Just a little reminder that P2M and P2G will be going on their school trip to the 5 Sisters Zoo on Friday 10th June.

Please make sure that your child is dressed for the weather.  Your child will not need any money.

Primary 2M had a great time at our Sports Day.  It was very hot but we all tried our best and had great fun.

Before Sports Day, Sophie said “It doesn’t matter if you win, as long as you take part and have fun.  I love Sports Day!”

Here are some of the photographs from the day….

As part of our Fairyland topic, we worked in small groups to re tell the story of Goldilocks and the 3 Bears.  After deciding in our group who was to play each part, we rehearsed our ideas and finally performed in front of the rest of the class.  It was such a nice day, our “stage” was outside!

Miss Stephens and Mr Richardson are going to Rwanda in the summer holidays.  To help them on their trip our school held a casual clothes day so the Miss Stephens and Mr Richardson can take some resources to the schools in Rwanda and return to Redwell with some resources from their trip.  We can’t wait to hear all about this fantastic experience.

Don’t we look so smart in our casual clothes.

Everyone in the school took part in the Lepra dance workshop.  It was great fun!

P2M have been learning about symmetry.  We worked with a partner to draw symmetrical shapes and we have been making symmetrical castles as part of Fairyland.

P2 took part in a science workshop all about Forces called Ready Teddy Go! It was great fun and the boys and girls enjoyed taking part in all the fun activities.  To help us learn some of the science vocabulary such as pull, push, friction and gravity, we were taught actions to help us.

Something special has been going on in the Yellow Wing over the last few weeks.  A friendly dragon has been leaving the boys and girls letters and special gifts.  He has been a very sad dragon as his home, Fairyland doesn’t exist any more!  He has asked if we can help make it again and read more stories.

As you can imagine, the boys and girls have been very excited and wanted to help straight away.  We have been making castles, planting beanstalks, writing in our castle books and re telling some of the stories we have been reading.

Have a look at some of our Fairyland photographs.

The boys and girls are so busy in class just now.  Here is some information about our learning for this term.

Learning focus this term:

Through our topic Fairyland we will be learning about:

•  Lifecycle of a plant
• Features of castles
• Discuss good and bad choices within each Fairytale
• Stranger Danger
• Exploring events and characters in Fairytales

Core Skills learning focus:

• Working with others to complete tasks
• Being confident individuals when performing in front of others
• Recording our ideas in different ways
• Using ICT to support our learning

Through our Rights Respecting Schools characters we will be learning about ‘The Right to be safe and happy and the responsibility to be kind and gentle to others.’

• I can use safe hands and feet
• I can respect personal space
• I can walk safely inside
• I can stay safe online

Literacy

• Continuing to build on our phonics skills and opportunity to decode new words by using our knowledge of letter sounds, digraphs and spelling rules
• Reading and spelling tricky words within texts and using these words within our own writing
• Developing our comprehension whilst reading in small groups, exploring and discussing a variety of texts and building confidence as independent readers
• Continuing to practise letter formation through structured handwriting
• Extending our writing in terms of length, structure and content. Opportunity for personal and imaginative writing
• Creating a written plan for imaginative and personal writing
• Focused listening for information and instructions and opportunity to organise ideas then talk confidently to others expressing feelings, ideas and experiences 

  Numeracy

  • The children will be continually developing their skills in addition and subtraction within 100.
  • Measure – I can estimate and measure the length, weight and volume of objects.
  • Symmetry – I can create and recognise symmetrical pictures, patterns and shapes.
  • Fractions – I can work out halves and quarters of numbers

In maths we are learning about money.  We have also been using our addition and subtraction skills to work out how much things cost and how much change we would get.

Here we are developing these skills in our Isle of Struay Post Office.

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