Giraffes
Welcome to Giraffes!
Class Teacher: Miss Fulford
Teaching Assistant: Miss Longstaff (Works Mon-Fri AM and teaches Giraffes Mon PM)
Student Teacher: Miss Beveridge
Weekly Updates
General Information
Spellings
We aim to practice a range of spellings from the year 1/2 common exception word list twice a week to support the children within their writing. Our next spelling test is on Monday 20th October and the spellings are:
after - again - any - bath - beautiful - because - behind - both
Home Readers
When you read with your child at home, please write a comment to that effect (or just your initials) in the school planner. Please try and read with your child each day, even if it’s only a couple of pages or for a few minutes, every little helps. We will aim to read with your child at least once a week in school. If your child needs a new book during the week, they can pass their book and planner to a member of Giraffes staff who will change it for them.
P.E. Days
Giraffes will be doing PE on a Tuesday.
Please ensure your child comes dressed in their PE kits every Tuesday, with any earrings taken out and hair tied back.
Show and Tell
Children are welcome to bring in an interesting item for show and tell on the following Fridays for this half term:
Tigers: 5.9.25 & 10.10.25
Leopards: 12.9.25 & 17.10.25
Rhinos: 19.9.25 & 23.10.25
Lions: 26.9.25 & 7.11.25
Zebras: 3.10.25 & 14.11.25
Exciting Learning Websites
Below are some exciting websites where you can practise your writing and maths skills.
Our Learning Pictures
In Computing, the Giraffes have been exploring how to take good-quality photos by changing the amount of light in the room.
Brilliant balancing this week!
The Mellors team kindly visited us to give us a taste of some super smoothies - are you team mango or team berry?!
The Giraffes loved collecting autumnal objects this morning, ready for our poetry writing later this week.
How lucky are we! North Yorkshire arranged for our school to be part of the cycling roadshow and we got to test out lots of really cool bikes and tricycles.
Flexible partitioning can be tough, but nothing stops these superstars! Challenge your year 2 children by asking them to make numbers to 100 using household objects.
Oh dear - our colouring crayons have QUIT! Hopefully, with some superb letter-writing and wanted posters, they will return ASAP....
The Giraffes are loving their new Science topic, Animals including Humans. In week 2, they created a venn-diagram to showcase their knowledge about life cycles.
In their first week the Giraffes have carried on the annual Oatlands tradition of creating their own self-portrait, have been introduced to Jigsaw Jo and created superb place value pictures. What a joy it has been to see so many happy, settled children in their first few days! Keep up the fabulous work, Giraffes!