Piet Mondrian in ICT
In our ICT lessons, year 2 have been looking at the artwork of Piet Mondrian and trying to recreate his artwork using the laptops and tablets. You can see from some of the children’s work that this is an artist who used lots of lines and bold colours in his paintings.
Fun at the monkey forest
The Puffins had a fantastic time at the Monkey Forest today. We even saw a baby monkey that had been born overnight. The children were a real credit to the school and our tour guide told us lots of interesting facts about the monkeys.
Supersorting
Year Two were busy sorting materials according to their different properties in Science this week. They worked in small groups and had to find objects within the classroom and match theme to the property displayed on the label. We soon realised that some objects fitted into 2 or more…
Sharing stories
Several of the Puffins are really into reading at the moment. It is lovely to see virus children bringing in reading materials from home and sharing them with the rest of the class. Roald Dahl is proving to be a big hit with the class!
Researchers in action
Year 2 were researchers in their English lesson today. They used iPads to find information about deforestation, in preparation for writing their persuasive letter to the giants. They recorded their findings on post-its before having a class discussion about their research.
Incredible impressionists in ICT!
The Puffins were being artists in their ICT lesson today. They used a package on Purple Mash that enabled them to express their creativity and become Impressionists. A great effort by everyone.
Sports day!
Huge congratulations to all of the Puffins who took part in sports day this morning. Despite the intense heat, you all tried your very best and were extremely competitive. It was great to see you behaving so sensibly in front of all of your parents and relatives. Well done…
Role play
We’v enjoyed preparing questions to ask Greta then taking it in turns to be Greta in the hot seat. We also practised various freeze frames to retell a particular part of the story. Great teamwork by everyone and the children were very enthusiastic. Well done!
Special visitor
Miss Cawley came to visit and brought Oakley with her. The Puffins were so excited and it was great to see how much Oakley had grown. He was very alert and enjoyed seeing all of the children. He even had a babble during our reading session!
Material hunt!
A part of our Science lesson, Puffins went on a material hunt around our school and inside the classroom. The children were great at spotting things made from plastic/wood/metal…. Tonight they have been challenged with going home and trying to identify different materials around their house. We…
Worry bags!
Puffins have been learning about emotions in PSHCE and this week we were focusing on our worries. We listened to a story abut worries before discussion some of our own worries. We also thought of ways of solving or sharing some of our worries. In pairs, we wrote our worries on bags and then…
Editors at work!
We’ve been editing our recount of our trip to the park. Everyone was able to find something in their work that could be improved and some children went into even more detail about our little adventure.