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Mr Fisher

 

Welcome to Mr Fisher's Class!

 

This Year we will be supported by; Mrs Lock, Mrs Keen, Mrs Neilson, Miss Cooper and  Mrs Crenol.

 

Below is some key information that you might find useful.

 

Our Summer Term Topic is

'Where in the World?' 

 In our Topic lessons the children will …

 

-Name and locate the world’s seven continents. 

 –Identify similarities and differences between ways of life in different periods of time (History of flight).   -Know about significant individuals who have contributed to flight – The Wright Brothers.                            -Compare similarities and difference between Burnham-on-Sea and a country in Africa (Kenya).                      -Compare weather patterns between the UK and Africa.                                          

-Sort and label key human and physical features on photographs.                                                            

-Use directional language to talk through a map.                                                                                 

-Use simple fieldwork and observational skills to study the geography of my school and its grounds (Journey string).

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Our science work will focus on 'Animals Including Humans' (Year 1) and 'Living things and their habitats' (Year 2).

 

Year 1

The children will learn ...   

-How to identify common animals including fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals.

-How to identify a variety of common animals that are carnivores, herbivores or omnivores.

-How to describe and compare the structure of a variety of common animals.

 

Year 2

The children will learn ...

-How to compare things that are living from things that are dead or have never been alive.

-How animals are suited to the habitats they live in.

-How to identify a variety of plants and animals in their habitats, including microhabitats.

-How animals get food from plants and other animals and naming different sources of food.

-How a simple food chain works.

 

Homework
This will be handed out on a Friday and is due back in the following Friday at the very latest. Where possible, homework will link to work being covered in class.
 

Spellings
Spellings are also handed out on a Friday ready for a test the following Friday. Please make sure the children are practicing their spellings every week.

 

Share a story journal

Every week on a Friday, one child from the class will bring home the 'Share a story journal'. This is a further opportunity for you to read with your child while enjoying a nice cup of 'hot chocolate' (provided by the school). If it is your turn to complete the journal, we ask that it is returned on the Monday so that teachers have a chance to look over any work that has been completed.    

 

PE

PE is currently on a Wednesday (Tennis) and Friday (Games). Please ensure your child has the correct kit (including daps or trainers that fit) as we will be going outside.

 

Reading Books

We are continuing to improve children's reading fluency and comprehension. Please continue to hear your child read as often as possible and use the question based bookmarks to support this process. We encourage children to change reading books as regularly as possible. Please ensure you record any reading that takes place at home with a simple comment inside the small blue/green book (Reading Record). Finished books can be placed inside the classroom crate on a daily basis but they will not be changed unless the reading record has been written in. 

 

Over the course of the term I will continue to update this class page with all the different things that are going on in Year 1/2. 

 

If you have any questions please feel free to email me on the contact details below:

 

mfisher@sjbos.thedcet.com

 

Best wishes

Mr Fisher smiley

 

Useful Links

Computing - This afternoon the children have been practicing their keyboard and word processing skills using the Chrome Books.

Year 1 Maths - Today the children used the dice to practice doubling numbers. The recorded their answers on the small white boards.

Humanities - What a great topic! Today the children worked in small groups noting down everything they have learnt this term about the topic of space. The group discussions were just brilliant and it was lovely to see all of the class sharing their knowledge and ideas.

RE - More great RE work linked to the topic of Lent.

Easter Bonnet Parade 2024!

Science - Today the children worked in small groups and jotted down everything they could remember learning about in Science this term. It was a great opportunity to draw together all the learning that has taken place in the last 12 weeks.

Art - Finished Easter Cards!

Year 2 RE - Today we worked in small groups and thought of questions we would like to ask about 'The Stations of the Cross'.

Year 1 RE - Acting out the story of of Palm Sunday.

DT - Today the children spent a little time evaluating the making process of our clay aliens.

St Joseph's Day Sale! The Year 6 children created some brilliant activities for the rest of the school to enjoy. The theme was water with the money raised from the afternoon going to a water based charity.

Art - Making our Easter cards!

World Book Day - To end our day of celebrations we had a visit from the Year 5 children who shared some of the stories they have been writing in class.

WORLD BOOK DAY 2024 - We had a Guided reading session with Mr Fisher, made Gingerbread men, wrote a book review about our favourite book, drew ‘character selfies’ on mobile phone templates and made some beautiful bookmarks. What a busy day!!

RE - Drama work linked to the story Zacchaeus.

Art - Painting our Clay Aliens the brightest colours you've ever seen!

English - British Library Webinar – Fairy Stories Thursday this week will see our school celebrate World Book Day! Today the children began the celebrations a little early as they watched a live webinar delivered by the authors Michael Rosen and Jasninder Bilan and the illustrator Allen Fatimaharan. They had great fun listening to the authors talking about books they had written. There was also time for the children to plan their own ideas for a story; they thought about the characters, setting and magical objects they would include!

Art - Today we had great fun making clay aliens!

Art - Line drawings of daffodils with a little paint!

Humanities - Today the children have been looking at 'Historic Legacy'. We have been learning about the first human into space (Yuri Gagarin) and how rockets and space suits have changed over time. As a warm up we worked with a partner to try and sequence some space suits and rockets from the oldest to most recent.

RE - The children have completed some brilliant work in our Revelation topic.

JIGSAW - We have been thinking about stretching our minds when we need to learn something new. In Class today we all drew around our hands, coloured them in and threaded them onto a huge stretchy elastic band. This reminded us that we need to stretch our minds when we are trying to learn something new.

RE - Today the Year 2 children have been thinking about the miracle stories that have covered during our 'Revelation' topic. They worked in small groups and wrote down questions that they would like to ask about the stories they have heard.

Art - Today the children created an astronaut face to lay on top of of their pastel pictures. They also created some more space pictures using chalk!

Computing - Safer Internet Week - To mark Safter Internet Week, the children were treated to a morning assembly from Mr Franklin all about staying safe while using the internet. Back in class the children spent some time looking at how technology has changed over the years, even decades. We looked at the changes with computers, phones, music and worked in groups to order pictures from oldest to most recent!

PE - Year 2 Gymnasts Finish Runners Up In Area Competition! A brilliant performance from our Year 2 Gymnasts this morning saw them finish the Key Steps Area Competition with a team silver medal! Performing a routine that has been practiced in Curriculum PE as well as in our after school club, the children were faultless under pressure as they performed in front of a judge and were scored accordingly. There were six schools competing (60 children in total) and the St Joseph's squad finished a remarkable second place! A special mention has to go to Alice, who also picked up a bronze medal as the third highest individual score of the day! GO TEAM ST JOSEPH'S!!!!

PE - Year 2 Gymnastics Club. Good numbers and with a few off sick as well!

English - In English we have been thinking all about recounts. In preparation for planning a recount of our weekend, we spent some time working with our talking partners, sharing what we did over the weekend!

PE - Dance - In Dance the children have been visiting an unusual planet each week. We have taken a trip to an alien infested planet where we moved liked aliens. Our second planet was a mirror planet where we mirrored each others movements. Today our new planet was a stretchy planet which pulled and stretched all our body parts in different directions! The children made some pretty amazing shapes on their own and with partners!

Music - This afternoon the children had great fun using the glockenspiels to play the tune to the chorus of a song we have been learning in Class. A loud lesson, but lots of fun!

English - NATIONAL STORYTELLING WEEK - Today, as part of National Storytelling Week, the children were treated to a live Zoom Webinar with the author Swapna Haddow. She spent some time talking about many of the animal characters she has come up with for her books. Once back in the classroom, the children had some fun designing their own animal characters. They drew pictures to illustrate an adventure they wanted their character to go before sharing their picture stories with a friend. A delightful way to spent the day!

Art - Pastel pictures of space with a layer of brusho over the top!

Humanities - Today we thought about Armstrong and his trip to the moon in Apollo 11. We thought about the different jobs people would have had in order to make the mission successful.

Science - Today the Year 1 children went around the school on a senses hunt looking at what they could hear, see, smell, touch and taste. The children recorded work in their books as we moved around the school.

Computing - Today the children became human beebots! They worked with a partner and wrote down a simple algorithm for their partner to follow.

Art - Today in Art we copied the work of the artist Peter Thorpe. We used the coloured pastels and a printing technique to create some fabulous rocket pictures

RE - Today the Year 1 children had fun acting out the story of the 'The Good Samaritan' in small groups using stick puppets that had been made earlier in the lesson.

Maths - Practical fun with a partner using the counters to help work out how many are left.

Art - Today we used a range of craft materials to create the planets!

Computing - Today the children have been learning all about programming. We watched a PowerPoint and used language such as 'command' before using the ipads and the program 'Beebot' to reinforce learning.

RE - Christmas Mass in School with Father Paul

RE - Christmas Nativity

Art - Plant Pot Reindeer!

Art - Christmas Tree Decorations

Art - Grinch Handprints

Christmas Cards!

Science - The children worked in small groups again today noting down everything they have learnt about their Science topic 'Materials'.

Humanities - Today the children worked in small groups to write down everything they have learnt about our topic 'Epic Explorers'.

Science - Today the children completed an investigation to find the best material for mending the hole Mr Fisher's umbrella. The Year 2 children wrote down the method (what we were going to do). All of the children made predictions, recorded results in a table and wrote down their findings (a conclusion) with some of the children writing down reasons why some materials were better than others.

PE - Year 2 Athletics Festival Fun! The whole cohort of Year 2 children had a brilliant morning of athletics fun today as they participated in a huge Key Stage 1 Festival! Picked up at 9.15am, a coach transported the class all the way to Bridgwater College where the children were met by Mr Irish and a number of Bridgwater College students. A Number of exciting activities had been prepared by the students in the Sports Hall, including a series of inter school relay races to round off a busy morning of athletics fun! All the children were smiling throughout the event and I'm sure will sleep really well this evening after exerting so much energy in each of the activities.

English - The children imagined that they were Jack from the story 'Jack and the Beanstalk'. They have been writing a letter of apology to the Giant to say sorry for stealing from him! We published our letters last week and today we posted them home to share our work with our family.

Anti-Bullying Week - This week we have been celebrating our differences in anti-bullying week. We are all unique and different for lots of reasons. We should respect one another and not tolerate people being unkind to us. Today we though about our differences as we decorated coloured socks with different patterns.

Science - Materials have different properties and water will move differently on varying materials. Mr Fisher has an umbrella that has a hole in it! Today we had fun testing cling film, tin foil, newspaper and cloth in a small pot of water tom see which would be best to mend the hole in the umbrella!

Art - Daisy Calendars!

English - Today we watched a different version of 'Jack and the Beanstalk' compared to the story book we have been reading in class. We worked in small groups and made notes about the story on a huge piece of paper!

Computing - Today the children have been using the Chrome Books and the program 'Paintz'. The drew pictures to practice using the tracking pads.

Art - Ships in a bottle!

Computing - Drawing pictures using the ipads and the 'Paintz' program. The children are now familiar with the app so next week we will be using the Chrome Books and tracking pads to draw our pictures.

Art - Lots of explorers use binoculars to look at things from a distance. Today in art we made our own binoculars!

PE - Multi-skills fun in the Hall!

Art - We cut out paper and made sails to add to our hand print explorer ships!

Science - Magnet fun! Today the children used the magnets to explore whether a material was magnetic or not! We made predictions first before testing our objects with the magnets and recording our results.

PE - Learning our Key Steps Gymnastics routines!

WORLD MENTAL HEALTH DAY - We spent some time discussing the importance of maintaining good mental health throughout our lives. We all have feelings so today we looked at ways that we can manage these emotions and keep ourselves happy!

English - Before Jack climbed up the beanstalk, he would have need to pack a simple lunch for his journey! Today we followed Mr Fisher's instructions ad made a jam sandwich for him to take on his adventure!

Maths - Practical work on comparing numbers using the equality (crocodile) signs.

Golden Time fun to round off a busy week of work!

English - Today we had a visit from the Year 5 children who spent some time sharing some of the English work they have been working on all about space.

Science - Squashy, bendy, stretchy stuff! Today we looked at how different objects can be changed in shape through processes such as squashing, bending and stretching. We recorded our finding in a scientific table.

English/Art - Today we celebrated National Poetry Day. The children listened to a poem and created their own illustrations for the poem using a range of different materials.

RE - Today the Year 2 children have been working in small groups to work on creating a plan for delivering the Liturgy of the Word.

RE - Today we had a visit from CAFOD. The children took part in a workshop based around Catholic Social Teaching and looked at ways in which we can look after God's beautiful world.

English - Over the past few weeks the children have been working towards creating a 'Character Description' for the 'Giant' in 'Jack and the Beanstalk'. We finished these descriptions yesterday so to celebrate our hard work we walked over to Year 5 and shared them with some of the older children in the school.

Year 1 Maths - Practical opportunities with the children 'comparing groups by matching'

Topic - We drew our own maps (including compass directions) to retell the story of Columbus and the places he visited.

Science - Today the Year 1 children have been describing the physical properties of a range of objects (pebbles, sandpaper, blue tac and cotton wool). The Year 2s have been thinking about how some objects can change shape through processes such as squashing, bending, twisting etc. A really enjoyable practical session with some brilliant recording taking place in books.

Hand print Columbus ships! Messy, but fun!!!!!!!

Art - Christopher Columbus would have seen lots of interesting creatures on his travels. Today we made Parrots!!

Year 2 Maths - Today the children have been using the dienes apparatus to help them understand partitioning and recombining. For example, 43 can be partitioned in lots of different ways, e.g. 20 + 23 or 12 + 31 etc.

Year 1 Maths - Today the Year one children have been working with a partner and practice counting on from any number.

Science - Our broad beans have got too big for their jam jars so today we repotted them into a plant pot with some compost.

Science (Plants) - Recording the growth of our broad beans after two weeks!

RE - Today the children worked with a partner a large sheet of A3 paper! They had to write down everything they remembered learning about in RE under each of the topic headings. The classroom was a real hive of discussion and I'm sure you'll agree that the children have excelled themselves with what they could remember!

Sports Day 2023 (PM) Despite needing to postpone the morning flat races and relay races due to rain and a greasy running track, we were fortunate enough to make it out onto the field after lunch for the afternoon activities. The children had great fun exerting themselves and burning off lots of that stored up energy from a morning spent in the classrooms!

R.E - On Monday, the children wrote some Bidding Prayers and today we went over to the Church to read them to an audience.

Science - Working as a group to record what we have learnt this last term in Science!

Science - In Science this week the children have been identifying and naming common animals as well as thinking about their habitats, including microhabitats! We searched the school grounds and recorded what we found!

R.E - Today we made doves to represent Pentecost. We thought about how the Holy Spirit made the disciples feel and covered the doves with words like 'confident' 'fearless' 'empowered' etc. '

Science - Over the past few weeks we have watched our tiny caterpillars eat and become huge, fat caterpillars. We have watched them spin a chrysalis and finally over the last few days emerge as butterflies! Today it was time to release the butterflies into the wild of the school field.

Art - We created lighthouse pictures using the skill of pointillism!

Today we had a visit from the 'County Road Safety Team'! Our teacher Andy talked to us about how to stay safe on the roads.

Topic - To end our topic work on Marvellous Medicines this term the children worked in small groups on a large piece of paper noting down everything they remember learning over the last 3 months.

Science - To end our Science topic this term the children worked in small groups on a large piece of paper noting down everything they remember learning over the last 3 months.

RE - St Joseph's Day Sale - Lent is a time for us to think of others that are less fortunate than ourselves. The St Joseph's Day Sale gives the Year 5/6 children an opportunity to think up some fun and exciting games for the younger children of the school to play. The money that is raised goes to varying charities that the school supports.

RE - Today the Year 2 children made 'spinners' to help them retell the key stories from Holy Week.

RE - This afternoon the Year 6 children lead the class through the 14 Stations of the Cross.

Maths - Today the Year 2 children have been counting money in pounds using notes and coins.

Maths - Today the Year 1 children have been using the snap cubes to help them find and make number bonds to 20

Maths - Today the Year 1 children have been using the snap cubes to help them understand how addition facts to 10 can help them add a single digit number to some teen numbers quickly.

Maths - Today the Year 2 children have been using the money to practice counting money in pence.

Art - Easter Cards using pastels for bright vibrant colour!

Computing/Science - As part of our Science week the children have been completing an activity where they had to write an algorithm for a tractor to follow and avoid the obstacles. We had further fun in the playground writing algorithms for our partners to follow!

Art - Mother's Day Daffodils (line drawings of the daffodils using powder paints to colour).

Maths - Ordering numbers from smallest to biggest or biggest to smallest!

Year 2 Maths - Using the dienes to help us understand multiplying by 10!

Year 1 Maths - The children have been looking at the language of 'greater than' and 'fewer than' and using it to compare numbers and objects to 20.

Science - Today the children watched a live Science lesson all about 'Are tractors linked to space?' The lesson focused on elements of farming that involved tractors and there were a number of fun activities for the children to complete after the live lesson.

Maths - Today the Year 2 children used cubes to help them prove that a numbers was either odd or even.

Maths - Today the Year 1 children drew blank number lines on the tables and practiced estimating and placing on a selection of numbers from 1 to 20!

English - This afternoon we shared our finished stories with the Year 6 children who were most complimentary of our writing and retelling skills.

SNOW FUN!!

Art - Pastel pictures of Mary Seacole.

Year 1 Computing - The Year 1 children have been learning all about handling data and how 'grouping objects' can really help us with our counting.

Year 2 Computing - Today the children used the ipads and the 'Hit the Button' program to practice multiplying by 2.

World Book Day 2023 - Today we had a visit from Harry Cadwallender who delivered a fantastic World Book Day workshop based around 'The Jolly Postman'.

World Book Day 2023 - Sharing our favourite book with a friend!

WORLD BOOK DAY 2023 - OUR CLASS!

English - Today we used our story plans to help retell out version of 'Journey' to a partner.

Golden Time - After a hard week of work the children enjoyed some Golden Time fun to end off the week!

RE - Today the children attended Mass in the church for Ash Wednesday. They all received the ashes on their foreheads and RE lesson have been thinking about the start of Lent.

Topic (History) - Acting out different scenarios from Edith Cavell's story!

BIG ART - Working together to create a picture of Edith Cavell.

English - Today in English we started a new topic based on 'Retelling'. We thought about stories that we know really well and had fun retelling them to a partner.

Music - Playing the chorus to the 'Rainbow Song' using the xylophones.

P.E - Dance fun! Learning a routine and making shapes!

R.E - Working in small groups and thinking of questions we would like to ask about the miracles we have been reading about.

Art - Look at our Florence Nightingale paintings!

R.E - Acting out 'The Calming of the Storm' using material and instruments!

Computing - Using 'buttons' on the ipads to give 'Beebot' a set of instructions and make him move around a screen.

Art - Florence Nightingale was known as the 'Lady of the lamp'. Today in art we made our own lamps by cutting and sticking squares of coloured tissue paper onto a lamp template.onto

Baubles!!

Christmas Trees!

Christmas Handprint Grinch!!

Science and Topic - Today the children worked in small groups discussing the different things they have learnt this term in our Science and Topic lessons. They recorded their ideas on a large piece of paper.

Christmas Dinner!

RE/ART - Using pointillism to create Christmas Nativity pictures.

Computers - Today the children used shapes and lines on the ipads to create pictures.

Art - Christmas Art - New Year firework pictures using chalk as well as some fun outside using the 'big chalks'!

Anti-Bullying Week - As part of our anti-bullying week the children thought about people they could speak to if they were feeling worried or upset. We drew pictures of these people in bubbles around a picture of our self!

Science - Today the children enjoyed testing a range of materials (tin foil, cling film, newspaper and cloth) in a small pot of water. They spent time chatting to the people on their tables and discussing the properties of the materials before recording their ideas in a table!

Art - Firework picture! We used pastels to create a bright coloured background, painted over it with black paint before scratching off the paint with a cocktail stick to release the colour!

Art - Poppy pictures using pastels and brusho!

Maths - Today the Year 1 children have been using coloured counters to help them think about fact families and the Year 2 children have been using their knowledge of bonds to 10 to help them work out bonds to 100!

Art - Today the children used their cutting skills to create a silhouette picture illustrating a scene from the 'Fire of London'.

Science - Using the magnets to test for magnetic metal around the playground!

English - Today we watched the short film of Paddington with the Queen on her Jubilee! The children worked together in small groups discussing what they had watched before making notes on a large sheet of paper to remind them of what they had seen.

Science - The children had great fun this morning testing objects from around the classroom to see if they were magnetic or non-magnetic! They had to make a prediction first before testing the object with a magnet and recording results in a table.

Art - Painting the backgrounds to our 'Fire of London' silhouette pictures.

Science - Today the children handled at a range of objects (paper clips, socks, rulers, envelopes, foam balls). They had to to record in a table if their object could be squashed, bent or stretched as well as think about the material it was made from!

Art - Pop-up Fire of London houses!

Art - Designing our 'Robin' Christmas cards!

English - Today the children had to cut out and order a muddled set of instructions for making a marmalade sandwich.

Maths - Today the Year 1 children used the 'Numicon' to help them to compare amounts and the Year 2 children were able to use the equality signs (crocodiles) to compare 2-digit numbers.

On-line Live Author - Today the children doubled up with Miss Bishop's class and listened to a live broadcast from the author 'Rachel Bright' as she read her story book 'The Gecko and the Echo'. The book was all about treating people with respect and kindness.

Computing - This afternoon we spent a little time practicing typing in our 'User Name' and 'Passwords' in order to find our account on the School Chrome Books.

Art - Today we added the straw roof to our Fire of London houses!

English - Sharing our 'Paddington Bear Character Descriptions' with a friend

Science - Describing the properties of everyday materials!

Art - Making our Great Fire of London houses

Maths - Using the concrete resources to aid our learning

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Police Horse Visit

Science - The bean plants are now too big for the jam jars so we've had to repot them!!

RE - Reading the Bidding prayers that we wrote earlier in the week in church.

Science - Our Broad beans are growing really fast and it's been great to see what happens to a seed when it's under the ground!

Art - Finished African silhouette pictures

Art - African silhouette picture backgrounds

Art - Clay Animals

Science - Hunting for animals in our local environment and recording what we found!

Science - Releasing the butterflies!

Art - Printing patterns on camouflaged animals from around the world

English - Researching facts about animals from our story 'The Ugly Five'

Art - We have been looking at animals from around the world and the different patterns they have on their bodies. We used simple printing today to create some of these animal patterns.

English - Learning and performing lines from 'The Ugly Five' as a group.

Art - Pastel animal patterns from around the world.

Science - Today the children worked in small groups and wrote down what they could remember about last term's Science (Amimals, including Humans).

Topic (History/Geography) - Today the children worked in small groups and wrote down everything they had learnt this term linked to our Space topic..

English - Finding out interesting facts about the planets from reading texts.

RE - Palm Sunday fun!!

RE - Today the Year 6 children talked us through the different Stations of the Cross.

English - Space book research and reading

Planet Jigsaw fun!

English/Computing - Using the ipads and the internet to research/find answers to questions about the planets.

RE - Making our Palm Sunday leaves ready for our parade next week!!

English - Today the children worked in groups of three or four. They had to think of questions to aid research about a planet of their choice.

Computing - Using the ipads to research pictures that we could use in next week's 'information texts'.

Art - Painted clay aliens! We wrote down what we found hard during the making process and what we would change if we had to make them again.

Art - Finished daffodils!

Art - Painting our line drawings of daffodils using the powder paints.

Topic/DT - Clay Aliens before painting along with their designs!

Topic/Art - We designed aliens today and followed our designs making them out of clay and pipe cleaners. Next week we will be painting them!

RE - Today we decorated a blank cross with tissue paper ready to write down out Lent promises on the back.

Maths - This week the Year 2 children have been using the peg boards to investigate arrays and multiplication

WORLD BOOK DAY - Sharing our stories from home

WORLD BOOK DAY - Hot Chocolate Story

WORLD BOOK DAY - The Smartest Giant in Town Workshop

Computing - The children had fun this afternoon using the ipads and the program 'Hit The Button' where they were able to practice their number bonds and simple multiplication.

Art - Space pictures using wax pastels and painting over the top with brusho!!

History (Legacy) - Today we have been looking at Yuri Gagarin (the first human to travel into space) and Tim Peake (the first British astronaut to walk in space). We compared their space suits and rockets and looked at how things have changed over the years! The pictures show us working as a group to create a timeline of rockets and space suits from the earliest to the most recent.

Maths - The Year 2 children have been using the 'snap cubes' to help solve some problems linked to making equal groups.

English - Today we worked with our 'Talking Partners' to discuss some of the problems that Hansel and Gretel faced in the story. We had to think about how we could solve the problem using our imagination!

Safer Internet Day - Today the children spent time discussing the importance of staying safe online. We talked about how we should behave when online and the importance of keeping personal information, including passwords private.

Maths - Using concrete resources to support us in ordering groups of objects.

A well earned Friday Golden Time after a hard week of work - Well done everyone!

Art - Using the pastels to create a background for our space pictures!

English - We worked in groups of three and used stick puppets that we had made to present parts of the story 'Hansel and Gretel'. We had fun evaluating our own performance at the end of the session using smiley faces or unhappy faces!

Art - Today we looked at the artist Peter Thorpe. We tried to copy his style and create some rocket pictures of our own. We used printing for the background of our pictures and coloured the rockets using pastels to crate the foreground.

English - Today Mr Fisher read us the story of 'Hansel and Gretel' which many of us had never heard before. We spent time discussing different parts of the story as it was read to us.

Maths - Year 1 children using the Dienes to help them understand tens and ones.

Art - In Art we were asked to create 'the flag of the USA' reminding us that America was the first Country to put a man on the moon! Mr Fisher gave us a selection of materials; paint, tissue paper, felt tips etc. and it was up to us to create the flag!

History - Today we thought some more about our 'Key Figure' Neil Armstrong and his trip to the moon in Apollo 11. We thought about the different jobs people had in order to make the mission successful and noted our ideas down on a large piece of paper.

RE - Today we sequenced the story of 'The Good Samaritan' and used our pictures to help us retell the story to a partner.

PE - Space Dance - Today the children visited a stretchy planet in Dance and had a lot of fun creating some stretchy shapes on their own and with a partner

Maths - Today the Year 2 children used the Dienes apparatus to help them add together two 2-digit numbers.

ART - We imagined what Planet Earth would look like from space.

English - Today the children worked in small groups of 5 or 6. They had to learn a simple space poem by heart and think of actions to accompany it before performing to the rest of the class. The children were amazing!!

R.E - Christmas Cards

Christmas Tree Decorations

English - Today we followed instructions and made biscuits! We're going to write up these instructions in our English lesson on Thursday.

RE - Today the children discussed the Advent Wreath. We talked about its shape and why it is circular as well as the meaning behind some of the candles. For Art we drew around our hands on green paper and cut them out. We then linked them together to create an Advent Wreath for our Class display.

RE - Today we visited the church where we were able to look at the tabernacle, lectern and altar and bring some of our class learning to life!

English - Today we walked up to the post box in the center of Burnham and posted our Christopher Columbus post cards. Hopefully they should arrive at our houses in the next couple of days ready for our mums and dads to read.

Art - Painting our Galapagos clay tortoises.

Science - Testing for magnetic metal in the school playground

Science - Today we used the magnets! We had to predict if an object was magnetic or non-magnetic before testing it with our magnet and recording the result.

Art - We have been learning about the Epic Explorer Charles Darwin. Today we made a Galapagos Tortoise out of clay and one which we were able to cut out and stick together. Next week we will be painting our clay tortoises.

PE - The children have been working really hard learning their 'Key Steps' Gymnastic routines.

English - Today we worked with a partner to think of questions we'd like to ask Christopher Columbus about his time at sea. We then spent a few minutes at the end of the lesson reading out some of our questions to the rest of the class.

Art - We used blue paint and the sponges today to create an 'ocean' background. Next week we'll be adding a boat using a hand print!!

Year 1 Maths - Using the equality signs (often referred to as the crocodiles) to help us understand more/less greater/fewer than.

Art - Today we finished off our parrots adding eyes, a beak and feathers.

Maths - Today the children compared objects using language such as 'greater than' 'fewer than' and 'equal to'. The Year 1 children used the 'numicon' to support their understanding whereas the Year 2 used the 'dienes' apparatus as they were dealing with larger numbers.

Art - Today we made the bodies to our parrots. Next week we'll be adding the eyes, beak and feathers!!

Science - Today we handled a range of objects (pebbles, sandpaper, play dough and cotton wool). We had to think of different words to describe how each object felt and record our answers on a table.

Maths - Today the children used concrete resources to support their understanding of how to use place value charts.

Maths - Some of the Year 2 children used the dienes apparatus this morning to make up 2-digit numbers and understand how they are represented.

Art - Christopher Columbus 'Brusho' bottles! We used white wax crayons to create a background before painting on the 'brusho'! Next week we add the ship!!

First Day Carousel Fun!!

Art - Designing and making our own sunglasses!

Today the children searched the school grounds for the different plants that grow in our local environment. They were able to name a lot of the wild plants that we found.

Science - Planting Broad Beans in our jam jars!

English - The children had fun this morning 'hot seating' a partner who had to had to imagine they were Jim from the story 'Dolphin Boy' and answer some questions.

Art - Look at our fantastic underwater pictures

Computing - Today the children wrote down simple algorithms for their partners to follow as they became 'human beebots'!!

Art - Turtles and seahorses - We painted patterns using white wax crayons before painting over the top with brusho!

Science - The children have been following the progress of four baby caterpillars as they ate, got a lot bigger and then each spun a chrysalis! Unfortunately we were waiting for the butterflies to emerge when half term arrived. Anyway, here are the pictures which were taken during the half term break. All four butterflies emerged without injury and were released into the wild!

Art - We coloured a lighthouse using pointilism (dots)

Art - Silhouette lighthouse pictures

Music - Learning to play 'Row Row Row Your Boat' on the xylophones.

Art - We made Jellyfish in class today!

English - The children had fun exploring local leaflets in class today. Tomorrow we will be learning all about the different features in a leaflet.

Art - After sketching some sea shells last week the children had lots of fun today making their own sea shells from a variety of materials.

RE - Today the children made Easter spinners linking the death of Jesus on Good Friday with his resurrection on Easter Sunday.

Maths - Today we used the 'chunky chalks' to practice drawing shapes and repeating patterns on the school playground.

Today the children sketched shells looking closely at line and shape.

We sorted a selection of 2d shapes today into groups

Art - We made 'The Grinch' with our hand prints!!

Christmas Dinner!!!

RE - Today the children had great fun making Christingles.

Christmas Cooking!! Today the children had great fun making made marshmallow snowmen!

English - The children imagined they were Florence Nightingale working in the hospitals in Turkey during the war. They wrote letters home telling their parents all about the terrible conditions! Today we walked up to the post box to post our letters which will hopefully come through your letterbox in the next couple of days!

Science - Today the children investigated which material would be best for mending the hole in Mr Fisher's umbrella. We had great fun handling the different materials and testing them in our own pot of water. We all decided that cling film was the best choice because it is waterproof and could stretch over the hole!

English - Today the children were looking at using question marks. We worked with a partner to generate a set of questions we would like to ask 'The Lady of the Lamp' Florence Nightingale.

English - Having finished writing some brilliant instructions for washing our hands the children then stuck laminated copies of their work around the school giving real purpose to the writing they had done.

Art - We had great fun this afternoon making our Christmas Cards!

RE - In RE we drew around our hands and cut them out! Mr Fisher stuck them all together in a circle to create our very own 'Class Advent Wreath'.

Science - Today the children looked at 4 different materials for mending a hole in Mr Fisher's umbrella. They thought about the properties of each of the materials before recording their ideas on a sheet.

PE - Today the children had great fun taking part in our 'Cosmic Yoga' lesson in the hall.

Music - Today we started to learn how to play the first part of 'London's Burning' on the xylophones. A noisy but enjoyable activity!

History - Today the children have been thinking about the past and the people who died in World War 1 and 2. We looked at why we may see a poppy on 'Remembrance Day' before making a poppy of our own.

English - We discussed the use of 'Time Connectives' and 'Bossy Verbs' in instruction writing this morning before following Mr Fisher's instructions on how to sharpen a pencil.

Computing - We had loads of fun this morning using the ipads to complete some simple 'coding' activities taken from 'espresso'.

Art - This afternoon we created some brilliant firework pictures by scratching 'blobs' of brightly coloured paint across a black piece of paper. The results were very effective, especially after we added a little glitter!

English - Today the children followed my instructions and made jam sandwiches.

Fire of London Biscuits - We ended the first half of the term using coloured icing to decorate 'rich tea' biscuits with pictures of the 'Fire of London'. The children enjoyed squirting on the icing but I think they enjoyed eating the finished product more!!!

Science - Today the children used the magnets!! We had fun predicting whether we thought objects such as a rubber, a drawing pin, a fizzy drink can, newspaper, a 10p coin, a plastic cube or a paper clip would be attracted to a magnet before testing them! A lively lesson with the children learning that not all metal is magnetic!! We finished up the lesson with a trip outside into the playground to see if we could locate any magnetic metal!

Art - Pop up Fire of London houses using the pastels. Messy, but loads of fun!!

Science - Today the children looked at how objects such as paper clips, tennis balls, rulers, envelopes, socks and pencils can be altered by processes such as squashing, bending and stretching. We had lots of fun testing out our objects before recording results in a simple table. It was clear to see that some materials squash, bend and stretch more than others!!

Magnificent silhouette pictures of 'The Great Fire of London'.

Art - Today we used powder paints to blend and merge yellow, orange and pink as we created the backgrounds to our 'Fire of London' silhouette pictures

Art - Today the children put their cutting and sticking skills to good use as they created a giant class picture illustrating what the houses were like during 'The Great Fire of London'.

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