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Chinese New Year in Sunshine Class

This week we have been learning all about the Chinese New Year celebrations .We have made our own Dragon masks, Chinese New Year cards, done some Chinese New Year Yoga and even learnt a Dragon dance. On Thursday we had a Chinese Banquet, we found out all…

This week we have been learning lots of new things. Here are our top 5 moments of the week. 

1) "In History we have been learning about Roman crime and punishment." - Kyra

2) "In Dance we have been learning a Chinese New Year dance." - Niamh

3) "We have been learning about negative…

Top five moments of the week -

1. We enjoyed reading skills about autobiographies. 

2. Mrs Miller taught us about pointillism in Art. 

3. We have learnt about fractions of shapes and fractions of numbers. 

4. We learnt a new dance routine with Miss Leah. 

5. We have been learning…

This week has been all about health and hygiene. We have spent lots of time finding out about why we need to keep clean. We have talked about ways to wash our faces, our hands and how to brush our teeth. We enjoyed a science experiment which showed us why we should use soap – germs hate it!

We…

1. Looking at the twisted tale story of Maximus and the beanstalk.

2. Playing rounding rockets in Mathematics. 

3. Learning a dance routine to some Chinese music with Miss Leah.

4. Making fact sheets all about China.

5. Making some plaiting patterns using wool in our Art…

Welcome back and a Happy New Year to all!!

We have settled back in really well after the half term and had lots of fun in class this week.

In English, we have been reading poems and acting them out.

In mathematics, we have been looking at place value and negative numbers.

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Happy New Year - Top Five moments of the week

1. English - we planned a story, we wrote a character description, created settings and then wrote a story.

2. Mathematics - we explored place value including ordering numbers, adding numbers mentally and using a 100 square. 

3. Science - we…

In Mathematics, this week we have been learning about the three ordering symbols. We then solved calculations and used the symbols to order the calculations.

In English, we have been learning about how to structure a short narrative. We also focused on the key…

New year… New fun

Welcome back and Happy New Year! What a fun packed four days we have had.

Tuesday

On Tuesday we did a big recap of all our phonics sounds and everybody read their reading books. Then we revisited our numbers to 10; counting, recognising and forming them. During the…

Happy New Year to you all.

Week one of 2023 has been a short but busy week in year 2.

The children started the week by writing some fantastic diary entries all about their Christmas holidays.

This week we have started a new topic on fairytales in English, discussing the features that a…

Our penultimate week of Autumn Term 2 has been one to remember!

We have performed our ‘Boogie Woogie Nativity’ to our families and friends and all of the children did a marvellous job. We are very proud of them all.

Also this week we have enjoyed singing Christmas songs and starting our…

This week in DT we have been sewing and designing Christmas cushions.

In English we have been looking at Christmas poems and their key features. 

In Mathematics we have been looking at equivalent fractions.

In History we have been learning about Druids.

Merit -…