2P…

Hi everyone, just wishing everyone at Birchfields and especially 2P a happy new year.

Mrs Tiplady

Every Tuesday this term, we have been learning African drumming with Mrs Smalley. We have really enjoyed doing it and, as you can see by the video below, we are really good!!

If it doesn’t work straight away, pause the film and wait until it gets to 100%. It’s worth the wait!

We had our Christmas party. It was also a party for Miss Martin, who is leaving us tomorrow. We had a dance, some food and there was even a special guest who came to see us. See who it is in the photos below:

On Thursday, we are performing the Christmas play with 6C and the choir. Parents are very welcome to come to the performance at 9:15. The class have worked really hard on it and, as you can see from the photos, we have enjoyed the rehearsals.

Last week was all about German week in 2P. Click on the tab above to see all the photos and read about what we got up to.

We went to the Hindu temple on Monday because we wanted to learn about the religion. Hindus believe that there is only one God, but there are lots of different statues because they believe God takes many forms.

This week has gone so quickly! And it’s only 4 weeks to Christmas. Blimey, doesn’t time fly when you’re having fun and working hard! This week, we went on a trip to St Agnes Church. Next week we will put some more information about that up here, so check back then! But the class were absolutely wonderful. They listened really well to Father Stephen and asked such sensible questions. Mr Pickering, Mrs Tiplady and Miss Martin were all extremely proud. In other news…

   In numeracy,  we looked at using number lines to add and subtract. In literacy, we read the story of Six Dinner Sid and had to write a description all about Sid, as well as thinking very carefully about where capital letters have to go. We talked about Anti-bullying week in circle time, did African Drumming, learnt about electrical safety in science and did ALOT of work on the nativity. After a few changes in the cast, we now know who everyone is going to be and we even started rehearsing with 6C. It is going to be amazing, but Mr Pickering is starting to panic as we only have 18 school days until the big performance.

On Thursday, we went to St Agnes Church to look and learn all about churches. Below are pictures from the trip. Next week we are going to write all about the trip and we will put that on the website to tell you more.

Mr Pickering had two days in bed feeling very sorry for himself this week. Everyone else managed to make it into school though, which meant we had a wonderful 97% attendence. Well done everyone!!

   We had two different teachers when Mr Pickering was off, both of which thought that the class were wonderful. We learnt how to tell the time in numeracy, including O’clock, half past, quarter past and quarter to. In Literacy, we wrote poems all about what different colours make us think about and in Science we were looking at how we can be safe around electricity. In Geography, we looked at a map of the school and shaded in all the rooms that we go into, which was lots of fun. We also looked at churches in RE, worked on throwing and catchign in PE and had time for golden time, phonics and a circle time all about Children in Need and why some children around the world are not as lucky as we are.

Well, it’s the first week back after the holidays and it’s been straight back to working really hard. We all found out what house groups we are in and started giving out house points. In Literacy we really enjoyed reading lots of different poems, and some people read their favourite one out to the rest of the class. In Numeracy we were looking at weight and capacity. We had to weigh lots of items from around the classroom and put them in order from the lightest to heaviest. We had to invent our own marvelous medicine on Thursday and write the ingredients in ml. In Science, we started looking at our new topic of electricity by thinking of all the things in school and at home that are powered by electricity. And we did lots of phonics, games, gym, art, music and golden time. I think we all deserve two days off after all that!