Strength and Pride

In Art today Year 2 were drawing for pleasure! We decided as our topid is Myths and Legends, that we would have a go at drawing dragons. Lots of us thought this was going to be really tricky and took a look of stregth to have a go and keep at it. By the end you can see on our faces, how proud we are of our final drawings.

Teamwork

Year 1 DT- Fruit or Veg?

This week Year 1 began their first Design Technology topic, Fruit and Vegetables! Today we were exploring a variety of both, using our senses to feel and smell them. We discussed where fruit and veg come from, how we know when they're ripe for picking, how they are healthy for us and how different people have different preferences about which taste the best. Our main task was to decide how to sort them into 'fruit' or 'vegetable' categories. Some of us were very surprised to find out that it's all about the seeds! We cut them open and examined the different types of seeds inside and then sorted them into categories. The children agreed that the most surprising 'fruits' were butternut squash and cucumber! The children followed up with some excellent questions, such as, 'Where do vegetable seeds come from then?" This topic will eventually lead to design and taste our own healthy smoothies, so stay tuned!

Our first week in Year R

The children in Reception have had a fantastic first week at school and have settled in really well, adapting to routines and making new friends. Have a look at what fun they have had.

Year 1 Cedar class doing some art!

This week we have started our new topic 'Marvellous Me'. We have each been given a special sketch book and have had a lesson about drawing self-portraits today. We thought carefully about different parts of the body and things that make us special, like eye colour, smiles, hairs, etc. We sat at our very own tables and concentrated on our portraits, then shared them proudly with our classmates!

Year 2 Artists

Year 2 have been learning that everybody is an artist and no art is ever wrong! We have started the year by creating our own sketchbooks that we will be adding to over the coming weeks.

Year 1 day 2

Today we made our 'Class Charter' and promised each other to uphold the values of our school. We decorated bees to represent ourselves and stuck them on our class 'hive' to promise that we'd all try our best to show strength, empathy, resilience, curiosity pride excellence and work as a team. We also had lots of fun playing maths games inside and out today such as '10 Green Bottles', '5 Little Ducks' and 'What's the Time Mr Wolf'! Miss Purvis and Mrs Brooke-Shore were very happy to see that all of the children remembered how to count in 2s, add, subitise, take-away and use a tens frame to problem-solve! Well done! We finished the day with some phonics and a nice long 'Discovery Time' session. Mrs Raven came to read Cedar class a story at the end of the day and saw the children out the door so she could also see the parents! Happy weekend everyone!

Year 1- Our first morning of school

Hello year 1 parents! We know you're probably keen to see your children's new classroom and what they've been up to these first 2 days so we'll try and post regularly. Today and tomorrow we will be exploring our new base, reminding ourselves of routines, doing our 'Class Charter' and playing lots of team-building games.