Willow Class
Welcome to the Willow Class
This is the class page for the Y1 / Y2 Willow Class. We hope that it is a useful place to view pictures of activities and learning experiences as well as locate planning documents and other useful information.
Class information
Willow Class Gallery Autumn Term
Victorian Christmas Trip to Newstead Abbey
Willow Nativity Performance
At the start of the Spring 1 term we will be doing a short writing unit which blends learning about recount writing with experimenting with poetry. The focus text is Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Pena. The children will complete some immersive work around bus journeys before moving onto exploring alliteration and rhyme and applying these skills independently to create imaginative descriptions about the characters that the main character CJ meets.
In Spring 2 the children are learning all about the topic of 'wonderful weather' through studying the DK Eyewitness book on Weather. There will be many opportunities to look into what structures a non-fiction text and the children will be writing their own information texts about some of the facts they have learned about different types of weather.
We started our writing unit in Autumn 2 by studying the poem The Chimney Boy's Story by Wes Magee. The children were shocked by the working conditions of young people during Victorian times whilst working as chimney sweeps. They used role play to explore the dynamic between masters and working boys or servants.
At the start of Spring 1 the children will learn about alliteration and similes within poetry and have a go at using these writing techniques within their own poetry writing.