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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!

Our very own celebrity! She is making our school very proud caring for others.

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.

Today we are authors. We are enjoying writing our own stories and sharing our stories with our friends.

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.

Sharing more precious African artefacts.

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 learning about Food chains in Science.

We are all ready for Odd socks day and Comic relief.

In Busy Bees we made biscuits for our family and friends!

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.

This is our final book from the Derby book festival. It is all about a refugee.

We are learning about capacity in maths.

We learned to clap an ostinato, and we also used instruments to play it.

We have started learning about Queen Victoria. We were amazed at all the inventions during her reign!

As part of Science week this week, we have designed our own Insect Hotels. Tomorrow we plan to make some. Watch this space!

Today we created our own flower windows and then made a class flower block. Can you spot our family members in the window?

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 book mark.

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 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!

Today in PSHE we learned that tablets can look like sweets. We learned never to put anything in our mouths without checking with an adult first!

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.

Today we had a lesson from the NSPCC called PANTS. This was all about keeping our private parts private. We learned the Pantosaurus song and designed our own Pants. What do you think?

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.

This week we are learning all about 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!

We are taking part in the Derby Book Festival. This is the book we are reading this week. We have two more to read soon and then we will vote for our favourite.

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!

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.

We are having a great last day of Children's mental health week and love making models with play-doh.

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.

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.

More fabulous homework!

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.

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.

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.

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!

In science, we have been learning about natural and manmade materials.

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.

Mastering Number at Key Stage 1

We loved our music lesson today.

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.

In ICT yesterday we used the Beebots.

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.

We used coins to make different amounts of money!

Today we have been on a material hunt. We have been thinking about the object and the mterial!

We used a conscience alley in RE to help Moses with his dilemma...

We have been learning about the features of a non-chronological report so we are ready to write our own!

Using Our Bodies to Respond to Music

We are learning about money in maths! If you can help your child to understand the value of different coins that would be much appreciated!

Superhero Dancing!

We loved Superhero Day!

Superhero day in Turtle class. We had a great first day back.

We are ready for our Christmas Play!

Sorting 3D Shapes in Maths

We read the parable 'The Lost Son' and learned that we can always be forgiven.

We have been very busy making our reindeer hot chocolate ready to sell at the Christmas Fayre.

We finished our Science investigation today. We found out that the cress that grew inside grew the best as it had sunlight and water.

We have started learning about shapes.

Children in need day in Turtle class.

Learning what makes a good photograph in ICT!

Lest we forget...

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.

Guru Nanak's Birthday. Today we had a very special assembly.

Remembrance Day. Our 2 minutes silence to remember.

Odd socks day

Turtle class enjoyed their class treat time this afternoon!

In Science we have been learning about seed dispersal.

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.

Diwali celebrations in Year 2

Our Diwali Dance

Our Diwali Celebrations!

We have loved our sessions reading with Dexter!

Some children were awarded certificates for reading so well to Dexter.

Today we tasted the rice Krispie cakes we made. They were delicious.

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.

In Science today we were learning the difference between seeds and bulbs.

Class treat time in Turtle class!

Congratulations to our super spellers this week. Well done for completing your Spelling shed task.

Today in PSHCE we made cards for the people we are grateful for in school.

More art work in the style of Yayoi Kusama

Creating art in the style of Yayoi Kusama

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!

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.

In Science we have been learning about seeds and bulbs

In Geography we are learning about hot and cold climates

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!

Some more wonderful homework!

In English we are working really hard writing our own version of the Farmer Duck story.

In RE the children talked about the golden rules we have in the classroom. Can you guess what they are?

Number bonds

Today in Science we were learning all about what is inside a seed.

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.

Artwork. Today we were preparing our Christmas card design ready to bring home for you to hopefully order. Yes we know it is October!!!!

In English we are learning about the story of Farmer Duck.

In our Mathematics lesson we are comparing numbers.

Today we started our Mastering Number sessions.

We loved our class treat today. Play-Doh time!

Our second class treat!

European day of languages

We have tried really hard in our Guided reading sessions.

We have been learning about past-tense verbs including the helping verbs 'was' and 'were'

Mikaal's Amazing Home-grown Tomatoes

We have all logged on to Spelling shed in class. We hope you have fun doing this at home too!

More fantastic topic homework!

We have been learning how to skip with a skipping rope in PE.

Peer Massage time!

Turtle class enjoyed their class treat!

In Science we are learning about the life cycle of a bean

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!

Art Yayoi Kusama

Art work based on Yayoi Kusama!

PSHE - Understanding we are all special in our own unique way!

Our wonderful homework

PE Fitness session

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