Self portrait sneak peek…
We have been drawing self portraits in the style of Frieda Kahlo this week. The final result will be revealed at the Art Gallery next week!
Art Day
Today we have been getting ready for our art gallery. We have used terracotta clay to make pinch pots. We are looking forward to adding some colour when they dry, watch this space!
We had a super visit with Bob from the Lichfield Litter Legends!
We learnt so much about caring for the environment with Bob from the Lichfield Litter Legends! We heard his story of Lennie the Litter Legend! We helped to litter pick the school grounds and keep our school tidy! We were so responsible! Well done class one!
Creating hedgehogs with play dough and equipment!
We made hedgehogs with play dough and cocktail sticks!
We created posters to encourage everyone to be responsible for our World!
We created posters to encourage everyone to care for the World and to show responsibility! We are going to display our posters around school and the local area.
Finding a quarter of a quantity
In maths Year 1 have been learning about fractions, looking at halves and quarters. Today we used the part whole model to help us work out a quarter of a quantity.
Greenpower Race Day…..
Today we competed in the GreenPower Race Day. We had so much fun racing in the slalom, drag and relay races. The children were amazing and were wonderful ambassadors for our school. I am very proud of them all and we even managed to winner a trophy for “Best and most sustainable bodywork”.
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Stonehenge
This week we have started our new topic in history all about the Stone Age. We started off our topic by looking at the World Heritage Site, Stonehenge, and made our own silhouette paintings of the Stone Age monument.
Using recycling to create a litterbug!
We have been creative and enjoyed using a variety of recycled materials to create our own litterbug!
We have created our own super hero tabards to promote caring for the World!
We have been learning around the story Michael Recycle! We have been thinking about caring for our World and everything in it! There has been lots of super discussion about caring for our World.
Descriptions of the witch
In English Class 2 are basing their writing on the book ‘The Great Dragon Rescue’ by M P Robertson. Today they have been writing descriptions of the witch in the story. Year 1 have been using simple adjectives and Year 2 have been adding expanded noun phrases. It is lovely to see our Year 1…
Edit and Improve
This week in English we have been writing non chronological reports about penguins. Today Year 2 worked in pairs to peer assess each other’s work. They then chose a section of their work to edit and improve, adding sentence openers and generalisers to make their writing even better!
