Santa's workshop

The classroom has been transformed into Santa’s workshop this week. The class have enjoyed dressing as elves at our gift-wrapping station, using Mrs Claus’ kitchen to cook healthy winter soups in, visiting the letter writing station and adding cheer to our Christmas tree working wall.

This…

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Presentation Time!

This week we created our Migration PowerPoints and presented them to the class. As mentioned in the previous blog, we were given a big question  - Which animal has the toughest migration?

 

Each group had to present their findings to the rest of the class, whilst Mr Blackburn and Mrs Gibson…

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Week 12: Angels and Orang-utans

Another week. Another adventure. 

1. We have finished our Orang-utan report. 

2. Friday was a non-uniform day to raise goods for the upcoming Christmas Fair. 

3. We have used repeated addition and arrays to multiply numbers. 

4. We have started rehearsals for Whoopsy Angel. 

5. We…

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Keeping our bodies healthy!

"In science we were learning about how exercise keeps us healthy." - Nevaeh

Why is exercise important?

"It keeps our body strong" - Charley

"Its good to keep your bloody pumping around your body." - Joey

"It makes your muscles stronger." - Ela

"It makes your brain work better." -…

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A week full of lightbulb moments

I am proud as punch of Moonbeam Class this week. I can’t believe how fantastic and grown up they have been with their learning this week.

 

We have looked at ordering random numbers from smallest to largest and then largest to smallest, as well as using greater and less than signs to…

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A Week In Quotes

“On Monday I enjoyed our PSHCE lesson about secrets. I enjoyed reading the scenario cards we were given and discussing whether it was a secret we would keep or a secret that we should not agree to keep.” – Alice Dalmeida

 

“On Tuesday I enjoyed writing my recipe for my own curry with Mrs…

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Fruity Friday

Today we have been creating our own cocktails as part of our mathematics lesson on capacity.

The children had to follow the recipe and accurately measure the ingredients in ml. 

"1000ml = 1 litre" - Indy

"I made a cocktail with lemonade, orange juice and apple juice." - Emily

We also…

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Top 10 moments this week

Sunshines top ten moments of this week...

1. We have read (and watched) the hungry caterpillar.

2. We have made our own food diaries for the week.

3. We all know which foods are healthy and which are not!

4. We have started our Nativity.

5. We have read at least 3 times in…

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Stop, look, listen and think!

This week has been our Safer Travel week, where we have been thinking about how to cross the roads safely, holding hands with our grown-ups and playing in safe places away from cars. The children (and staff) have been amazing. All children should now remind you to hold their hands when walking to…

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Kings and Queens of the road

This week we have had our Safer Travel Week in Key Stage 1, where all the children have completed their road safety tasks and learnt how to cross the road safely. In our class, we worked really hard to learn how we can cross safely with an adult and that we always need to hold onto an adult, cross…

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Week 10: Safer Travel Week

Top 5 moments of this week

 1. It has been a vert mixed up week in Year 2 with lots of different things to do.

2. We have been training for Safer Travel Week.

3. We have been investigating healthy lifestyles and looked at how to brush teeth.

4. We learnt more about the Poppy Appeal and…

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Children in Need

Today we have been raising money for Children in Need. 

"Today we dressed in yellow or wore spots." - Cassidy

"We decorated biscuits like Pudsey."- Charley

"We had a design Pudsey's new hair competition." - Bobbi

The winner of this competition was Joey.

 

"In science we have been…

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