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A Magnificent Week of Work

Scott Grason-Taylor

We have had another four day week but we have certainly done five days’ worth of work. The Pioneers have been on fire. We have been building up our knowledge of the creatures living on our school site and we focussed on snails. However,when we went on a snail hunt we only found one snail and a couple of rather large slugs. There were plenty of woodlice. Thankfully our wonderful families made up the shortfall and we imported a large number of snails all of which have found new homes outside…with a few inside too.

We have really enjoyed spotting pattern and shapes in shells and plants and recreating these using loose parts and pastels and pipecleaners.

The whole week has been just wonderful.

Music is in our soul.

Scott Grason-Taylor

In Re this week, we have been celebrating everything wonderful about our world. We learned that Christians believe that God made the universe and everything in it. We had some meaningful discussions and drew pictures of the things in the world that we found most wonderful!

In music, we continue to enjoy soul music and have been singing and clapping along to the beat. Learners class sing with joy and enthusiasm.

In PSHCE we have been recognising stereotypes and were able to give some great examples. We then drew pictures to recognise that jobs and careers are achievable by any gender, ethnicity and background!

In Maths the Year 2’s have been getting to grips with time and have been dedicated in using our class clock to determine different times of day during this week. The Year 1’s on the other hand have been enjoying learning about capacity and volume.

As always we have enjoyed sharing stories together and reading our favourite stories.

Don’t forget it will be class photographs this Tuesday 16th May.

 

A Week With Adventurers!

Scott Grason-Taylor

Another fabulous week in Adventurers!

In art, we learnt about Elizabeth Gower and created our own collages inspired by her artwork. In science we discussed solids, liquids, and gasses and then acted out being each state of matter.

We have started to explore capacity and mass in maths and found it challenging at first but we are starting to get it. In English, we used Jamboard to find facts about the climate crisis to help us write letters next week. 

We also practiced our skills on scratch in computing with Mrs Gurney. We managed to make three different characters move in the app!

Adventurers 🙂

 

God Save The King

Scott Grason-Taylor

The Pioneers and their families had a wonderful afternoon celebrating the King’s Coronation. The classroom was packed and we made commemorative plates,King Charles spoons and crowns. On the floor, we built a huge structure inspired by Westminster Abbey. One high point was our rendition of God Save the King on Kazoo. This was unrehearsed!

Thank you to everyone who joined in the fun and helped with the tidy up too.

 

Finding Out About Beekeeping

Scott Grason-Taylor

We had a wonderful morning with Mrs Robertson who brought in all her beekeeping kit. The Pioneers already had a lot of knowledge about bees and their body parts. This allowed them to ask very specific questions like,”Do bees have noses?” Mrs Robertson added to their existing knowledge giving us a glimpse into the life of a bee. Pollination was modelled with big paper flowers and a little bee. We all got up and did the wiggle dance that bees use to communicate with other bees. We got to handle parts of the hive and try on the suits used to stay safe.

So much learning and thank you to Mrs Robertson for sharing her knowledge and passion.

 

A Really, Royal week.

Scott Grason-Taylor

Learners have been busy, busy, busy with incredible learning during this four-day week.

We have enjoyed digging deeper into poetry and have delighted in sharing the poems we love. We have explored rhyme and alliteration, alongside our theme of  ‘When I grow up’. This week we have been creating our own poems, each individual to our owns dreams and aspirations for the future. The finished products are sensational and will without a doubt be displayed proudly on the board outside our classroom for all to read – We are going to make a class poem book to put in the School library too. There really is no end to our talents!

In History, we have been learning about Captain Cook and exploring his link to Whitby.

In DT, we have begun to think about where are food comes from and how it gets from farm to fork.

In Music, we are learning a new song. The style of music is soul music, which is prompting lots of musical discussions around beat and tempo.

In PE this week we have enjoyed dance sessions, along with gaining skills around tennis and are looking forward to improving just in time for celebrating Wimbledon!!

In Art this term, we are focusing on collage. Our new focus artist is Kazimir Malevich a famous Russian artist who uses shape and colour to create wonderful art. Learners were inspired by his style and created some amazing art work in their art books.

What a jam-packed week we’ve had, which ended with a wonderful open afternoon on Friday to celebrate the Coronation of King Charles 111. Families joined us in class to make bunting, flags and thought about the rules we would make if we were King for the day? Thankyou to everyone that joined us.

 

Plant a Seed

Scott Grason-Taylor

We went to the forest on Wednesday to photograph our writing so we can make people more aware of the need to look after the plants. The Pioneers visited different areas of our school site to consider if we could leave the grass a little longer to help the insects and the plants. They agreed that some areas would be better kept short. They like to play football and rugby so the grass on the pitches would be better if it were cut. The edges of the field and the forest could be longer. 

We also planted the sunflower seeds we harvested in the autumn from our sunflowers. We made labels and expect to see some growth after the weekend. After planting,we wrote instructions detailing the sequence of planting a seed.

A brilliant week!

Scott Grason-Taylor

Hi families and friends,

We have had another brilliant week in Adventurers!

In PE, we have been learning how to play tennis and perfecting our throwing and catching skills.

We have started writing our poems about when we grow up in English. We have had some fabulous ideas such as eating chocolate everyday and growing tall enough to reach the treetops!

In computing we used Scratch to make our characters move and wear different costumes. This was really fun and we cannot wait to try again to perfect our skills.

We have had so much fun and hope that everyone has a lovely bank holiday weekend!

Adventurers 🙂

 

Summer term is here.

Scott Grason-Taylor

The summer term is here already and it was lovely to welcome Learners class back into the classroom.

Learners are always busy and have a buzz for learning and this week was no exception.

The sunshine brought great delight and we were able to enjoy playtime on the field at last!

We have begun dance sessions with Hannah Verity this week and are really looking forward to learning some new moves and routines in the coming weeks.

In maths, Year two have started to build on their knowledge around fractions and have enjoyed finding halves of shapes and amounts, whereas Year 1 have been measuring using standard and non-standard measures.

In English, we have been embracing poetry and have enjoyed exploring poems and spotting rhyme and alliteration within familiar poems. We enjoyed sharing our favourites and even brought poems in from home – some made us laugh out loud!

 

Please check out this weeks newsletter, to see up and coming events over the next term.

Learners Class

A Day in The Forest

Scott Grason-Taylor

The sun shone and everyone was delighted to be outside and enjoying the fresh air and the green all around. The focus of the day was to look at what was growing and establish a knowledge of roots going down into the ground and shoots coming up. We discussed how scientists look carefully and that botanists are interested in plants.We were also getting to grips with using a selection of tools for digging and dig we did!

Lots of soil was shifted and one voice was heard saying,”We are miners!”

We discovered that there were different types of roots. Some were thin and like hairs and others were much fatter. We also uncovered some lichen and some spawn. We found new grown and perfect acorn cups. Many returned to the classroom with pocket treasure.

A wellies remained in pairs and a good time was had by all.