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 3 & 4, we will be enjoying books written and illustrated by Emily Gravett. From “Odd Egg” to “Meerkat Mail”, Emily’s books are fun and heart warming, and great to share.
We will be reading “The Magic Faraway Tree” by Enid Blyton. This classic story is also coming out as a film this year!
We will also be starting Whole Class Reading lessons, and reading “The Boy Who Grew Dragons” by Andy Shepherd. This involves tracking along as the teacher reads, learning new vocabulary and discussing parts of the text.
Our Art this term is learning about Georgia O’Keeffe and using different techniques to recreate her fantastic flower art on the computer.
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 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.
