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We had a special visit today from a real life Viking during our first week of our topic Traders and Raders. Our visitor told us all about why he raided our country! Turns out we had lots to offer the Scandinavians. We began by looking at the main events that happened after the Romans left Briton…

As part of our Engage for our new topic ‘Stargazers’, the children explored size and scale of the planets in our Solar System. They worked out the order of the planets and then had to match everyday objects to the planets to understand the scale. We used a melon for Jupiter, a grapefruit for…

Here is the knowledge graphic organiser for our next topic 'Stargazers'. 

Well done to Year 2 for working incredibly hard during Culture Week.  Look at all of our fabulous work!

This week, as part of whole school cultures week, we have been learning all about different family celebrations.  

We have talked about lots of different family celebrations such as birthdays, christenings, engagements and weddings.

Today we had our very own 'Pretend' wedding day.   Our…

This week we have been learning all about family traditions.

We made a church for our role play area and christened one of our babies. 

We talked about birthdays and could remember key events and parties we had for our birthdays, we especially enjoyed making birthday cupcakes! 

Lastly we…

Within cultures week we have been learning about family traditions such as birthdays, christenings and weddings. Today, we put on our party clothes and had our very own 'pretend' wedding, we had a fabulous day. 

We had a lovely ceremony, played party games, had a boogie and of course ate some…

We have had an excellent week learning all about Catholicism this week. We have investigated and created information posters on the Seven Sacraments; moulded (using craft wire) our own crosses to make up our Rosary beads; we’ve created stained glass windows using tissue paper; researched facts…

We have had a fabulous week learning about the catholic religion. We know how important it is to respect others beliefs and learned that many religions are very similar. We have enjoyed making a Rosary pray necklace, stained glass windows and a crown for Mary.

We have been very busy this week!

We began by finding out all about the Islamic religion and beliefs. The children then wrote a fact sheet describing what they had found out.

Next, the children created stained-glass windows with geometric designs that are inspired by the Islamic ideal that…