Category : Year 1/2

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.

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.

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!