As part of our World Book Day activities Class 1 were lucky enough to visit Seven Stories for a workshop called ‘Elmer and friends”.

We arrived and met the Tiger Who Came for Tea. Then we went into the Elmer gallery before going to the activity room where we built houses for Elmer’s friends and brought back the colours of the rainbow through our pictures.

After lunch we explored more before heading up to the Attic for the best storyteller we’ve ever heard!

Three stories later, it was time to get the bus back to school. The children were wonderful, so respectful to each other, staff at Seven Stories and other visitors. A great day was had by all.
“What was the favourite part of our visit?” – Mrs Hanley

“All of it!” – Adam

“(My)Packed lunch!” – Lewis

“The storyteller” – Ben

“The pictures for Elmer” – Ella

Class 1 have started the new half term with their new topic of Superheroes. We have started with the books Supertato and Ten Little Superheroes. The children used Supertato’s friends (new potatoes) to count up to 20 before Evil Pea appeared and told them to take 1 or 2 away.

We also worked in groups to design and build superhero bases and evil genius lairs. Mwah ha ha!
More Superhero work to follow as the term progresses.

Class 2 has had an amazing time taking part in an outdoor learning morning. We worked brilliantly together as a team and individually to create scenes using natural resources. We also took part in drama activities and team games before finishing our morning by toasting marshmallows.

“I loved toasting the marshmallows!” Oliver

“We used teamwork to make our creations.” Ada

Class 2 enjoyed an amazing visit from author and illustrator Liz Million.  She talked to us about what it was like to be an author, read us some poems and helped us to draw some nasty pirates and wonderful creatures. Back in class we wrote our own stories about the characters we created.

“ I was really proud of my pirate drawing. He was on a ship that sank really fast and he ended up on an island.” Kian

 We were very excited to open our new storytelling hats. We each chose a hat and took turns to sit on the Hot Seat and pretend to be that character. Ben was Peter Pan and told us “I got here by flying, Tinkerbell came too but she’s hiding!” [Read more…]

As part of our history topic on Special Places, we have been exploring local buildings which were built before we were born. This week, Year 2 visited St Andrew’s church. We made observations and looked for evidence to indicate that the building was built a long time ago.

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