Today we had our Christmas dinner. Some of us were brave enough to try sprouts and parsnips!

Today we started our Christmas celebrations at St Peter’s Church, parents joined in as we sang and listened to prayers and readings to describe our Christmas celebrations.

Lucy had an exciting letter through the post last week. Lucy won a Blue Peter badge for reading which was designed by Sir Quentin Blake. Lucy read The Clumsy Crocodile and sent a drawing off to Blue Peter. Huge congratulations Lucy, we are very proud of you!

Today we had a visit from Rachel and Sally from Clonter. We talked about Shakespeare and some of his plays. We drew how we imagined the stage would look for different plays and then worked in a group to make a 3d version. When it was finished we thought about how we would light our stage and used torches to show how different lights changed the look of our stage.

Today class 2 showed off what they have learnt so far this year. This included fossils, the story of Mary Anning, and finished with an enthusiastic carnival dance which the parents had a go at learning too.

Reyah was given a Chief Scout Bronze Award for completing 6 Beaver scout challenge badges and 4 activity badges. We are very proud of her!

Next week the children are going to be given a reading for pleasure passport. They can choose any book from the top 50 recommended reads for their age. The children are so excited to work their way through!

In addition to placing our poppies with the rest of the school, we also made an area where the children could see each day in the classroom.

During today’s assembly Year 6 pupils shared some of their learning about World War 2.
They had a super box of WW2 artefacts which Miss Jackson had loaned from the IWM in Salford. Along side this we saw gas masks pupils had made at home and heard about personal history stories from our pupils’ families. The pupils spoke with empathy about the experiences of all those who’d lived during WW2. Children from other year groups listened with great interest and asked our young historians questions- keen to find out more!
Well done Year 6, thank you for sharing.

This afternoon Class 2 explored the school forest looking for evidence of living things. We were super lucky to spot a squirrel running straight to the top of a tall tree as we entered the forest. We also spotted bird feathers, our badger set, small slugs, insects and on the way to the forest several mole hills.
We discussed food chains and the children found several fallen leaves that had been nibbled at, the children thought this was probably caterpillars eating them- for energy!
After our science work we collected several leaves and seeds which will become part of our special art project … watch our blog tomorrow!

In Class 2 we have been exploring some of the ways we learn about the past. Our history lessons have taken us back millions of years. This week we found out about the life of Mary Anning, a fossil hunter – palaeontologist!
We recreated fossil formation with a loaf of bread and jelly sweets…. Take a look! Can you guess what the mysterious creatures are?