News from Roecroft Lower School

News fromRoecroft Lower School

I hope you have all been enjoying the sunshine, it has finally arrived and has been most welcome. A big well done to our families and their children this term, they have managed to stay focused and work hard through a very long summer term, something we haven’t done now for over a year. So, a huge well done to everyone and I hope you are all looking forward to a well-deserved summer break. With warmest wishes, Mrs Cross

Key Stage 1 Update In Year 1, we have had a wonderful start to our Summer term and we have embarked upon our new topic 'Boats and Beaches' . We began this topic by focusing on the story 'The Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch' and enjoyed acting this out which included some very angry seagulls! We have been working really hard on developing our writing skills and our role play of this story then helped us to write our own retelling. We have also enjoyed learning and reciting some pirate sea shanties in our English lessons and we had to think of suitable actions and use our best 'Roecroft Pirate' voices when performing these to the rest of the class. In other areas of the curriculum, we continued our boats and beaches theme within art and we have been very lucky to complete two art projects. After exploring a range of artists, we created our own lighthouse silhouette artwork which depicted a sunset horizon and objects out at sea and we also carried out a 3D project. We cannot believe that we are already nearing the end of our Year 1 journey, but it is fantastic to bring the year to a close with such a variety of exciting lessons and we are looking forward to meeting our Year 2 teachers soon! In the summer term, Year 2 learnt about the world through their brand-new topic 'Our Amazing World. ' The children had the opportunity to find information about seas and oceans across the world in Geography. They learnt about caring for the environment in science and then had the opportunity to explore and identify different types of plants in the Roecroft grounds. The children especially loved making cress heads and watching them grow. Later in the summer term the children had a 'Wonders of the World' topic day, learning about some of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World. In their classes they did some activities based on The Great Barrier Reef, The Northern Lights and Mount Everest. In Art, the children created some beautiful paintings based on the famous artist Henri Rousseau. They based their work on his famous painting of 'Jungles in Paris' and applied drawing, painting, collaging and printing skills. In Design and Technology, the children got the chance to make their very own stuffed soft toy by applying their sewing skills. Year 2 had the opportunity to learn about The Stotfold Riots, which they found fascinating as they couldn't believe this event happened where they live. Finally, the children enjoyed our usual summer events of participating in Sports Day and performing their dances on Dance Morning.

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