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RSE Day. We learnt about the importance of communication.
Opal stay and play. We hope you loved it as much as we did.
In art, we are learning about the artist Henri Rousseau. Today we drew different plants and attempted to copy his style!
Today we were excited to receive our letters back from Malawi, Africa! They have told us a lot about their school and what it is like to live there!
In science we are learning about living things. Today we have been learning how exercise keeps us healthy. We did some circuit training and recording how well we did at each activity. We are going to try and beat our scores next week.
This spellings we tested this week were:
List 1
child
wild
bath
after
improve
sugar
everybody
find
Christmas
Mr
List 2
me
is
was
they
come
We are learning about Judaism in RE. We brought in things that are special to us and we learnt that the Mezuzah is special to Jewish people as it reminds them that God watches over their home.
In PSHE we are learning how our bodies change as we grow. Today we looked at baby pictures of the children in our class and tried to guess who was who! We talked about the changes we could see.
Our finished African puppets!
Our finished masks!
Art Week Fun!
We have been busy learning how to sew. Do you like our African animal puppets?
Can you guess who is behind the mask?
We are loving Arts week this week. Here is a sneaky peek for you. We cannot wait to show you everything we have done in our Art exhibition after the holiday.
Ask us all about our local walk today
In geography we are learning about human and physical features. Today we went on a walk to identify the human and physical features in Stenson Fields!
More VE Day fun! We played old fashioned games, and had cake and juice. We also designed our very own war medals.
Today we had a very special visit from Derbyshire Fire and Rescue Service. Please ask us all about what we learnt.
We enjoyed our cake and juice as part of our celebrations!
Today we are enjoying the VE Day celeberations. Keep a look out on here to see what we are getting up to.
We have been continuing learning about our planet. Today we have been learning about the 5 oceans.
We are loving our Music lessons! We are learning how to play the glockenspiel.
Today we started a new unit called position and direction in Maths. We went outside and followed instructions with positional language.
Today we had a spelling test these were the words.
In geography we have been learning about the 7 continents including their shapes and positions on the world map.
Chameleon Class acting and performing Handa's Surprise!
In English today we went outside and acted out the story of Handa's Surprise. It was a lovely sunny drama lesson.
Today in PE we started our Athletics unit. It was a lovely sunny day to go outside for our lesson.
Today we collected data and made our very own tally charts!
Today we started our new English unit. We are reading Handa's Surprise. We tried to carry the basket of fruit on our head just like Handa.
Here are the spellings from todays check.
Chameleon Class loved their trip to Kenya this morning!
We have started to learn how to tell the time today. We have learnt O' Clock and Half past the hour.
We loved looking at these African artefacts that were kindly given to us to borrow. Some of the children loved dressing up in the African print clothing.
We have our passports ready and have boarded the plane. When we finally arrived we went on a safari and spotted a lot of animals. Then we travelled to see Victoria Falls. It was very impressive. We have had a very busy morning already!
Turtle class are all excited and ready for our virtual trip to Africa this morning.
This week we were tested on these spellings. Thank you for helping your children learn the words on their spelling mat.
Today we had a very important zoom meeting. We found out the winner of the Derby Book Festival. The winner was Flower Block. It was lovely to be on a zoom with lots of other schools in Derby. We all voted for our favourite book.
The finished products! What do you think?
We have had a really busy afternoon decorating our Superhero vehicles. Finished product photographs to follow.
We have finished decorating our superhero vehicle! What do you think ?
Today in our Mathematics lesson we were learning about temperature. We walked around the school and found all the cold places and the hot places. Can you see where we looked?
We are all ready for Odd socks day and Comic relief.
In Design and Technology, we have started putting the wheels and axels on our vehicles...
Our Special Visitors - Speak Out Stay Safe
Today we had some very special visitors from the NSPCC. We learnt all about speaking out and staying safe.
We are learning about capacity in maths.
We have started learning about Queen Victoria. We were amazed at all the inventions during her reign!
Ask us about our AMZING insect hotels!
As part of Science week this week, we have designed our own Insect Hotels. Tomorrow we plan to make some. Watch this space!
This afternoon we completed an investigation linked to animals adapting to their environment.
This week is Science week. This morning we had a special Science lesson live streamed to school all about training to be an astronaut.
Today we went looking for minibeasts in their micro-habitat. Look what we found!
Today we all look FABULOUS!!!
We had more lovely visitors this afternoon. Thank you for coming.
We designed a new book front cover. What do you think?
We produced some lovely work all about our dressing up costume today.
We were lucky to watch a special message from the illustrator of the book 'The dress in the window', Pippa Curnick. She taught us how to draw the boy in the story.
World Book Day
World Book Day in Turtle class.
World book day. We had a lovely start to the day. Thank you to our special visitors. We look forward to seeing some more of you later. Watch this space to see what we are getting up to today.
PC Bob came to talk to us about his job. He is a real life superhero!
After reading The Dress in the Window, we thought about other things that are okay for both boys and girls!
Today in D and T we experimented with doweling to make wheels and axles. We used different objects as the wheels.
Turtle class Coronation. Do you like the crowns we made?
This week is Book Week in school. We are all reading 'The Dress in the Window'. We even watched a special message to our school from the author. We designed our own fabulous outfits today. What do you think?
We have started learning about two very famous queens today - Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth I. We made crowns and had our very own coronation!
Today we were looking around to find items that are longer than a metre in length.
We are really enjoying exploring our new book called If I Were Prime Minister. We began to think about rules we would make if we were Prime Minister!
In science we have been learning about materials. Today we investigated which material would make a good umbrella for Super Ted.
More fabulous board games!
We designed our own games! What do you think?
We loved playing the games with year 3 and 4 that they made!
We loved playing board games together!
Maths Games!
Number Day Fun! Our number hunt and outdoor maths games!
We worked in pairs to make a weaving frame and did some weaving using natural materials.
We worked hard making our frame for our weaving lesson today. Then we found natural materials outside to weave. What do you think?
We enjoyed our peer massage today.
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We are having a great last day of Children's mental health week and love making models with play-doh.
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We had great fun on the trim trail, in the sensory garden, chalking the playground and chasing bubbles.
We enjoyed listening to Torin who wrote his own book and read it to us. We then relaxed with some meditation.
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We drew how we are feeling today. Have a look on the library window. Can you guess how we are feeling?
We are all ready for our final day of Children's Mental Health Week. Watch this space to see what exciting activities we have got planned for today.
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More fabulous homework!
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We read the book Ebbs and flows which is all about a little girl and her feelings. We wrote some questions for the author as tomorrow we are going to chat with her on zoom. We are very excited.
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Today we started Children's mental health week with a whole school assembly. We then set ourselves a personal goal to achieve by the end of the week.
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More paperchain snakes to celebrate Chinese New Year!
We have enjoyed celebrating Chinese new year today. We made snakes as it is the year of the snake.
We have seen some wonderful homework linked to our Superhero topic. Thank you for your support at home.
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In RE we have been learning about the different celebrations of some religions. Today we thought about the similarities and differences of the celebrations.
We are reading a story called Lost and found in English. Today we had to look for a missing penguin around the school. Look on our door for more photographs.
Today we had a phone call from someone looking for a missing penguin so we went on a penguin hunt! This was strange because the book we are reading in English is also all about finding a penguin!
We are loving our art unit using natural materials. Today we made sculptures out of sticks!
This week we have started learning about Multiplication. We began today by looking at equal and unequal groups.
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Mastering Number at Key Stage 1
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We loved our music lesson today.
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What do you think of our finished pet rocks?
We loved painting our pet rocks today in Art.
We are loving our new art topic - Earth Art. Today we have been painting stones to create animals.
Today we looked at different notes and counted them We also found different ways to make £1.
Today we continued using Money. Some of us visited the Superhero shop and bought two items. We had to carefully add the prices together.
Today in Gymnastics we were performing sequences with basic shapes on apparatus.
This week we are still working on Money. Today we were comparing different amounts of money. We had to look at whether they were more than, less than or equal to one another.
Today we have been on a material hunt. We have been thinking about the object and the mterial!
We have been learning about the features of a non-chronological report so we are ready to write our own!
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Superhero Dancing!
We loved Superhero Day!
Superhero day in Turtle class. We had a great first day back.
Class Treat!
We loved Elf Day!
We are ready for our Christmas Play!
Sorting 3D Shapes in Maths
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We read the parable 'The Lost Son' and learned that we can always be forgiven.
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Shape Sorting!
Children in need day in Turtle class.
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Learning what makes a good photograph in ICT!
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Lest we forget...
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Today we talked about what makes a good friend. We made a good friend wreath
Poppy art work. We have been busy creating our special art work for Remembrance Day. Please look on the library window soon and they will be displayed.
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Guru Nanak's Birthday. Today we had a very special assembly.
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Adding and Subtracting in Maths
Odd socks day
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Turtle class enjoyed their class treat time this afternoon!
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In Science we have been learning about seed dispersal.
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In Design & Technology we learnt to use the skills of chopping, peeling, grating and squeezing to make a fabulous smoothie!
We loved smoothie making today. We chopped, grated and peeled the fruit. We designed our packaging. We picked 3 fruits and made our very own smoothie. They tasted delicious!
We have started our new term really well and have been working hard adding 2 2 digit numbers in Mathematics.
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Diwali celebrations in Year 2
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Our Diwali Dance
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Our Diwali Celebrations!
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We have loved our sessions reading with Dexter!
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Some children were awarded certificates for reading so well to Dexter.
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Today we tasted the rice Krispie cakes we made. They were delicious.
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In English today we followed instructions and made rice krispie cakes. What do you think?
We have really enjoyed playing our topic games that have been created for homework. Mrs Sadler popped in to see them too. She was really impressed.
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In Science today we were learning the difference between seeds and bulbs.
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Class treat time in Turtle class!
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Today in PSHCE we made cards for the people we are grateful for in school.
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More art work in the style of Yayoi Kusama
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Creating art in the style of Yayoi Kusama
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As part of our learning about instruction writing, we played a game of Pass the Parcel. We worked with a partner to write the instructions which included a special hook sentence!
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We have been learning where different foods are grown around the world.
In PE, we are improving our fitness. Today we rotated around different stations to complete different exercises.
In English we are learning about Instructions. Today we were finding what features instructions have.
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Year Two - Mental Health Awareness Day!
In Science we have been learning about seeds and bulbs
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In Geography we are learning about hot and cold climates
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Art work in Turtle class.
In our maths mastery session we have been learning how to make the numbers 6,7,8 & 9 using 5 and a bit!
We have been learning to use different painting techniques - stroking, dabbing and twisting! We also painted our own picture just for fun!
Fabulous Homework!
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Some more wonderful homework!
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In English we are working really hard writing our own version of the Farmer Duck story.
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In RE the children talked about the golden rules we have in the classroom. Can you guess what they are?
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Number bonds
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Today in Science we were learning all about what is inside a seed.
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We took part in 'Farmers Live' today to learn all about farming!
In PSHE we were learning how to speak positively about ourselves. As we stood on each stepping stone we said a positive affirmation. This protected us from the hungry crocodiles!
Some more wonderful topic homework! Thank you for your support. The children have loved showing their work to the class and to Mrs Sadler.
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Artwork. Today we were preparing our Christmas card design ready to bring home for you to hopefully order. Yes we know it is October!!!!
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In English we are learning about the story of Farmer Duck.
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We loved our class treat today. Play-Doh time!
Our second class treat!
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European day of languages
We have been learning about past-tense verbs including the helping verbs 'was' and 'were'
Outdoor Maths
We have all logged on to Spelling shed in class. We hope you have fun doing this at home too!
We have been learning how to skip with a skipping rope in PE.
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Peer Massage time!
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In Science we are learning about the life cycle of a bean
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As part of our learning in ICT, we have logged on to spelling shed today. Please keep practising your spellings online using Spelling Shed!
We loved earning our class treat today!
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Art Yayoi Kusama
Art work based on Yayoi Kusama!
PSHE - Understanding we are all special in our own unique way!
Place value lesson
Our wonderful homework
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