Spelling Bee
Wow! What a close contest we had this afternoon when we were joined by St. Mary’s and All Saints for the KS1 Spelling Bee. All the children were fantastic but Class 2 managed to beat the competition and win the trophy! Incredible amounts of hard work, courage and composure culminated in an Anson…
Art and Crafts club
This lunchtime we made positive affirmation rosettes. We celebrated our qualities and wore our affirmations with pride.
Keeping cool
We’ve been lucky enough to spend lots of time outside in the shade today, keeping cool by dipping our feet in cool water and reading our story under the trees. One of our class is celebrating their birthday today and very kindly brought ice lollies in for us all to share! They were very gratefully…
Art club - making lions!
We had a lovely lunch time making toilet tube lions!
Twycross Zoo
What a wonderful day we had at the zoo! We saw so many wonderful animals, from tigers to turtles, penguins to primates, we even saw a Gruffalo!
DT - making carp kites
Today we started making carp kites. The children did a fantastic job sticking on all their scales!
Science-is it waterproof?
Today we explored materials to discover if they were waterproof. We made predictions based on our prior knowledge, then experimented to see if we were right or not!
Practical Maths
We’ve had great fun in class this week exploring position and direction. The children have been using positional language to direct their friends around the carpet and challenging each other to build matching cube towers based on positional instruction. They all did extremely well!
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Testing stretchy materials
Class 2 have been exploring how stretchy different materials are today. They all made predictions prior to experimenting and discussed the merits of each material and how to improve their experiments next time.
Choosing time
The children are enjoying choosing their own activities this afternoon as a little treat before we break up! They are busy constructing, balancing, puzzle solving, colouring and completing maths challenges on Numbots!
Opaque and transparent
This afternoon the children explored the properties different materials to determine which would be best to block out light from the sun, on a nasa rocket.
Bringing our stories to life through music!
Today the children brought their stories to life with their chosen instruments. It was wonderful to hear how through their choice of instruments and method of delivery, they were able to tell their stories.