The children in Elder Class have enjoyed becoming Poets. All the children wrote their own Free Verse Poems which included amazing descriptive langauge, similies and alliteration.

Each class teacher picked three individual poems, which was an incredibly difficult task when everyone had tried so hard. Certifcates were presented to the children in assembly today.

Well done to all Elder Class.

During our JIGSAW lesson, we thought all about how we learn and what makes us a great learner. Some of the skills we suggested were: being a good listener, asking lots of questions and not giving up! 

We then practised learning something new, some of us learnt the Macarana, others practised counting to 20 in French and Mandarin and the remaining children learnt a verse from the Owl and the Pussycat. 

At the end, we performed what we had learnt so far and we all said that we felt proud of what we had achieved with our learning skills. 

This week we have been discussing what a scientist looks like and who can be a scientist.

At first we thought of all the film and cartoon scientists and how they all wore white cloaks. Then we began thinking about the real science careers and we were really surprised to find that some of our dreams and goals included careers in science!

We now know that people who take care of animals on land and sea are scientists, those that explore or visit space are scientists and even the people who create new foods are scientists!

We then imagined ourselves as scientists and drew the type of scientist we would most like to be. 

WOW! 

What a brilliant day we have had performing to you all! We have been practising so hard for weeks and we think you'll agree it showed! We really enjoyed singing our songs, learning all of the actions and it was great fun getting to dress up. 

Thank you very much to all of those who were able to come along and watch! 

We wish you a merry Christmas! 

This morning, we invited our grown ups in to read our very own stories! 

We have been working hard in our writing lessons to retell the story of Jack and the Beanstalk. We loved sharing our stories with all the adults and are very proud of our traditional tales. 

As part of our celebrations topic, year 2 had a special visitor today - one of our parents! 

They came and told us all about the history of Diwali, we learnt that it was a celebration of positivity and joy. They told us how people create their own temples in the homes filled with lots of objects that symbolise positive and joyful things. 

After that, we got to do some dancing and learn lots of fun new moves. 

We had a grat time and asked lots of thoughtful questions. 

Thank you to our special visitor! 

Elder Class had an amazing day today. We used our knowledge of Tudor housesthat burnt down in the Great Fire of London to design and create our own houses. We used our cutting, joining and concstruction skills and tried our best to include features of Tudor houses like jetty's, timber and daub. We recreated our own Pudding Lane and then watched a reenactment of how the houses caught fire and how the fire spread.

Today, we were comparing firefighters from 1666 to firefighters from 2023. We were due a visit from Stevenage Firestation but unfortunately, they had to attend an emergency. 

We still managed to learn all about being a firefighter and the special uniform that they wear to protect themselves. Sadly, in 1666 they didn't have a uniform and they weren't even trained in fighting fires! 

We saw artefacts from 1666 and they included leather buckets and fire squirts which were used to fight fires but they weren't as useful as the hoses firefighters have today. 

This afternoon, we were inspired by learning and wanted to paint our own fire engines. 

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