Our Trip to Formby Beach

We had a wonderful time exploring the woodland and 4 different habitats at Formby. We found lots of different living things in their habitats. We even spotted some red squirrels hiding in the trees! What a fantastic day! 

Art Day

We had a wonderful time on Art Day in Year 1 and 2. We studied the artist Henri Matisse and his work. In the morning we learnt all about his life, how he became an artist and tried out some of our art skills. In the afternoon we used our cutting skills to create work in the style of Henri Matisse by 'painting with scissors'. Have a look at our photos from the day! 

Computing

This half term we have been doing 'computing' in Key Stage 1. We have been learning all about coding and practising making objects move by writing codes. We are all really enjoying learning new skills on the iPads and laptops. 

Stations of the Cross

This afternoon we enjoyed reflecting in our class teams whilst moving around the Stations of the Cross. Year 3 and 4 did a beautiful job of re-enacting all of the stations. 

'Stay with us Lord on our journey.' 

Design & Technology

We are working on 'textiles' as our new Design & Technology. We have explored different types of fabrics and we described them to each other. Then we designed new hairstyles for ourselves using wool. We have now explored different face shapes and used mirrors and a template to draw our own faces. We used our cutting skills to cut out our template and our fabric face outline. 

Chinese Dance Workshop

This week we all took part in a Chinese Dance Workshop. Each class learnt a Chinese dance and then we performed it for everyone at the end of the day. Watch our video to see how brilliant we were! 

Sports Day

We finally managed to get some lovely weather for our Sports Day! We had a fantastic time and we were all superstars!

Thank you to everyone who came to cheer us on. Here is a video to show you the best bits of the afternoon. :) 

Design & Technology

This week we have completed our 'textiles' unit and created our Fabric Faces. We used different materials to create our faces and different skills such as cutting, joining, gluing and stitching! 

English

What amazing writers we are!

Over the past two weeks we have been enjoying the story 'The Day the Crayons Quit'. We have been working hard exploring all the problems the crayons faced and now we have written our reply letters to the crayons. 

World Book Day

On Thursday 2nd March we celebrated 'World Book Day'. We spent the day doing lots of activities about books and we had a cosy read in our classrooms at the end of the day. We created sock puppets of our favourite book characters. Have a look at some of our pictures to see our wonderful costumes. 

Design & Technology - Food

Last week we continued our Design & Technology food topic. We linked it to our topic of China and created a 'Fruit Tea'. We used cutting and chopping skills before letting the tea heat up in the urn. We all got to try some at home time. 

Year 2 SATs Briefing

Thank you to those of you who managed to attend one of the Y2 SATs briefings. We hope you found them helpful. As promised, here is a copy of the presentation. If you have any questions or worries please ask one of us. We are more than happy to help you in any way that we can. If you missed the briefings and want to know more just say and we will make some time to talk through everything with you. 

Year 2 SATs Information PowerPoint 

Science Week

We had an amazing day on Thursday for Science Week! We did lots of different experiments exploring how things 'change'. We visited all the classrooms in EYFS & KS1 and did lots of fun activities. We all had a wonderful day! 

Maths Roadshow

This week we attended the Fun Maths Roadshow which was run by Mrs Dumbleton and Year 6. There were lots of different activities for us to complete in teams with the Year 6 children. We really enjoyed our afternoon, thank you Year 6! 

English

This half term we have been exploring the text 'You Must Bring A Hat'. In the story Nigel sent everyone an invite to his party telling them they are welcome to come....if they bring a hat! This week we have designed and made our own hats for the party. Then we did a hat parade! We had lots of fun. :) 

E-safety

As part of E-Safety day we talked in class about how to stay safe online. We looked at different top tips about how to make sure we are all keeping ourselves safe. We know it is important to always tell a grown up. 

Design & Technology - Food

This week we began our Design & Technology topic which is focusing on Food. As our Geography topic is all about China we have decided to look at and make different Chinese foods. This week we made 'Hot Banana in Coconut Milk'. We followed the recipe and used our cutting, chopping and mixing skills. Then we all tried it at the end of the day. Yum! 

ScootFit

This week we have had an exciting afternoon in Year 1-2. We had a visit from 'ScootFit'. We got to ride around a route to loud music over ramps. We all had lots of fun and really enjoyed ourselves. 

Ducklings

We have loved having the ducklings with us in Key Stage 1 and the children have enjoyed watching them grow and change over the week. Watch our video of the time we let the ducklings swim! 

English

This week we started a new text in class 'Scaredy Squirrel'. We have all enjoyed the new story and on Thursday we had a debate in class to decide if Scaredy should stay in the tree or leave his nut tree. 

Exciting news in Year 1 & 2!

On Monday we received a delivery of 7 duck eggs to Key Stage 1. We have been watching them closely all week and we now have 7 ducklings that have hatched! We are all very excited to look after them for the next week. 

'The Magical Christmas Jigsaw'

Thank you to everyone who came to see our Christmas nativity 'The Magical Christmas Jigsaw'. The children were all amazing and we are very proud of their hard work! 

Year of Mercy

On Monday we visited lots of different stations set up by the GIFT team. They helped us to develop our thoughts about what mercy means and how we can show it to others. We then took our hopes and dreams and walked through the 'Door of Mercy'. 

Remembrance Day

We have explored the meaning of Remembrance Day and we wrote our own prayers of remembrance. 

'Peace at Last'

In English we have been enjoying the story 'Peace at Last'. We thought of different ways to help Mr Bear to sleep and we wrote letters to him. We also wrote a recount of the sounds that kept Mr Bear awake. 

We enjoyed acting out the story and making lots of different noises! 

Look at the display of the hard work we have done.

PE

We have all been enjoying learning new skills in our PE lessons. Look at us using some of the new equipment! 

Maths

In Maths we have been working hard to learn our number bonds. Here is the rhyme we have been using to help us.

10 and 0 – Superhero

9 and 1 – Quick it has gone

8 and 2 – Chicken poo!

7 and 3 – Pat your knee

6 and 4 – Knock at the door

5 and 5 – Do the jive

4 and 6 – Give it mix

3 and 7 – Up in heaven

2 and 8 – Shut the gate

1 and 9 – Feeling fine

0 and 10 – Big fat hen