Year 2 have been learning all about a balanced diet and checking foods to see how healthy they really are.. We discussed the different food groups and identified which foods we could combine to create a balanced meal.. We then thoroughly enjoyed making our wrap pizzas and most importantly- eating Read more…
Year 2 took part in a gymnastics competition last night and Miss Forbes couldn’t believe how amazing they were! We came away with 1st and 2nd place and they all got a prize for doing so well! Special shout out to Miss Hayward for putting so much time into perfecting Read more…
This term we are exploring the beliefs, celebrations and traditions from a Jewish person’s point of view. We are then relating these morals and ideas to our everyday life. We have been encouraging the children to voice their opinions which has been lovely! We looked at some items that could Read more…
We have had a wonderful week getting into the Christmas spirit, we loved our Christmas party.. We played charades and pin the nose on Rudolph… On Tuesday we saw Santa! Merry Christmas!
Year 1 and Year 2 have absolutely loved working together to create their Nativity performance. We have danced and sang our socks off for the past few weeks and it definitely paid off today! The kings were majestic, the sheep were super cute and the shepherds performed excellently! Our villagers Read more…
Yesterday Year 2 had a fantastic day at Rochdale Fireground Museum, this trip consolidated our knowledge of The Great Fire of London and gave us an amazing insight to the life of a firefighter in the 1600’s compared to today! James and Bob were wonderful with the children, making us Read more…
We have had a wonderful few weeks learning all about The Great Fire of London for our history unit. We loved learning all about the key facts and creating our own diary entry. We placed The Great Fire of London on our timeline and chose what jobs we would like Read more…
We have absolutely loved learning about Piet Mondrian and his art in Year 2! Piet was inspired by his family to become an artist and we were inspired by him! We created art on the laptops based on his style making sure all our lines were straight.. After carefully planning Read more…
We have had a lovely morning in Year 2 writing instructions, making toast and of course eating it! We worked hard to remember all the key aspects that need to be included when writing instructions and learned lots of new spelling rules for certain words. Some of us even included Read more…
Over the past few weeks we have been discovering a new style of artwork to represent seaside life. First we created the sea background, we created our own shades of blue by mixing the primary colour blue with both white and black. We were brilliant at creating a wave effect! Read more…
In the past couple of weeks Year 1 have been learning all about direction, we directed each other to the correct animals using half turns, quarter turns, left and right.. We even took our maths outside when the sun was shining.. We can now use our maths vocabulary to direct Read more…
We have loved our new unit in science, we observed leaves using lots of adjectives to describe and compare them.. We have really enjoyed the plant area in our continuous provision, it has been super fun gardening and getting messy! We were fascinated at all the different shaped and Read more…
After enjoying our exciting Pirate experience day we were ready to create our non-chronological reports! The children planned their reports after lots of research and fact finding and then produced some wonderful pieces of work. The children loved creating their own treasure maps and Pirate Codes- some of them would Read more…
We have had the BEST time in Year 1 being pirates for the day! We have been finding out all about pirates in preparation for writing our non-chronological report. We started off with some pirate HIIT this morning.. After some maths we used our fact files we have Read more…
What a wonderful week we have had having lots of Easter fun! We made the most of the beautiful weather and played Easter skittles, completed an egg hunt and took part in an egg and spoon race… We enjoyed phonics and maths bingo… Happy Easter everyone, have a lovely break!