fruits. The Religious Education (RE) will explore our own acts of kindness, and the Geography lesson will involve creating 3D models of towns.

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Our tricky words learnt in Little Wandle are:

people your their thought through friend work

school call different

who whole where two

any many again

ask Mr Mrs Ms

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In Science we have been looking at what animals need to survive - water, air, food and shelter.

We've looked at the different food groups for humans and why they are important - including carbohydrates, oils and fats, fruits and vegetables, proteins and dairy. We discussed what people need for a healthy diet.

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We are a healthy school and would therefore remind everyone that children should only bring in water to school. Children are able to fill water bottles when needed throughout the day.

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Phonics

w/c 6/10/25. We are growing the code looking at new graphemes for known sounds:

/yoo/ /oo/ ui ou (e.g. youth, fruit, bruise)

For this week we will also be reviewing and revising the new graphemes that we have been learning so far this term. We will look at words that we have learnt so far this term. We will think about where the new sounds are in those words we read.