Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• Spain Class

  Mon 19 Dec 2022 Mrs Holden

  Spain Class have had a great half term!

  In DT, the children loved cutting up fruit and making smoothies. 

  In English, the children worked really hard to learn the story of the gingerbread man and wrote their own versions. They have also worked hard writing instructions for making a variety of sandwiches as well as their smoothies. We've worked hard trying to learn what nouns and verbs are. 

  In maths, we've been looking at addition and subtraction using numbers to 10. This will help us as we begin to look at numbers to 20. 

  In computing the children have been learning about algorithms and have followed and written their own. 

  In RE, we've enjoyed learning about the nativity and that Jesus is described as a gift from God. We also loved being part of the Nativity put on by Year 2 by being sheep and singing a song. 

  The children have worked hard on their behaviour this half term and have been showing focus and concentration while working and being kind to each other. These are some of the things the children have gone on the recognition board for. 

  We hope you have a lovely Christmas and a very happy new year. We look forward to seeing you in the new year. 

  Mrs Holden, Miss Walsh, Mrs McEwan, Mrs Chester and Mrs Lou. 

  

• China Class

  Mon 19 Dec 2022

  China Class have had a great half term. 
  In DT, we have chosen recipes, cooked them and scored them in our ‘Come dine with me’ unit.  The apple crumble sundae was the winning dish!

  In science, we have learnt about classification and family members joined us for the final lesson – to design a new animal and identify its class.

  In English, we enjoyed researching unusual fears, such as the fear of long words and the fear of bananas, and have written an information text about them.

  In maths, we worked really hard on fractions and have moved on to decimals.

  We have learnt about the Amazon in geography, including the city of Manaus and how we need to protect the Amazon.

  We have also enjoyed taking part in the dance workshop, participating in the poppies and poetry drama; joining in our class Santa dash; making Christingles; taking part in our Christingle service and buying gifts and opening the presents from our Secret Santa.

  

• Canada Class

  Fri 16 Dec 2022 Mrs Lambert

  What a very busy but exciting half-term we have had in Canada class. The children have written some amazing stories based on our model text The Kapok Tree. We have learned how to count in 6's, 7's, and 11's and have learned many different strategies to help us learn our tables.

  In geography, the children have learned about the water cycle and demonstrated their understanding through drama and music. Our DT unit was to be able to follow a recipe and make biscuits. The children also had to design packaging for their biscuit. We had a great time mixing the recipe and cutting out the biscuits. Unfortunately, the baking part did not go to plan but the children still had biscuits to decorate and were able to evaluate the whole process!

  Some of the children participated in a dodgeball competition and represented the school wonderfully and the whole class enjoyed a dance workshop.

  Thank you to all of the adults who were able to make it into school to help the children decorate.

  We have had a wonderful half term and are looking forward to our new learning after Christmas.

  Merry Christmas.

  

• Brazil Autumn term

  Mon 12 Dec 2022

  Brazil class has had a busy but enjoyable half term! 
  We have been learning how to write meeting stories in English. The children used engaging writing to match the toolkit and had fantastic ideas. 
  We have been focusing a lot on division in maths. We will next move on to graphs and then fractions. 
  We have enjoyed studying air pollution and climate change in geography. We conducted an investigation about air pollution in our local area.
  In DT, we have either made vegetable or minestrone soups. Waitrose visited our class to teach us about many vegetables: which are tasty in soups and where they come from. Then, in groups, we adapted a recipe and prepared the soups for our parents and grown-ups to sample and evaluate!

  Other exciting events that have happened this term are No-Pen-Day Wednesday and the Poetry and Poppies worship we took part in. We focused on our oracy and drama skills. 

  We also led a worship service about Advent for the entire school. The children all contributed brilliantly and performed two songs beautifully. 

  We all wish you a merry Christmas and a happy new year!