Wow! What a brilliant start to the new school year Oak class have had! All the children have been fantastic and were very excited to return to school and see their friends again after such a long time off. We have had a lovely couple of days settling in and Read more…
Hi Elm, I hope you’re all enjoying spending time with your families at home, although I am missing teaching you very much! I would love to see all the lovely things that you have been getting up to at home this week. Click the link below and press the + Read more…
Our new topic is called Beat, Band, Boogie and is all about sound and music, so we will be learning lots about science and music this half term! On Friday, we learnt all about pulse (the heartbeat of a song) and rhythm (the pattern of long and short sounds in Read more…
On Friday, we explored the African Jungle to gather ideas using the FANTASTICs. The children came up with some brilliant vocabulary to use to write a setting description for the book we are currently studying – ‘The Leopard’s Drum’.
The children enjoyed celebrating their love of reading by dressing up as their favourite book characters for World Book Day today. Everybody made a brilliant effort and looked fantastic! In English, we celebrated World Book Day by learning about the story Too Much Noise by Ann McGovern. We then retold Read more…
WOW! Over the past few weeks, Elm class have been collecting food to donate to Heywood Food Bank for Random Acts of Kindness Day. The children have been extremely generous, bringing in lots of food to give to others, including rice, pasta, beans, soup, tinned fruit and vegetables, tea, coffee, Read more…
Year 2 have been learning lots about mini beasts this half term! As we have been learning about microhabitats, we have worked together to gather materials and used these to create minibeast hotels! Each group chose a particular minibeast to create a home for and worked together to imaginatively design Read more…
Year 2 are studying Andy Warhol as part of Art Week this week. To begin, Elm enjoyed learning all about Warhol and his pop art, working together to locate interesting facts about him around the playground. Some facts we found interesting included how Warhol was excluded from art club while Read more…
Today we brought the designs we created last week into life to create signs to encourage others to take care of our school environment. Following specific design criteria, we first used our cutting skills to cut out our preferred shape. Then, we carefully drew our message and image, before using Read more…
Next week is hour of code week however as we are so busy performing out nativity next week, Elm carried out the activity this week! We played the Grinch themed coding game. First, we learned about what an algorithm is and how they are used. Then, we had to use Read more…