Blog Author: lderry

We have all worked really hard this week to complete our Summer assessments. Miss Derry has been very proud of how hard we have worked and how sensible we have been. In the afternoons we have been completing lots of art and craft activities to get ready for our Jubilee celebrations. We loved…

This week we have retold the story of The Great Dragon Rescue, in English. We have tried really hard to make our writing better than the authors, using lots of descriptive language and different sentence types. In Maths, Year 2 have been learning how to tell the time to the nearest 5 minutes and…

It has been great to have everyone back in school this week, rested and happy after the Easter holidays! One of our PE lessons, this half term, is to practise our catching skills. We had lots of fun but realised that we need to do lots more work on this, there were balls going everywhere!!! In…

We started off the week by watching Class 3’s play. We thought it was really good and the singing was amazing! We also practised for the Mother’s Day service in church that happened on Thursday. It was lovely to be back in church and be able to invite parents in too. We have been busy making some…

Miss Derry has been very proud of us this week as we have been able to log on and off the computers by ourselves. We have also played a coding game, moving a turtle around the screen to get to different places. This has been lots of fun! In English, we came to the end of our Vlad and the Great…

We were set the important task of designing playground equipment with the theme of ‘outer space’ this week, in our Design and Technology lessons. We have had some brilliant ideas and overcame a few challenges of teamwork and design faults to create our finished designs, which we are very happy…

What a great start to the first week back after the holidays! We celebrated World Book Day and Pancake day on Monday with lots of exciting activities. Our favourite was getting to walk around the village to try and spot all of the books that people had put in their windows. We got so carried away,…

Our favourite part of the week, was getting to come to school on Thursday in our ‘funky fashion’ outfits. We wore brightly coloured clothes, had spiky hair, some of us had multi coloured hair and painted finger nails too!
In our English lessons, we have written and performed our own poems. Miss…

In English, we have finished off our information writing and started to look at poetry. We have recited the poem, acted the poem out, looked at rhyme and onomatopoeia and had a go at planning our own poems in the style of The Magic Wand. Next week, we will be writing our own poems and performing…

We have had great fun in our Art lessons this week. Our new topic is all about sketching and colour. we have looked at different ways to make lines and used these to make a background to a picture. We have also had a go at drawing a portrait in the style of Picasso, we had lots of laughs during…

We have been very excited about learning a new foundation subject this week. In the afternoons we have moved onto Science and the topic of plants. So far we have looked at and labelled the different parts of plants. We have also had a go at using scrap materials to make our own plants. We really…

This week, we have come to the end of our work on Katie in London. Year 1 have independently retold the story and Year 2 have written their own adventures for Katie and Jack. In Maths, Year 2 have been learning how to divide  by sharing and grouping. They are getting better at using their…