Meerkats Class Blog (Y1/2)
Welcome to our new blog for 2024-25! We hope to share all the wonderful things we are learning about in Year 1 and 2..
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Our Class teachers are Mrs T. Jeffery and Mrs M. Rous (alternate Fridays). Our teaching assistants are Ms F. Hillier (Mon-Wed) and Ms C. Smith (Th-Fri)
We have indoor PE every Friday and outdoor PE every Monday, children need to come to school on both days in their PE kit please.
Y1/2 Curriculum Overview 2024-25 Y1/2 Writing Curriculum 2024-25
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Friday 24 January 2025 Music and dancing with the Meerkats! We are half way through Term 3 and wow the marvellous Meerkats have really challenged themselves in all of their learning this week. But first, I must congratulate them all on their beautiful manners, both myself and Miss Smith notice daily how polite the Meerkats are as a class but this week others members of staff have been to see me to tell me that they have noticed too. Well done Meerkats we are so very proud of you all – keep it up!
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Friday 17 January 2025 Meerkats Make Music! Another busy week in Meerkat Class with lots of exploration, learning and fun – the week just flew by and the Meerkats have certainly grown their brains!
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Friday 10 January 2025 Welcome back Marvellous Meerkats Class! Welcome back and a very Happy New Year to you all.
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Thursday 19 December 2024 Happy Christmas to the Marvellous Meerkats & their Families! What a fantastic end to the term! Myself and the team are so proud of all the marvellous Meerkats for the part they each played in our nativity performances this week – there is nothing to say except FABULOUS!!!!!
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Friday 13 December 2024 Swimming and singing! I must start with a Wow Wow Wow! Myself and the team were so proud of the marvellous Meerkats at the church on Thursday for our Christmas Service; singing, signing and performing their Christmas poem. It will be no surprise to hear our gem jar is well and truly full and extra playtime has been earned. Thank you to all the parents who joined us and a special thank you to the parents who walked to the church with us – your support is very much appreciated. Next week we have our Nativity performances and we are looking forward to seeing you…
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Friday 6 December 2024 Panto and Snowflake! Wow – that week just flew by… The magical season is upon us and our kindness elf, named Snowflake by the children, arrived into class on Monday. We have all sprinkled her with magic glitter and she is with us until the end of term. Snowflake has already noticed many acts of kindness from the marvellous Meerkats and is looking forward to hearing more of their beautiful singing.
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Friday 29 November 2024 Name that shape! We are all starting to get a little excited and into the magical mood with the arrival of the beautiful Christmas tree in the school hall. What a wonderful time to be in an infant school watching the children faces light up with the magic and wonder when they saw it was just lovely.
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Friday 22 November 2024 All aboard SS Great Britain! It’s all about the trip this week and what a wonderful day we all had aboard SS Great Britain! Firstly, I must say how very proud myself and Miss Smith were of all the children. Their behaviour and engagement on the trip was amazing, with lots of questions and connections to our learning noticed – definitely gems in the jar for everyone! Also, may I take this opportunity here to thank our wonderful parent helpers who joined us – without your help and support these trips could not go ahead – thank you so much. We hope you had as much fun as us.
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Friday 15 November 2024 Poetry and an Engineer! Wow – another fabulous week for the Marvellous Meerkats which finished on a golden high with all of the children getting a gold card for their fantastic English firework inspired poetry. Myself and the team were so impressed with the children’s handwriting, word choices and inclusion of capital letters, full stops and finger spaces. We have also been chorally reciting poetry and the children’s reader voice is really developing with great tone and enthusiasm. It is wonderful to see their growing love of all the books we share.
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Friday 8 November 2024 Guy Fawkes and Fireworks! What a great start to Term 2 for the Marvellous Meerkats. The children have returned full of enthusiasm and with oodles of energy for new learning.
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Friday 18 October 2024 Just Marvellous! It was lovely to see you all this week at Parent’s evening and share how well the children have settled into class, the new school year and to share their fantastic learning with you. It will be no surprise for you to hear that the Marvellous Meerkats filled their gem jar this week and chose extra playtime as their special treat. Well done Meerkats – what fabulous start you have made to the year!
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Friday 11 October 2024 Terrific Scientific Meerkats! Another great week for the Meerkat class, we have been very busy growing our brains and meeting our kindness challenge of sharing smiles and caring for each other’s feelings. We have also been learning Makaton sign language to say ‘good morning’ and ‘good afternoon’ – do ask your child to show you.
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Friday 4 October 2024 Marvellous Musical Meerkats! Wow – the term is flying by and the children have really settled into our class routines. The ‘gem jar’ is filling up so hopefully we will have our class treat before the term finishes.
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Friday 27 September 2024 Creative Meerkats! Another fantastic week in Meerkat class, with the highlights being our disco dancing throughout the day today and trip to the Holboune Museum yesterday. A big thank you to our parent helpers who joined us – these trips could not go ahead without your support - thank you so much. ??
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Friday 20 September 2024 Sensory Learning for Meerkats! What a sensory week we have had in Meerkats this week. We have been learning all about Kevin and what he likes and dislikes in our class book ‘Can I build another me?’ by Shinsuke Yoshitake. Using our senses of smell, sight and touch, the children explored different food stuffs to think about their own likes and dislikes. The children guessed some of the smells straight away just by looking at them, others however, proved trickier and they had to rely on their other senses. Some caused quite humorous reactions of ‘yuk’ and instant nose pinching especially the ‘love it – hate it’ marmite. Myself and Mrs Allen, were so impressed with the children for having a go and smelling and touching all the foods – one even felt with her feet what salad feels like! Do check out the pictures to see the reactions.
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Friday 13 September 2024 What a marvellous week! The marvellous Meerkats have been very busy growing their brains this week. The children have enthusiastically leapt into their learning with both feet – enjoying all new topics during our first full timetabled week!
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Friday 6 September 2024 Welcome back Marvellous Meerkats! Despite the weather, the Meerkat Team want to wish you all a very warm welcome back to school. What a marvellous and busy first week Meerkat Class have had. The Year 2 children have all settled back quickly into our routines and kindly supported the Year 1 children. Already we can see the children working together as a team just like their class namesakes! Myself and the Meerkat Team are very proud of them all – Keep it up Marvellous Meerkats!
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Friday 12 July 2024 Cars and Concerts! Wow what a week – the highlight being the amazing New Orleans Band who joined us on Thursday in the hall. We were all treated to a musical extravaganza as the band played many songs, to which we could clap and tap along to, join in with and even dance to. From ‘The Backstreet Boys’ to ‘Oh When the Saints go marching in’ and many numbers in between. The children thoroughly enjoyed every moment, calling for an encore.
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Friday 5 July 2024 Cars and Construction! There was lots happening in class and across the school this week; transition visits for Year 2, an election and a visit from Westbury Library!
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Friday 28 June 2024 Colourful Meerkats! Gosh the weeks are really flying by now but the marvellous Meerkats haven’t lost their enthusiasm or energy for learning and growing their brains! We started the week ‘learning outside of the classroom’ looking at cars and finished the week back outside with our amazing Colour Run!
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Friday 21 June 2024 It is all about Teamwork! The term is flying by but it was still another great week for the marvellous Meerkats. It is amazing to see how much they have grown, learnt, explored and progressed since September. Whilst they are a mix of two separate year groups then are most definitely just one class. However, saying that, the Year 2 children have begun their transition and this week with a visit the Junior School as part of their transition programme. There will be having more visits as the term progresses. Please follow the link for the letter which was sent with all transition details.
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Friday 14 June 2024 All about cars!! Another busy week for the Marvellous Meerkats. Starting with a visit from Ian and Cooper the dog, to hear the children read and finishing with our wonderful trip to the Haynes Motor Museum. What a wonderful day we all had. The children saw and sat on the cars that they are learning about in History and many many more – the Lamborghini sparked a particular interest with them all! They took part in a production line challenge and as always worked so well as a team. The children were a credit to the school – their behaviour and engagement was fantastic. Gems in the jar! Thank you so much to the adults who joined us today on the trip, we hope you enjoyed it as much we did. Your help and support are invaluable and enables these trips to happen – so a big thank you! (More pics to follow next week)
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Friday 7 June 2024 Cars and special visitors! What a wonderful start to the term we have had in Meerkat Class this week. The children have all returned full of enthusiasm for new learning and new topics. Hard to believe that we are in Term 6 already!
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Friday 24 May 2024 Sporting Meerkat Superstars! It’s hard to believe that we have reached the end of Term 5 already but what a fabulous way to end the term. The marvellous Meerkats were truly marvellous today as they enjoyed their Sports Day. We all saw so much fantastic teamwork and support and enthusiasm for the events from all the children. A big thank you to all parents and grandparents for your support too. It really is so lovely to share these events with you. May I just acknowledge how well the children coped with their disappointment on Wednesday when the weather was up against us and we had to postpone. They all showed such resilience as we talked about disappointment and bouncing back. As it was our PE day we had an extra practice of some of the events inside – as you saw today, the javelin is definitely a Meerkat favourite! Future Olympians there I think! I have included photos from our practice day on Monday too.
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Friday 17 May 2024 Puppets Galore! It was all about the sewing this week. Please do check out the pictures to see how well all of the children did making their puppets. We were so impressed with what they made – well done marvellous Meerkats! Their binca practice definitely paid off when the children confidently began sewing their puppets together. They followed their plans and created fabulous puppets – soon to be a feature display in our classroom. May I take the opportunity to say a very big THANK YOU to our parents and grandparents who joined us in class to support with the activity. Your support with these activities is invaluable and the children love having visitors to our class.
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Friday 10 May 2024 Meerkats and Puppets! Another week has just flown by and we can’t quite believe that we are fast approaching the end of Term 5! The children have, as always, been amazing and marvellous this week. We have seen so many acts of kindness, support for each other and enthusiasm and excitement for learning from the children – they have deservedly earnt an abundance of gems this week, they really are a super team!
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Friday 3 May 2024 Adventures in Kenya! The marvellous Meerkats thoroughly deserve this well-earned Bank Holiday long weekend – they have certainly been growing their brains this week!
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Friday 26 April 2024 Meerkats meet the Meerkats! First thing to say this week – Well done marvellous Meerkats!!! You were an absolute credit to your yourselves and the school this week on our class trip. Myself and the team are so proud of you all. Also, a big thank you for our parent helpers, your support and help is very much appreciated and without it, these trips could not go ahead.
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Friday 19 April 2024 Meerkats and Kenya! It is hard to believe that we are in Term 5 already and our first week is done! The children have all returned full of energy, enthusiasm and excitement. And my, how they have grown – we have even had to move our carpet dots to give the children more space when on the carpet!
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