Happy New Year everyone and thank you for all the lovely Christmas cards and gifts. This week we have been talking about the new topics that we will be working on this term. The topic that has caused the most excitement is definitely The Great Fire of London. Everyone has already learnt the year in … Read more
This week everyone has been working very hard even though we are in the very last week of term. Not only did everyone perform amazingly at the two nativity plays but also worked hard in class to do end of term assessments. Icing the Christmas cakes was a sticky but enjoyable task. I’m sure you … Read more
This week we have been very busy rehearsing the play, making Christmas cakes, learning about simile, writing poetry, making Christingle oranges, enjoying a trip to the panto and whole lot more! It’s been a busy week. Thanks to some fantastic parent helpers, we were able to enjoy the seasonal task of making Christmas cakes. We … Read more
During the past few weeks we have been using an atlas to find out about the oceans and continents of the world. This week we have been doing lots of map work using Ordanance Survey maps. We looked at a range of OS symbols and used the key on the OS maps to find out … Read more
This week we enjoyed a wet, busy and active visit to Harcourt Arboretum. On arrival we split into two groups, one group used their foraging skills on a treasure hunt to find a range of natural materials to make an evergreen winter wreath. The other group had the benefit of an excellent arboretum expert to … Read more
In class two this week we have been talking about characters in stories. We recently read a book by Roald Dahl called Matilda. We discussed the plot, the settings and the characters. We had to think about parts of the book we liked and say why we liked them. We also had to think about … Read more
This week it has been an absolute pleasure to share the children’s stories that they wrote last week. I must congratulate all the children who made such a good job of rewriting their stories about Roger visiting Mr Simms Olde Sweet Shoppe. The presentation of work was very good with some excellent examples of joined, … Read more
This week we have been writing stories based on familiar places such as the home and the local community. We read a book called Roger Loses His Marbles and based our stories on the characters from this book. We thought about local places we could include in our stories and decided that the Mr Simms … Read more
We had such good fun this week using finger puppets to perform plays. The children worked in pairs to write a scene for their finger puppets and perform it to the class. Everyone really enjoyed using the mini-theatre to perform their plays to other members of the class. There is nothing quite like having an … Read more
This week has been a wet one but it has not stopped us going outside to do some outdoor learning. There was a great buzz of excitement when the children learnt that they would be wearing waterproof trousers. Learning to put on and take off waterproof trousers was almost as exciting as going out in … Read more
