Blog Author: Lyndsey Faulkner

Don't forget it's pirate day tomorrow. All children to come prepared for the great sea adventure ahead. 

When listening to your child read tonight why not spend a couple of minutes investigating how many verbs they can spot by skim reading each page and challenging them to beat you. You could also use this opportunity to explore their knowledge (and ability) to spot other word classifications eg…

Try out these challenging magic squares to really stretch your childs brain at home by applying their knowledge of additon of 3 numbers to satisfy a given rule. Remind your children to apply their knowledge of number facts and double facts to help solve the challenge. This learning extension is…

Using 15 cubes each row must total ten.

 An amazing number of children achieved their mega maths challenge today. Keep up the monster effort.

Well done to Megan, Matthew, Blake, Ava, Charlie, Emily, Kody and a special mention to Jacob for a great improvement. Next spelling test will be held on the 21st ( Pirate Day)

Don't forget that Year 2 will be hosting a Pirate Day on the 21st October as it is our final day based on our learning of St Lucia. It would be great to see all the class dressed as a pirate for the day. Outfits could simply be an oversized t-shirt and belt accompanied with leggings rather than…

Today we have explored using our number facts to solve number sentences using three one digit numbers. The complicated challenge above really stretched our brains as we attempted to solve the triangle challenge. The children used top tips to solve other number sentences by applying their knowledge…