Holly Hill Primary and Nursery School
Summer 1
Our Topic...
Who lives in a place like this?
This half term we will be doing PE on a Monday morning and a Monday afternoon - please make sure all belongings are labelled with your child's name (school polos, cardigans, jumpers etc.)
Spelling tests will be on a Friday afternoon.
Reading groups will be Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday (we will collect books in on a Friday)
Our knowledge organiser for this half term:
Year 2 Spellings Overview
Year One - Spellings Overview
Week One 1️⃣
RE - our creations of Noah’s Ark!
Science - living/alive OR dead OR never alive
Library visit! We particularly enjoyed the where’s wally books!
We have been drawing in response to music...🎵🎼🎶
Our collages! We cut, tore, folded, overlapped and glued different materials. They look amazing ⭐️
Week Two 2️⃣
The story of Jonah and the Big Fish - we sequenced the story together as a class and then did sequenced the stories independently! Well done Wrens 🤩
We have been highlighting the parts of the model text that we like and that we want to use in our writing on Friday!
Our Megan Coyle inspired art!
Week Three 3️⃣
PE - we have been practising our tennis racket skills this morning!
We had a go at acting out the bible story ‘Jonah and the big fish’. Absolute superstar Wrens doing some fabulous acting 🤩.
More acting...
Our wonderful newspaper collage elephants! 🐘
Week Four 4️⃣
We have been learning about different animal habitats! The children sorted the animals onto the correct habitat and then we looked more closely at a range of other habitats.
Performing music!
We had a go at composing some music based on animals. Can you guess which animals the children did? We had elephants, tigers, ostriches, rabbits and giraffes!
More music... 🎶🎼🎵
Week Five 5️⃣
Completing our storyboards for our new text... Dear Greenpeace 🐳
Composing our own music this week! We marked when our instrument needed to play and when we needed to rest. Well done Wrens, super teamwork!
We have been creating speech between Emily and Arthur the whale 🐳🐳
Our (very wet) whispers microhabitat hunt! We searched under rocks and under logs to see which minibeasts were living in that habitat. Although it was rainy we still managed to find lots of minibeasts 🐌🪲
Week Six 6️⃣
Yorkshire Wildlife Park 🐅🐾🐒🦓
We have had a lovely time at Yorkshire wildlife park today! We have seen animals from the Amazon, Giraffes, Zebras, Meerkats and so many more! The children were amazing 🤩
Yorkshire Wildlife Park
We have finished our Henri Rousseau collages! We collaborated to create a group piece of art work. Don’t they look amazing?
Computing in music... we have created our own digital music on Google Chrome Music Lab. We all had an animal and then created our own music for that animal.
