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We were very excited when we came into school today and noticed that our caterpillars had hatched out of their chrysalis' into beautiful butterflies.  After lunch we all went into the garden to set them free and watched as they flew away.  

Today we received a letter from some very evil peas who were on the loose in our classrooms.  We decided to design a trap to catch them and asked the children to come up with their own ideas and to make them in the classroom.  The children loved this activity and rushed to provision to have a go…

We are all very excited about our Sport's day. We spent some time this week preparing for the day and we had a great time. 

The children made delicious roasted vegetable pasta sauce today using onions, courgettes, peppers, carrot and tomato.  We prepared and chopped the vegetables, coated them in oil and baked them in the oven.  We then blended them together and combined them with cooked pasta to create a delicious…

This week the children have been making a healthy vegetable pasta sauce. They have been chopping tomatoes, courgettes, peppers and carrots to make a delicious snack. After cooking our ingredients we used the blender to create a nice smooth sauce for our pasta.

Today in maths, the children worked in groups to sift through a range of cards to help plan a school trip. 

The children had to use lots of different skills to decipher and calculate the information before writing the letter that would be sent out to parents. 

 

Today we practised for our sports day.  The children had lots of fun taking part in all the races.  Let’s pray the weather is kind to us next week when we all take part for real!

We have been using vegetable to explore texture and print this week.  The children have mixed colours and appparatus to create their own pictures using vegetables to print from. 

As part of our Computing lessons, we have been looking at how data is transferred using binary code.

We then created our own pixel art to reflect how computers use code to represent the colour of each pixel in an image.

Today we have read 'Supertato' by Sue Hendra and Paul Linnet which has the children very excited and wanting to be superheroes themselves. They are making their own superhero masks and thinking about what super powers they would like to have. During snack time the children were surprised to…

Year 2 enjoyed creating their own Aboriginal art versions.

Today we investigated the effect of different salts when added to water colours. We used table, epsom and Himalayan salt along with a combination of each to create the different effects.