The children had fun constructing together. They worked really well in their groups!
Author: Sarah Crust
Some of our recorder players enjoying their lessons. They are working hard to play each note clearly and follow some simple notation from the whiteboard.
The children have been working on the musical element of ‘pitch’ and hearing the difference between high and low sounds. They listened to and played chime bars at different pitches and tried to distinguish between them. They then listened to Gareth and some children play a short phrase on chime bars and had to work out which notes he was
After reading A Squash and a Squeeze, we came up with some questions which we would like to ask the little old lady. We then hot seated some brave volunteers who answered our questions!
2S have been learning about the famous artists Paul Cézanne and Vincent van Gogh. The children worked super hard to recreate their favourite painting. What do you think?
2C had an awesome time last week zooming round the assault course. Look at the happy faces!
We celebrated the Queen’s Jubilee by making book marks, a collage, eating delicious cakes, drinking squash and dancing!!!!
Year 2 have designed and started to build a fortress for the Three Little Pigs so that they can hide away from the Big, Bad Wolf! They have used cardboard to construct it with a range of cutting and joining techniques. They can’t wait to get them finished!
Everyone made such an effort to dress up today as a character from a book for World Book Day. We had an assembly to show off our amazing costumes and to parade around the hall. Even Chester the dog was impressed! We then listened to Michael Rosen perform his famous Chocolate Cake poem and we looked at the picture book.
2C are using rekenreks as a new way of improving their basic maths skills. They have been learning how to use them to show number bonds to 5 and 10 and they are discovering how they can be used to help them with other skills such as partitioning into tens and ones.