Blog Author: Catherine Cooper

The children had a great time playing the glockenspiels today. They worked extremely hard and played their instruments beautifully.

We enjoyed an immersive English lesson today as we delved into the world of performing arts. The children read their parts with fabulous expression, concentrating on volume and pace as well as some imaginative gestures!

We’ve had a lovely afternoon learning about Shrove Tuesday, indulging in pancakes and a few Valentine’s treats too.

We enjoyed a great maths lesson today. The children independently explored their number bonds to ten and wrote some matching addition sentences!
 

In DT today we’ve been trying different pizza toppings!
 

Year 1 have been busy making repeating patterns in maths today!

Class 2 have loved designing their own microbes this afternoon. We’ve had a whole host of bacteria, viruses and fungi!

Today the children made Pudsey bear out of yellow leaves that they collected from our grounds.  We talked about Children in Need and the fantastic work they do.

Today in DT we explored various types of bread, testing their suitability as potential pizza bases. The children enjoyed the taste testing and we have come to the conclusion that Class 2 just love bread, whatever the type!

The children have been having fun in the classroom finding and labelling common nouns.  We even had post it notes on heads and arms! Great work Class 2!

In our next experiment we investigated why soap is so important. We made our predictions first and discussed these with the rest of the class. 

We used pepper in water to represent the germs. Next we dipped our sticks into the pepper water to see what happens. Then we dipped it into the soap to…

In our Science lesson today we learnt about germs, or Microbes as we Scientists call them!
We dipped our hands in glitter and then shook hands with our friends passing the transfer of germs down the line. The germs (glitter) spread really easily from person to person.

After washing our hands…