During our jigsaw lesson, we were thinking about our secrets. We can have two types of secretes including happy secrets and worry secrets. We learnt that when we have worries we need to tell other people, including our families and friends. We then shared our examples as a class and it made us feel better about our worries

In science we have been learning about the parts of plants and trees. We have been able to identify the different parts and their role in helping the plant or tree grow. Today we got outside to explore our school field and used our knowledge of the different types of leaves to identify the types of trees we have at Fairlands. We spotted lots of Elder trees and Sycamore trees as well as many others. 

Why not see how many different types of trees you can spot on your walk to school?

We made character descriptions of the characters from James and the Giant Peach. The characters included James, Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker. We made sure we used expanded noun phrases to describe the characters and conjunctions to extend our sentences. We then took our time writing up our descriptions in our best handwriting. We have made a beautiful display in the upper school entrance if you would like to see it!

During RE, we discussed what the term 'belonging' means and how it feels to belong. We identified that some people may feel a sense of belonging when they visit their spiritual place. For example, Muslims who visit their Mosque. We then shared where we felt we belonged and all agreed we belong in Elm class! 

Elder Class had a fabulous morning thinking about Australia and all the things we had learned this half term. Our adults came in and helped us make some Australian Art and some split pin Australin animals. Then we visited Reception to help us think about different animal habitats and finally we made some boomerangs and didgeridoos.  

In year 2, our parents joined us to take part in an 'Amazing Australian Activity' WOW morning. We used spilt pins to create Australian animals, we made Australian paintings and decorated boomerangs. Afterwards, we continued being creative and made didgeridoos in class. We had the best morning! 

Today we are celebrating 'World Down Syndrome Day' so we are wearing brightly coloured socks. We have been learning about how it is okay to be different in our No Outsiders lesson. We discussed different stereotypes. Why should Repunzal always have long, blonde hair? Why does Elsa also look this? We discussed how we could make these characters different to their usual stereotypes. In Fir class, we made pictures with our new creations! 

 Elder Class is super proud of Atiksh as he wrote an amzing story about Borough Bear and his adventures with his friend Atiksh and won first prize!

Luke from Stevenage Borough came to school to give Atiksh all these wonderful goodies and Mr Staples awarded him a gold Head Teachers award.

Well Done Atiksh! 

In geography, we have been learning all about the 5 oceans and 7 continents. We can now place them on a map and identify some facts about each one. 

Did you know the Indian ocean is the warmest? 

Did you know Asia is the biggest continent? 

We've enjoyed learning some songs on youtube to help us remember their names. If you would like to sing along with us, search for '5 oceans song' and '7 continents song'.

On World Book Day, we looked at the story 'The Smeds and The Smoos' by Julia Donaldson. We learnt from the story that just because you are different, it does not mean you can't play with each other. We should be kind to each other and that the world would be very boring if we all looked the same! We made rockets using toilet tubes to help Bill and Janet get back to their families and we also made wanted posters to help find them.

The link to our story:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001gncf/the-smeds-and-the-smoos