School menu change and Christmas meal
Athletics
For the rest of the half term, we are focusing athletics.
This week, we have been practicing jumping and sprinting.
What amazing athletes we have in Year 2!
Animals and their young
This half term, we have been learning about animals including humans.
In our last lesson, we learnt that animals, including humans,
have offspring which grow into adults.
The children worked in groups to match the adult to their offspring.
Living and Learning: Strong emotions
In our last L&L, we were learning about emotions.
First, we named lots of emotions we might feel.
Then, we focused on exploring and describing what makes us feel unhappy.
The Children then were given the opportunity to explain when they might feel unhappy, and also to practice asking, and listening to, others about what makes them unhappy.
After that, we discussed things we can do when we are feeling unhappy.
Finally, we discussed things that make us happy.
Maths is everywhere!
The children have been using maths in all the areas of provision to learn about shape, measures and money in our new role-play bakery.
History: interpretations of the past
In our history learning today, we used our knowledge about the Athenian and Spartan city states to decide which one was the best!
We split into two teams to debate and within our teams split into little sub-groups responsible for debating one aspect of life in the city states.
The class did a great job at debating. They took turns well, made pertinent points, responded to opposing points and summarised. They also used openers to introduce their points and were respectful debaters throughout!
So, who was the best city state? Well, the debate was close. Athens won the categories on government and economy but Sparta won education and role of women. Tomorrow, we’ll make final points and I’ll make a decision on the winner!
Living and Learning: strong emotions
In our Living and Learning lesson today, we were talking about strong emotions and some strategies to cope with them. We decided that talking about how we were feeling was a really good way of solving a problem or feeling better about something that may be troubling us.
We then watched a BBC education video about someone who joins a new school and is desperate to make friends and fit in and ultimately makes a bad choice in order to fit in with a group of people. We discussed the emotions that the person could have been feeling and how that influenced his choices. We also discussed what they could have done differently and how they eventually solved the problems.
Living and Learning: Anti Bullying
This week, Y6 were tasked with showing they know how to stop bullying in a creative way.
Here are some of their amazing submissions.
We also have had some brilliant talks this week surrounding how to be respectful (and ensure it’s mutual respect), how to be a little bit friendlier, how to deal with conflict if it should arise and how to communicate you’re not feeling OK or not happy with an interaction.
As always, I’m super proud of this class’ honesty, maturity and creativity with their homework.
It was great to see some fantastic spellings being practised, too!
Take a look!
Bringing the fire to life
This week, Year 1 took part in an online drama workshop all about the Great Fire of London.
1,2,3 Who are we going to be?
Here we had to show actions for some of the main people from the Great Fire of London – Thomas Farriner, King Charles II, Samuel Pepys and the London residents.
Save our treasure
We heard about the ‘treasure’ that Samuel Pepys saved from the fire by burying his items underground – cheese, bottles and his diary but what would you want to save?
I would save my favourite teddy.
I would bury my toys.
Chaos on the streets of London
What sounds could be heard while the fire was burning? We created a sound ladder of all the sounds to show what the atmosphere would have been like.
- screams
- crackling from the fire
- cars horses trotting along (well done, Hollie – you remembered there were no cars at that time)
- people jumping out of windows
- people shouting help
- water splashing on the fire
- buildings crashing down
- people giving orders
- children crying
Virtual after-school sport club
Aimed mainly at primary-aged children, a different theme has been assigned for each day of the club – Adventure Monday, Tuesday Play, Wild Wednesday, Thinking Thursday and Fun Friday.
Click here to find out more.