Welcome to Sennen Class

Teachers
                             

                     Hannah Trinder   (Monday - Thursday)     &            Catie Sleight (Friday)
                          (htrinder@stithians.cornwall.sch.uk)                  (csleight@stithians.cornwall.sch.uk)

       Support Staff

Becki Brush                                              (Every Morning and Tuesday and Thursday all day)

 We are also supported in the afternoons by:

                                       Adele Zschiesche                                 Katie Manley                                      Deborah Smith

                                       (Monday afternoon)                          (Wednesday afternoon)                     (Friday afternoon)

Class Information

Sennen class is a home to learning and fun for Year 2 children. Our committed team work with the children to promote our strong belief that learning should be exciting and varied. Sennen Class is taught by Mrs Trinder from Monday to Thursday and Mrs Sleight on a Friday.

Welcome to our webpage where you will be able to find out information about Sennen and see some of the learning that we have been doing. Remember to check our class dojo for daily updates and photos from the classroom!

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SENNEN SUPERSTARS  

Each week we celebrate the achievements of class members who have displayed a particular virtue or have stood out as shining examples to their classmates:

Here is the Learning Map for Sennen Class Spring 1

Please click on the links to see the information

Autumn 2 Learning Map

Autumn 1 Learning Map

Parent Letter Autumn 2

Phonics at School

At Stithians CP School we follow the Bugs Club Phonics scheme. 

Supporting Phonics at Home

The following three videos show the correct pronunciation for all the letter sounds in phases 2, 3, and 5. 

If you would like further advice, about how you can help your child with their phonics at home, then please pop in to see me. 

                                    Phase 3 Sounds

                                    Phase 5 Sounds

                                        Websites

Friday 10th January

Happy New Year Everyone! This week has flown by. The children have been very excited sharing their holiday news and bringing in some of their new presents or telling us about their adventures. In Literacy this week, we have been revising how to write a sentence, remembering the steps needed. Then we have added verbs and adjectives to make our sentences even more exciting. In maths this week, we have looked at adding two-digit numbers, moving onto exchanging ten ones for a ten. The children had great fun taking it in turns to teach each other the steps to solve the addition problems. We have started our new topic 'Going on Safari'. Using a world map we have revised the continents and found Kenya. We have also looked at different animals and habitats that can be found in this country. We are looking forward to going on safari on Wednesday ( a letter has been sent home and the information is on dojo). WE had a gentle PE session on Tuesday afternoon working on some animal yoga poses. Great work Sennen!

Friday 13th December

 Well Christmas excitement has been huge in Sennen Class this week, we have continued to read the Christmasaurus, which the class are really enjoying. The children have been working hard on their parts for the Nativity 'A Miracle in Town' and we are looking forward to welcoming you all on Monday and Tuesday.

In class we have been making Christmas Party Hats and in Maths we have been finding numbers that are 1 more/less than and 10 more/less than by using a 100 square and base 10 to help us. We had a lovely Christingle assembly on Tuesday and on Thursday we started the day off with the Jumper Jamboree assembly led by Mr Smith. The children enjoyed showing us their jumpers on stage. The children have all worked hard learning lots of words for songs and we have been busy making things to sell at the Christmas Fayre next Wednesday.

Thank you for all of your contributions to the class hamper, we are now selling tickets to win the contents. Good Luck!

Friday 6th December

Friday 22nd November

What a busy week Sennen have had, we even had some snow on Thursday! In literacy this week we have been busy with our Wombat stories. We have written sentences to describe the forest, mountains and the forest fire. The children have thought about the animal's feelings and what they might do when a fire appears. In maths this week, we have been busy recalling number
bonds to 10 and using this knowledge to jump up to the next 10 when adding. We have used number lines to check addition, and the class have played hit the button to find pairs to 10. Well done to all those children who have been practising at home.

For our topic lesson we found out about Alexander Graham Bell and his invention of the telephone. The children had great fun looking at how the telephone has developed over the years and tried putting different telephones onto a timeline. In RE this week we have discussed different celebrations and drawn our favourite celebration. We have also started learning our songs ready for our Nativity Play! Next week, the children will come home with their parts. More information to follow.

Friday 15th November

 This week in Sennen we have been really busy with comparing numbers. We have found out the difference between two number, using a number line, bar model and tens frame. On Thursday we had a practical session creating pictograms and answered questions about our findings. 'Cat' was the most popular animal by far! In Literacy, we have continued writing our wombat story. We have written descriptive sentences and tried using alliteration to describe emu's movements.

In topic this week we have found out about Morse code as a way of communicating. The children had lots of fun working out different words. We have also found out about William Caxton bringing the first printing press to England and the impact it had with increasing the speed of messages and the written word. Great team work happened in PE this week with Mr Potts and it was a cold afternoon for team games. A reminder that you can send in an extra fleece or jumper for those cold days!

Friday 8th November 2024

Sennen have been super busy this week starting the week off with discussing fireworks which also involved lots of glitter (apologies if you now have lots at home!). In Literacy this week we have started writing our Wombat Goes Walkabout story. We have described the setting, thought about Wombat's feelings and used adjectives to describe a Kookaburra after watching a clip showing how noisy they are. We were lucky to have Tilly's mum sharing an Australian story with the class on Thursday called Wombat Stew.

In maths we have been adding and subtracting numbers to cross the tens boundary. The class have used tens frames, number lines and their knowledge of number bonds to 10 to help them to solve different problems.

For our topic this week we found out about Ancient Egyptian writing and had a go writing our names in hieroglyphics. In science this week, we explored the five stages of the human life cycle and put these into the correct order. In music, we began learning a Kenyan song called 'Jambo Bwana' and used our bodies to make simple percussive rhythms, and in French we discovered how to say the names of different colours. 

Friday 25th October 2024

Well Sennen have had a very busy time this week and three different teachers. They have all
been fantastic with the changes and really eager to work hard especially on Thursday morning
when there were a few tired faces after the Halloween Disco!

This week we have read “The Koala Who Could” and sequenced the events in the story. We discussed new things we would like to try to learn or do and how we sometimes need to be brave to take those steps. We have been very creative drawing Koala bears and on Thursday we made our own Autumn windows which will look lovely in front of an actual window. In maths we have recapped number bonds to 10 and represented numbers up to 50 using base 10 and Numicon. In Science we have finished our unit by focusing on hygiene. We conducted an experiment using pepper as germs to see what happened when we dipped a non soapy and soapy finger into the water. We have spent time rehearsing for the Harvest Assembly and we are sure you will agree what a fantastic job the children did performing their Harvest Rap!

Wishing you all a very happy half term break.