Meerkats Class Blog (Y1/2)
Welcome to our new blog for 2023-24! 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, Mrs G. Hughes (alternate Mondays) and Mrs E. Millard (alternate Wednesday mornings). Our teaching assistant is Ms C. Smith.
We have indoor PE every Wednesday and outdoor PE every Monday, children need to come to school on both days in their PE kit please.
Y1/2 Curriculum Overview 2023-24 Y1/2 Writing Curriculum 2023-24
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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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Thursday 28 March 2024 Scooters and the Easter Bunny! Well this term has just flown by!! We have packed so much in and the children have risen to every new challenged presented to them. Myself and the team are so impressed with all of the Meerkats. They have worked together as a team just like their namesake, listened and responded to feedback, and given their best in all of their learning – well done Marvellous Meerkats!
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Friday 22 March 2024 Performing Meerkats! Firstly, it was lovely to see so many of you this week at Parents Evening and have the opportunity to share your children’s progress and achievements with you. May I also take this opportunity to say thank you for all your continued support at home with your children’s learning especially with their reading and phonics.
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Friday 15 March 2024 Plants and Beanstalks! It was so lovely to see all the children dressed in red today in support of Red Nose Day. What a fabulous bunch of red Meerkats they made!! In case, any of you missed it the marvellous Meerkats made it into the press last week in ‘The White Horse News’ with their World Book Day picture. I’ve included the picture along with our class pictures from this week.
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Friday 8 March 2024 Artistic Meerkats! What a wonderful week we have had! It was fantastic to see all the children dressed up as a word or in character from their favourite book on World Book Day. They all looked truly amazing!
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Friday 1 March 2024 Sunflowers and Music! What a wonderful week we have had in Meerkat class. Looking through the photographs it is hard to believe that was all in one week!
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Friday 23 February 2024 Jumping back into learning! What a great start to the term the marvellous Meerkats have had with new topics in English, Maths, Topic – Art, PE and RE.
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Friday 9 February 2024 What a busy term we have had! Well, this term has certainly flown by but that has not stopped the marvellous Meerkats from being very busy with their learning and growing their brains. We have completed two topic blocks; Science and History, shared poetry and traditional tales alongside all our maths learning of the four operations. Wow!
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Friday 2 February 2024 Meet the Historians! Wow – what a fantastic week the marvellous Meerkats have had! From writing poetry, programming BeeBots to taking part in a history workshop, and that’s just for starters!
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Friday 26 January 2024 Caring Meerkats. A very short blog this week due to me being off school. I will upload all the pictures from this week on next week’s blog.
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Friday 19 January 2024 Meerkats and Science. The marvellous Meerkats have worked so hard this week and have filled their gem jar, so their reward was extra playtime today! This was their first week with Mrs Hughes and she was very impressed with them all – welcome to the team Mrs Hughes.
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Friday 12 January 2024 A great start to the new year and the new term! Happy New Year to you all and a warm welcome back to Term 3. The children have settled back really well and have made a great start in our new topic of ‘Materials’ and with our new English book ‘The three little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig’.
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Wednesday 20 December 2023 Merry Christmas Meerkats! This is our last blog of 2023 so thank you all for all your continued support especially with our trips and walks to swimming. What a fantastic end to the term we have had. On Monday the children were amazing when they all performed a poem and sang and signed songs at our Christmas Church Service. We all enjoyed a ‘delicious and scrumptious’ Christmas dinner on Tuesday followed by a class party! As you can see from the pictures, the children all looked fabulous in their Christmas jumpers and hats.
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Friday 15 December 2023 Magical Meerkats - Stars of the Stage! Well what can we say except a huge big WELL DONE to the Marvellous Meerkats, Pandas and Zebras for the most wonderful Sleepy Shepherd performance! I am sure you will agree that the children were absolutely amazing. They sung and signed the songs beautifully, read lines - word perfect and thoroughly enjoyed their moment! Well done – we are so proud of you all. Thank you to all the parents and grandparents for joining us and sending in costumes. Didn’t they all look fabulous! Enjoy the pictures.
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Friday 8 December 2023 Penguin Meerkats! It’s beginning to feel a bit like Christmas… Sparkle our class elf has been writing to us each day and is very proud of how kind Meerkat Class is. She has put the letters received for Father Christmas in her special bag and will make sure that the are delivered safely.
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Friday 1 December 2023 Meerkats and meteorology! Gosh, this term is flying by but the children are still enthusiastically packing in lots of fun and learning. Our kindness elf Sparkle arrived on Thursday and is really enjoying being in Meerkat Class, the children chose a book for her to read when we had all gone home.
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Friday 24 November 2023 Marvellous Meerkats visit the Aquarium! Wow, Wow, Wow!!! On so many levels this week. But I think this week’s blog is all about the trip!
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Friday 17 November 2023 Meerkats and Music! The marvellous Meerkats are going from strength to strength. The have settled into Term 2 so well, meeting expectations and enthusiastically soaking up all new knowledge – as one said this week ‘we are like sponges’. Well done magnificent Meerkats – keep it up!
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Friday 10 November 2023 Musical Meerkats! The Marvellous Meerkats have certainly had another busy and full week growing their brains!
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Friday 3 November 2023 Jumping back into Term 2! What a great start to Term 2. The children have returned with enthusiasm and bounce; jumping straight back into their learning!
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Wednesday 18 October 2023 Well done Marvellous Meerkats! Wow- what an amazing Term 1 the marvellous Meerkats have had. As we said to the children today, we are so proud of them and all they have achieved this term; bonding together as a new class, arriving each day with oodles of enthusiasm and definitely growing their brains! A fantastic start the year. Keep it up Magnificent Meerkats!
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Friday 13 October 2023 Marvellous Mobile Art! We are almost at the end of Term 1 and what a fantastic term the Meerkats have had. They have enjoyed a glass workshop, a visit form Rev. Rebecca, been on a trip to Westonbirt and to the church this week to celebrate Harvest, not to mention all the fantastic learning they have been doing growing their brains. WOW!! Myself and the Meerkat Team are so proud of them all. They have jumped into their learning with oodles of enthusiasm, bonded together as a new class and have shown such kindness to each other. Keep it up marvellous Meerkats.
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Friday 6 October 2023 Artistic Meerkat Explorers! Wow- what a great week, full of exploration and creativity. We started with a glass workshop on Monday, where the children all made a glass mini beast. The children carefully decorated their glass to create a mini best of their choice. These will be used to create a larger art piece with the creations from across KS1.
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Friday 29 September 2023 Marvellous Meerkat Learning Wow the weeks are just flying by. The whole of the Meerkat Team has been so impressed with all the children. They have really bonded as a new class and we love their enthusiasm and energy, which was seen in abundance during the discothon on Friday. Some of the pictures may be a bit blurry – the children were moving very fast!
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Friday 22 September 2023 Magnificent Meerkats! Another magnificent week for Meerkat Class! In English, we began the week creating our own Bog Babies. The children choose features to create their own unique Bog Baby. Later in the week we drew a home for our Bog Babies and the children wrote some fantastic sentence using similes to describe their Bog Baby. We are very much enjoying the story of The Bog Baby!
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Friday 15 September 2023 Micro habitats and mini beasts! The marvellous Meerkats have had their first full week in class and what a busy and fun week we have had growing our brains and learning lots of new things. The children are settling really well into the new routines and the Meerkat Team are very proud of them all.
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Friday 8 September 2023 Marvellous Meerkats! Welcome to the Meerkat Class blog - what a marvellous first week Meerkat Class have had. They have all settled into the new routines like ducks to water, and have proved themselves to be a real team- just like their class namesakes! Myself and the Meerkat Team are very proud of them – Keep it up Marvellous Meerkats!
