Summer 1 - Week 1

As a part of our English learning, we had a mysterious egg turn up in the classroom. Inside was a dragon and a letter explaining that we will be writing leaflets all about these legendary beasts! To finish our lesson, we had a go at drawing a dragon. Take a look at our pictures below.

Spring 2 - Week 6

Today (4th April) we had our DT afternoon where we enjoyed making our fabulous litter picker levers. Thank you so much to the adults who came in to help us. The children thoroughly enjoyed it and made some fantastic litter pickers!

Spring 2 - Week 5

In Science this week, we have been learning about metamorphosis. We created the life cycle of a butterfly out of play dough :) 

Spring 2 Week 4

Using our new map skills we followed a route from school, round the green, along the path near the skate park, down Levens Way and back to school. We spotted important sites along the way e.g. Village Hall, Doctors, Busy Bees, Prince Louis. 

Spring 2 - Week 4

In RE this week, we learnt about the Easter Story. Take a look at the Easter cards we created linked to our learning.

Spring 2 - Week 3

In DT, we have been learning about levers. This week, we completed a practical lesson, making a practise crocodile lever. We are looking forward to you joining us in a few weeks time to create litter picker levers with us! 

World Book Day

Thank you to everyone at home who supported the children in coming in dressed up today. They all look fabulous! :)

Spring 2 - Week 2

Over the last couple of weeks we have been learning to persuade. This week, we have created our own persuasive posters, trying to convince other children in the school to dress up as certain characters for World Book Day. Take a look at some of our persuasive writing…

Spring 2 - Week 1

Our focus in Guided Reading over the next 2 weeks is a non-fiction text all about the life cycle of a frog. Today, we started by brainstorming everything we know about frogs. We then had a go at drawing our own! Have a look at some of them below :) 

Spring 1 - Week 6

In Music, we have been learning the names of different instruments. This week, we had a go at playing them. We investigated which was the loudest and which was the quietest. We also answered questions such as...

Which instrument makes the scariest sound?

Which instrument would be best to play twinkle twinkle little star?

Which instrument sounds like rain?

Spring 1 - Week 5

In PE we have been completing a unit on Dance. Our focus for the last couple of weeks has been learning a circus dance! The children have been amazing at pretending to be characters at the circus, as well as counting and keeping in time.

Have a look at our dance so far... 

Spring 1 - Week 4 - Great Fire of London Day!

Today was an exciting day learning all about The Great Fire of London. We started our morning making paper houses. We then used our art skills to create a silhouette of London with orange, red and yellow flames. After that, we learnt the song 'Great Fire of London: September 1666'. We split the class in half and sang it as a round. We finished our afternoon by going outside and burning our houses! We talked about how the fire spread quickly because the houses were close together and made from timber frames. We had lots of fun throughout the day and have learnt lots of exciting facts along the way.

Spring 1 - Week 3

In PSHE, we have been thinking about goals and how we can achieve them. Last week, we chose a goal/challenge set by Jigsaw Jo. We chose based on which one we thought we would enjoy and would be realistic for us to achieve.

Today, we had a go at achieving this goal.

Some of us were learning the numbers 1-10 in Mandarin.

Some of us were learning to count in French in 2s from 0-20.

Some of us were learning to do the Macarena dance.

We did a fantastic job, working as a team to learn these new skills. We performed them in front of the rest of the class 

Spring 1 - Week 2

As a part of our 'Take One Piece' focus this term, we have been looking at JMW Turner. This week, we recreated his piece 'Snow Storm'. We printed using paint and made our own little boats to complete the picture. Take a look at our recreations!

Spring 1 - Week 1

In English, we will be writing a losing story. We have been looking at the story of Traction Man who loses his trusty sidekick, Scrubbing Brush! Part of our learning was thinking about how different characters show their feelings. We acted out how Traction Man felt at different parts of the story.

Can you guess the different emotions from our pictures?
 

Autumn 2 - Week 6 - DT Day!

Today we had a DT day, which involved creating our own solid structures. We experimented with making strong and stable structures at the start of the day using blocks, Lego, cubes and plastic cups. We then learnt about the difference between natural and man-made structures. We finished the day by designing and making our own solid structures - bridges out of sugar cubes!

Autumn 2 - Week 6

In RE, we have been learning about Advent. Take a look at our Advent Wreaths!

Autumn 2 - Week 5

Take a look at our cards for the Christmas Card Campaign.

Autumn 2 - Week 5

In Maths, we have been looking at shape. We have been learning the names and properties of both 2D and 3D shapes. Today we had a go at comparing 3D shapes. We created a venn diagram using hoops and sorted 3D shapes based on their different properties. We had lots of fun doing this!

Autumn 2 - Week 4

In PSHE, we learnt about bullying and why it may happen. We read some different scenarios and decided whether they were examples of bullying or not.

During the lesson, we learnt that:

- It doesn't just happen once: it goes on over time and happens again and again.

- It is deliberate: hurting someone on purpose, not accidentally.

- It is unfair.

- It can happen as a result of someone being different to the bully.

We ended our lesson by writing down one word to describe how it might feel to be the person being bullied. We noticed that all of our words were very similar - they were all negative. 

Take a look at some of our words below...

Autumn 2 - Week 3

Over the last couple of weeks, we have been looking at a book called 'The Disgusting Sandwich' with the goal of writing instructions on how to make our very own disgusting sandwich! This week we have been writing our instructions; however, to do this, we had to make them! Take a look at our truly horrible sandwiches... 

Autumn 2 - Week 2

Odd Socks Day is an annual event that takes place to mark the start of Anti-Bullying Week. The day is a celebration of diversity, acceptance, and inclusion, and encourages people to wear mismatched socks to show that it's okay to be different. We talked about our differences and discussed the importance of being respectful. We then designed our own socks to highlight why we are unique. 

Autumn 2 - Week 1

This term, we have started a unit of Geography. We have started by looking at the United Kingdom and the four countries it is made up of. At home, you could test your children with these questions... 

What are the four countries that make up the United Kingdom?

Can you name their capital cities?

Autumn 1 - Week 8

In PE this term, we have been doing gymnastics. We have been learning about different jumps, rolls and balances. Today, we worked in pairs to do some partner balances. We persevered, even though some of them were very tricky!

Autumn 1 - Week 7

Today in Science we learnt about John McAdam and investigated how to build the strongest road. We had 3 ingredients to use: chocolate, raisins and biscuits. Using these ingredients, we then made three different roads:

• Chocolate
• Chocolate and biscuits
• Chocolate, biscuits and raisins

We predicted which road was the strongest and then tested the strength of our roads using weights. Which road do you think was the strongest?!

Autumn 1 - Week 6

As a school, we complete an Art challenge called 'Take One Piece'. This is where we look at a particular artist and each class creates a piece of art work inspired by them. Take a look at the pieces we created inspired by Franz Marc!

Autumn 1 - Week 5

We have been looking at the story of Mr Benn in English. We are going to be writing our own versions of the story, choosing a new costume and adventure! Last Friday, we designed and created our new Mr Benn costumes. This week, we have been writing statements about them.

Autumn 1 - Week 4

This week, Year 2 worked collaboratively with Year 5 to create a 3D display inspired by the book ‘Colour Monster’. Each child worked as part of a small group to create a 3D sculpture of a different colour monster. Our job was to to do the building at the beginning of the day!

Autumn 1 - Week 3

In Science, we have been learning about materials. Today we compared the strength of four different materials - paper, card, wood and tin foil. We did this by working in teams to build bridges. Once we had finished building them, we tested them by balancing cubes on top. All of our bridges were strong enough to hold the whole tray of cubes!

Autumn 1 - Week 2

Our unit in Art this term is 'Collectors and Explorers'. Last week, we looked at different artists who find inspiration from the world around them. They collect objects from the natural environment and turn them into art. This week, we did this ourselves. We took a trip down to Forest School to collect sticks, leaves, flowers and stones. The children came back and worked in pairs to create their own pattern. Take a look at what they made!

Autumn 1 - Week 1 

We had a great first day and all the children settled well into their new classroom. This afternoon we looked at the Zones of Regulation. We talked about all of our different feelings and times we have felt Blue, Green, Red or Yellow. We then sorted the feelings into the zones. We talked about ways to make us feel calm and how to “get back to the green zone”.