Happy Easter!

 Happy Easter!

There goes the second term of the academic year. We've had a really good term in Class 2 learning about The Great Fire of London (and The Great Fire of Northampton, of course). 

I hope you've enjoyed the Easter open afternoon and church service - the children worked very hard on their 'hop hop hop' song and their Easter poem. 

This week the children finished off their mini D.T. project - designing and making a new loaf of bread for Thomas Farriner to celebrate the end of The Great Fire of London. They baked and decorated their mini loaf (roll) before evaulating its appearance, smell and taste. See below for photos!

Over the holidays:

Please read with your child as often as possible. The children have two free choice reading books to keep them going. 

Please help your child to learn their common exception word spellings. I've updated each child's spelling card in their folder to show which words they spelt correctly on their recent test. Any un-highlighted words are the ones they need to practice. 

Continue to work on your child's target maths facts with them (see their maths booklets).

If you and your child would like to do more, you could:

* Visit Northampton Museum and spend some time in the History section, learning more about The Great Fire of Northampton

* Send me a postcard c/o the school, telling me about what you've been up to (a few sentences would do for Year 1, around 4-5 for Year 2!)

* Do some planting! The children have been learning about the parts of plants and what plants need to grow (we've planted some sunflower seeds but they haven't got far yet).

I hope you all enjoy the next two weeks and particularly have a restful Easter weekend. See you soon!

Mrs Simpson

Spring Term Week 11: To the Museum!

 Hello Class 2 Parents,

Important note - reading books
We have not been doing our usual group reading this week because the children have been taking part in reading assessments. With that in mind, the children have some differnent reading books this week, or have two Badger/Squirrel books instead. 

Please could all phonics and Badger/Squirrel books be returned to school next week, so that we can check the reading book sets to make sure nothing is missing - thank you!

In Class 2 this week:

The main event this week was, of course, our trip to the museum. The children had a great day and they were very excellent representatives for Little Houghton School. They took part in a workshop all about The Great Fire of Northampton: firstly, they heard three different stories about how the fire might have started, before hearing about the fire itself. Then they became history detectives. On each table there was a collection of artefacts and the children had to decide which part of the fire the artefacts represented (life before the fire/the start of the fire/the fire spreading/fighting the fire/fleeing the fire/rebuilding Northampton after the fire). Next, the children acted out these six diferent aspects of the story with much dramatic flair. 

After lunch we had a look around the wider museum (including going trainer spotting for shoes made by Elliot's dad) before returning for the second workshop: designing and making firemarks from cardboard. The children learnt that a firemark was a metal plaque, fixed to the outside of a building to indicate that it was insured against fire. These came into play somewhere in the 1800s. There wasn't time to finish this activity so we will hopefully find time to  do so next week at school. 

Aside from that, the children have been adding two 2-digit numbers in maths (Year 2s have been crossing a multiple of 10) and have been participating in a range of phonics and reading assessments ready for the end of term!

No homework this week - I'll be setting some next week for the Easter holidays.