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This term sees the return of one of our favourite activities - Forest Schools! Every Monday afternoon Mrs L takes the children down to a nearby field where the children get to practice all sorts of bushcraft skills from den making to outdoor cooking. It really helps the class to bond too as they also work on their team skills. This has to be one of our favourite lessons and the children can't wait to go again next Monday.

It has been a busy first week back in Class 1, with lots of new units of learning for the new half term. Year 2 have enjoyed their Guided Reading text for this week, about the Gunpowder Plot, and learnt new vocabulary 'treason', 'plotted' and 'parliament'...ask us what our new words mean! In English we have been looking at instructions - sorting texts into those that are and are not instructions and then practising using instruction language to help a partner copy a model th

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What a busy week it's been despite only being 4 days. First six of the girls went to a netball tournament and took part in several matches where they tried hard to play together as a team. Our team came 2nd so that's a huge achivement - well done to you. We have started to learn lots of new mathematical vocabularly including: squared numbers, multiples, factors, triangular numbers and more. Some children were tasked with using these number properties to try and solve a positi

This week the children have had Art Week. We have looked at Sir Frank Bowling , talked about his paintings and experimented with some of the techniques he used. We also talked about The Windrush generation , read the book Coming To England and compared the colours, foods and buildings of the Caribbean with England. Have a super weekend everyone .

This week has been art week and we have had a great time learning all about Dezil Forrester and creating some art work inspired by him. We started off by looking at some of his pictures and talking about how he in turn was inspired by Caribbean music. We then listened to some dub and reggae and drew our own pieces. The children especially loved a bit of Bob Marley and some of the children were singing along to every word of the songs! We looked at how Denzil used bright block

It's been art week 🎨 and for it, we've been studying the works of Hurvin Anderson. He's an artist who uses his parents' experiences of the Caribbean to paint images of somewhere he only knows through imagination. As a result, his paintings are not based on reality but his blurred interpretationss. Below is an example of his style We found out about his style, experimented with colour making and researched images of places special to us. We wanted to keep the image identifiab

On Tuesday Class 2 took part in a very exciting dodgeball tournament at Outwood school in Ripon. The children had been really looking forward to it and couldn't wait to get there. Overall we played five games and at times the scores were extremely close with only a few points in it. With some excellent dodging and throwing skills on show, the children did very well and came in the top halves of their groups, which meant that they went forward to the playoffs. After an amazing

It has been another busy week in Class 1, with lots of wonderful learning taking place. On Thursday we held our first ever Be Safe day at school, where we were joined by our friends from North Stainley to learn about all sorts of different ways to keep ourselves safe. In the afternoon we especially enjoyed having a visit from Mr Exelby to talk about farm safety and a PCSO who answered lots of our questions, helped us to understand how to stay safe on the roads and then, the

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zqtf34j/articles/z9j4kqt#z9q6dnb We've been discovering about the Roman Empire in our history studies, focusing on the reasons behind the Roman's attempts to invade Britain. We looked at the ways in which the Celts lived during the years before the invasion and on Wednesday, we visited Murton Park to experience the ways in which the Romans lived. We were met by a Roman citizen called Flava who gave us some basic training before being perm