In Year 1 we have been listen to and appraising rap music! We all loved it and enjoyed dancing to the rhythm and pulse! We liked listening to the words and finding out what the rappers were saying.
Alongside this we all got to perform our very own rap song called Hey You! from Charanga. We have been learning the song and rap sections from it.
This week in PE we have been learning and performing a group dance to Katie Perry’s song Firework!
We started by learning some moves as a whole group.
Next, we thought of our own moves in small groups and practised how to perform them in a synchronised way.
Then, we chose the moves we wanted to add to our whole class dance and performed the whole sequence as one big routine.
Well done Year 2!
Year 1 had a fantastic afternoon at Pickering Park looking for signs of Autumn and exploring the great outdoors! We had our very own scavenger hunt and ticked our check list for all the different animals and tree/leaf species we could see and identify! We talked about different types of trees and the size of different leaves. We sketched and observed a variety of different species of tree and talked about why some were bare and some were still ‘evergreen’! We loved joining in with some Forest School games and chants! We took our learning back to the classroom to carry on our tree identification and inspire our very own Autumnal nature area, using all our goodies we had collected on the way!
Year 1 were fantastic scientists this week as they placed animals into different groups including mammals, reptiles, fish and birds. We discovered that humans are mammals too! Keep up the hard work year 1. 
What a fun lesson year 1 had labelling things that can be found in our classroom. To make our labels more detailed we used adjectives. Our classroom was covered in sticky notes! Amazing job year 1. 
Year one have been working really hard in maths comparing different amounts. We have started to use mathematical language that represents biggest/smallest such as greater than/less than and more/less. We then looked at the signs <,> and = and used them in our work. Super maths!
Hot Seating!!!
Year one had a fantastic time hot seating Geronimo the character from our story by David Walliams! We asked him lots of questions about how it felt to not be able to fly and what it’s like living in the Antarctica. Our Geronimo was a super actor and our audience were spectacular! We followed up our hot seating session by using some brilliant adjectives in our work!
Today we have been learning about history again and how to work historically. We have learnt lots about Antarctica already and know that it is really cold there and that there is ice in the sea! We also know that we have not always known it is there because it is so hard to reach!
We used sources of evidence to look at different boats and ships and had lots of discussions about why we thought they were old or new and if we thought they were able to get to Antarctica and why. We had lots of fantastic discussions then ordered the boats and ships in chronological order.
This week in Science Year 1 have been learning all about the inspirational David Attenborough and the impact impact he has had on our planet! We loved learning about the places he has travelled- from the cold regions of Antarctica to the rainforests of South America! We wrote a fact file dedicated to David’s important works and read the biography ‘Little People, Big dreams’ based on his life, work and aims for the future! We really loved this lesson and enjoyed talking about big issues and big words like ‘endangered‘ and ‘extinction’. We thought about what those words meant to us an how even as little people we could change them…
Our first Computing unit in Y2 this year is Coding. Using Purple Mask, we are learning to create a background, create an avatar and make our avatar move.
