Charlotte Eldred

By Mrs K SMITH24th February 2023

Year 2 were incredibly lucky this week to have a visit from local artist Charlotte Eldred.

Charlotte told us all about her job as an artist and about the art she creates as well as all the amazing people she has taught.

Charlotte knew Year 2 were looking at the work of Julian Opie and she created a fantastic bespoke lesson for us based on his artworks.

We began by having a doodle session. Charlotte told us how this can help us feel calm. We used black pens and created lots of different patterns. Our doodles included lines, swirls, circles, zig zags, dots and dashes to name a few. We kept using different patterns until our paper was filled.

We then moved onto creating our own characters with our pens plain paper.

Charlotte helped us create characters step by step. We started with a round face before we added detail such as hair and facial features. We were able to draw on our own artistic skills that we have been practising when we have created self portraits.

We followed Charlotte’s instructions really well and created different characters, some with long hair and big noses, others with short hair and small eyes. We really loved being artistic and creating work we were proud of.

We loved our session with Charlotte and spent time afterwards looking at her website and all the amazing artwork she has created. We can’t wait to use the skills Charlotte has taught us and create some of our own doodles and artwork.

library

By Mrs K SMITH10th February 2023

Miss Stathers’ class were very excited to end the half term with a trip to the school library. 

We had the opportunity to spend time looking at the amazing books and we even had chance to read some.

Some of us read books to ourselves, some of us read books to each other and some of us shared books and read them together.

There is so many books to choose from we had to choose carefully.

We looked at the illustrations on the front of the book and read the blurb on the back to help us decide which ones we wanted to read.

At the end of the afternoon Mrs Smith read us a story. She read ‘Stick Man’ because it was one of her girls favourite books when they were little. We were all really happy when Stick man finally got home.

There were so many books to choose from we can’t wait to go back!

Orchestra song

By Mrs K SMITH10th February 2023

This week in music Year 2 have discovered lots of different instruments through our new song.

Our new song this week is called ‘Orchestra Song’

We began by appraising our new song. Orchestra Song made us feel very relaxed, the rhythm was much slower than our last songs and this made us feel calm.

Listening to the song we heard lots of different instruments names so we had a look at these and talked about the sounds they made. We really liked the oboes and bassoons. These were new instruments to us.

We got to perform our new song to each other at the end of the lesson. We found this a little harder this week as there were so many new names of instruments that we were trying to sing. We really enjoyed finding out about them all though and can’t wait to play some of them when we are older.

Carbon monoxide

By Mrs K SMITH10th February 2023

Year 3 were very luck to take part in a carbon monoxide workshop thanks to The Children’s University.

We found out lots of information about how dangerous carbon monoxide can be and what we should do if we suspect carbon monoxide is effecting anybody.

Carbon monoxide can make people feel dizzy, sleepy, give them headache, make them feel sick or make them confused. We found out about all of the different things in our homes that can cause carbon dioxide. We discovered that things like the cooker or boiler that we use every day can leak carbon monoxide into our home. We saw how a carbon monoxide detector can save people from the danger and we discovered where the best place in the house is to place this. Carbon monoxide detectors should be on every floor of a house and should be near appliances that could leak carbon monoxide to ensure we are as safe as possible.

We finished our session off with a quiz, we were really good at recalling all the information we had just learnt.

sculptors

By Mrs K SMITH9th February 2023

Year 2 have been sculptors this week.
During our art lesson Year 2 have been using the artist Julian Opie as an inspiration to create our own piece of art.
We have used clay to create self-portraits in the style of Julian Opie.
We thought about the lines Opie uses and incorporated these in our sculptures to create our features.
We began by recreating the shape of our faces with our clay. We needed to carve the shape before cutting the excess clay off to leave us with a face to add our features to.
We needed to mould and manipulate the clay to create our features. We rolled clay for our eyes before rolling and cutting pieces of clay to create other features such as eyebrows and lips. Our nose took much more moulding and shaping with our hands to ensure the correct size and look.
We are very proud of our finished self-portraits and are excited for them to dry.

safer internet day

By Mrs K SMITH7th February 2023

As part of Safer Internet Day, Year 3 created posters to remind each other about staying safe.

We talked about what it means to be safe online and the things we can do to keep ourself safe.

We knew lots about who we could talk to and who can help us is we don’t feel safe. We know how important it is to keep information private and safe when we are online.

We also talked about the many different ways we are online such as on our computers, games consoles, phones and even our TV’s.

We know how to stay safe and can remind our friends to do the same.

listen

By Mrs K SMITH3rd February 2023

This week in music year 2 have been looking at rhythms.

We began by appraising our new song ‘Listen’. We liked how the sound of this made us feel. It made us feel full of energy and wanting to join in. We could hear lots of instruments like drums and guitars. We could also hear people clapping rhythms and we could not wait to join in.

We practised our new song and had a go at copying the rhythm with our hands. We practised these in lots of different ways. We had a go as a table, individually, in partners, as boys and girls and also the back of the class and the front.

Some of the rhythms were pretty trick but we kept practising and got really good.

We even got to copy some rhythms with our voices, this was much harder as we had to think about the pace and the tone our voices made.

 

Length

By Mrs K SMITH1st February 2023

This week Year 3 have started our length unit in math.

We have been looking at different units of measure including millimeters, centimeters and meters.

We have used rulers and meter sticks to measure objects around our classroom and we have been concerting these measurements into equivalent measurements.

We are able to measure objects in centimeters and convert its size into millimeters.

We know there are 10 millimeters in each centimeter and that there are 100 centimeters in each meter.

This knowledge has helped us measure our objects accurately

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Sparkle in the sun

27th January 2023Mrs K SMITH

This week in music Year 2 have been practising and performing the song ‘Sparkle in the Sun’

We began by appraising the piece of music and discussing how it made us feel. It is a ‘happy’ song that mad us all feel like we wanted to get up on our feet.

We could hear lots of different instruments such as pianos, violins, drums and flutes. We think the best instrument we can hear is voices because our voices can make so many different sounds. We like making deep, low sounds. We can feel these sounds in our chests.

We practised Sparkle in the Sun before we had the opportunity to perform to each other. Each table had a chance to perform to the rest of the class.

Mandarin singing

By Mrs K SMITH19th January 2023

This week, for our new music unit, Year 3 have been learning to sing in Mandarin.

We begun by harmonising with notes being played on the keyboard.

Once we had harmonised we learnt some words in Mandarin.

Once we knew these words we put them to the harmonies and added actions.

In our music lesson we also discovered lots of information about the Chinese culture. We were all very excited to find out lots about Chinese New Year. This year is the year of the rabbit. Lulu told us about how her and her family would be celebrating and the types of food they would be eating. We found out that lots of Chinese families eat dumplings as these are made together as a family.

We can’t wait for our next music lesson.