Reception World Book Day

Year One have said a big hello to the 90's!

We have jumped into a new decade of pop, girl power and some other incredible, iconic bands and artists!

This week the children have been discovering about some of the big changes in life in this decade. We have discovered how the Spice Girls were formed and how they dominated the world with girl power - making them the best-selling girl group of all time! We learnt about how each member of the band's name was created and how this linked to their personality and interest. Alongside this girl power, we discovered another rock band that were often described and compared to the next Beatles - this was Oasis. Just like The Beatles, the Year One children were very excited to know that the Oasis band members came from Manchester (it turns out lots of children know Manchester for its airport!). The children drew upon fantastic comparisons and similarities between Oasis and The Beatles including their appearances, song types and even how they performed.

During provision, the children have been exploring graffiti art using spray paint and the how to create their own bubble writing for writing titles. World Book Day arrived on Thursday, and we were all incredibly impressed by the costumes that the children arrived at school in. They all looked AMAZING! It was also delightful to see some of the famous artists from our theme appearing in school. As it was World Book Day, the children have crested and written some of their own books about their favourite book itself or characters. It has been wonderful to see how far the children have progressed with their writing, sentence structure and passion to write. Watch this space for some super authors in the future!

What an action-packed week! Well done, Year One! You are all amazing!

It’s been another exciting week in Year 2 with so much happening!

On Monday the choir headed off to The Barbican to rehearse and then perform with 8-13 and 13-18 choirs. It was so exciting to see the variety and standards of music happening within the next two schools and our choir sang beautifully and enthusiastically, making the Year 2 staff very proud.

We have been building up to Book Day all week and the children have been sending in their photos of them doing Extreme Reading. On Thursday it was the day itself and the children arrived in all manner of imaginative costumes…..whilst Ms Platts came as Stella Starflake Pearl, Miss Jeffrey a unicorn, Mrs Franey an explorer, Mrs Brunton and Mrs Pennels polar bears and Mrs Hall a penguin - all characters from our text this term, The Polar Bear Explorers’ Club.

During the day we learnt about writing instructions, as we made hot chocolates as all good explorers need to do! We had lots of different toppings, such as snow foam and unicorn poo and this led to some very detailed instruction writing!

The Year 2 staff all think that the children need a good rest this weekend as life in school just seems to get busier every day. See you on Monday!

This week our journey has taken us from South America to North America. We explored the Panama Canal and the important role it plays in connecting the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. We then ventured into the wonderful country of Costa Rica. We discovered that Costa Rica is aiming to become one of the first ‘carbon neutral’ countries in the world by helping to protect the forests from cattle ranching and planting new trees.

We explored the layers of the rainforest and were fascinated by the vast array of animals that can be found in each layer. We used our research skills to create a class set of a-Z informative Top Trump cards to help us learn about the animals of the Costa Rican rainforests, including their habitat, classification and diet. One of our favourite animals were sloths, and we were amazed to learn that it takes more up to 2 weeks for a sloth to digest one meal!