Class 1

We spent our first three days together getting to know our new friends through play and collaboration! Everyone looks super smart in their uniforms! 

Today we welcomed our new Reception children to a Teddy bears picnic for their final transition session. Class 1 were so kind and helpful! Friends have already been made and we are all  looking forward to September! 

Today a thief came to Mary Howard to steal all our sounds!
We created our own poems using lots of sound descriptions. Next week we will put our ideas together to create and perform a whole class poem! 

Some collaborative learning and problem solving in Maths this week. The children had to program a Robot Mouse to move around a track collecting cheese! They had to use forwards, backwards, left, right and turn functions to work out a route! This helped our position and direction knowledge! 

We are thinking about summer and have set up a beach cafe role play area! We have been using our imaginations to be the chef and customers! 

In computing Year 2 revisited how to use Scratch Jr. They added a new sprite, changed the background and created a sequence of commands. Then they worked with the Reception children and showed them how to program. Great teamwork! 

We looked again at our sweetpeas to check if they were growing shoots and leaves.
In only a few days we spotted some real changes, helped along by the warm weather! 

We had an amazing day out in Birmingham visiting Thinktank. Lots of hands-on and practical activities to try! The science garden was fantastic! 

We used Class 1 Bibles to give us inspiration for our competition entries.

Year 2 have been learning to tell the time to the nearest five minutes! 

For our first Science lesson of the term, we explored what plants need to grow. We planted sweetpea seeds but removed water, sunlight and warmth from three of the pots. We will check on their progress and compare to our other seeds as they grow.Reception identified the main parts of a plant and…

With Madame Stevens we found out about Easter traditions in France. We went on an Easter hunt looking for French vocabulary in the Spring sunshine!