In Miss Stathers’ Maths class this week we have been learning about 2D shapes. We have counted the sides and vertices on shapes and learned how to draw them. Then we looked at vertical lines of symmetry.
We had great fun making a line of symmetry by folding shapes.
Then we drew lines of symmetry on shapes.
Next week we are looking at 3D shapes.
Key Stage 1 have been painting portraits of a member of The Royal Family. Can you guess who they have painted?
We have displayed them in our castle for everyone to be able to see!
For Safer Internet Day this year, Key Stage 1 looked at a story featuring Buddy the Dog. He helped us to learn how to stay safe on the internet. We wrote our own internet safety messages for Buddy.
Here are some messages from Year 1:
Here are some messages from Year 2.
This week we have been investigating the question; who lives in a castle?
In the past knights lived in a castle. Today, Queen Elizabeth II and The Royal Family live in castles. We used QR codes on the iPad’s to research the members of The Royal Family in topic.
We found out that Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip live in Windsor Castle. Prince William lives in Kensington Palace. We are going to use our research to write a fact file on a member of The Royal Family.
Our new topic in Key Stage 1 is ; What makes someone Royal? Our pod has been transformed into a castle with the children looking at castles and the Royal Family past and present.
As a Wow day to launch our topic we all became Royal for the day. We came to school dressed as kings, queens, princes and princesses. 
We wrote party invitations for our ball, made jeweled biscuits, bunting and learned a ballroom dance.
In the afternoon we held a Royal Ball in the hall and performed our ballroom dance. It was such a fun day. We can’t wait to get started on our new topic!
As a final outcome for our topic, KS1 put on their own Christmas production showcasing their acting, singing and dancing. It was called ‘Lights, Camel, Action’ and was a Strictly Come Dancing themed retelling of the nativity. There was some fabulous dancing!
As a mini outcome for our topic; “What can you show the world?”, Key Stage 1 went to Hull College last week to watch the Pantomime. We were so excited to be in a real theatre with a real set!
The show was called “Once Upon a Time”. We had a fabulous time and we even got to meet the actors after the show!
Year 2 have looked at letter writing this term and have written their own letters. We are now looking at the story ‘The Jolly Christmas Postman’. The children created some fantastic signifiers to help them retell the story!
We are very lucky in Key Stage 1 because we have just had a bank of iPad’s delivered!
We are going to be using them to help improve our learning. So far, we have been using them for Lexia; an app that helps us with our reading.
These children say that Lexia is their favourite time of the day!
We have come to school dressed in spots for Children in Need today. There are lots of Pudsey Bear’s and Blush’s in school. We also have some very talented families who have designed their own t-shirts.
We also raised money by having a Bake Sale. We had so much fun eating buns and listening to party music!
We can’t wait to find out how much money we raised!