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Smoothie Making!

Date: 14th Dec 2021 @ 12:21pm

Today we enjoyed making our Fruit Smoothies!

First we prepared our fruit and then we blended it together with juice and yoghurt.

Some of us liked it but some of us didnt!

 

Year 2 Warm-up Dance!

Date: 8th Dec 2021 @ 4:57pm

This half term, as part of our Fighting Fit theme, we have learnt about the improtance of exercise.

We designed our own warm-up dance to help others to be ready for exercise too.

We hope you enjoy it!

Year 2 Warm-up Dance

Tree Planting

Date: 7th Dec 2021 @ 3:25pm

Today we were busy helping Miss McKenna plant trees on the field in the wind and rain!

We are looking forward to seeing them grow!

Anglo Saxon Dwellings in Forest Schools

Date: 24th Nov 2021 @ 3:40pm

In Forest School this week we learnt about Anglo-Saxon homes and how they were created. We discovered their homes face the sun and that they used wattle and daub to stick their walls together - we loved making this as we got unbelievably muddy!

Odd socks!

Date: 23rd Nov 2021 @ 11:20pm

We enjoyed odd socks day!

We talked about our differences and how we can celebrate being different.

During the week we talked a lot about using just 'one kind word' to make someone's day brighter.

Fruit tasting

Date: 23rd Nov 2021 @ 11:14pm

We enjoyed tasting different fruits in our Design Technology lesson to see which flavours we like before we design our ownfruit smoothies.

We tried fruit such as melon, mango, plum, pineapple and pomegranate.

Scootsafe training

Date: 23rd Nov 2021 @ 10:38pm

We enjoyed our safer scooting morning with Jake from Sports Development.

We had great fun learning how to ride our scooters more safely.

Quill Writing

Date: 19th Nov 2021 @ 4:37pm

Thank you to Rory's Mummy for the feathers!

Recorders Performance

Date: 14th Nov 2021 @ 10:27pm

Year 2 have amazed me with how quickly they have learned to play their first 3 notes - B, A and G and can now play this piece - 'G is for Game Boy George'.

Sit back and enjoy!

 

Year 2 Play G is for Game Boy George

Wellbeing Wednesday

Date: 11th Nov 2021 @ 12:24pm

The children who came to our Wellbeing Wednesday session enjoyed a relaxing time with Tanya, focussing on breathing techniques and being aware of their senses.

Paralympics Day!

Date: 11th Nov 2021 @ 11:55am

We had a fantastic time during our paralympics activity session in the hall.

We discovered how tricky it is to save goals using only our hearing and learnt how to play Curling and Boccia.

Our Chair of Governors, Pat Jones came in to enjoy our session too!

Paralympics Fun

Date: 10th Nov 2021 @ 4:13pm

We had a fabulous start to our day with a paralympics activity session in the hall. We discovered how tricky it is to save goals using only our hearing and learnt how to play curling and boccia.

Adding 2 2-digit numbers!

Date: 9th Nov 2021 @ 9:30pm

We have been learning how to add 2 2-digit numbers together using Base 10 equipment.

 

Planting bulbs!

Date: 9th Nov 2021 @ 9:27pm

Year 2 have been busy clearning planting beds, making room for some mystery bulbs!

They had to plant the bulbs underground to protect them over the winter. 

They will be keeping a close eye on them to see when they begin to show above the ground!

I wonder what their flower will look like!

Forest Schools

Date: 9th Nov 2021 @ 5:02pm

We loved our first week of Forest School making maps using landmarks like the Anglo Saxons and discovering the names of different plants and mushrooms in our Wild Wood area. We can't wait for next week where we will be learning about fire and how it was used in Anglo Saxon times and in future sessions, we are hoping to bake bread on the open fire and learn about equality and equity around the world.

Our Local Walk

Date: 21st Oct 2021 @ 2:45pm

We had a great time this morning on our walk around the local area.

We had to follow our map and look for landmarks and other different features of the area around us.

Thank you to our helpers who walked with us.

Tag Rugby

Date: 14th Oct 2021 @ 12:40pm

Today we really enjoyed our Tag Rugby session with Dave and Andy!

Recorder time

Date: 14th Oct 2021 @ 12:39pm

We are really enjoying learning to play the recorder!

We now know how to play the notes B and A.

 

Mono--printing!

Date: 14th Oct 2021 @ 12:35pm

We have really enoyed our Art project this half term.

This week we put all of our ideas together to complete our prints of Penwortham!

Plant Life Cycles - dissecting and observing

Date: 11th Oct 2021 @ 9:37pm

We dissected lily flowers today to investigate male and female parts of plants and studied each part carefully using magnifying glasses. We also used these to observe the different sections of a huge sunflower head. We are drying it out so we can all grow giant sunfowers next year.

Guinea Pigs on their holidays!

Date: 1st Oct 2021 @ 4:28pm

The guinea pigs love their weekends away with different families in Year 2!

Look at what they get up to!

Debt Aware - Money Skills for Life

Date: 29th Sep 2021 @ 4:28pm

Managing Money

Year 5 have had their first visit of the year from Mr. Souter. He spent the afternoon with us to begin a series of workshops on Money Management - Lessons for Life.

This session focused on our understanding of NEEDS and WANTS and the difference between these. We learnt the definition of debt and the difference beween good and bad debt. All the children listened, laughed and learnt. Mr Souter has asked for 4 Money Mentors to be chosen from the class who will prepare and deliver the next Money Management session to us. Watch this space!

Dare to Aspire

Date: 27th Sep 2021 @ 5:31pm

George inspired us to be resilient and embrace challenges as a way of learning and increasing our self-confidence.

Living life cycles in the classroom

Date: 27th Sep 2021 @ 5:02pm

Our classroom has been filled with wildlife so far this term. We are observing our caterpillars undergoing their metamorphosis and hatching out as butterflies and we had a visit from a chicken with her eggs and chicks - an egg was hatching as we watched! We were very lucky to see a complete life cycle in one cage at a single moment in time.

Year 5 becoming brass experts

Date: 27th Sep 2021 @ 4:57pm

We are all learning to play trumpets, cornets, bass or trombones. Mr G was incredibly impressed as by the end of the first lesson all pupils could make a sound with their mouthpiece (called buzzing), play back simple rhythms and name different parts of their instruments.