This week the children have really enjoyed creating a front cover for their current topic on the Great Fire of London. They used a watercolour wash for the flame background, and then used strips of black paper to collage burnt out bulidings in the foreground. The children did and amazing job, as you can see, they are very proud of the finished pictures. They all wanted to take them home to show their families, but these pictures will be stuck into their topic books ready for you to look at for parents' evening. 

We have been looking at recognising the uses and features of information technology​ in our Computing lessons. We spoke about why we have information technlogy and where would we find it. 

The children enjoyed learning that information technology are computers, have a computer inside or devices that work with computers. We then discussed some examples of devices we've seen or used before such as a printer, a laptop or an ipad. 

Option task to continue this learning at home;

Ask your child if they can point out any information technology you have within the home or if you're on a walk, can you spot any devices outside?

In Maths, we have been learning about place value in two digit numbers. We used money to help us and had to share the money into tens and ones. For example we know that 34p has 3 tens (10p's) and 4 ones (1p's). We then drew our own cherry models to help us and used reasoning to help us explain our answers. Finallly we completed our destination questions in our books. 

We have really enjoyed our first week in Year 2. We have took part in lots of fun, learning activites. We made bookmarks using our Year 1 and 2 common exception words. We picked the words which we find tricky, and will use our bookmark to help us with reading and spelling. We made them colourful and decorated the bookmarks. We have had the best week learning, completing PE, writing about our holiday, using resources at break time and using paint for self potraits!

To start the day off, we looked at the story 'Amazing' by Steve Antony and discussed how Zibbo was a good friend. We identifed that Zibbo was different but that he made his friend happy. We then made our own dragon puppets and when we opened the dragon, we wrote about our special abilities. We also had circle time to discuss what makes us special and loved sharing what makes us different. We were very honest and brave! 

We have had a great day thinking about why we are all so Amazing! We listened to the story Amazing by Steve Antony and then made dragons of our own. We all learnt something new about each other and what makes us all special.

We have had the best day!

Elder Class had an amazing time visiting our local allotment. We were able to plant radish and rocket seeds. We also saw a scarecrow, a green house, apple trees and pears trees. We learnt how to keep slugs away from plants and why insects like to live on allotments. 

We had a great time visiting the allotments today! 

We were shown around by some very knowledgable gardeners who answered all of our questioned and showed us many wonderful plants and vegetables that were growing in their gardens. 

Did you know there are over 30 types of pear tree and over 2500 types of apple tree! 

We saw lots of wildlife too, including some tiny forgs. 

We went on a school trip to the allotments today. First we had a tour around the allotments and went on a bug hunt. We saw snails, slugs, a baby frog and a bird. We also learnt about the different plants that were grown there including gooseberries and strawberries. We also saw apple and pear trees! We loved looking at the compost heap too! Afterwards, we plants our own radishes and had to carefully fill our plant pots with soil and water them. We had the best morning! 

We have been so lucky to hear from alot of people who work within science throughout the day. Our exciting morning started with Mrs Dale who spoke to us about the company she works for within Engineering and found out that engineers have built or taken part in the building, of lots of things around us. 

We met Ethan, who works as a wastewater modeller and he spoke to us all about climate change and how he investigates urban dainage to prevent flooding. 

We then completed an experiment, investigating the right environments for seeds to grow and learned all about a Botanist called Emma Williams.

In the afternoon we had an assembly with Dr Chennell and Mr Rigby from Nikon who talked to us about how they use microscopes in their job to research medicines. We even got to have a look through the microscopes!