Summer 1 - Week 2

In PE, Wolf class have been working on their under arm throws and tracking a ball. 

Summer 1 - Week 1

This week has been an exciting week for Wolf class as a mysterious egg arrived in the class. The children asked questions about the egg and then discovered what was inside! Inside was a dragon and a letter from the Keeper of Dragons. The children have been tasked with creating a leaflet all about dragons. They then followed a set of instructions to draw a picture of a dragon. 

Spring 2 Week 6

Today 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 we have been describing the lifecycle of a butterfly using the words: egg, transformation, larva, caterpillar, metamorphosis, pupa and chrysalis. We then created a model of the lifecycle of a butterfly using playdough. 

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 3

In Maths this week, we have been talking about weight. We thought about when we might need to weigh objects using scales and discussed the terms 'heavier' and 'lighter'. We have used balance scales to compare different objects. We then measured the mass of different objects using cubes. 

Spring 2 - Week 2 

We had a wonderful day for World Book Day! Thank you for the brilliant costumes! This week we have been learning about persuasive writing and have written our own posters trying to persuade the children and adults in school to dress as a certain character for World Book Day. 

Spring 2 - Week 1

In PE this week, the children worked on throwing the ball accurately towards a target. 

In Maths, the children have been working on their times tables. They enjoyed playing board games that helped them practice their times tables. 

Week 6 - Fire Shape Poems

In English, we wrote shape poems based on The Great Fire of London. 

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 Term - Week 3 

In History this week we have been making comparisons between London in the past and London now.  We explored buildings, transport, people and streets and sorted photos out into the right columns.  We then added extra vocabularly and then recorded our Golden Sentences in our books.  

Spring Term - Week 2

In Computing this week, we have been using the program '2Go' on Purple Mash. We have learnt how to program using a sequence of commands. We enjoyed challenging ourselves by navigating our avatars through the maze. 

Spring Term - Week 1

In Art this week we have introduced our new topic - Exploring the world through mono printing.  The children enjoyed drawing images/ stills from a nature film, focusing on the close looking observations.  

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 5

In PSHE this week, we have been discussing standing up for ourselves and others. We were all given scenario cards. As a group, we had to create a freeze frame for the rest of the class. We had to consider: What do you think is happening in this scene? What could the person who is being bullied or hurt do in the situation? What do you think the other person could do?

Autumn 2 - Week 4

Katie from Notley Family of Churches told us about the Nativity story. We asked lots of questions and talked about how it doesn't matter if we believe different things about Jesus and the Nativity. 

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 

In Computing today, we started looking at identity online. We looked at avatars and how people use avatars to represent themselves online. We talked about how we don't know who we are truly talking to when looking at an avatar. We then created our own avatar and played a game to guess who each avatar belongs to. 

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 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?!

In Art, we are focusing on a piece of called 'The Tiger' by Franz Marc.  We created a background for our own animal work using oil pastels.  

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. Take a look at our final creations!

Autumn 1 - Week 3 

In Science this week we looked at the strength of different materials and how suitable they would be to make a structure. We looked at wood, paper, cardboard and metal. We then designed and constructed bridges in teams and tested their strength. All our bridges held the weights and our monkey teddy!In Science this week we looked at the strength of different materials and how suitable they would be to make a structure. We looked at wood, paper, cardboard and metal. We then designed and constructed bridges in teams and tested their strength. All our bridges held the weights and our monkey teddy!

Autumn 1 - Week 2 

This week in PE we started our Gymnastics unit. We looked at holding a shape with our bodies and then putting 2 or more shape positions together to form a sequence. Have a look at what we got up to!

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”.