Welcome to Willow Class!

We are a mixed Year 1/Year 2 class. Our class teacher is Mrs Carson.

Our swimming day is Thursday and our PE day is Wednesday.

Willow Class Updates

W/C 04/09/24

What an amazing first week back.  The children have enjoyed exploring their new classroom and settled into new routines amazingly quickly.  It is a big jump to go from Reception to Year 1 and their efforts must be applauded.  

There have been plenty of getting to know you sessions as we talked carefully about KEPS golden rules with the class helping to create a new classroom display which will remind us of how we can always be kind and respectful.  We have been reading Dear Teacher during English lessons and starting to carefully construct sentences about how we felt returning to school.  Punctuation and sentence structure will be a key focus in these first weeks. Our first Maths unit is place value and we have been doing lots of counting and practical work representing numbers in different ways.  In other learning, we enjoyed learning some games that we will play in PE lessons and revisiting online safety rules in computing.

W/C 15/07/24

What a busy week with Willow Class amazing us all with their continued resilience and enthusiasm!  At the beginning of the week we polished off our maths work on statistics with Year 2 interpreting pictograms with different keys, and Year 3 investigating venn and carroll diagrams.  In English, we have also been experimenting with more interesting conjunctions within our written work.  Science this week involved Year 3 learning about the dangers of the sun and inventing a product which would protect our eyes from UV light.  Year 2 tested the strength of different fabrics by trying to create holes using sandpaper – the denim was particularly hard work!   

We can’t forget about Olympic Day where we had great fun making Olympic torches from willow, participated in a dance workshop which showcased the different Olympic events, explored Olympic values to create a medal for a classmate, and enjoyed a PE lesson with the key skill of teamwork.  We also finished our Roman Chariots and were surprised to learn that Chariot Racing was once an Olympic sport.

W/C 08/07/24

Willow Class have had great fun learning another Roman myth - The Oak Tree and the Linden Tree.  They drew story maps and then chose to rewrite the story as a narrative or as a letter from one of the characters.  They did an amazing job which showed off everything they had learnt from the year, and the accurate use of inverted commas in particular.  It is wonderful to see how well all the children have progressed with their writing this year.

In maths, we have continued with statistics and the Year 2s are becoming extremely proficient with pictograms, while the Year 3s are accurately drawing and interpreting bar charts and two-way tables.  We had several experiments going on in Science where the Year 3s tested for the most reflective materials and Year 2 identified the strongest paper.

W/C 01/07/24

This week, Willow Class finished their unit on Oliver and the Seawigs by writing a detailed letter from one of the characters.  They used their purple pens to polish their writing and they are getting really good at adding in any features they have not used from their toolkits.  Our next writing topic is all about the Romans which will develop all of our learning from our history topic last half term.

In maths, we have started statistics and have enjoyed gathering data, creating tally charts, block diagrams and bar charts.  Year 3 had a great time in their first science lesson defining what light and dark are, while Year 2 performed experiments with balls of different materials to decide which was the bounciest.

W/C 24/06/24

Willow Class had an absolutely fabulous time enriching their history learning on their trip to Avalon Archaeology this week.  They started with a tour of the site which has replicas of an Iron Age Hut, a dining room from a Roman Villa, Anglo Saxon Hall and Viking Longboat.  We then split up into three groups and participated in different activities all with a theme of continuity and change.  The children explored art through the ages and created their own mosaic designs in the Roman Villa.  Besides the Viking Longboat, they played a trading game, made their own coin and wrote their names or messages in runic writing.  The final activity was learning about the uses of fire and how people created this before modern conveniences.  A brilliant day with a brilliant class!

WC 17/06/24

Willow Class hugely enjoyed the multi-skills event at Hambridge this week.  The children participated in lots of different activities including javelin throwing, goal scoring, skipping and obstacle races.  The children demonstrated all the attributes of a KEPS learner by listening well, following instructions and thanking the staff and children at Hambridge for organising the event.

In class, we have finished off both our time unit in maths and our science topics.  Year 3s tested the permeability of different soils and Year 2s learnt all about food chains to create mobiles.  They have also enjoyed getting to know the different characters in Oliver and the Seawigs as they adventure to the Rambling Isles.