West Huntspill Academy, New Road, West Huntspill, Highbridge, Somerset, TA9 3QE
Tel: 01278 783842
East Huntspill Academy, New Road, East Huntspill, Highbridge, Somerset, TA9 3PT
Tel: 01278 782453

west@thpa.theplt.org.uk / east@thpa.theplt.org.uk

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Welcome to Willow Class

Willow class is made up of 30 children in year 2 and year 3.  Miss Smith is our Teacher and Miss Nurcombe is our TA.  Miss Prowse/Miss Gibbons work as 1:1 TAs.

We love and have a positive attitude to our learning and always try our best and work hard. 

This term our big question is How do cities grow? We will be learning about what a city is and comparing this to towns and villages. We will also be learning about the Ancient Egyptians- how they were experts at farming and construction.  We will be learning about the importance of the River Nile to the Ancient Egyptian civilisation and comparing the Nile to the River Brue. We will also learn about how rivers impact on settlements (trade and travel).  We will also be learning about the Ancient Egyptian hierarchy and its structure. We will also learn about Pharaohs and how pyramids were built as burial tombs to take the Pharaohs into the afterlife and how they were prepared for this journey. (Find out more on our How do cities grow? knowledge organiser and curriculum overview at the bottom of the page)

   In Science we will be learning about Plants. We will be answering these mini enquiry questions- What is a plant? What do you see when plants grow? What does a plant need to grow? How does water move through a plant? What are flowers for? (Find out more on our Plants knowledge organiser at the bottom of the page).

 

English

Writing

For Writing, we use The Write Stuff scheme, I know many of you are already familiar with this. For those who are not, the lessons are split into experience days, which provide children with a stimulus for their writing followed by sentence stacking lessons where we use lens to create a vocabulary vault, which children use for their writing. The lens come from the writing rainbow which has a Fantastic tier (feeling, asking, noticing, touch, action, smell, taste, imagining and checking for sounds), a Grammeristic tier (grammar devices such as punctuation, adjectives, nouns, tense etc) and a Boomtastic tier which includes other devices we can use in our writing i.e. onomatopoeia, repetition etc. We do not use all lens every lesson (6 at the most). Once we have done all the sentence stacking lessons children do an independent piece of writing.

Our first unit is a narrative based on the book George's marvellous medicine. Our second unit is a diary entry based on the book Secrets of a Sun King. 

 

Reading

In Reading, children who have not completed the Read, Write Inc (RWI) programme will continue to have daily lessons, which will consist of speed sounds, reading, spelling words using Fred fingers and hold a sentence. Children will then read a RWI story which will involve learning story green words from the book and red words (these are tricky words that cannot be sounded out) and speedy green words. Children will work with partners to take it in turns to read the story and on the final day will have questions to answer about what they have read. This year we will be teaching RWI in sole colour groups across KS1 (Ash and Willow) i.e. a pink group, a blue group etc. 

All children will be doing whole class reading for a whole hour twice a week. Each lesson we will all have the same text and will be focusing on one of the six comprehension skills - making sense of what has been read, activating prior knowledge (what we already know that may help us to understand the text), word consciousness (understanding new vocabulary and meanings), predicting (what might happen based on what we already know or have read so far), summarising (main ideas from a paragraph/sequencing the story) and visualising (using pictures with new vocab or using illustrations from the story to gain meaning about the text).  We will also focus on our reading fluency by listening to modelled reading by me (Miss Smith), choral reading (reading together as a class), echo reading and paired reading. The first text we are reading is 'The boy who grew dragons'.

 

Spelling, Grammar and Punctuation (SPAG)

We are following the Spelling Shed scheme. Children who have finished RWI scheme will have daily SPAG lessons with 20 mins focusing on spelling and handwriting and 20 mins focusing on grammar and punctuation. 

 

Maths

In Maths our first unit  will be Addition and Subtraction and we will be learning:

Year 2-

  • solve problems with addition and subtraction:
  • using concrete objects and pictorial representations, including those involving numbers, quantities and measures
  • applying their increasing knowledge of mental and written methods
  • recall and use addition and subtraction facts to 20 fluently, and derive and use related facts up to 100
  • add and subtract numbers using concrete objects, pictorial representations, and mentally, including:
  • a two-digit number and 1s
  • a two-digit number and 10s
  • 2 two-digit numbers
  • adding 3 one-digit numbers
  • show that addition of 2 numbers can be done in any order (commutative) and subtraction of 1 number from another cannot
  • recognise and use the inverse relationship between addition and subtraction and use this to check calculations and solve missing number problems

 

Year 3-

  • add and subtract numbers mentally, including:
  • a three-digit number and 1s
  • a three-digit number and 10s
  • a three-digit number and 100s
  • add and subtract numbers with up to 3 digits, using formal written methods of columnar addition and subtraction
  • estimate the answer to a calculation and use inverse operations to check answers
  • solve problems, including missing number problems, using number facts, place value, and more complex addition and subtraction.

 

Our PE days are on Tuesday & Thursday each week. On Tuesdays TKASA will lead a sport lesson and on Thursdays I will teach REAL PE.

 

Our Classroom

Our Learning

Look what we have been learning!

Home Learning

If you are currently learning at home please use the links below. Make sure you do TTrockstars or topmarks everyday and also make sure you read.

 

Maths

Year 2 Video links

Year 3 Video links

 

Use TTrockstars  to practise times tables. Also practise number bonds and fact families using Topmarks.

Topmarks

ttrockstars

 

Science

Plants ks1

Plants ks2

 

 English

Grammar

Punctuation

Spelling

 

Art

Drawing

 

DT

Sewing

 

 RE

Christianity

 

 History

Ancient Egyptians

 

Geography

Rivers

Villages,towns and cities