F2 had a special visitor today!

PC Jackson, a local police officer came into school to talk to our little children about ‘People who help us’ and the jobs that police officers do in our local area to look after us. We spoke about the uniform of a police officer and the jobs they do to keep us safe! We had so many questions for PC Jackson and shared some of our amazing ideas! We got to try on some very special police uniform and talked about the importance of a uniform in identifying people, we even spoke about our uniform and how we can identify ourselves with the special Christopher Pickering logo.

PC Jackson talked us through her job as a police officer and what to do if we ever needed help. It was a great opportunity for the children to connect this to Hull Fair, as so many of us have spotted lots of Police Officers at the fair this week. We know now that if we ever get lost or scared at big places like the fair, we can always ask for help!

We loved showing PC Jackson our classroom and chatting all morning with her! We even drew some fabulous pictures for her to take away back to the station!

What a fabulous day F2 had celebrating ‘Hull Fair Day‘! A yearly event in our city’s calendar and one deserving of celebration! Hull has celebrated the arrival of the fair for over 7 centuries!! And to this day our children still love the fun of the fair! We cannot not mark the special occasion! So we traded our usual activities in for some roasting chestnuts, fairground rides, huck a duck games and coconut shy! We got busy painting our favourite fairground rides, pretended to ride the biggest rollercoasters, spent pennies on the funhouse and even tried some infamous BRANDY SNAP!!! The children loved discussing the fair and talked about the things they could see, smell, hear, touch and taste whilst they were there! The experience opened up lots of opportunities for discussions and chats about our senses, what we love and how we also try and stay safe at busy places like the fair!

The children had so much fun and we cannot wait to carry on this topic for the rest of the week!

 This afternoon F2 went on an exciting adventure around school looking for signs and bursts of AUTUMN! We looked for autumnal colours and the changes starting to take place all around us! We had lots of discussions and conversations about the trees and the plants we could see, and how we could tell that the weather was starting to change! We spotted berries (which we chatted about we can’t always eat!) and signs of insects starting to hide and hibernate for the winter!

We can’t wait to use the different leaves we collected to create our very own leaf men!!!

Following our surprise package last week the children were very excited to continue this learning and hunt for signs of the missing giant!!!

We used our binoculars and cameras to try get a quick snap of the giant! And we created some amazing giant posters to display around the classroom! The children loved creating their very own life sized giant, adding descriptions to it and thought of so many adjectives to describe him/her!

We also talked about different types of teeth and how we can take care of them, remembering to brush at least twice a day!

We have been looking after the giants teeth with great care…just incase they come back for them!