Welcome to Chestnut Class!
Miss Lloyd & Mrs Jones
I am so excited to get started and stuck in with lots of new learning, develop new skills and work with a variety of new children! Chestnut will have many opportunities for new friendship building, teamwork, independent opportunities and sharing their voice! So let's have an incredible year together! :)
Website will be updated weekly, every Friday, with pictures of our learning and any other exciting stuff we get up to!
Please Note: I will be deleting all updates every 2 weeks. This is to help ensure that accessing the website isn't too slow due to the amount of photos uploaded. So make sure you've caught up each week :)
Week 2
In English we have begun our new book 'The Bog Baby' and have been learning about command words (verbs) ready for instruction writing. We will be writing instructions this half term on how to make a Bog Baby habitat so we have been thinking what different things the Bog Baby would need in its habitat. We have researched with books the different things needed and now designed our own habitat. The year 2s have focused this week on listing all the things needed in their habitat using commas in a list!
In Math's this week we have begun to look at the place value in numbers to 100, focusing this week on the teen numbers and understanding the tens and the ones. Some children have be developing their problem solving and reason skills on these numbers.
In RE this half term, we are looking at Judaism again but this time we are focusing on the 'Torah'. This is the Jewish bible which comes as a scroll. We had a little explore of an actual torah and then learnt about a special occasional in the Jewish calendar 'Simchat Torah'. When they have finished reading the Torah they have a celebration of 'rejoicing the torah'. As a class we unpicked this, noticing the word joy. It is a joyful celebration where everyone dances and celebrates. We wanted to join in with these celebrations so we made our own mini torahs and flags and had a dance while chanting 'Simchat Torah' to show what we were celebrating. (Video is attached below, the easiest way to watch it is to click 'download' instead of 'view')
In History this week, we learnt about our first significant individual, looking at the big question 'Can an individual change the world?' This was Neil Armstrong and his impact on the Moon Landing in 1969. We discussed how this event made big changes to the world, inspiring people to want to travel to space and learn more about it! We learnt about his early life and how and why he became the first astronaut on the moon!
In Computing this half term we are looking at data and information with the different ways to collect data. We have been practicing collecting data through tally charts and this week we looked at where we could input this data: onto a pictogram. In groups we used a pictogram to work out our favourite colours!
School Disco!
Photos pending!
Happy New Year & hope you all had an amazing Christmas! Here's to a great 2026!!
Week 1 Spring 1
We have had an exciting first week back, enjoying spending time and catching up with friends and getting stuck into fresh new learning!
In English we were introduced to our new story but not before we made some predictions on it. For our first English lesson of the year, we came across a wet, boggy habitat in our classroom with some glittery footprints leading to it. We discussed what creature might be living there and what we think they are doing, thinking about what the story is about. We each made our own predictions for the story.
In Maths we are continuing with shape, specifically looking at 3D shapes and their properties. This week we were identifying and counting the shapes faces and edges.
Each season we take a picture with a tree that we have chosen and named the 'Chestnut Tree' (not actually a chestnut tree). We chose the perfect opportunity this week to take our winter picture! Look for the moment we discovered it started snowing!
In our first History lesson this half term, we were talking about 'Significant Individuals', people who have made a big change in the world or people who help us. The lesson was a focus on the word 'significant' and what it means in the context of the world today and in history.
We discussed people like, nurses, teachers, mums & dads, Florence Nightingale, Mary Seacole, Albert Einstein, Marcus Rashford, Firefighter etc. We chose one of these people and explained what they were important or what big change they made.
In our first Art lesson of this half term, we were introduced to a watercolour artist 'Emma Burleigh'. Her art is formed through mark making with no plans beforehand, she see's what her art has made. Today we practiced different mark making techniques and looked at what we could see.
Knowledge Organisers
Please find below the knowledge organisers linked to your child's learning this term. This document provides details of the key knowledge the children are expected to learn across the sequence of learning. We would encourage parents and carers to look at these with their children and regularly spend time discussing the facts on the sheets.