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Hello families,

Welcome to the P2B Bouncing Bunnies Blog for Friday 11^th of October, and to the half term holiday.

Timetables, Dates and Reminders

PE is on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
Our next loose parts session is on Tuesday 29th October.
Our following Loose Parts session is on Wednesday 6th November.
Miss Kelly takes the class on Wednesdays.
We have a short show and tell session on Tuesdays focused on achievements and souvenirs of special experiences.
Your child needs a spare change of clothes in school in case of spills or getting caught in the rain etc. If your child is wearing these home one day can we have a replacement the next day.
We have a rotating list of class responsibilities each week. One of these is our librarian. The Librarian looks after our class reading corner and will bring in from home, or choose from the class library, a favourite book for Mr Bennett to read on Fridays.
Our shared area is always in need of clean and dry cardboard boxes etc for junk modelling. Skip the recycling and bring yours in (no packaging from dairy products or nut products for the safety of those area users with allergies please.)
Reading books come home on a Friday as a way for the children to showcase their learning to you, not as homework. Please return these on Mondays. We do not send reading books home during school holidays primarily to allow your child time to read for pleasure.
Purple Folders: These need to come to school daily as there are often items of paperwork that may be damaged in a standard bag.
The children resume from the October break on Tuesday October 22nd.

Literacy

Our class sound focus this week was on oi and oy as in boil and toy. We have also revised igh and ai, as in light and ai. Some of our learners found sorting these two a little tricky still.

You are of course welcome to extend the learning at home, but it is a holiday and all the stimulating fun the children have is always of use in school.

Science

We have continued our new topic of Sun, Moon and Stars this week. On Monday we took our phases of the moon knowledge outside to see which ones we knew. Then yesterday we looked at star facts and painted constellations real, imaginary and of our initial.

Maths and Numeracy

We have been looking at place value this week supported by our spinning giant hundred square. Place value is talking about tens and ones (or units), then later on adding hundreds, thousands etc.

Play

Mr Bennett (with some help from Ms Cross), totally revamped the P2 classroom this week to create more defined play spaces in the wake of our big block arrival. The children have certainly made good use of it.

The Mr Bennett Bit

It was amazing seeing the children take to the new layout this week. They really engaged with the new options and they were so excited to see it with Miss Kelly on Wednesday. I have taken their comments on board and will be tweaking the layout a bit more before they are back in.

Over to you! Have a great half term Bunnies and families.

Mr Bennett.

Buckstone Primary School, P2B

P2B Reflective Friday 4.10.24

Oct 4, 2024Oct 7, 2024 scott2bennett

Hello families,

Welcome to the P2B Bouncing Bunnies Blog for Friday 4^th of October.

Timetables, Dates and Reminders

PE is on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
Our next loose parts session is on Wednesday 9th October.
Our following Loose Parts session is on Tuesday 29th October.
Miss Kelly takes the class on Wednesdays.
We have a short show and tell session on Tuesdays focused on achievements and souvenirs of special experiences.
Your child needs a spare change of clothes in school in case of spills or getting caught in the rain etc. If your child is wearing these home one day can we have a replacement the next day.
We have a rotating list of class responsibilities each week. One of these is our librarian. The Librarian looks after our class reading corner and will bring in from home, or choose from the class library, a favourite book for Mr Bennett to read on Fridays.
Our shared area is always in need of clean and dry cardboard boxes etc for junk modelling. Skip the recycling and bring yours in (no packaging from dairy products or nut products for the safety of those area users with allergies please.)
Reading books come home on a Friday as a way for the children to showcase their learning to you, not as homework. Please return these on Mondays.
Purple Folders: These need to come to school daily as there are often items of paperwork that may be damaged in a standard bag.
Next Friday week break up for October break. The children resume on Tuesday October 22nd.

New Starter

We have had a great time this week welcoming Sienna into the class. Lots of the children have very respectfully and responsibly been showing her around the school and introducing our class routines. Many made lovely welcome cards as well. We hope you have had a great week Sienna!

Literacy

Our class sound focus this week was on oo and ew as in moon and chew. We have also revised ee and ea, as in week and beak.

To extend the learning at home be on the lookout for things that have oo and ew, and ee and ea in their name. Also work on making words with sticks, leaves and twigs, or in unusual places, such as with bath crayons.

P7 came to help us with a whole school task in our writing time this week. We were writing about what makes Buckstone brilliant.

Science

We have continued our new topic of Sun, Moon and Stars this week. We looked at moon facts and phases of the moon. If you would like to keep a moon phase diary at home that would be fabulous. There will be a sheet to support this optional extension task in purple folders today. If the night is too cloudy a little cloud symbol instead of a shaded phase is perfect.

Maths and Numeracy

We have been reviewing and extending our knowledge of number bonds again this week . We have also been working on jumping over 1, 2 or 3 numbers forwards and backwards.

Play

Loose parts was great fun as always. With the wet weather we saw a lot of mud kitchens and cook pots filled with “soup”.

Not to be out crafted by the saw a fabulous cinema complex made by some of the boys this week. Also a fabulous ice cream parlour and boat in block play.

The Mr Bennett Bit

It was great meeting all our families at parent consultations and I look forward to sharing the progress at the next round. The children have really enjoyed our topic related story over several lessons this week and last “The Rock That Fell From The Sky” by Jon Klassen. It has been fun seeing their engagement.

In French we learned “Bon Weekend” this week so do have a Bon weekend before we

Fly into another fabulous week on Monday Bouncing Bunnies!

Mr Bennett.

Buckstone Primary School, P2D

P2D Reflective Friday 4.10.24

Oct 4, 2024Oct 4, 2024 Staff..114

Dear Parents/Carers,

We hope you had a nice week. It was lovely to meet you all at parents evenings. If there is anything that you would like to follow up, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Important information

Loose parts on Wednesday 9th October.
As you might know part of my school remit is PEF ( Pupil Equity Fund). Therefore there will be some days I will be at school but not teaching in class. On Wednesday 9th October Mrs Graham will be teaching the children for this reason.
As requested reading books will now go home on Thursdays to allow families more time to work on this at home.
Please ensure your child brings a jacket/coat every day to school.  
Thank you for your support in emptying the purple folders each day.   
A reminder to name all items of clothing and shoes, and to check names on items brought home in case your child accidentally acquires a jumper belonging to someone else.  
We would appreciate donations of any unwanted empty or partially used notebooks or diaries (used pages can be removed). Also, any enticing writing implements (i.e., glittery pencils/gel pens/ pencils with feathers etc – anything other than standard school issue type pencils/pens). The children enjoy choosing resources from the table to use in their independent learning.  
We are looking for small pieces of ‘junk’ for modelling e.g., toothpaste boxes, tea bag boxes, snack bar boxes. The more interesting shapes the better.

Summary of our learning

Literacy

This week we have been working on the vowel diagraphs oo and ew: as in tooth and chew. We loved making jewels.

This is the symbol that we have used to remember the sounds:

In handwriting we have been working on the cursive letters x and z.

At writing we did our final set of instructions. Now that we are approaching Halloween we have written: How to cast a spell.

Our tricky words this week are: why, find and kind. These are the final words of block 3. We will revise them next week.

Numeracy

We have started to work on subtraction ( from 10, 30, 100). We are using different strategies :

we have worked on using our knowledge on number bonds to 10 for subtraction within 20. In P1, children subtracted within 10 by counting back and using number lines. They now subtract within 20 using their knowledge of number bonds. For example, if they know the number bond 7 – 5 = 2, then they know that 17 – 5 = 12.
Using a number line. The children are familiar with this strategy and they are using it confidently.

We have started to work on pre- rugby skills. We have worked on “pop- passing”. We have also done games to work on following instructions.

STEM

At our loose parts session we had very interesting discussions when building swings: height, weight, strength of branches,…It was great to see their team work!

IDL

We have continue to work on our Sun, Moon and Stars topic. We have learned about the moon phases and how this happens. We are really enjoying this topic!

Ideas for learning at home

Literacy

Spelling:

Your child took yesterday a spelling ideas sheet with the reading book home. As you now know in which spelling block your child is working on, use these ideas to work on the words.
Another idea is to play snap. Use 2 sets of cards with the words. Lay out a large piece of paper and a pen in the middle of the table. When the words match, rather than saying the word to win the cards, you have to grab the pen and write the word to win the cards.

Phonics:

Find words that have the oo and ew sound.
Ask your child to make a book with the words: food, hoof, soon, tool, book, cook, shoot, hook, mood, cool, new, few, pew, chew, dew.
Revise all the diagraphs that we have worked on so far: sh, ch, th, wh, ai, ay, ee, ea, igh, y, oa, ow, oo, ew. Write each sound in a post it /card, uncover the sound and the first person who says a word with that sound wins the card; the winner of the game is the person who gets most cards.

Reading:

Ask your child to read the reading book to you. Read the book to them afterwards to practice full stops, question marks, etc.
Ask questions about the book: Who? When? Why do you think…? What would have happened if…?
Read a story a day with your child if you can.

Handwriting

Practice the letters that we have worked on so far: l, i, t, x and z
https://teachhandwriting.co.uk/continuous-cursive-beginners-choice-3.html

Numeracy

If you wish continue to use your Sumdog account. This is a tool for learning but please be mindful of screen time.
Practice addition and subtraction to 10, 30, 100.
Practise forming the digits 2,3,4,5 and 6 in particular. You could use chalk, coloured pens, paint, anything to keep this fun! This is the correct formation:

Other areas

Observe the moon every night ( or at least twice a week) and record the phase of the moon. Ask your child to draw a picture and ask them which phase of the moon they think it is and why.

Independent learning: in this section you will be able to see how the children are exploring different skills in an independent way ( no adult is interfering: the adults support and extend their play). The children are able to transfer skills that they have learned at different times ( in school and at home) to their play and they are able to show skills that we wouldn’t be able to see otherwise.