Pine Class at The Discover Centre!

Pine Class at The Discover Centre!

On Tuesday, Pine Class were lucky enough to take a trip to the Discover Children's Story Centre in Stratford.

After arriving at school very excited, Pine class set off for the train to Stratford. The children loved travelling on both the overground and the DLR and were reading the train maps looking for stations along the way.

When we arrived, the children were transported into a story world based on Judith Kerr's books. There were lots of exciting things to see based on some of our favourite books to read in class including The Tiger That Came To Tea and Mog. After hearing the story of the Tiger That Came To Tea, the children had lots of fun exploring the props and costumes from the stories.

After lunch, Pine Class created their own character for a story - Donut the Dragon! They thought about how we could describe different animals and how they would move. Last but certainly not least, it was time to head outside for some fun in the park! The sun was shining for us which made great weather for swinging, climbing and sliding.

What a fantastic day of story telling!

Year One Newsletter

Year One- Learning Challenge

Year One

Enchanted Forest Learning Challenge 

Welcome back! This half term our topic is 'Enchanted Forest' and we have lots of exciting learning opportunities for the children to take part in . You can support your child with their learning by taking on one or more of the tasks. We had some fantastic examples from out Circus topic, with more being completed than ever before! We are looking forward to seeing the children's work this half term. 

Their work will be shared with the class and they will receive a certificate for their efforts.

Good luck!

Pine Class Learning Challenges

Pine Class Learning Challenges

The children in Pine class have been continuing their learning at home by completing some fantastic learning challenges based on our circus topic.

Zuriel, Thomas and Nikola have all created some art work in the style of George Seurat. Aksanan, Anish and Zuriel have also written some facts about Phineas Taylor Barnum. Well done for sharing your work with the rest of class!

Keep up the good work at home!

Pine Class Certificates

Pine Class certificates 

Well done to the children in Pine Class who have been busy earning certificates. Anna has earned a resilience certificate for her ability to make use of all of the resources in the classroom to support her in her place value work in maths. Faizah has earnt a resillience certificate for her hard work in our circus workshop this week. Well done for showing resilience, you didn’t give up even when trying to master some tricky circus skills!

Keep up the good work Pine Class!

Mulberry’s Learning Challenge

Mulberry’s Learning Challenge 

This week Charlie, John, Ehan and Summer completed Learning Challenges in Mulberry class.

Our Topic in Year 1 this half term is The Circus.  The children researched P.T. Barnum, who made the American Circus popular.  They also found out about George Seurat, the artist who painted famous pictures of The Circus. 

Well done to all the children this week for completing their Learning Challenges - keep up the hard work! 

Sculptor Visit Year 2

On Thursday 28th February, Year 2 will be having a sculptor visitor and we will be creating a class boat. We will need lots of newspaper to complete this and so would appreciate if you could collect any old newspapers and send them in ready for this date in order for the children to create their life size boat!

Many thanks,

The Y2 Team

Mulberry’s Class Certificates

Mulberry’s Class Certificates 

This week in Mulberry class Nathaniel was presented with the Star Writer Certificate for his excellent story writing.  Well done Nathaniel!

Frankie was awarded the E for Excellence Certificate this week for his use of adjectives in his story writing.  Well done Frankie - keep up the hard work! 

Number Day fun in Year 1!

Number Day fun in Year 1!

The children in Year One had a fantastic time celebrating number day! All of the children's costumes were brilliant, thank you to all of the parents for their hard work making them, they were very creative!

Throughout the day, the children completed lots of different maths activities, including number bingo, musical numbers and building 3D shapes with spaghetti and marshmallows.

What a fantastic day celebrating all things number related - it was a number one day! 

Pine’s Learning Challenges

Pine’s Learning Challenges 

Some of the children in Pine Class have done a fantastic job completing their learning challenges at home! Luke learnt Mrs Brown the Circus Clown by Kenn Nesbitt and performed it to the class. The children in Pine Class were very impressed that he had been able to remember the entire poem and could perform it clearly and confidently - as you can see below!

Lucas has been working hard creating a poster containing facts. He was able to read his facts and poem to the class beautifully.

Well done for continuing your learning at home!

Pine Class Certificates

Pine Class Certificates 

This week, Pine Class have been working hard earning certificates. Freddie has earned a resourcefulness certificate for his ability to make use of all of the maths resources when learning about place value. Zoe has earned a reciprocity certificate for collaborating with her peers.

Keep up the good work!

Mulberry’s Certificates

Mulberry’s Class Certificates 

This week in Mulberry class Kevin received the E for Excellence certificate for his hard work in Read, Write, Inc.

Ehan was awarded the Reciprocity certificate for his brilliant collaboration skills.

Nevaeh received the Star Writer certificate for using excellent adjectives in her writing.

Mulberry’s Learning Challenge

Mulberry’s Learning Challenge 

This week Shivangi completed the Learning Challenge.  She researched  Mrs Brown the Circus Clown by Kenn Nesbitt and read it aloud to the class.  She produced a beautiful piece of Art work inspired by the poem.  Well done Shivangi - keep up the hard work!

Year 2 Performance Poetry

The children in Year 2 have been super busy this week, planning and performing the poem, ‘The Boneyard Rap’ by Wes Magee.
They began the week by listening to and watching others performances of the poem, then the moved on to learning the poem of by heart so that the were able to recite it.

The children worked in small groups to each perform a different stanza of the poem and then they came together towards the end of the week, to perform the whole poem as a class.

It was lovely to watch the children take ownership of their learning and perform in front of the other children.

This is my favourite poem ever - Tiffany

I like performing the poem and doing the actions - Ife

Year 2 Spellings 11.2.19

Group 1

1.      WOW	America
2.	copies
3.	parties
4.	replies
5.	memories
6.	cities
7.	carries
8.	stories
9.	babies
10.	fairies

Group 2

1.	head
2.	read
3.	bread
4.	deaf
5.	spread
6.	instead
7.	meant
8.	breath
9.	dead
10.	dread

Year 2 Certificates

Certificates in Year 2! 

A massive well done to our certificate winners this week! 

In Chestnut class, Iniya, Ife, Adrian and Tavia astounded Ms. Jennings 

with their brilliant learning challenges about our Columbus topic. 

In Cedar class Keira's reciprocity skills shone throughout the week as she 

collaborated with her friends to complete their jobs and worked together to create stories in the writing area. 

Hamza's resilience this week was very impressive as he continuously went through his 

Rockstar maths each day working to answer more questions! Well done Hamza.  

 

Year One Stay and Learn

Stay and learn 

Dear Parents/Carers,

We would like to welcome you to our third Stay and Learn session in Year One. This will be on Thursday 7th February, 2:30-3:00pm

The theme will be Maths and there will be activities set up for you to do with your child. 

We hope to see as many of you there as possible.

Kind regards, 

The Year One Team

Mulberry Class Certificates

Mulberry Class Certificates 

This week in Mulberry class Frankie received the Star Writer Certificate for his excellent description of the different performers in The Circus - well done Frankie!

Kyla earned the E for Excellence Certificate for her brilliant effort in Literacy.  Kyla used a simile to describe the Acrobats who perform in the Circus - keep up the hard work Kyla!

Mulberry’s Learning Challenges

Mulberry’s Learning Challenges

Well done to Shivangi, Raima and Ehan for completing the Learning Challenge this week.

Our Topic for Year 1 this half term is The Circus.  The children researched P.T. Barnum, who made the American Circus popular and George Seurat, the artist who painted famous pictures of The Circus.

Well done to these children for completing their Learning Challenges - keep up the hard work!

Pine Class Certificates

Pine Class Certificates 

This week Zuriel and Korey have earned themselves 4R Certificates. 

Zuriel has earned a reciprocity certificate for being such a helpful member of Pine class and Korey has earned a resourcefulness certificate for using the resources in the provision to create some fantastic models and story books.

Well done, keep up the good work!

Year 2 spellings 4/2/19

Group 1:

1.      WOW	Statistics
2.	magnificent
3.	glittering
4.	lulled
5.	cautiously
6.	cunning
7.	creative
8.	beautiful
9.	vicious
10.	sneaky

Group 2 :

1.	fetch
2.	ditch
3.	watch
4.	catch
5.	snatch
6.	kitchen
7.	stretch
8.	notch
9.	match
10.	hutch