25 February 2020

Pancake race!

Today we all had great fun taking part in this years pancake race. Thank you to the organisers and all of the parents who came to watch us race!

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14 February 2020

Culture Week - New York

This week, Year 2 have been learning all about New York.

We have:

*used map skills to locate the UK and the USA, New York State, and the 5 boroughs of New York City.

*used watercolour paints to create beautiful pictures of New York State’s National bird, the eastern bluebird.

*learned…

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14 February 2020

Another Fantastic Cultures Week!

What a great end to a fantastic week!  The children have thoroughly enjoyed finding out about Native Americans.  The grown-ups were amazed by our spectacular work on display.

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14 February 2020

We’re excited!!

We are REALLY excited about our new topic starting after half term. Take a look at this immersive space that has been created. Gods and Mortals here we come.....! 

 

A big thank you to Miss Pearson (our Year 3/4 student teacher) who helped make this…

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14 February 2020

Culture Week: Himalayan culture and Buddhism

I am so proud of the beautiful work that has been created this week. We have really enjoyed learning about Himalayan culture and Buddhism! 

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14 February 2020

Himalayan culture

We created water colour scenes of the Himalayas. Don’t they look fabulous? 

We’ve learned about two different tribes that live in the Himalayas, and created an informative information sheet about this. 

Finally, we created our Tibetan prayer flags. These flags are often hung up along high…

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14 February 2020

Lotus flowers

We had a great time creating beautiful, lotus clay tiles. The lotus flower is a representation of fortune in Buddhism. 

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14 February 2020

The story of the Buddha

We’ve been learning about Himalayan culture and Buddhism. We created our own class Buddha, and retold the story. 

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14 February 2020

Culture Week

We have had a great week with our 'Native America' themed culture week and the work that the children has produced has been outstanding. The board in our classroom looks amazing and so does all of the work in the hall. Well done everyone!

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13 February 2020

Culture week!

This week we are celebrating different cultures. Year 1 have really enjoyed learning all about America in particular New York City.  We've learned lots of interesting facts about the city's history, culture, the different types of foods they like to eat and interesting places to visit. 

We've…

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13 February 2020

Cultures Week

We have been enjoying Cultures Week at school.  Reception are learning about Chinese New Year.  It is the Year of the Rat this year.

We listened to the Chinese New Year story about how all the animals couldn't decide who would be the one that the years would be named after.  We found out that…

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13 February 2020

Traditional Frybread

The children made Native American traditional frybread today.  They enjoyed it so much, many of them copied down the recipe so they could try it at home!

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