Year 2 has been designing and making Ferris Wheels in groups, pairs or individually.  The choice was theirs.  It was wonderful to watch the children choose the materials that would be strong enough for this design technology project and to make choices including those to ensure that when the wheel turns passengers won’t fall out!  The children were so engaged and looked proud of their work.

English:  When we come back after Easter Yew Class will be working with the book, Ocean Meets the Sky by The Fan Brothers.  It’s a poignant story with stunning illustrations throughout and explores themes of family, memory and loss, aimed at year 1 and 2.  Through the book the class will be given a variety of meaningful writing opportunities throughout the sequence and gradually build up the skills to write an extended fantasy story of their own.
Maths:  We will be continuing with the last part of measurement with temperature and then be moving on to fractions.  I hope the children are enjoying learning 2, 5, 10 and 3 tables with apps such as Times Tables Rock Stars (TTRS) as this helps with fractions.
Science: Yew Class will be looking at Changing Materials and learning about their properties.  The children will be investigating how the shape of solid objects can change.
Art:  An exciting unit as we will be looking at the Cityscapes work of Dutch artist, Ton Shulten in which the children will be playing colour tones and blocks in creating their own cityscapes.
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Meanwhile, have a wonderful Easter and see you all after the break.

Vanessa Freeman

We are so excited as we have the Rev. Edwina Fennemore coming in every Wednesday morning to read with individual children in the class.  We have a rota so everyone will get a chance to share a book with her.  

In design technology the children have been designing and making ferris wheels in groups, pairs or individually.  Thank you to you all for sending in the egg boxes as this now enables children to work on their own if they wish.  The egg boxes will serve as the pods in their designs.  Some of the designs have had to go back to the drawing board as they failed safety tests!

And here's a picture from last Friday's World Book Day.  What a wonderful day it was - the children shared their favourite books and their costumes were truly original.  Thank you to those who were able to come in that afternoon and listen to the children discussing their costumes and favourite books.