2P…

Over the last week, we have been making animations based on the story of The Good Samaritan, which we read in RE. The models and the backgrounds were made in groups of 6, then we got into pairs on the apple macs to put the films together. Click on the ‘animations’ tab above to view all of our masterpieces. Feel free to leave a comment saying which one is your favourite!

On Thursday we went to Platts Field Park. When we arrived at school we started making our picnic. After that we lined up and walked from our school to the park, and while we were waiting for the other classes we rolled down a hill. It started to rain on the way for a little bit, but then the weather was ok for the rest of the day. Then we went to the duck pond to see the robot ducks. Then we went on an even bigger hill and rolled down it. After that we started eating our lunch “It was very nice.” After that we went to the park and I went on the swing. Then we played basket ball, tennis and even racing. Eventually when we came back from the park we were all very tired so we all got a book and relaxed.

- Written by Amirah Aftab.

On Wednesday we went to the enormous hall because it was maths day. We were put in groups of 4 with children from 1S and we were given a sheet with money on. Then we had to go to each of the tables so that we could buy things for a party. There were 20 people coming to the party and we had to spend £10 on items like plates, hats, balloons and cups.

It might have been the first week back after a holiday, but it has been rather busy.
We have continued to do our SATs, this week getting all the writing and spellings done. In literacy we also looked at the features of instructions, and in particular looked at recipes. In numeracy we made pictograms using the food that we had in our lunchboxes and sorting it out into different types such as fruit, drinks, yoghurts and sandwiches. We then used photographs of this to turn this into a bar chart in our numeracy books.

We also started our last topic in year 2, ‘What makes a sporting hero?’, by thinking of the qualities of a hero and in science we started talking about healthy eating and the different food groups there are. We all got given a country to follow in the World Cup, and in ICT we had to research our country, finding out where it is, what the capital city is, what the population is etc. We’ll see whose country wins in a few weeks time!!

Oh, and on Thursday we went to Fuzzy Ed’s Fun House at Parrs Woods, as our reward for having the best attendance in key stage 1 last term. The class behaved immaculately and I am very proud of them all.
See how much fun we had in the photos below.

From the class that brought you ‘The Trial of the Big Bad Wolf’, and ‘Under the Sea’ comes possibly their greatest performance yet.

Behold, the full performance of ‘The Gruffalo’.

Enjoy.

The Gruffalo from Mr Pickering on Vimeo.

The main event this week was our assembly all about The Gruffalo. It was AMAZING!! We filmed it and are hoping to put it on the website very soon.

In literacy, we have been studying Julia Donaldson books, and in particular The Gruffalo’s Child. We wrote all about how the Gruffalo’s child’s feelings change during the course of the story.

In topic, we have been looking at the Ancient Egyptians, sorting information into paragraphs and finding out how to write in hieroglyphics.

In numeracy we have been doubling and halving and how they are the inverse of each other and on Friday we went on a measuring treasure hunt.

In ICT, we learnt how to add speech bubbles to word documents.

We spent the morning having a Technology Morning, making time machines for our topic on ‘Where would you like to travel in history?’. Lots of parents came in to help; Muqaddas, Amirah, Abdur, Aaliyah and Amina’s mums all came to help as well as Kinzah and Arooj’s dad. We made 5 AMAZING time machines, all of which are on display outside our classroom. Come and have a look at them, as well as the photos below.

We were only in for 3 days this week, what with the bank holiday and the election on the Thursday, but we still managed to fit a lot in…

In numeracy we looked at number bonds to 100 (which we were brilliant at) and our 2, 5 and 10 times tables (which we were great at) and in topic we looked at what it would be like to be a child going to school in Victorian times. We are very glad that we are going to school now and not then!!

In literacy we wrote the most AMAZING riddles. Read the ones below and leave a comment saying what you think they are describing.