Living and Learning – I can talk about my feelings
This week in Living and Learning, our focus is on feelings and our mental wellbeing. We read a text about what mental health is and how we can look after our mental health. This can include activities that we like or spending time with family and friends.
We also looked at lots of different scenarios we may experience in our lives and how this would make us feel.
We know that we are all entitled to feel however we feel and that is okay. We also know what signs to look after in others, and how to be empathetic towards others.
Help at home: by encouraging your child to express their feelings often and talk about different types of emotions.
We’re bananas about sandwiches!
On Monday, Year 2 used their food preparation skills to create a banana sandwich.
This forms part of our Design and Technology food learning which involves following a recipe to create a product each term.
Here are some pictures of us preparing our sandwiches!
Here are some pictures of us eating them!
Next week we will be writing some instructions about how to make a banana sandwiches.
Children in Need
A huge thank you to everyone that donated money last Friday for Children in Need. The Junior Leadership Team were out in the playground with collection buckets before and after school – they did a great job! We managed to raise a whopping £436.98 in total. Thank you so much!
1,2B’s trip to the Hepworth Wakefield
We also enjoyed our trip yesterday. The galleries were inspiring and we made our own artwork and prints too. It really brought our art topic to life!
School trip – 2C!
We had an absolutely fantastic school trip at the Hepworth Gallery in Wakefield today. We got there via coach (the children were super excited about this and sang most of the way there).
We started the day looking around the the different galleries in the art museum. We saw lots of different pieces of art and sculptures.
We had some brilliant discussions about the art works including how they changed in appearance as we changed our position in the room. Our discussions included texture (without touching the art) and the patterns we could see. Next, we had a go at drawing some of our own art, inspired by the art in the gallery. We used some small objects to help us do this, including shells, pine cones and plastic stencils.
After lunch (which we thoroughly enjoyed) we took part in a workshop.
The workshop included looking at some Barbara Hepworth sculptures and finding inspiration from them. We talked about how Hepworth was inspired by nature to produce her own art. After this, we looked at some of the repeated patterns in nature and produced our own art, using tracing paper and a black frame.
We then took part in a printing workshop where we made some 3D stencils and used them to make some colourful prints on our paper using primary colours.
Art topic – colour mixing
As part of our art topic, we have been learning about primary and secondary colours. After identifying colours in paintings, we had a go at mixing them ourselves.
James Mayhew author visit
We had a wonderful virtual visit with author, James Mayhew, who wrote the Katie and … books. In the stories, Katie visits art galleries and has amazing adventures inside famous paintings. We are reading Katie and the Mona Lisa as part of our topic learning.
James told us some stories while he was demonstrating how he illustrates. It was very inspiring.
Help at home by talking about your favourite pieces of art or sharing some of the Katie books together.
1,2B DT – making banana sandwiches
All the year 1 and 2 classes will be or have been using their food preparation skills to create their latest product, a banana sandwich.
This forms part of our Design and Technology food learning which involves following a recipe to make something each term.
Help at home by encouraging your child to be involved in food preparation at home.
1A-A lot of learning!
We too have been following our excellent curriculum and learning about M
materials in Science. Here we identified different materials and discussed some of their properties.
Our rocks were closely inspected, organised and sorted into different groups. The children were really trying to grasp the concept of dull, shiny, rough and smooth.
Help at home- by sorting household objects by material (plastic, wood, metal, glass).
In Art, we were comparing and contrasting the work by Leonardo Di Vinci and Paul Klee. We also articulated our likes and dislikes about their work.
Leonardo’s work is more realistic- William
I like Paul Klee because his paintings are colourful-Mollie
Library- To encourage a love for reading, all of KS1 visit our school library on a Friday. Here are some book worms.
Help at home-by reading with your child daily. Ensure children read their homework ebook and write a comment in their reading records by each Friday. If your child comes home with extra word and sound cards please be diligent and help your child to learn them.
AUTHOR VISIT-We had a very exciting virtual visit with the author James Mayhew. We know him so well for his series of books based on his sister Katie.
James shared with us how he begun to draw and paint as a child and this developed into writing also. As we watched James he, cleverly, illustrated a picture whilst telling us a story. James allowed us to ask questions. We were impressed by the fact that he has had over 70 books published! He also writes about 2 books a year!
Finally, we have all enjoyed our non-uniform day to support Children In Need. KS1 have been happy in a sea of yellow, ears, spots and trainers. Thankyou for all of you donations for this incredible charity.
Penny Trail – Cancer Research collection
Thank you to everyone who donated to
last week’s penny trail in aid of Cancer Research.
In total, we raised
£99.32!
An amazing amount made from mainly 1p and 2p coins.
Thank you!