Welcome to Emerald Class

Years 1 and 2

We are missing some Little Wandle reading books.

If your children have any that are not their current reading book, please could you return them.

Transition 2025

Coming soon.

Friday 11th July 2025

This week in Emerald Class we enjoyed pretending it was September. Year 2 visited their new class, Sapphire, and Year 1 pretended they were Year 2 in our classroom. We thought of what we wanted to achieve next year.

Percussion Super Stars!!!

Homework:

Year 1 Maths:

We have been thinking about ordering objects by how heavy they are. This week choose 5 objects in your house and put them in order from lightest to heaviest. 

Challenge: Can write some crazy comparison sentences:

 An elephant is heavier than a humpback whale.

 A feather is lighter than a ladybird.

Year 2 Maths:

Can you complete these questions:

Year 1 Phonics:

Year 2 spelling:

Friday 3rd July 2025

This week in Emerald Class we have been celebrating the success of Sports Day! We really enjoyed ourselves and have even written letters about our favourite activities. We have also had the privilege of watching the KS2 production of 'Dragon Days'! 

Homework:

Maths Year 1:

This week we have continued learning about coins. Take a look at the picture below. Count how many of each coin there are in the picture.

   

Maths Year 2:

This week we have been learning about 5-minute intervals. Take a look at the clocks below and record the time they show.

Year 1 Phonics:

Year 2 Spelling:

Friday 27th June 2025

 This week Emerald Class welcomed the CORAM Life Education Tent into the classroom. We loved being in the tent and learning about our mental wellbeing. We have had a busy week learning about Amelia Earhart and the history of flight. Next week we are looking forward to Sports Day!

Homework:

Maths Year 1:

This week we have been looking at coins more closely. Can you explain to someone at home what you know about the 1p coin, 2p coin, 5p coin, 10p coin and 20p coin. For example, you could draw it and write labels such as, round, bronze etc.

Maths Year 2: 

This week we have been revisiting time. Can you make a worksheet for your friends to complete in class that show different quarter past and quarter to times?

Year 1 Phonics:

Year 2 Spelling:

Friday 20th June 2025

Emerald Class have been shining as bright as the sun this week in their learning. Paper weaving, and creating music on the I Pads have kept us very busy this week. They have been writing their own ending to our fabulous book Journey. After setting free a magical bird, they find themselves trapped in a cage hanging above the world - what will they draw with their magic crayon to help them escape?! Their stories have led us to many magical places - well done Emerald Class!

Photos from this week:

 

Homework:

Year 1 Maths:

In the coming weeks we are going to be looking at the value of coins. Please could you look at different coins together, talk about their size and shape and maybe even draw them out. Which are big and which are small?

Year 2 Maths:

This week we have been consolidating our knowledge of the 4 operations - addition, subtraction, division and multiplication. For homework can you solve these:

 

Year 1 Phonics:

Year 2 spelling:

 

Friday 13th June 2025

Emerald class had an amazing time using music composition to play practice drums on Monday. The patterns were very complicated but they all shone! Well done Emerald Class! 

Homework:

Maths Year 1:

Year 1 have been looking at sharing objects into groups in preparation for multiplication and division facts.

This week please find sets of objects and practice sharing them into groups. E.G. 12 peas shared on to 3 plates, 10 chocolate buttons shared between 5 friends.

Maths Year 2:

This week Year 2 have been reading scales to explore measures. Can you write the temperature of each of these thermometers and then write them in order from coldest to hottest.

Phonics and Spelling Year 1 and 2:

Have a go at practising your common exception words this week at home. You could:

Ask someone to test you on some of them, write them out with coloured pencils, write them on cards and play pairs, make sentences with them. 

Year 1:                                                                                        Year 2:

 

Friday 6th June 2025

Emerald Class have had a busy first week back! In RE, we have been thinking about all the communities we belong to and how it feels to belong. It was lovely to hear everyone share all the amazing clubs and groups that they enjoy being a part of, including our own Kingswood Primary School.

Homework:

Maths Year 1:

Doubling numbers! 

This week we started to look at doubling numbers. We know that doubling means having 'two lots' of something so we can use addition. Double 3 = 3 + 3 = 6

Uisng a dice, roll the dice and double the number it lands on. 

You could make it more challenging by using 2 dice and adding the total together and then doubling that number. E.G. 5 + 2 = 7. Now find double 7. Double 7 = 7 + 7 = 14 

There is an interactive dice tool at Topmarks Maths website - rolling dice - Topmarks Search 

Maths Year 2:

This week Yr 2 have been investigating capacity (the maximum amount a container can hold) and volume (the amount that a container is currently holding) using millilitres (ml).

1. How many millilitres (ml) are there in a litre (l)?

2. Create a list of containers in your house that have a capacity of less than 1 litre. Include what the capacity of each container is. E.G. Can of lemonade: 330ml, Mini shampoo bottle 50ml.

Year 1 Phonics Homework:

1. Put the sound buttons in for each of these words.

2. Read the words.

      

Year 2 Spelling

   

Friday 23rd May 2025

 Emerald class made the most amazing music on Monday in their Samba lesson. They had experience of a range of instruments and learnt some new technical vocabulary. On Friday, FGR came in to talk about their eco- friendly club, and we were challenged to design our own stadiums in workshops.

Photos from this week:

             

Maths Homework

Year 1:

This week we have been subtracting a single digit from 20. Use counters, buttons or objects to solve these problems:

 a. 20 - 9 =          b. 20 - 8 =           c. 20 - 7 =         d. 20 - 6 =           e. 20 - 5 =            f. 20 - 4 =

Challenge:

 20 people got on a bus at Kingswood, 5 people got off of the bus at Thornbury. How many people are left on the bus?

Can you write your own subtraction problem like mine?

Year 2:

Solve the equations below. You can use objects or a number-line to help you count.

Challenge:

 Year 1 Phonics:

Year 2 Spelling

Phonics screening check info:

 

Friday 16th May 2025

Emerald Class have had another busy week. We had a great time at Forset School and have continued to build on our knowledge of insects. We have been using our ball skills to think about how to adapt in invasion games. What a great week!

Maths Homework Year 1:

 For this weeks homework you will need a dice. Start with 9. Roll the dice and add on the number it shows. E.G.     9 + 3 =            9 + 4 =

Maths Homework Year 2:

Mrs Kerry thinks that when you count up in steps of 3, starting at 3, the numbers you say are odd - even - odd - even - odd -

Is she right? Show your evidence by writing out the numbers and showing whether they are odd or even.

Challenge:

Using a ball and tub/ basket - see how many times you can get the ball inside the basket. Every time you get it into the basket you score 3 points. Can you get to a score of 30?!

Year 1 Phonics:

Year 2 Spelling:

Friday 9th May 2025

The children had a fabulous time at the Multi-Sports event this week at KLB! We are so proud of each of them! Make sure to take a look at our VE DAY 80 bunting in the window.

Maths Homework

Year 1:

This week we have been looking at sequencing events in chronological order. Can you put these pictures in the correct order? Create your own example, such as making a sandwich or your bedtime routine.

Year 2:

Finding Change from £1 (100p)

Take a look at the shopping list:

 Some children go to the shop and pay with a £1 coin. 

a. Jed buys a bouncy ball. How much change does he get? £1 - 30p = 100 - 30 = 

b. Tom buys a small chocolate bar, How much change does he get? 

c. Kate buys a pencil and a sticker sheet. How much change does she get? 15 + 25 = ___  then 100 - __ =

d. Sal buys a bouncy ball and a rubber. How much change does she get?

e, Which 2 items would you buy? How much change would you get if you pay with a £1 coin?

Year 1 Phonics:

Year 2 Spelling:

Friday 2nd May 2025

Welcome back everybody! It has been a wonderful sunny week at Kingswood Primary. In Emerald Class we have started looking at the marvellous world of minibeast habitats in Science and in English. We had our first Samba music lesson and have enjoyed learning all about the United Kingdom - we have been VERY busy! 

Homework:

Year 1 Maths:

We have been telling the time to o'clock and half past the hour. This week at home, practise telling the time to o'clock and half past the hour. You could make or draw your own clock to practise with. Remember the hour hand and the minute hand!

Year 2 Maths:

This week we have been identifying coins and adding amounts of money up to £1. For homework, can you create a shopping list of 10 items? Give them each a price under £1 and then practise buying 2 items at a time. For example, you may have an apricot for 15p and an avocado for 53p on your list. 15p + 53p = 68p.

As an extra challenge, you could use coins to make the amount:: 68p

        

Year 1 Phonics homework:

Year 2 Spelling:

^{Friday 11th April 2025}

We have had a busy and exciting term. We ended this week with a visit to the Abbey Gatehouse. We were able to go inside for our Local History project with the help of Mrs Copeland's BIG key! As historians, we used our noticing skills to look for historical features. We asked lots of questions! Well done to everyone for working so hard this term!

Photographs of this week:

         

Maths Homework:

Year 1 Maths:

We have been learning the days of the week and the months of the year. For your homework please choose one of the tasks below or you can do both.

1. Days of the week. 

Create a diary of what you do each day - it could be what your weekly routine is, EG. On Saturday I go swimming.

2. Months of the year

Create a one-page calendar of the year - for each month think about what season it is and what you know about that month - birthdays/ festivals/ special occasions.

Remember to keep working on your number-knowledge of numbers to 20. Choose a number and see how many ways you can make it. E.g. 15 = 10 + 5, 15 = 9 + 6 etc.

Year 2 Maths:

This term we have been looking at time.  For your homework please choose one of the tasks below or you can do both:

1. Make or design your own clock with a moving minute and hour hand. Ask someone to give you a time and show it on the clock.

2. Make a 'time worksheet' for your friends to complete in class. You will need to draw multiple clocks on a sheet with hour and minute hands telling a time. When we return to School, you can challenge your friends to find the time on your clocks. Remember to create an answer sheet to check their answers!

Remember to keep practising your coin knowledge and how to add coins together. E.G: £2 + £3 or 50p + 50p.

Year 1 phonics:

Year 2 spelling:

Please practise reading and spelling these common exception words:

 

Friday 4th April 2025

This week we have been busy bees, searching out patterns in nature through Art and exploring pointillism in Computing! Forest School was just as magical this week too! 

A snapshot of this week!

                

Maths Homework:

Year 1:

 20 - How many ways can you find to make 20 using 2 numbers? To help you, you could find 20 objects and split them in two. E.g. 20 twigs could be split into 15 twigs and 5 twigs. 

Year 2: 

 Telling the time. Find a clock to practise telling the time with. Find  ___ o'clock, half past  ___, quarter past ____ and quarter to ____. You could even make a clock to practise with.

  

Phonics Homework Year 1:

 Year 2 Spelling:

 Adding -es if the word ends in z, x, s, sh, zz, ss, ch, sh

Can you add an s or es to these words:

 buzz         push       glass       duck      ring        watch     mix       tick      bell      rush     brick     rich

Friday 28th March 2025

Forest School on Monday was AMAZING! We enjoyed building a den for an animal, having a snack at Base Camp and being in the fresh air! Same again this Monday! 

Maths Homework:

Year 1:

Subtracting from 19. Solve these problems:

 19 - 9 =          19 - 8 =         19 - 7 =         19 - 6 =        19 - 5 =         19 - 4 =          19 - 3 =

Position and Direction Challenge: Can you create an obstacle course for a toy or family member and guide them around it using positional and directional language, such as forward 3 steps and half turn to the right.

Year 2 Maths:

 We have been learning to tell the time to quarter to the hour and quarter past the hour. Can you write the times for these clocks?

Time Challenge: Can you try and create a diary/ list of when you do the following things? Getting up, breakfast, lunch, dinner, playing any games or sports, bath time, bed time? Do you do any at quarter past the hour? 

E.G. Mrs Kerry's Day: Quarter past 6 - Get up, half past 6 breakfast, quarter to 7 brush teeth and get dressed, quarter past 7 leave for Nursery and School.......

^{Year 1 Phonics:}

Year 2 spellings:

 Spelling rule: Use ck to protect the short vowel sound:

rock, duck, pluck, stuck, truck, struck, brick, flick, crack

road, groan, drain, brain

 

Friday 21st March 2025

This week we have been learning about washing a woolly mammoth, thinking about the Easter story and chopping carrots! What an exciting week we have had!

Some pictures of our week: 

    

Maths Homework:

Year 1:

This week we have been subtracting from 18.

Can you solve these problems? Use counters, pencils or other resources to help you.

18 - 8 =          18 - 7 =            18 - 6 =             18 - 5 =             18 - 4 =               18 - 3 =                  18 - 2 =     

 

Year 2:

This week we have been looking at 2/4 of amounts and shapes.

Can you find 3/4 of these numbers:

12               16                  8                20

You could find each number of objects and sort them into 4 dishes   and then count how many are in 2 of your dishes as that would be 2/4.

Year 1 phonics:

Year 2 Spellings:

Friday 14th March 2025

This week Emerald Class have been so busy! We have been investigating waterproofing in Science, looking at Katherine Lady Berkeley in History, celebrating International Women's Day and building our own Sukkah (temporary shelters used during Sukkot) in RE.

             

 

Maths Homework:

Year 1:

Look at this picture:

Can you describe the position of the different objects? E.G. The boy is next to the snowman.

Use the words: next to, under, on top, left, right, behind, in front of etc...

Year 2 Maths:

Finding a third

This week we have been finding a third of different shapes and a third of an amount.

1. Create a cake shape (draw/paper plate template/ baking with a grown-up) 

2. Choose some topping to go on top of your cake (cherries etc)

3. Share your decorations into each third so that there is an equal amount on each side. (If you had 6 cherries, each third would have 2)

Year 1 Phonics 

Year 2 Spelling:

Friday 7th March 2025

What an amazing week we have had! We met a Big Bad Pig, designed our own Sukkahs and really enjoyed the sunshine at playtime!

Maths Homework:

Year 1:

Finding a quarter. This week we have been finding a quarter of shapes and amounts. Can you find shapes in your house to draw around, separate them into quarters and then colour in one quarter of each shape?  E.G.

 

Year 2:

This week we have been building the tens times table. Can you show your learning? You could count in steps of 10 from 0 to show your grown ups or  write out your 10 times table in your book.

Challenge:

Cookies are sold in bags of 10.

Sammy buys 5 bags. How many cookies does he have?

Year 1 Phonics Homework:

Year 2 Spellings:

Friday 28th February 2025

Welcome back everyone! Emerald Class have been out to visit the Abbey Gatehouse this week for Art and History. We used our observational skills to study the shapes for art and then our noticing skills to compare an historical picture of the Gatehouse and the Gatehouse today. Mrs Copeland treated us to a look at a very intriguing key....

Maths Homework

Year 1: 

Finding a half

This week we have been finding half of  different shapes and half of an amount.

1. Create a pizza shape (draw/paper plate template/ pizza dough ) 

2. Choose some topping to go on top (mushrooms etc)

3. Share your toppings into each half so that there is an equal amount on each side. (If you had 4 mushrooms, each half would have 2)

  

Year 2

The 2 x table

Practise counting in steps of 2 from 0. You could write out your 2 x table in your book.

Odd and even numbers challenge:

Write out the odd and even numbers to 12.

Mrs Kerry says 'If you add two odd numbers together you will always get an even answer'. Is she correct? Can you prove it? E.g. 5 + 3 = 8   (odd + odd = even)

Year 1 Phonics:

Year 2 Spellings:

Fun Homework for this Term:

 

Friday 7th February 2025

Our classroom has been 'rocking out' to We Wanna Play in a Band' this week, and we have even composed our own music!

  

   

   

Maths Homework

Year 1: 

Ordering and comparing lengths

Find a selection of objects (twigs, pencils, spoons, people, dolls, toys etc) and put them in the correct order - shortest to longest or longest to shortest. Try saying sentences out loud that involve this vocabulary: shortest, longest, longer than, shorter than.  

Year 2

Position and direction

Create a map for a toy to move around on? Use positional language: forward, quarter turn, half turn, full turn, right, left to guide your toy around your map. 

Year 1 Phonics:

Year 2 Spellings for this week:

They are the same as last week - can you use them in a sentence?

Friday 31st January 2025

      

We had tasty 'porridgey' fun this week, choosing our own toppings and writing a mini review! After completing our 'Circus Big Top' dance, we have begun to imagine the rainforest and how we might move like a river through it to create a sequence of movements.

Maths Homework

Year 1:

Explore the number 15. Can you find 15 objects and then split them into two groups/ parts. Are you able to write the addition to match? E.G. 15 pebbles could be split into 7 and 8. 7 + 8 = 15

Year 2:

Can you write the multiplication sentence to match these arrays? 

                     

       5 x 3 = 15

Phonics Year 1:

Spelling Year 2:

Friday 24th January 2025

This week the children have had great fun exploring the seasons in Science. They have also created a fabulous Circus Dance in PE - they make very expressive Ring Masters and clowns!

Maths Homework

Year 1:

Explore the number 14. Can you find 14 objects and then split them into two groups/ parts. Are you able to write the addition equation to match? E.G. 14 pebbles could be split into 7 and 7. 7 + 7 = 14

Year 2:

Can you find 3D shapes around your home, draw them and record how many edges (sides), faces and vertices (corners) they have. Try to find at least 3.

Year 1 Phonics:

Year 2 Spelling

Friday 17th January 2025

This week we have written letters to the Ruby, Sapphire and Amethyst Classes to ask them about a magical child we met in our Class Book. We then went and read them aloud to the classes to collect information - everyone read with amazing confidence! Our Reading Breakfast was also so much fun! Thank you to those grown-ups that were able to join us!

Maths Homework:

Please continue practising counting forwards and backwards within 100, starting from any number. Also,

Year 1:

Find 12 different objects at home or in the garden and find ways to make and break 12 e.g. 2 teddy bears + 10 pencils = 12

Year 2:

Complete these:

26 - 10 =                             36 - 10 =

46 - 20 =                             56 - 10 =

43 - 30 =                              53 - 30 =

62 - 20 =                             62 - 40 =

 

 

Friday 10th January 2025

What an exciting start to our term we have had! We have been exploring the season of Winter through our new book, Winter's Child by Angela Mcallister. We even learnt that Winter in French is l'hiver.

The new fun homework grid is in the 'Homework' section of our Class page.

Maths Homework:

Please continue practising counting forwards and backwards within 100, starting from any number. Also,

Year 1:

 Find 10 different objects at home and find ways to make and break 10 e.g. 2 teddy bears + 8 pencils = 10

Year 2:

Complete these maths questions:

36 - 4 =                              27 - 7 =

44 - 5 =                              62 - 3 =

39 - 10 =                            55 - 30 =

 

Happy New Year!

Welcome back to Emerald Class! We hope you've had a lovely break.

We're excited to see you all tomorrow (Tuesday) and hear what you've all got up to over the last couple of weeks.

Mrs Scott and Mrs Kerry 🙂

Friday 13th December

Wow, what a busy but joyful few weeks we have had, being at the panto last week and doing our own Nativity this week! We have also learnt about how Christmas is celebrated in different countries. 

Our talk about how Christmas is celebrated in Germany: 

Our Nativity:

Have a lovely weekend!

Friday 29th November

We have had a brilliant and busy week. We had 'Our World Week', as well as going to Westgreen nursing home yesterday.

This week's Maths homework:

Year 1: I would like the children to practise putting numbers in order from smallest to greatest. (39, 21, 87 - 56, 49, 99 - 82, 38, 62, 16 - 19, 90, 39, 30)

Year 2: I would like the children to practise measuring objects or rooms in centimetres and metres.

We have had great fun in maths this week measuring how wide the playground is in metres. 

We also did very well in our assembly about 'Our World Week', we said some words in Afrikaans and we sang Frere Jacques.

Have a lovely weekend!

Miss Dovaston and Mrs Scott

Thursday 21st November

Another lovely but chilly week in Emerald Class with the added excitement of snow!

This week, the children have particularly enjoyed painting Piet Mondrian-inspired artwork using primary colours.

In Science, we are going to be learning about humans. In particular, we will be looking at adults and their offspring. Therefore, if you could email the Office or send in a photo of your child and their family for us to share in class and look at, that would be a lovely addition to our lessons, thank you.

Maths Homework:

Please continue practising counting forwards and backwards as set previously. Also,

Year 1: Practise partitioning 2-digit numbers into tens and ones.

For example, 23 can be partitioned into 20 (2 tens) and 3 (3 ones); 47 can be partitioned into 40 (4 tens) and 7 (7 ones).

Year 2: Practise reading scales.

For example, the children could help with some cooking, weighing out different ingredients and reading the scales to say what number it is showing or they could look at the different scales around the house, weighing objects and reading what they weigh. In class, we focused on reading scales with jumps of 1s, 2s, 5s and 10s and weighing the mass of an object in grams.

We hope you have a wonderful weekend!

Mrs Scott and Miss Dovaston

Friday 15th November 2024

 The children had great fun making their fruit salads, they were cutting up their own fruit to put in the fruit salad.

This week's maths homework:

Year 1 - I would like the children to write numbers up to 100, but in jumps of 10 (10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100)

Year 2 - I would like the children to write numbers from 10 to 20 partitioned, can they please write the answers in numerals and words. (ten and one equal 11, eleven)

Have a lovely weekend!

Miss Dovaston and Mrs Scott

Friday 8th November 2024

We have had a lovely first week back at school. 

Attached at the bottom of the class page is the homework fun grid and this terms knowledge organiser.

This weeks maths homework:

Year 1 - What 3D shapes can you find around your house? Can you please draw them on a piece of paper or in your maths homework book?

Year 2 - Can you list how many corners/ vertices, edges and faces a cube, cuboid, sphere and cone have got?

Hope you all have a lovely weekend.

Miss Dovaston and Mrs Scott

Friday 25th October 2024

We have had a brilliant first term back at school.

The children built habitats for the woodland creatures and hit pegs into pumpkins at forest school.

I hope everyone has a restful break, ready to come back for another busy term, when we get all nativity ready.

Miss Dovaston and Mrs Scott

Friday 18th October 2024

What a super week we have all had.

Homework this week:

Year 1: I would like the children to come up with 3 addition problems and write them in their maths books (I had 3 apples, I was given 4 more, how many do I have altogether?)

Year 2: I would like the children to practise adding 2-digit numbers using the methods we have practised this week (partitioning and recombining, rounding to the nearest 10 and counting in 10s and then the ones). 63+29, 45+34, 36+49, 54+25 and 26+29.

Monday 14th October 2024

Emerald Class had a wonderful time at Forest School this morning. An excellent way to start the week!

I have sent home an A3 sheet with different codes from our phonics lessons as a way to keep revising previous codes. The children should point at and say the sounds that each code makes. This homework is ongoing, so the sheets will not be replaced until we move onto a different phonics book.

Also, I have sent home some maths homework that relates back to their Numbersense lessons in school. The sheet has different activities that you can try at home to support this learning.

Friday 4th October 2024

We have had a brilliant week.

The children thoroughly enjoyed doing the 10K run today to raise money for Read With Me, and we have been practising ready for Harvest Festival next week.

Homework this week:

Please can everyone practise their line/s for the harvest festival.

Year 1: Please can you draw a picture of as many things as you can that is a rectangle around your house, into your maths homework book.

Year 2: In their Maths books please can the children write all of the doubles and near doubles to 10. (A near double would be 5+4 or 5+6, because they are a near double to 5+5)

The children have had great fun learning how to move around in different ways in PE this week, ensuring they use different parts of their bodies. 

Hope you all have a lovely weekend!

Friday 27th September 2024

We have had another lovely week at school.

The Maths homework this week:

Year 1: please can you draw a picture of as many things as you can that is a circle or triangle around your house.

Year 2: please can you practise counting in 10's to 100.

We have had a super afternoon drawing our harvest pictures.

Have a great weekend!

Friday 20th September 2024

We have had a super week.

Emerald Class have enjoyed exploring different puppets as part of their D&T.

The maths homework this week:

Year 1: Please can you practise counting to 30.

Year 2: Please can you practise counting forwards and backwards in 1's and 2's to 20. 

Hope you have a lovely weekend!

Notes:

Tuesdays and Thursdays are P.E.

Friday 13th September 2024

What a lovely week we have all had. 

The Maths homework for this week is: 

Year 1 - to go on a 2D shape hunt around the house. How many different shapes can they find?

Year 2 - Can they write the numbers 1 to 10 in their maths homework books, in numerals and words.

Hope you have a lovely weekend!

Miss Dovaston and Mrs Scott

Friday 6th September 2024

We have had a fantastic start back to the school year.

I have uploaded the Homework Fun Grid and Knowledge Organiser for this term to this page. 

Have a brilliant weekend and we look forward to welcoming the children back recharged on Monday!

Miss Dovaston and Mrs Scott