This morning the children came into a bowl of Porridge...….

Instantly they made the connection to Goldilocks and the Three Bears as our next traditional tale.  Its safe to say the porridge wasn't as much as a hit to the children as it was to Goldilocks.  Perhaps that was the lack of sugar! :-)

Although Rhys and Rowan completely cleared up their plates :-) Yummy, yummy.

Well the weather wasn't the best but off we all headed on our trip to the local area.  First stop was Summer Lane Methodist church to drop off our bags before one class headed to the cemetery and the other stayed in church.  

We all learnt so much about the cemetery and the church.  Did you know there are famous people in  our cemetery?  Do you know when the cemetery opened?  I am sure the children could tell you.  

It wasn't long before we had lunch and headed to our next stop - St Mary's.  Wow what a difference this church was, from the size and the amount of stain glass windows to the difference in organs.  I bet you didn't know that the organ in the Methodist Church has between 400 to 500 pipes.  We all had a turn at playing some of the pipes and enjoyed singing a song using the organ. 

What a fantastic day we have had despite the weather.  We are so proud of the children and how well behaved they all were.  

This week has been Anti-Bullying week - the theme this year is RESPECT.   We have talked about how important this is and what it means to us all.  We are all friends together in Year 2 and have so much respect for everyone.

The children have designed friendship tiles for their friends after discussions with each other.  They will then make these out of clay.  We can't wait.

We all made poppies to make a large loveheart to show the care, love and respect we all have.  This looks fabulous and will sit pride of place on our new topic board.

Finally we all made a friendship bracelet that links together to make a huge Year 2 friendship chain.

Take a look at some of our pictures. We can't wait for our work to be on show in the hall this afternoon for all the parents.

Oh my...we just couldn't believe our eyes this morning when we arrived to our classrooms being the subject of a "crime scene".  

The children were surprised, shocked, excited and flabbergasted at what awaited them on arriving.  The suspense was built even higher because we said parents weren't allowed!  After all we wouldn't want our parents to become the "SUSPECTS".

The SUSPECT left various clues around the classroom for the children to go around and solve clues.  They loved becoming "detectives".

The detectives spent time investigating and solving the various clues!  We then came together to discuss the clues, evidence and suspects.  Who was our "RULE BREAKER"?  


THE BIG BAD WOLF!

What a fantastic morning everyone had and what a great hook into writing! :-)

Year 2 and 5 walked down to Wombwell Cemetery today to take part in a Remembrance service, to allow us to remember all of the soldiers who died for our futures.  The children were an absolute credit to us as a school and to you their parents.  

What a fantastic morning the children had...

New half term = new topic and we were so excited to get started!  The children identified a simple picture knowing immediately it was Guy Fawkes and even better they could remember all the facts they had learnt in year 1 about him.  Very proud moment.

Using instructions from last term, the children worked in groups and we all made mini Guy Fawkes - it was such fun and they all wondered just exactly why we were making them.

What a fantastic day year 2 had on our school trip! We enjoyed looking around the all about me exhibit and had lots of fun in the role play areas.  It seems we have lots of budding doctors, nurses, dentists and midwives in year 2.    The children learned all about the importance of a healthy diet and in the gross lab science show even learned what a healthy diet looks like coming out the other side! Very gross but very educational. 
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In the gross lab science show we all become grossologists after studying all things gross.  We learned about blood, scabs, wee, poo, sick and snot.  This also taught us how important it is to keep clean to prevent the spreading of germs.   

Today we planned a little surprise for the children...and it definitely was that!

We had visitors from Wigfield Farm who brought with them a host of "special visitors" and lots of interesting things for the children to look at.  Part of our science curriculum is for the children to "know what animals including humans need to survive" as well as "being aware of animals and their offspring".

The children met Terry the tortoise, Bernice the bearded dragon, Sally the snake and even met a giant African Land Snake.    I wonder if they can remember which one of them was a carnivore?    I am sure they'll be able to tell you.    They even talked about whether they were herbivore, carnivore or an omnivore!  Which one are you?

They learnt how different animals shed their skins and had the chance to see some snake skins and even the skin of a Tarantula .  Some of them were so brave as they thought it was real being past around.  Thankfully the real one, was in its cage on the table!

Bernice impressed them with how she ate the meal worms, have a look at this video.
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We took lots of photographs, as the children thoroughly enjoyed every moment so a photo overload for you all to enjoy.  The opportunities to learn so much about some animals, stroke them and learn interesting facts was fantastic.    What a great morning!

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Today we created our own snails by using just a few items and following simple instructions on what to do.  The children were fantastic and listened very carefully to make sure they listed to everything they needed to do.

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We used this as our hook for writing and it's safe to say what a great hook it was!  The children loved creating their own individual snails.  

Following on from the this, the children then wrote a "cold write" in literacy of instructions of how to make the snails for others to use.  This allowed us to pull out important next steps of learning.  We have some great things planned over the next week to help us all with instructions.

We spent the afternoon on Monday, learning all about what a human needs to survive.  We had fun sorting out what we classed as  "essentials" and "none essentials" - it was interesting to see what some of the children thought.

We enjoyed some role play to start with, acting as Florence Nightingale and a soldier, thinking about different scenarios and what we would need to help the soldier to survive.  Every one had a go at the drama and it was great to see the children's imaginations.

In groups, we drew around  one of our teams, using our pictures and words to sort to show what we thought.    What a great, active science lesson in which the children left with so many facts!