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22 January 2024

Making visual notes in art

During todays art lesson ‘be an architect’ we looked at the artist and architect Friedensreich Hundertwasser. We created visual notes in our sketch books noting key features of his work including colours and shapes that he used and added key words too. We really enjoyed completing…

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18 January 2024

Marble rolling and leaf rubbings

Today we stayed inside for Forest School as it was so cold outside. We used conkers and paint to create pieces of art using conker rolling and we also used dry leaves to create leaf rubbings. We had lots of fun!

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16 January 2024

Be an Architect

In art we have learned all about architects and looking at different perspectives of of buildings and other structures. We looked at some famous buildings including the Taj Mahal, we then drew parts of the architecture to help us understand other people's work. 

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11 January 2024

Forest school - tied up in knots

Today we had lots of fun during our first Forest School session. We used sticks to create our very own pictures frames. We used string to attach the sticks together and worked hard to tie the string and make knots. Once completed we took pictures using our frames. We can’t wait for next weeks…

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7 December 2023

Super shapes!

Today we have been looking at the number of sides a 2D shape has. We worked hard to investigate what 3, 2D shapes we could create using only 15 lolly sticks. 

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28 November 2023

Letter Larry

Today we identified the features of a letter with the help of Letter Larry. We used talk for writing to help us recall the key features.

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24 November 2023

All about Josiah Wedgewood

In History we are continuing with our topic ‘The great change makers’, today we have focused on Josiah Wedgewood we have looked at what his famous Jasperware, which is his blue and white pottery. We used our i pads to record all the changes he help make to the country. 

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24 November 2023

Hot seating!

Today we used freeze framing to re enact  key elements of the story. We then created a bank of questions to ask Plop and used this to complete our hot seating. 

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22 November 2023

Den building!

Year two showed our school values today by working together in teams to create and build a den. They showed super team work, determination, communication skills and friendship by supporting and encouraging eachother.

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20 November 2023

I pad painting

Today we used our i pad to create pictures of hedgehogs. We used different colours and techniques to draw their spikes, spines and to add detail to our picture. 

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17 November 2023

Don’t be a bully! Be a buddy!

Year 2 created some wonderful posters to shout about anti bullying! 

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15 November 2023

Hedgehogs!

We used the leaves we collected last week to use for spikes on our clay hedgehogs.  We knew lots of facts about hedgehogs because we had been learning about them in our English lessons. Ms Barker was very impressed by our knowledge! 
 

Other activities this week included bug hunting and mud…

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