Maths fun!
Year 1 and 2 have had lots of fun in maths this week. Year 1 have finished their unit exploring addition and subtraction with some wonderful outdoor subtraction on a number line learning. Year 2 have explored flexible partitioning using base 10. Wonderful work everyone!
Festival of light
As part of our RE this half term exploring festivals, class 2 have learnt about the story of Rama and Sita and how Hindus, Sikhs, Jains and Newar Buddhists celebrate Diwali- the festival of light. They made Diya lamps to symbolise the triumph of light over darkness.
Which materials are the bounciest?
Class 2 have investigated which materials are the bounciest. Such great learning and linking back to previous learning. Well done everyone.
Real life recounts
After learning all about what makes a super recount, year 1 and 2 wrote wonderful recounts about their forest school baking session. Can you spot the 4Ws in their introduction? Can you see any emotive language and past tense verbs?
Reaping what we’ve sown
Class 2 have had a wonderful time harvesting crops from our school garden and poly tunnel, and turning it into delicious potato rostis.
A huge thank you to Ms Carter, Mrs Whiteside and Mrs Toh for helping us.
Which materials are best to make a parachute?
Class 2 had more egg-cellent science fun this afternoon. They used their growing materials knowledge to design, make and test parachutes. Wonderful learning everyone!
Egg-citing investigations
With our growing knowledge of materials and their properties, we conducted an investigation to answer the question “Which materials are best to protect fragile objects.” First we discussed a range of materials, decided on three to test, conducted our investigation and recorded our results. With a…
Can you explore different hues?
This week we have explored the art term ‘hue’. We were given two primary colours and tasked the make different hues of green. Great art skills shown by everyone.
What was childhood like for our parents and grandparents?
We welcomed a special guest into our class today to talk to us about their life as a child- our wonderful governor, Mrs Billingham. Thank you so much for helping to bring our history topic to life. The children asked thoughtful questions and gathered their answers. Quote of the afternoon, “I could…
Sometimes you just have to dance in phonics!
Year 1 love an alien word Thursday disco! The rules are you have to show the alien words your best dance moves, zap their sound buttons then blend to read their words. So much fun and learning too!
Exploring printing with primary colours
Today we explored lego printing using primary colours. We explored making patterns and overlapping colours to colour mix.
Greener, fairer, wiser future
Class 2 and 3 children have had a wonderful trip to Winterbourne House and garden to be guests at their ‘Seeds of change’ gathering. Here the brilliant team at ‘The Great Imagining’ led marquees for the children to explore and learn about steps they could take towards a greener, fairer and wiser…