Class 2
24.3.23 Week in Review
admin on: Class 2
Good afternoon everyone,
One of the activities that the class loved this week was our outdoor maths. The children were armed with pencils and clipboards and explored the grounds to find different maths problems to solve. It was like a PE and maths lesson mixed up!
During English lessons this week, the children have created some gorgeous Samuel Pepys-inspired diaries about the Great Fire of London and the emotions they might feel.
Abi from the sports partnership came in and delivered a lovely active reading session for the children. They read a story about an alien and joined in with loads of actions and even found some missing parts of the story around the school.
Music this week, involved playing the Glockenspiels whilst learning the notes and melody for the song Ode to Joy. They were brilliant at remembering the sections of an orchestra and the meaning of different notes.
The class have wowed me again during PE this week. They have enjoyed both gymnastics and cricket and I loved seeing some brilliant batting today. Watch out England, the youngsters are coming!
Finally, I just want to say a huge thank you to Mrs Alyson Lindley, who is moving onto a new job after today. She has been part of the Netherthong team for over 19 years and will be sorely missed by the staff and children alike. Thanks for all you have given Netherthong!
Thanks all, have a lovely weekend!
Mr. H.
17.03.23 Week in Review
admin on: Class 2
Science Week!
We have been science mad here in class two!
We started off the week by participating in a carousel of six different experiments led by different members of staff around school! There was fun to be had making non-newtonian liquids like slime, seeing a chemical reaction happen when using vinegar and baking soda and seeing how liquids diffuse using food colouring to show the processes.
Later in the week, we joined year five, our buddies, to get outdoors and do a soil investigation! The year fives were brilliant role models and we discovered how our woodland has very healthy soil in comparison to our turf-covered field.
03.03.23 Week in Review
admin on: Class 2
Good afternoon everyone,
What a week we have had! It has been a busy one with lots going on around school!
World Book Day!
We had a brilliant World Book Day here in class 2. We kicked off our day by enjoying some buddy reading time with class 5 and then got started with our World Book Day focus book, The Secret of Black Rock. The children loved listening to a new story and chatting about predictions, new characters, settings and morals of the story. We looked at the importance of looking after the oceans - inspired by the main character Erin Pike and designed our own sea creatures.
Outdoor learning!
Our outdoor learners showed off their impressive knowledge of the Great Fire of London this week. We read about a flea (and a rat) who were caught up in the fire and who managed to share the crumbs from the parmesan that Samuel Pepys buried in his garden. We had a go at using the construction methods of the 1600s and realised how difficult it must have been. There was some great team work and lots of fun making muddy mixtures!
24.2.23 Week in Review
admin on: Class 2
Hi all and good afternoon!
Welcome back to a new half-term! Spring is just around the corner, the days are beginning to lengthen and temperatures are on the rise!
We have had a brilliant week launching our Fire! Fire! topic. We have been learning about the Great Fire of London in both English and history and the children have put together some lovely descriptive text. In PE this week, we have started off some cricket skills and sports acrobatics too. During out maths lessons, we have been looking at the relationship between multiplication and division and noticing some patterns that can be used to solve problems. The class were brilliant at solving some word problems too.
As we are learning all about the Great Fire of London this term, we read a fantastic new book about a flea called Vlad who travelled around London in 1666 between the furry ears of a friendly rat! We thought about the differences between the buildings that are in London now and the ones that burned down in the fire. We had a go at building using wattle and daub (mud, straw and wood). It was a very messy job but lots of fun and we could see how using these building materials worked.
10.2.23 Week in review
admin on: Class 2
Hi everyone and good afternoon,
I hope everyone has a good half-term break, whatever you might be getting up to.
Another half-term has passed and this ends our Scotland topic. The class have been brilliant and enthusiastic! It sounds like quite a few of you are now planning trips north! Apologies if the weather is foul. This week, the class have written postcards from the Isle of Coll to tell others what they could do there and have looked at the variety of landscapes Scotland has to offer, identifying the physical and human features.
We went outdoors to read the story of Katie Morag and the Baking Day and then made some porridgies (Scottish flapjacks) for the birds in the woods.
We had another go at using a map or Struay to recreate it ourselves and this time we added both natural geographical features and manmade features like the lighthouses and cottages. Mrs. Pearce was very impressed by Snowdrop group’s fantastic knowledge of Scotland!
Thanks, everyone - for your ongoing support!
Mr. H.
