Get Mental with Maths

At the school we are still busy promoting 'mental maths'.
What is Mental Maths? Well, we see it as a bit of maths we do each day that doesn't have to do with the regular maths lessons. It doesn't have to go into the copies. Its more to do with the everyday and getting children thinking and looking  with numbers and shapes. You can still write down the numbers or draw pictures to help yourself out.
Try it out at home.
The more fun the better.

Review of Writing at the end of Year Two

At the end of our second year of School Self Evaluation in Writing we carried out out an opinion survey of the teachers. Teachers felt that writing was improving. Children are looking at their own writing and deciding what is good about it and trying to do better.
Use of rhymes and stories work really well. Explaining writing in words helps us to do better writing. 

What do we need to keep concentrating on?

• Watch that children keep up good habits in writing.
• Talk about letter formations.
• Capital letters, full stops, question marks and exclamation marks!
• Display good writing. Give credit for good work. Expect good work.
• Use good writing in all work. (This is called transferring learning)
• Use the same writing approaches throughout the school.