Blog by Miss D Ellison

This week Rainbow class have been learning all about Florence Nightingale. 

"She was a famous nurse and she helped soldiers who would have died." - Ada

"She cleaned the hospitals." - Lily-May

"She looked after the soldiers." - Arham

"She was called the Lady with the Lamp because she…

We have been continuing to read our class novel 'Charlie and the chocolate factory' this week. 

"We have been writing about Willy Wonka." - Drew

"Willy Wonka is as funny as a clown." - Arham

"Mr Wonka did a roly poly in the story." - Philip

"He had a tall, red hat as red as a robin's…

This week we have been getting into the Christmas spirit with lots of crafts and of course our nativity performance.

I want to say a HUGE well done to all the children for their amazing efforts in the nativity this week. I am so proud of each and every child for learning their lines and then…

This week in infants we have been practising for our nativity performance. 

"Our nativity is called 'A Twinkly Treetop Tale.' - Arham

"We have been learning the songs." - Drew

"We are learning our lines to tell the story." - Nicole W. 

"I have enjoyed singing." - Esther. 

In…

The end of a short but settled week in Rainbow class. 

We've had a lovely start to our Autumn term 2 and the children have come back to school ready and raring to learn. 

This week in English we have started a new topic looking at information texts. We have been learning about Orang-utans.…

This week has been a very busy week in Rainbow class! 

On Monday we continued learning about The Great Fire of London and the children wrote their own diary entries as Samuel Pepys. We have now finished our topic on the fire and the children have thoroughly enjoyed learning all about it. 

In…

This week we have been celebrating Harvest. 

We really enjoyed practising our 'In my trolley' song for the assembly and we hope you all enjoyed watching us in our assembly. 

In RE this week we have been learning about Harvest and how it is celebrated. We have been writing about…

This week in Rainbow class we have been very busy!

"We have been learning about 2D shapes and making our own posters about them." - Esther

In DT we have been learning about vegetables and healthy eating.

"We made a healthy salad collage." - Ada

"In computing we were playing…

This week in Rainbow Class we have been learning "all about london" - Nicole W

"There was a fire that started on Pudding Lane." - Kayden

"The fire started in 1666" - Caroline

"The fire started in Thomas Farriner's bakery." - Arham. 

We designed our own Stuart period houses like they…

I can't believe it's already the end of week one. We've had a very busy one and have been settling into the routines of being in Year 2 this week. 

In maths we have been looking at place value but getting creative with food to help us learn. The children are beginning to understand how many…

A big welcome to Rainbow class! What an amazing first week we have had. Miss Ellison and Miss Hargreaves have had the best week! The children have come in very settled and very grown up, definitely ready for year 2.

We have decided to tell you all about our first week in Rainbow class for our…

This week has been another VERY busy week in school! 

On Monday and Tuesday we focussed on our Seaside topic by learning about Victorian seasides and comparing seaside resorts from then to now. The children designed post cards, made seaside pictures on Paint on the laptops, created their own…