On Monday, year 1 and year 2 watched a performance of The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde. It was a participatory drama to stimulate language and learning of children. It gave the children the opportunity to engage verbally, contribute ideas and consider moral dilemmas.  The children also developed their confidence in speaking in different contexts.

This week is Christian Aid and Maths week.

Year 2 have  been learning about the ways that Christian Aid have helped communities in Sierra Leone. We learned how it helped the whole community to grow stronger and build respect for each other.

We read the Bible verse:

‘Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance’ 1 Corinthians 13:7.

We reflected on what it means and how it relates to Christian Aid and the things we have found out.

On Thursday, we had a fantastic parent workshop. We have been learning about co-ordinates. Our parents helped us to read co-ordinates and plot co-ordinates. We created our own pirate treasure maps. We also played Battleships!

This term, we are reading stories written by the famous author Roald Dahl.

Everyday, before assembly and at the end of the school  day, we settle down and read our class book.

First we read ‘Fantastic Mr Fox’

Then we read ‘Esio Trot’

Now we are reading ‘The Twits’

Our topic for this term is ‘Land Ahoy’

Yo-ho-ho! Arrrr….me hearties, – it’s a sailor’s life for me!

Last week we started Talk for Writing and we learnt ‘The Story of Pirate Tom’.  This week we have created and written our own stories!

On Friday, to celebrate how hard we worked in our Maths SATs, we had a Pirate Party! Look at how much fun we had! We made our own pirate hats, we played pirate party games and we had some yummy party food.

Wow! Look at reading club working really hard to improve their comprehension skills! Every morning, they come to school at 8.30am to practise their reading with Mrs Akhtar.

Year 2 have a new book corner. We love selecting new books to read and recommend to our friends. Sometimes we go into the book corner to practise our storytelling. We use use the puppets and props to help us.

In class we have been reading The Story of Pirate Tom. We have been retelling the story using actions. We have been creating our own story maps to help us to remember the sequence of the story. If you come up to one of us we will tell you the story.

Well done Zariah.

Darin is using the story map to help him retell the story.

Well done Ramesah

Retelling the story using actions.

On Thursday 21st April we had a fun-filled day celebrating the  Queen’s 90th birthday.

In the morning, we carefully made Union Jack kites.  We also enjoyed making our own cheese and jam sandwiches, ready to eat at the tea party. In the afternoon, we couldn’t wait to fly our kites! We were really careful not to bump into each other.

We had a really exciting day.  Many children said that it was ‘The best day ever!’