Fruit Kebabs!
This week the cooking after school club have been making fruit kebabs. We have focused on using the bridge and claw techniques when cutting our fruit. We also discussed how […]
Category Archives: Year 2
Year 1 & 2 Throwing Golf
Year 1 & 2 continued their topic of Target Games by completing a Throwing Golf course. Children had to thrown bean bags to a variety of holes and attempt to […]
Class 3’s Art
This week in art we have been designing a pattern using the waves of the sea as inspiration. These pattern will then be printed and sewn onto beach bags. We […]
Class 2 Singing in French
Today class 2 have been learning how to tell the weather in french. We started with some word matching games and progressed onto singing a weather song in french. We […]
KS1 Cooking club
Yesterday children from class 1 and 2 had their first baking session. We used our mixing, melting and crumbling techniques to create amazing chocolate cheesecakes! We worked efficiently to ensure […]
Year 1/2 PE Target Games
Year 1 & 2 started their new topic of Target Games in PE. The children develop the underarm and overarm throw and challenged themselves to throw with accuracy towards a […]
Music in class 3
Today we have been listening and appraising a piece of music called Music is all around. We learnt that it was a piece of jazz music. We discussed how we […]
Attendance Breakfast
Well done to class 3 today for winning the attendance breakfast with the best attendance this term. We have worked so hard to achieve this so it was very well […]
KS1 Easter Egg Hunt
We have had a fantastic morning in the sun on our Easter Egg hunt. It was lovely to see so many parents in school joining in as well. We used […]
Recorders in Class 2
This half term class 2 have been practising playing the recorders and have been able to perform an entire song! We focused on the notes C and D. I hope […]
KS1 & EYFS Easter Assembly
It was wonderful to invite parents into school today for the KS1 and EYFS Easter Assembly. This is the first time any of our children have performed for an audience […]
Bolsover Castle Recount
Today in literacy we have started writing our recount for our visit to Bolsover castle. We have used talk for write to begin to learn our opening paragraph. We have […]
Science Week: Special Mentions
What a fantastic week we’ve had this week for British Science Week! Our Science Ambassadors have once again made us so proud, topping off the week with a wonderful demonstration […]
Class 3 Trip to Bolsover Castle
As part of our topic ‘Towers, Tunnels and Turrets’, class 3 visited Bolsover Castle. We had an amazing day exploring the castle and using our knowledge to discuss what we […]
Class 2 Dinnertime Talk for Write
Scooter Skills
Science investigation
In science this week we have been investigating how to get a paper clip out of a jug of water without getting our hands wet. We predicted whether or not […]
Year 1/2 PE- Athletics
Heart of Willow Tree Casting Day!
What an amazing day we’ve had today with Casting Innovations Ltd! Mr Brooks and his team were in school all day, working on the next stage of our Heart of […]
Collaborative woodwork
Today Class 2 and the year 3s from Class 5 have been working collaboratively to cut wood using a saw. We focused on using our tools safely and accurately measuring […]
Class 2 pancake day!
To begin our topic of instructions Class 2 have been looking at a pancake recipe. We learnt about the history of Shrove Tuesday and the importance of lent. Afterwards, we […]
Ball Skills- Year 1 & 2 PE
Class 2 Non-fiction talk for write
This week class 2 have been learning about non-fiction texts and their features. We are going to be creating a non-chronological report about castles. Our talk for write is our […]
Class 3 Performance Poetry
This week we have been learning about poetry. We have been focusing on rhyming words. We created actions to perform a poem called There is a dragon in my classroom. […]
Class 2 performing poetry
This week class 2 have been learning about poetry. We have been focusing on rhyming words and how to perform a poem. We separated into groups and independently created our […]
Class 2 away from the desk maths
This week we have begun our topic of measuring length and height. To introduce the concept of height we went into the hall and compared the height of ourself to […]
Class 3 Clay Tiles
In art this week, class 3 have used clay and clay tools to create a detailed pattern on a tile. These tiles were designed to be fit for a castle. […]
Key Stage 1 Knights and Princesses
To launch our topic of Towers, Tunnels and Turrets we have dressed up as people associated with castles. We designed and created our own shields and even made our own […]
Class 3’s Talk for Write
In literacy we have been working in small groups to create a story opened for the story The Tunnel. Children focussed on using expanded noun phrases to describe the tunnel. […]
Class 2 Outdoor literacy
This week class 2 are learning to write a setting description. We imagined Shrek’s swamp by adventuring to the outdoor classroom. We used our 5 senses to aid our learning […]
Art in Class 3
In art we have been exploring different patterns. Once we had explored different patterns we used our observational skills to create a tile of different patterns.
Class 3 Recorders
This week in class 3 we have continued to learn the recorder playing the notes B, A and G. We have been practising using these notes to the song ‘Ho […]
Class 2 recorders
This week class 2 have continued our recorder learning and have been practising our song ‘Ho Ho Ho’. We are mastering our technique and are beginning to play in sync. […]
Class 3 trip to the postbox
To finish our unit on letter writing we have posted our published work so that our grown ups can read it when it comes through the post. We walked very […]
Class 3 Instructions
This week Class 3 have been learning about instructions. To immerse the children in this topic we followed a recipe to make chocolate rice crispy buns. Before we made them […]
Class 2 Letters home
To conclude our letters topic we posted our published work so that our grown ups can read it when it comes through the post. We walked very sensibly to the […]
Class 2 Following a recipe
This week Class 2 have been learning about instructions. To immerse the children in this topic we followed a recipe to make chocolate rice crispy buns. We focused on the […]
Class 3’s Trip to France
Today Class 3 have been on a fabulous adventure to France! We transformed the classroom into a plane and even saw the plane take off and land. We then learnt […]
Class 2 Brazil day!
Today Class 2 have been on a fabulous adventure to Brazil! We transformed the classroom into a plane and even saw the plane take off. We then learnt about Brazil’s […]
Class 3 achievements
Today in class three we have shown fantastic resilience and determination to score amazing results on our spelling and arithmetic test. A huge well done to all children.
Class 2 Talk for Write
This week class 2 have been learning how to write letters. We were amazed when we received a letter from Sunny the meerkat asking us to write to his family. […]
Class 3 UK Parliament Week
This week in class this week we have been learning about parliament and the importance of voting. We know that it is important that everyone gets to express their views. […]
Class 2 UK parliament week
This week class 2 has been learning about parliament and the importance of voting. We learnt that everyone has a right to express their opinion. We then commenced some votes […]
SUMDOG CONTEST BEGINS!
We have been entered into the SUMDOG maths contest across England, which begins today and ends on Friday 11th November. The children in class 1 to class 9 have the […]
Postcards
Class 3 have been reading Meerkat Mail. This week we have focussed on the features of a postcard and the sort of sentences we might include in them. Today we […]
Year 1 & 2 Fitness
Class 2 – Animal poetry performance
This week class 2 have been learning about performance poetry. We have focused on alliteration and rhyming words. We separated into our animal groups and created actions. We then performed […]
Class 3 recorders
In class 3 this week we have continued to learn to play the notes C, A and G. The children have shown great resilience to learning a new skills and […]
Recorders in Class 2!
This week Class 2 have continued their work with recorders. We have listen and appraised a variety of music before learning the notes G, A and C. We practised our […]
Fantastic Lions
In literacy we have been focusing on non chronological reports. Last we researched lions and today we have used talk for writing to create a model text using talk for […]
Class 2 Creation Story
Today Class 2 have being learning about the creation story in RE. We have used this story to create a piece of drama. We used props to aid our learning […]
Recorders
In class 3 this week we have begun to learn a new skill in music. We have started learning the recorder. The notes we focussed on this week were G, […]
Art club
This week saw the start of our after school clubs. In art club we went on a nature walk to collect leaves, twigs, feathers and flowers to create a person […]
Class 2 Maths!
This week we have introduced the part whole model to class 2. They have grasped the concept and even attempted creating their own models using objects to help them. We […]
Year 2 Invasion Games
Class 2 Yorkshire Wildlife Park
Yesterday Class 2 loved their trip to the Yorkshire Wildlife Park. We experienced a fantastic workshop about Fur, Feathers and Skin. In this the children were given the opportunity to […]
Yorkshire Wildlife Park
What an amazing day we have had at the wildlife park. We have seen lots of animals and some very brave children even stroked a lizard and a cockroach. All […]
Class 2 escape room
To challenge the children we created a escape room! To escape they had to crack the code by getting the correct answer for 7 questions. We continued to focus on […]
Class 2 Outdoor Maths
Last week class 2 have been learning how to compare numbers using the correct terminology. To test our knowledge we played a throwing game in which we needed to compare […]
Talk for writing
In literacy we have been thinking about setting descriptions and using adjectives to describe. Children came up with words like abandoned, old and wooden to name just a few. Today […]
Invasion Games in KS1
Class 2 Talk for write
This week Class 2 have been learning about the Paralympian David Weir. We learnt about the event he takes part in and investigated the medals he won and where he […]
Attendance Certificates
Well done to all our children with 100% attendance this year. We know that for some of the time this year school was closed, but for every day they could […]
A letter arrives in class 3
A very exciting letter appeared on my desk this morning addressed to class 3. Children began predicting who it might have been from. Lots of children thought the letter might […]
Persuasive writing
This week in literacy class 3 have been working very hard. We have created adverts using our persuasive skills to persuade someone to visit a landmark in Rotherham. We used […]
Picture This 2021
Take a look at our magnificent Picture This exhibition at Gullivers Valley in Sheffield. Children have focused on the picture ‘Sheffield Through the Ages’ and have created a range of […]
Maths in Class 2
This week Class 2 have been comparing numbers up to 100. We have used our role play area to compare money and the small world area to compare 10s and […]
Striking & Fielding Year 1 & 2
Class 2 News Report
This week Class 2 have been continuing their learning about news paper reports. We have used our ICT skills to take videos of each other giving eye witness accounts and […]
Taking reading outdoors
As this week is mental heath week and all about nature we decided today to take the opportunity to read outside. Some children shared with us what book they were […]
Art
In class 3 we have been busy creating a design of London houses and buildings design using pencil. We then traced this design onto styrofoam making sure we were really […]
Disaster Strikes in London
Over the past week children in class 3 have been learning about newspaper reports. We have looked at the features included and learnt about the timeline of events for The […]
Year 1/2 Target Throw- PE
Class 2 Science
This week class 2 have been learning about wild plants! We discussed what the most common wild plants are and what they look like. Afterwards we made a tally chart […]
Year 1&2 PE
Year 1&2 started their new topic of Target Games. The children looked at underarm and overarm throws toward a targets. The children showed great resilience when trying to hit the […]