Day 2 in the residential house!
After a good nights sleep, we all woke up feeling refreshed and ready for a fun packed day. We began by eating a delicious cooked breakfast to get us ready for the day ahead.
Today, the children had a go at canoeing. This involved learning how to use an oar and then learning how to soak each other with it! Mr Goodwin manage to drench most of his group. They were not happy!
The zip-line featured again today with lots of children conquering their fear of heights. We all looked very fashionable in our harnesses as we flew through the air. Mrs Hogarth’s team competed against the Year 6’s from St James’ at a zip-line race. We won’t let you know the result but just know that we were very annoyed!
At lunchtime, the children filled their tummies with fruit, chicken burgers, hot dogs and sandwiches. There was also a cheeky do-nut for everyone.
As we dodged the rain showers in the afternoon, some groups managed to make it through the piranha pool challenge without being gobbled up by these vicious creatures! It was pretty close though and their panicked screams could be heard for miles around.
The children are exhausted now and ready for a good night’s sleep. We are looking forward to our final morning of activities before heading home tomorrow.
Y6 Residential
A quick update…
Year 6 are having a great time on their residential so far. They’ve just finished their lunch (burgers and hot dogs – yummy!) after a super busy morning packed full of activities.
They’ll have a bit of down time now before another jam-packed afternoon of adventurous fun!
Day 1 in the residential house!
Well, that’s day one done. After a great coach trip, we finally arrived at our home for the next two nights. The walk from the coach to the centre was our first challenge as it’s all uphill. The children managed to drag the teachers to the top!
The next challenge was that the children needed to make their own beds and sort their rooms out. When this was completed, they were finally rewarded with a yummy lunch.
The afternoon saw the start of some great activities. We turned our hands to the giant swing, where our screams could be heard for miles. The children conquered their fears at the crate challenge – building a tower of crates until they fell! Others were seen hurtling down the zip line at 100 mph!
Everyone is very tired now and tucked up in bed. We are looking forward to another fun packed day tomorrow.
he crate
1A – D and T – fruit bars
This week we set off for The Hub to cook some healthy fruit bars. We practised lots of skills including:
peeling and chopping,
slicing using the bridge grip,
mashing,
and mixing.
All the children took turns and listened to instructions well and we were all excited to see the end result. Some children liked the fruit bars… but some didn’t.
“I liked them because I could taste the coconut.” – VB
“I didn’t like them because there was too much raisins.” – MH
Help at home: by looking at other recipes with your child. Perhaps you could follow them and prepare a meal for the family. The programme ‘Big Cook Little Cook’ on CBeebies has lots of ideas for child friendly recipes that you may like to try.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/shows/big-cook-little-cook
1,2B DT food – making fruit bars
We completed our Design Technology (Food) project for this term this week. We made fruit bars. We enjoyed the mashing, cutting, measuring and mixing.
Help at home by making the recipe (or a different one) at home with your child to help them develop these skills.
DT – fruity bars!
What a fantastic first few days back at school we’ve had in 2C.
On Tuesday, we completed our last cooking lesson in Year 2. This time around, on the menu was fruity flapjack bars.
We peeled, chopped and mixed the ingredients before baking for 30 minutes. It was great to see all of the children try the food they prepared. Most of the children enjoyed the fruit bars!
‘I loved it. It was awesome!’ – MG
‘ I didn’t like it so much because I didn’t like the ingredients mixed together.’ – TS
Take a look at what we got up to, and our delicious finished product!
Living and Learning: Physical Health and Fitness
In our recent Living and Learning topic, we learnt all about physical health and fitness.
We learnt that being…
- 60 active minutes a day is needed
- being physically active helps us both physically and mentally
- being physically active can help improve our mood
- being physically active can give us more energy to help our learning
… and much more!
Well done, Y3,4!
Living and Learning: Healthy Eating
During our recent Living and Learning topic, we learnt all about healthy eating.
We know that in order to eat healthily, we need foods from all the different food groups to ensure we have a well balanced and healthy diet.
The image below shows the different food groups and how much of each should be included in our diet to make sure it is healthy.
Help at home: see if your child can remember the different food groups.
Busy bees
We have had a lot of busy bees in Nursery. We have been learning all about bees, Bumblebees and Honey bees. We found out where they live and how hard they work. At snack time, we tasted some honey on our toast. Although some children were a little reluctant to try it at first, everybody had a taste and decided if they liked it or not.
Outside, we played a ‘bee’ game where we had to collect ‘pollen’ from around the garden. Children loved hiding the balls for their friends and then running to find them. After we’d collected the pollen balls, we counted them into a large five frame to see how many we had found.
In maths, we noticed a pattern in the honeycomb in a book about bees. We used hexagons to see if we could recreate the honeycomb pattern. There were lots of opportunities to practise our counting skills this week using yellow counters as pollen for the bees.
At group time we used our mark making skills to create pictures of bees. We are working really hard at holding our pens with a pincer grip. We made sure that our bees had a repeating pattern of black and yellow and of course 6 legs!
We have been watching our cocoons closely this week in the hope that they would turn into butterflies before the holidays. It appears that they are super cosy inside their cocoons and are not quite ready to emerge just yet. They will be going home with Mrs Beesley so that she can keep a close eye on them.
Help at home
We have been finding out lots of facts about mini beasts this half term. Ask your child if they can talk to you about what they have found out. We are sure that they will remember lots.
We hope that you all have a happy and healthy half term holiday. We will see you back at Nursery on Monday 02 June.
Well done for a brilliant half term 2C!
What a fantastic half term of learning we’ve had in 2C!
It’s been a jam-packed 5 weeks due to bank holidays, but what a pleasure it has been. A huge well done to all of the children for producing some fantastic pieces of work.
A highlight has definitely been History, where the children have been extremely engaged with our learning about Nelson Mandela and Leonora Cohen.
Here are a few photographs to sum up the half term. Lots of sunshine and outdoor learning!
