St Marie's Catholic Primary School

This week we have been sorting first class and third class features of The Titanic. We have been partitioning tens and ones in Maths and we went on a walk around the school grounds to look at God's gifts.

Please find attached the topic information sheet for this term.

We have had a great first full week in Year 2. In science we sorted materials and in Maths we have been making two digit numbers in different ways.

Congratulations to our colour team captains for this year. The children were chosen by their peers in a secret 'heads down - hands up' vote last week. Well done to all the children for being so sensible and to the chosen captains.

Please find attached the power point from the 'Meet the Teacher' sessions. Thank you to all who could attend the sessions, should you have any further questions please do not hesitate to ask.

Please find attached the common exception words for Year 1 and 2. The children should know how to spell these by the end of KS1.

In the last week of the year we enjoyed sports day and we wrote and performed our own sea shanties. We spent time with our class governor and had a water safety talk to help keep us safe during the holidays when we are near water.

This week we carried out an investigation in science to find out 'Are all children the same height in different year groups?' We had a great time at 'Song Share' singing with lots of different schools and on our own on stage.

This week we have been doing active maths to help us to tell the time and we started to learn about another faith - Judaism. We had a great day out at Formby Beach, we ate our healthy snack that we made, had lots of fun and lots of learning too. Thank you to all the adults who came to help and the children for their excellent behaviour.

This week in R.E. we have thought about our neighbours near and far and asked the question 'Who is my neighbour?' In D.T. we have started to design our healthy snack to take to the coast. We have been looking at features of a coast and shared some more great homework.

This week we have continued reading our guided reading book and answered questions about the story. We role played making emergency phone calls in PSHE. We have also looked at coasts around the UK and different features of coasts.

Welcome back to our final term in Year 2. This week we enjoyed watching the brass instrument performance. We role played the scripture of 'The Good Samaritan' and we are loving our first whole class reading book 'The Golden Goose.' We have had some fantastic Coast homework to display too and been locating the seas and oceans around the UK.

To celebrate David Attenborough's 100th birthday we used different sources to make a fact file about his life. We also went on a minibeast hunt around the school grounds and found out facts about lots of minibeasts using the iPads. In R.E. we completed a task to show what we know about Pentecost and the Holy Spirit and we loved sewing and decorating our hand puppets. +

This week we have been measuring using cm and m. We measured our plants to see if they have grown in science. We practised a running stitch and cutting and using shapes in art like Paul Klee and enjoyed some exercise with year 6 for mental health week.

This week we have started blogging in computing. In music we were finding the pulse and listening and responding to music. We did athletics in P.E. preparing for sports day. We also enjoyed praying the rosary with Year 3 and had another Mystery reader.

This week we have created a dance to show how the Apostles felt at Pentecost, we have made cards for someone who shows us unconditional love like Jesus shows us. We have measured our plant stems and counted the leaves to monitor how they are growing and have enjoyed another Mystery Reader.

This week we had a great time celebrating 60 Years of St Marie's. We enjoyed a lovely mass, visiting the school museum, dressing up, a picnic, performing our dance from the 1980's and planting a tree and our time capsule. In Science we set up a comparative test to find out what conditions plants need and we planted seeds so we can monitor how they grow.

This week we have been busy making Easter cards and an Easter Paschal candle. We have added prayers to our prayer book and walked around the stations of the cross led by year 6. We have worked hard with our handwriting all term.

This week we have been sharing and grouping and enjoyed some active maths. We have had lots of visitors in Year 2: another mystery reader shared a book, Mr Keating who taught us about seeds and bulbs and Mr Walker from the Chorley Heritage Society who shared his knowledge of Myles Standish.

We have been learning about how Peter denied Jesus and how he was forgiven. We enjoyed P.E. with Wigan Athletic and another Mystery Reader. We had some time on the iPads to embed our phonics knowledge.