Today we came in dressed as characters from our favourite books or in our PJs! We had a bit of a different day, we split up into 3 groups, with team ladybird, mermaid and snail – from Miss Carter, Miss Frowen and Mrs Latham’s book choices. Over the course of the day, we have battled it out in our handwriting, English, maths  and art lessons for points, based on who has completed the most impressive work. We also gained points for good listening, sitting, behaviour, kindness and answering questions.

In our groups we had our own circle time, where the book for each team was shared. We then went round our groups and told our friends our favourite books and why, writing it down as we went. Some of our group members even read part of their favourite book to the rest of their teams!

In our math lesson, we had a slight problem! There weren’t enough books to go around. We had to work out how many books we were short each time, using our knowledge of subtracting tens and ones.

This afternoon, each team worked collaboratively to create a giant version of their book front cover. They are works in progress as you can see (we had to squeeze PE in too!) But, watch this space for the finished products…

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This afternoon in Year One, disaster struck and our umbrellas all broke before the awful rain storm! We each chose 5 different materials to test and see if they would make a suitable cover for the hole. We then all decided on the best material, based upon its scientific properties and explained why we thought it would be the best. Overall, we concluded that the rubber from the rubber glove appeared to be the best replacement.

This afternoon in year 2 we have been experimenting in Science as part of our topic ‘materials’. We were given a range of materials and worked together to see if they absorbed the water we put on them or they were waterproof.

We had lots of fun and learnt lots too. We know that the scientific word absorbent means ‘a material that can soak up liquid’.

We grouped our class books into what we thought fiction and non-fiction meant. We then discussed the features of each kind of book and picked out three key characteristics of each type of book.

We used ipads reading comprehension tasks to discover interesting facts about Neil Armstrong. We then wrote our facts down in each group and shared them with the rest of the class.

We have been working on our place value to 20 and subtraction using concrete and pictorial objects, to help us write mathematical calculations.

Over the course of the Spring term, our Science focus has been materials. We have looked for different materials, diffident the different materials, described their properties and sorted them based on different criteria.

We have also been focusing on seasonal change, looking at transitions from Winter to Spring. We went on a Spring learning walk, looking for signs of Spring. The children used ipads in small groups to develop their computing skills, taking photographs of the signs of Spring they spotted.

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we have had a lovely tea then held a competition to see who could build a rocket that would travel the furthest. Charlie P’s rocket won! We’re now in our pjs watching a film!

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We are here safe and sound and have settled into our new home for the night. We have taken part in a drama workshop with Clem from the busy days company. Our theme was volcanoes and earthquakes. We work hard to be creative, imaginative, and to work as a team. We had lots of fun and have laughed a lot too.