Year 2 Update

Year 2 have been busy little performers over the last few months as they prepare for their exciting production, Eddie and the Penguins Save the World! We recently held our first dress rehearsal, performing to the rest of the school — and we’re delighted to say the audience loved it. The children were brilliant and are now buzzing with excitement to perform for you next week. They can’t wait to spot friendly faces in the audience!

Alongside rehearsals, singing, and learning lines, Year 2 have continued to work extremely hard in their learning. In Maths, we have been exploring money, including how to make amounts and give change. This can be tricky, but the children particularly enjoyed putting their skills into practice by playing shops in the classroom.

In English, we have been retelling and innovating the story Poles Apart, linking beautifully with our production and its important message about climate change. The children have shown great creativity and thought when exploring how animals are affected by changes to their habitats.

This theme has continued in Geography, where we have been learning about hot and cold climates around the world. The children explored different countries and discovered that places near the Equator are hotter, while those further away are much colder. They were fascinated to see how climate affects where people and animals live.

It’s been a busy, exciting, and meaningful term for Year 2 — and we are so proud of their hard work, enthusiasm, and growing confidence. We look forward to welcoming you to our performance very soon!

 

Year 5 Update

 

 

 

 

 

English

We have finished our persuasive leaflets based on our work in Geography on the Caribbean. We wrote to persuade the reader to visit the Caribbean island of St Lucia. We wrote about the beautiful beaches, the adventures and traveller could have and the delicious food they could try. We published them as leaflets and we look forward to sharing them with you at parents evening.

 

Art

We have been researching Batik and creating designs based on the Caribbean. We have use tjantings to place molten wax onto fabric and will paint the rest of the fabric next week. We then will heat the wax to remove it and our design will be revealed. They should be coming home before the end of term so we hope that you enjoy looking at them as much as we enjoyed creating them.

 

Science

Finally, in Science, we have been revising solids, liquids and gases by observing raisins in lemonade. They appear to “dance“ when dropped in the liquid! We have also sorted materials based on their properties and will be observing dissolving next week.