Happy Easter

Apologies for lack of a blog last week - so here's two weeks' worth!

Over the last fortnight the children have been as busy as ever. Before she flew out (with Wellington and Antoine to work in a French school for a fortnight Ms Gower was so pleased with Y2's French that she came looking for me so I could come and watch for a while. With Amandine the children made and read'human sentences'. They even mixed up the words andthen put them in the right order - bravo! The pictures show some children saying (and showing pictures about) 'J'aime le chat orange, je n'aime pas le crocodile blanc' - get the children to tell you what that means mums and dads!

We have also been busy making our Spring display for the main hall. Here are some children working on and showing their spring flower pictures - we were so pleased with how eye-catching the green and yellow pastel looks on the black background. On Thursday we had a choosing P.E. session as it was the last of the term. Look at Halley who proved herself to be Y2's Hula Hoop Queen!

On Friday we were very amazed to come back from play and find bits of the Easter Bunny's fluffy tail around the classroom! The children had already made boxes and nests full of natural things in the playground - this picture shows the children making the nests in the playground.

Have a lovely Easter everybody and we will see you all on Monday April 20th.

Our Week

As I wasn’t here last Friday the fantastic pictures of Y2 enjoying Red Nose Day weren’t on last week’s blog – so here they are now! I certainly missed a treat everyone looks amazing!
This week we’ve started looking at long stories in Literacy and will be working towards writing one of our own by the end of the term. We have continued with measures in Maths and had lots of fun with water when looking at capacity earlier in the week as well as length and weight towards the end of last week. It would be really helpful at home for children to spot weights of both solid and liquid items in the family store cupboard.
This afternoon our French Assistant, Amandine, worked with Y2 to make Mother’s Day cards for all you hardworking mums – in French! We hope you like them.
Have a lovely weekend enjoy being pampered mums!

Happy Cats, Angry Cats and Measuring!

This week Y2 have been practising all the new P.E. shapes they have been learning with Ms Gower. They have recreated their movements on the equipment. Have a look at Tommygeorge being a fantastic Happy Cat on the bench!
This week in maths we have started looking at measurement - so far we have covered length and made a start on weight. I have asked the children to look in the cupboards at home and see how much various packs of food weigh - I hope too much of a mess hasn't been made mums and dads! Next week it's capacity so we'll be asking children to compare and measure liquids.
Have a lovely Red Nose Day tomorrow, I am looking forward to seeing the photographs on Monday!

Y2 Get Active

We have been doing lots of exercise in Y2 this week. First thing on Monday we had our football training session from Tommy Hutchison of Bristol City. Y2 were put through their paces in the bright sunshine and Tommy renamed Cieran 'Rooney'! These photos here show the fun Y2 are having. We were in the Evening Post, too, on Friday. In case you didn't see it I will put the piece from the paper on the classroom door when I'm back in on Tuesday.
We also had our KS1 Virtual Festival for this term on Thursday where everyone rushed around piling up 'treasure'. Results for the school and the cluster of local schools taking part will follow soon.
Finally we had a good old dance on Thursday night at our KS1 disco - the girls in this picture invited Wellington and Antoine to join the fun; the bears had to spend the whole of next day in their filing cabinet drawer recovering!

This week we also had World Book Day. Y2 helped me out with assembly by allowing me to display all the special books they had brought in at the front of the hall to share with the rest of the school. Many thanks, parents, for encouraging the children to bring in these books. I was very surprised and delighted to see some books there that I recognised from childhood - long may Y2's love of books last!

Welcome Back

Time flies when you're having fun! Our first week back has flown by. We have done lots of P.E., met some Bristol City footballers, worked hard at some maths assessments and finished the week writing and performing our own silly rhyme poems - you can see some photos of the writing process followed by the performance in front of the class here.

Looking ahead to next week we are very much looking forward to working with Bristol City on Monday morning for a special training hour, hopefully everyone will have their P.E. kit in school. On Thursday it is World Book Day - Y2 are invited to bring a favourite book into school to share. I will remind the children about this on Monday (and Wednesday!)

Finally ... as stated in the note on the classroom door we are no longer bringing Bakugans and cards into school. I hope everyone is in agreement with this.

It was lovely to speak to you all on parents' evenings - just to reiterate please remember that myself or Ms Gower are always happy to see you to answer queries.
Have a lovely weekend.

Happy Half Term

There is a double dose of blog this week following last week's snow which kept us off school - most unexpectedly - on Friday! Talking of snow take a look at these pictures. We had been cooped up in the classrooms during so many playtimes that we decided to take everyone out to build snowmen and actually enjoy some of the weather that the children had not seen in this country to such an extent before!

As promised, on Wednesday the children made the pizzas that they had been writing instructions for. Many many thanks to Miss Sainsbury and Miss Marsh for spending the morning helping Y2 do this in the caretaker's house. We were very impressed by the amount of children who agreed to try mushrooms instead of having cheese overload, and when it came to eating time almost every child in the class ate every last morsel!

Today was our dance trip to Ashton Park. Many thanks to Brooke's mum and to Ciara-Leigh's mum who helped Ms Gower and Mrs Hillberg. Thanks also for all the parents who came to watch. A thoroughly enjoyable time was had by all and Ms Gower and Mrs Hillberg were so impressed by the children's performance and teamwork that EVERYONE went on the happy board today!

Have a lovely half term - there are lots of letters etc in the children's book bags including maths badge homework and time homework. We have been doing lots of work on time in school - please support them with this as this is an area of maths, as I have said before, that parents can really put lots of input into!
Have a lovely break - see you on Tuesday 24th.

The photos

Apologies for the lack of photos - we are having a big technical hitch so sorry they can't be added as promised! We'll make up for it next time.