We had so much fun on our second visit to Christopher Pickering Lodges!
We played a game of boules with the residents
We enjoyed learning how to play dominoes
We took turns to play a game of table tennis
We even taught some of the residents how to floss!
Ant they showed us how to dance together with scarves!
We hope to go back and see our new friends again soon
This week we have been making numbers to 20 by thinking about how many tens and ones the numbers have.
We are able to break a whole number into parts and say how much is in each part.
Gracie’s number is 18 – She has represented 18 using 1 ten and 8 ones. (Above)
Gracie then split her whole number in two parts (Below), she said,
“6 is a part, 12 is a part, 18 is the whole”
The class worked together to write this as a number sentence, 6 + 12 = 18.
How many different ways can you break up the number 18? Can you think of a number sentence for each?
Last Wednesday Key Stage 1 held their termly Wow Day, and it was a cold one!
This term we are learning about Polar Explorers, so to kick start the topic we dressed up in our thickest winter clothes, opened all the windows and doors to get ourselves fully immersed and learned about all things Antarctic!
Every Class did something different, some did Antarctic artwork, sketching and making penguin collages. Others were creating Antarctic sounds and making their own rain shakers to simulate the pitter-patter of the cold southern rain and hail on the hard icy ground.
In Y1SEY we were thinking about what a Polar Explorer would have to pack when travelling to the South Pole for an expedition. The children knew they would have to dress warm, which is more than what could be said for Mr Seymour, who packed his swim-shorts and crocs (Brrrrrrr).
The children soon put Mr Seymour right and packed their own suit cases for an Antarctic Expedition. They thought about how many layers they would need and; how they would keep their hands and feet warm and learned new important words, like ‘thermal’ and ‘insulated’.
By the end of the day the children were looking confident and ready to set off on their own Antarctic expedition, like Captain Scott before them.
On Thursday 8th November 2018, 8 children from KS1 were chosen to visit Christopher Pickering Lodges. They were very excited and eager to make new friends.
They played ‘Snakes and Ladders’ with the elderly residents:
They played ‘Connect Four’:
They played a game of Dominoes:
And they even had a delicious lunch!
Both the children and the elderly residents had a fantastic time. We hope to visit again soon!
Year 2 have been writing Wanted posters for these sneaky, suspicious and mischievous pirates! 
We are really proud of our writing!
Have you seen them anywhere?
Our non- fiction unit for this term has been instructions. We have been doing lots of different pirate crafts in Topic and then writing instructions for how to make them in English. We have made an eye patch, a pirate hook and some pirate’s gold!
Key Stage 1’s topic for the Summer term is; What was it like to be a pirate? Our pod has been transformed into a pirate’s deserted island.
To celebrate the launch of our topic we held a ‘Wow’ day were we became pirates for the day!
It was lots of fun being a pirate!
To end our topic, ‘What makes someone Royal?’, Key Stage 1 hosted their own version of The Tower of London. We displayed our crowns that we had made and held a Crown Jewels Exhibition. Our parents came after school to have a look and they were very impressed. We also sold jeweled biscuits that we had made to raise money for our next immersive learning project.
The day before our exhibition we had a very exciting delivery! It was a letter from the Queen’s Lady in Waiting. We also put this on display for our parents and they were very impressed!
On Thursday afternoon we invited parents and carers in to Key Stage 1 for a ‘Maths is Fun’ session. In year 2 we worked with our parents and carers on division challenges. We used objects for the green challenges, drew our answers for the amber challenges and used mental methods for the red questions.
When we had finished, we worked on our reasoning skills with some challenge questions. We had a brilliant afternoon!
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.