Blog Author: Miss McKendrey

This half term we are learning how to refine some of the gymnastics moves we learned last year in preparation for a competition later in the year. Today we focused on jumping and using this to mount the apparatus correctly.

There was a lot of interest in this year’s school council election. The children interested told the class why they would be a good Year 2 representative on the school council. The vote was very close with Isaac and Pearl being the two winning representatives. Their classmates have full faith in…

Year 2 have been working on representing numbers up to 100. They used a range of equipment to make given numbers using tens and ones.

Congratulations to the winning boy and girl in this half term’s reading rewards. A special mention to Georjie-Rose who read five times or more every week for all nine weeks.

We encourage everyone to go along to the local library and join the Summer Reading Challenge. Keep it up during the…

Reception thoroughly enjoyed their end of year trip to the Lake District Wildlife Park. They enjoyed learning about all the animals. They especially enjoyed cuddling guinea pigs, watching a bird of prey display and stroking the bearded dragon and the snake.

Reception had great fun making and testing their pirate boats this week. They had to think about how to make the boats, the materials they would need and whether the materials were waterproof or not. All of them were waterproof although some of them did capsize.

The Year 1 children enjoyed an afternoon of painting portraits of themselves ready to use in a class display in their new Year 2 classroom this September. They went to see where the new classroom will be and had lots of opportunities to talk about what Year 2 will be like and to ask any…

In the final art and craft club of the term the Reception children made sensory bottles. They chose the items they wanted to put inside them then the colour of the water they wanted inside it. They were all amazed at what happened when they turned them upside down.

The Reception made dancing snakes in art and craft club this week. They designed and cut out their snakes then moved them in the air to dance to some music.

In Maths this week Reception have been learning about halving shapes. They investigated how they could halve some basic 2D shapes using their scissors to cut them. They were surprised to find that some shapes could be halved in more than one way.

This week at Phunky Fit club we made a fruit salad. We enjoyed tasting different fruits then chose our favourites to put in our own fruit salad. We learned how to use the knives safely to cut each fruit.

This week in Art and Craft Club the Reception children decorated masks using a variety of materials.