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Thank you to Mr Sowerby who came in to tell us how he helps us. He brought in lots of equipment and showed us how he used them. We thoroughly enjoyed listening. Thank you

Today, we have started to learn all about forces. We have watched a video about Isaac Newton and how he discovered gravity. We then used Newton meters to measure the amount of force needed to pull objects back down to earth and found out how this links to the mass of each object.

Today we became Celtic spies to find out about Roman towns.  We had to find clues and feedback to our groups.  We were also allowed to spy on other groups to find out more!  We tried to include features like the Forum, the amphitheatre, the bath house, shops, the temple and the circus (where horse…

Year 2 started their new unit in Computing: Animation!

We learned how animations are made using a series of still images (pictures) and created our own flipbooks using post-it notes, tracing over the images from the page before, changing one detail a small amount each time.

After that, we…

Eco group have been looking at the possibility of planting some trees on our school field. Today we went down to the field with Hilary from Dorrington Woods, who came to help us measure out a suitable area. We drew a plan and calculated how many trees we will need to order.

In art have been looking at graffiti artists and how they often have a distinctive "tag" or autograph.  We designed out own and then created stencils from our designs.  Graffiti artists, such as Banksy, often use spray paints with stencils but we used sponging instead.  We then used a black…

Today we are having to say goodbye to one of our class family!  We are very sad to see you go and hope you soon make friends in your new home down South.  I am sure Daddy will be so happy to have all his girls back together under one roof but we will definitely miss you!!  Good Luck and remember…

Some fabulous teamwork here, girls!!!  Look at what you can do when you work together.

We have been very busy today setting up the new temporary Nursery classroom. We can’t wait to show you around after the half term break.

We finished our information texts all about wolves today.  We included a lot of great facts in them.  Here we are reading and evaluating each other’s work.

We have looked at a different types of switches and how they work. We then used a variety of materials to make our own switches.

We really enjoyed when Kath came in to talk to us about how she helps people in her job. We discussed our emotions and how we should talk about our feelings.