2b Class Blog

Our last term is an exciting one with lots of new experiences and opportunities to reinforce previous learning. Our interdisciplinary theme across learning is Community, there will be opportunities to explore the local community as well as invite the community into school. In doing so, we will develop skills across Literacy, ICT, Social Studies and Skills for Life, Learning and Work.

There are also other skills to be learned across the curriculum. 2b have identified some of these below.

Writing

We have been learning to write recounts of what we’ve done in the past. We have written about ourselves at the Riverside Museum and our Easter holidays. Jessica says “ I find it hard to use some of the bigger words but I’m getting better.” We will be writing comic strips and plays later in the terms.

Health & Wellbeing, and P.E.

In  our health lessons we have been learning about healthy food using the Eatwell Plate. We designed a healthy lunchbox with healthy food from each of the food groups. Ava said “I found carbohydrate and protein hard to spell but now I know which foods go in which group.

In PE we have been playing basketball and athletics. Heather said “We were learning to shoot into the net and pass the ball. The ball hit me, I need to catch it next time and keep my hands up!” Megan enjoyed the races against the other houses, “We were learning to be athletic”.

Science

We have been learning about germs and viruses. Lawson has learned “that germs can move”. Angus learned that “some germs make us ill and some germs are good”. Lara knows that “germs are so small you can’t see them”. We will investigate more diseases and ways to keep our bodies healthy.”

Music

We have been learning about different types of music. Finlay says “we have been learning about Blues music. We have picked out instruments.” Rory can tell the class how he feels when he hears music. We will be exploring different types of music throughout the term.

ICT & Technologies

We have been learning about cells on a spread sheet in Excel. Megan said “we wrote in the cells what snacks we have.” We have been playing at programming Spheros, coding it to move and change the colour of the light. We have been making LED animations on Microbits. Olivia said “our animation was a loveheart with a forever loop”.

RME

Harriet said “we learned about a little boy who had God’s message”. In RME we will be exploring the life and stories of the Prophet Muhammad. Megan and Olivia said “we shouldn’t draw him because it’s disrespectful”.

Achievements

Four achievements we would like to celebrate are:

Angus achieved his Orange belt in Karate.

Cory cycled 5km on his bike.

Rory has been helping at home and makes his bed by himself. He promises to do it every day now.

Rosa’s writing is improving and she has been working on a story which she is very proud of.

We are so proud of everyone’s achievements. Well done!

Riverside Museum

Here are a few pictures from our Riverside Museum trip. This learning experience was an excellent end to our Transport topic, the children returned excited about all of the vehicles, activities and facts. Ava wrote a fantastic recount to tell everyone about it.

2b Class Blog

Throughout this term we have been developing and consolidating a lot of skills across the curriculum. Here’s a selection we wanted to share with you.

 Class Assembly! We have recorded a shortened version of our assembly for you to see.

https://youtu.be/535ZsYdB1eQ

We will create a new one for the 4th May. I hope you enjoy!

Continue reading February in 2b →

2b Class Blog

A new term has brought a lot of new skills to learn and new contexts for our learning. Our interdisciplinary theme across learning is Transport, now and in the past. This will be a focus across the curriculum in areas such as Social Studies, Technology and Literacy. There are also other skills to be learned across the curriculum. 2b have identified some of these below.

Writing

Lara, Megan, Niamh and Ava said “We’ve been writing poems about lots of things like animals. We’re practising making rhyming words and getting the rhythm by performing.” We will start learning about acrostic poems and letter writing soon.

Health & Wellbeing, and P.E.

Olivia Lee, Cory and Finlay said “We’ve been doing badminton and dancing to a count of 8. This helps us with balancing and holding the right grip, in dancing we’ve been moving in rhythm”. We would like to create our own performances in Dance and use our coordination to hit the shuttle in badminton.

Science

Rosa, Brandon and Heather said “We’ve been learning about forces and what a big force is and what a small force is. We have also been learning about push, pull and twist.” We will soon be carrying out investigations and reporting our results.

Social Studies

Zaynah, Harry and Alesha said “We’ve been learning about important people like George Stephenson and the Wright Brothers, they invented transports like the train and plane.” We will look at more significant individuals from the past and discuss why they are important today.

Expressive Arts

Lucy, Lawson and Jude said “We have been drawing with line and colour, we drew a red rose from a Burns poem, tartan and created our own drawing. We used pastels and pens.” We will go on to look at more artists like Charles Rennie Macintosh and create art inspired by him.

Technologies

Angus, Harriet and Harrison said “We’ve been learning to use and code Microbits using input and output. We also had a challenge to make gears that bikes and cars use. We enjoyed learning how they work”. We will make more games on the Microbits and complete a food challenge in Term 2.

French

Abigal, James and Rory “We have been counting up to twenty, having short conversations, and describing who is in our family.” We will be learning about French food and becoming more confident in small conversations.

RME

Christopher, Olivia Park and Ahmed said “We made kippahs to learn more about Jewish people, and we have been thinking about the SHANARRI wellbeing indicators.”

Achievements

We have been sharing our Awesome Achievements as a class, it is great to hear what everyone is proud of and to have some of these celebrated on our Achievement Tree.

Rosa learnt to do a forward roll on a trampoline!

Christopher has been working hard on his dog drawings.

Jessica was proud of winning Star pupil for her hard work!

Lucy can ride her bike by herself now.

December in 2B

Throughout the last month we have been learning a lot of new skills. Planning and rehearsing for the Nativity has been a huge focus for us and an excellent opportunity for new learning experiences across RME, Expressive Arts, Talking and Listening, and Health & Wellbeing.

Expressive Arts

We all experienced the energy and excitement of performing and being part of an audience. We were not just an audience in the Nativity but we also enjoyed being part of the audience for the Wizard of Oz pantomime. Zaynah said, “It was very funny”. Megan and Jude, as well as all the children, enjoyed taking on their roles and working on expression and using their voice. We also learned more about performing in our Rainforest Documentary, which demonstrated our learning across the curriculum. In Term 2 our focus will shift to Dance and Music.

Health & Wellbeing

The confidence and perseverance we showed during the rehearsal and performance is just one example of our Growth Mindset. Lara said, “It’s important to keep trying when you practise anything because that’s how to get better”. We all experienced contributing to a communal school performance.

Science

Beyond the Nativity we have learnt more about Materials, we have explored waterproof and absorbent materials to make an umbrella for Chester. Lawson said, “I learnt about reversible and irreversible changes by making pizza dough and reindeer food”. Next term we will learn more about Forces.

Writing

As part of Literacy across the curriculum we used our exploration in Science to write instructions for different purposes, a recipe for pizza dough, and instructions for reindeer food and play dough. Christopher and Ava produced particularly good instructions. They both said that doing the process first helped them write the recipe. In Term 2 we will focus on poetry, letters and leaflets.

ICT

“Hour of Code was awesome” (Harrison). After learning a variety of programming skills and computational thinking we had the chance to make our own flappy bird game. We are learning to be creative and to debug our code.

Social Studies

Next term, across the curriculum and Social Studies, we will learn more about transport today and in the past, as well as significant individuals such as the Wright Brothers and Robert Louis Stevenson.

Literacy and Numeracy

Our learning in these areas will draw upon the contexts listed above but will differ according to the needs of each class / group. Your support with consolidation of core learning through homework activities will be very beneficial to our children.

2b Class Blog

This term Primary 2 have started many new things and practised lots of new skills. Our interdisciplinary theme across learning is the Rainforest, this will shortly change to a Winter theme as we approach the holidays. These topics will pervade much of the children’s learning; however there are skills to be learned across the curriculum. 2b have identified some of these below.

Health & Wellbeing

Finlay, Ava, Harry and Zaynah told us that we have been learning about why we brush our teeth and what happens if we don’t. We have also been learning about being Safe, Achieving and Active. In P.E we have had the football coach teach us to dribble and pass. The football coach will be with us until December, we’ll practise control, shooting and lots of games.

Science

James, Lucy, Megan and Heather said we have been learning more about materials and why we choose certain materials. We looked at a house to see lots of different materials being used. We will conduct an experiment on waterproof materials.

Social Studies

Lara, Angus, Jessica and Cory said that in Social Studies we have been learning about different layers of the rainforest and the different animals that live in each layer. We will compare these animals to animals in other climate zones.

Expressive Arts

Jessica said that in Art we have been learning about how to make colours lighter by adding white.

During Drama we have taken on different roles by acting as different layers and rainforest animals. We will continue to develop this to produce a nature documentary. We will be developing our skills in performing during the Nativity practices and performance.

Technologies

Olivia Lee, Olivia Park and Alesha said that in ICT we have used Code.org to practice directions and drawing with loops. We have also been using PowerPoint to create a rainforest presentation. We will be using the internet to research and find images to enhance our PowerPoint presentation.

French

Christopher, Abigail, Ahmed and Rory told us that we have been learning how to say who is in our family in French. Also, we can have short conversations with hello, how are you, what is your name in French. We will become more confident in speaking and learning more about food in French.

RME

Cory, Harriet and Brandon said that we have been reading about Harvest and why it is important to Christians. We will continue to look at the school values and friendship.

Writing

Harriet, Rosa and Niamh said that we are learning about the skill of describing characters such as The White Witch, Mr Tumnus and The Gruffalo. We will start instructional writing soon.

Achievements

In Primary 2 we love sharing achievements, and things that we’re proud of both in and out of school. Over the weeks we have seen medals and certificate as well as pictures and tales of sporting achievements. Here’s a few the children wanted to share.

Ahmed was proud of being able to order numbers up to 100.

Rory and Angus were delighted to get Star Pupil recently.

We have all been sharing some very funny jokes and lots of laughs.

Jude did a rolly poly in swimming and won our class Joke competition!

Lara has been practising skipping forwards and backward without doing little jumps.

We took part in ‘Big Garden Birdwatch.’ We made bird food by mixing lard and seeds and put on pine cones. We also put cheerios on string and hung the food on the trees and fence in our playground.

For our Winter walk and Birdwatch we went to Eastwood Park. We took tally marks of the birds we saw. We saw a magpie in its nest, heard the robin and counted thirteen seagulls, blackbirds and three squirrels twirling round the tree.

On our way back to school we stopped at the Electricity generators and heard the humming noise. We have been learning about keeping safe when using electricity.

Busy Bees in Primary 1

We have been so busy in Primary 1. We have been learning to be responsible and follow the different routines in our classroom, this has been a bit tricky.

We have made lots of new friends and we play together in the playground and in the classroom. Rachael says,”we make sure we include everybody.” Megan says, “we share and take turn at the Puppet Show.”

As part of Social Studies we have had visitors telling us about how they help us. Graham the lollipop man told us how to cross the road safely. He took us out to the road and had to use his STOP sign to stop the traffic so we could cross safely.

We were extremely proud of running our mile and putting our sticker on the map.

At Talking and Listening time, Primary 1 came together to share their ‘Awesome Achievements.’ We are so talented and have been helping at home, making cakes, practising our writing and riding our bikes.

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