Owl Class
Welcome to Owl Class!
We are in Year 1 & 2 and we love to learn. Our page tells you all about our learning this term, and all the exciting things we have been up to!
Our class teacher is Miss Kat Smith, and our teaching assistants are Mrs Tara Nicholson, Mrs Cat Elliott, Mrs Zoe Barlow, Mrs Natalie Wells and Mrs Lucy Ray.
Mrs Emily Richards teaches in Owl Class every Monday.
Please click on this document to see our Curriculum Map and all the different subjects we will be learning this year.
We are currently following Map A.
Our Class Author
During Term 5 & 6, we will be enjoying books written and illustrated by Robert Starling. He is most famous for his book characters Fergal and Super Sloth.
Owl Class love a chapter book! We will start with reading “A Boy and a Bear in a Boat” by David Shelton, and then we’ll enjoy “The Day I Fell Into A Fairytale” by Ben Miller. Both of these books are fun and imaginative, and will be fantastic to listen to and enjoy.
These books will be read as a class. We will learn new vocabulary from these stories, and discuss the characters and plot, as well as making prediciions about what might happen next.
Our Art this term is focussed on our drawing skills, and the theme is “Dragons”. This follows on perfectly from our class read last term!
Home Learning
Pupils in Year 1 and 2 are expected to complete reading 5 times a week, and they are given Purple Home Learning books to practise age-appropriate spellings and Maths facts.
Please see the documents below for your termly home learning work. Remember to also use Numbots to practise your Maths facts!
Term 5
Our Topic Day on the last day of term was all about Significant People. We read the story “Look Up” and then learnt all about Mae Jemison.
She is an inspirational person, who always dreamt of going to space and finally achieved her goal. She also danced, taught, and became a doctor!
We then used Mae Jemison as our inspiration for our Space-themed pictures.
We created a background using chalk pastels on black paper, blending colours to create texture. Then we used coloured card to cut 2D shapes and create a rocket collage on top.
Our artwork went down to be displayed at St Lawrence Church.
Our Design and Technology project this term was “Moving Vehicles”. We used cardboard boxes, straws, dowel and wheels to create simple moving vehicles. We think they look brilliant!
Have a look at some pictures from our amazing trip to the Hawk Conservancy!
We had an amazing time. We learnt about birds of prey, focussing on owls, and we got to meet Troy the Tawny Owl. We also watched a bird display, and got to discover all the different birds of prey on site.
We have been looking at Money in Maths this term. This has given us excellent practice of all our counting patterns!
We have been learning the value of all the coins and notes. We have then used our knowledge of number bonds and adding 10’s to find different ways of making different amounts. We have used pence and pounds!
In Science, we have been exploring different every day materials.
We learnt new vocabulary used to describe materials properties: rough, smooth, dull, bright, transparent, opaque, translucent, waterproof and adsorbent.
It was fun exploring around school to try and find objects and materials to match these words to!
Term 4
Our PE this term has really focused on our basic throwing, catching and spatial awareness skills. We have worked hard in pairs and in small groups to play a range of games, and we have had lots of fun challenging ourselves!
We have been working super hard on our Maths skills this term!
We have been learning multiplication and division, and have used ‘groups of’ objects and our counting patterns to solve a range of problems.
Term 3
Our Geography has been learning about the UK. We have found out about the physical and human features of each of the four countries. Our map skills have hugely improved, and we have loved using atlases to find extra information.
In Maths, we have been working on representing 2-digit numbers. We have used our tens and ones to make numbers to 100, and then we used this knowledge to partition the numbers in lots of different ways.
Term 2
Most of our term has been taken up with rehearsals for our Nativity. This year we performed “It’s A Party”. We had a brilliant time performing to all our families, and we think it was a 5-star show!
We then designed and made our own Christmas Party Hats for our Christmas dinner day. Safe to say, Owl Class looked fantastic!
Our D&T project is “Party Hats”. We spent a few days working on this project, starting with learning how to make cones and why triangles are so strong. We made mini hats for our class cuddly toys!
We’ve had lots of fun acting out the story “One Snowy Night” by Nick Butterworth. We are now coming up with our own new Percy the Park Keeper stories.
Term 1
Our Trip to Old Sarum
We had a fantastic time exploring the ruins of the castle and the cathedral. We talked about what it would have been like to live here. Lots of us agreed we wouldn’t mind living in a castle!
Our History topic this term is all about Old Sarum. We are using this fantastic landmark to discover who used to live there, why the Cathedral moved, and what life was life in the medieval period.
We started by ordering events on a timeline, and talking about how some events happen within memory, but some events happen many years before.
