Remembrance Liturgy 2023
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The busy bee gardening club have been making our school grounds hedgehog safe. We have cleared any litter that we could find and looked for the perfect spot for the hedgehog houses. We have added hay to keep the hogs warm and...
In class we have been exploring the poem ‘The Owl and the Pussycat’ by Edward Lear. We started by unpicking the adventurous vocabulary used in the poem like elegant, fowl and runcible. We have used echo reading and choral reading to read the poem together. We have...
Using their sticky knowledge from Year 1, the children have been practicing signing onto the school computers and then shutting them down correctly. The children had to think carefully about the username and password and that it was entered...
Year two have been looking at how to make two sprites move on screen at the same time. The children discovered that by adding the 'green flag' block to the beginning of each sprite's sequence, would allow them to start at the same time by pressing the green...
Year two have have been using the Scratch Jnr software app on the school iPads. The children have learnt about he blue move blocks and how they can make their sprite move in different ways on the...
Year two began by discussing how quickly they thought an image would be shared online. After this, the children went outside and experimented sharing a picture of Mr. Patterson's dog (Dave). Year 2 were very surprised at how quickly everyone managed to get a copy...
Year 2 have been learning about their digital footprint when using technology online. The children followed the story of Penelope and were able to identify her interests based on the places that she had...
What a day it has been! We've had a fantastic time on the beach in South Shields. The children loved playing in the sand, building sand castles, dipping their toes in the sea and enjoying ice-creams. Happy...
Last Thursday Year 2 had a wonderful science lesson outdoors looking for different habitats. The children worked in pairs and went off on a habitats hunt; then they drew and labelled different habitats that they had found. Mrs Gourley joined us that afternoon!...
We have just planned another investigation in science. We want to find out what materials woodlice live under so we chose dark plastic, clear plastic, card and carpet to place in the garden and check if woodlice would come to live under any of them. We'll check...
In June Year 2 planted beans as a part of a science project. The beans have been growing in the yard just outside of our classroom and we have been looking after them, putting them in the sun or in the shade; we have been watering them daily. The beans are looking...