Class 2 2018-2019

What a great year we have had in Class 2! 🙂

We enjoyed the last day together and said goodbye to Isaac and Tylor who are off to secondary school after summer. We will miss you both lots, remember to come back and visit!

Class 2 on the last day of term 🙂

Miss Hewitt and her P7s <3

Have a fantastic summer and see you in August for another year of Class 2 fun 😉

I can’t believe it is the last week of term already, it has been super busy again and filled with fun! Here is some of what we have been up to 🙂

We went outside to find resources to make our outdoor paintbrushes and worked together to attach the handle and bristles

On Thursday we painted some pictures with a mixture of our outdoor brushes and a normal paintbrush, with

Aiyub who was visiting us

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Tuesday was the P7 Leavers Assembly, a very emotional day! Isaac and Tylor were absolutely excellent and made us very proud 🙂

There was a pizza party after school that Tylor attended, though he was mostly avoiding the camera!

Isaac did not attend, so instead he had a pizza party with his Class 2 friends at lunch on Thursday 🙂

Wednesday was our annual unit picnic which was very well attended, thank you to all the parents and family that made it along – a super afternoon in the sun!

Class 2 were in full attendance at the Talent Show on Wednesday night. They were all so confident, amazing job team!

Last day tomorrow……

Sports Day and the P7 trip were not the only things happening this week!

We were very excited to welcome Aiyub, our new pupil who will be joining our class after the summer in P7, for 2 visits. He got on amazingly well and has made friends with everyone right away. He will be visiting again next week to spend some more time with us in class.

Friday was prize giving and the whole school joined together to celebrate the achievements of every pupil. Each child received a certificate and some special awards were also given out. Thank you so much to all the parents who attended. P7 parents we will see you on Tuesday for the P7 leavers assembly and certificates!

Class 2 (minus the P7s) with their awards after Prize Giving 

Bilal with his Outstanding Achievement award 

On Tuesday while the P7s were on the trip, the rest of the class made dream catchers during art – the finished items were fabulous!

We had our last dance session with IndepenDance this week

Some lovely team work outside 🙂

On Friday afternoon we had a re-run (no pun intended!) of the sports day races we didn’t manage before the rain came on Monday

Have a great weekend ready for the last week of term next week!

On Tuesday all the P7s went on their final trip in St Albert’s *sniff sniff*

It was a fantastic day at the Safari Park and they fitted so many fun things into their P7 leavers trip!

Setting off from St A’s and arriving at BD!

Close to the lions who were moving about loads!

Monkeys on the bus 🙂

Some other safari drive photos

Elephants

Some children, including Tylor, went on the boat cruise and the rest of the P7s, including Isaac, went to see the Lemurs. They were quite smelly as they were going to the toilet all over the place!

There were paddle boats which were taken over by a lot of St Albert’s children! Can you spot Mr Corrigan on the flying fox in the background?! 🙂

Lovely lunch in the BBQ area

A very entertaining sea lion show

Investigating the walk round safari – meerkats, penguins , tigers and ostriches

The Birds of Prey show involved lots of ducking to avoid the swooping birds!

Enjoying the trampolines and slides before getting the bus back home. Miss Cohen, Miss Brooks and Mr Corrigan loving their turn on the slides 🙂

Yesterday we started our week very actively with sports day! In the morning we had a great time at the different ‘Come & Try’ sessions and the afternoon was traditional races. Sadly the weather meant the afternoon was rained off and we only got to participate in our ‘Egg and Spoon’ race. We will reschedule these races for later this week so we can complete our sprints, sack races, relays and three legged races.

Come & Try – Soft tennis

Come & Try – Satori Karate

Come & Try – Dodgeball

Come & Try – HIIT

Come & Try – ‘Highland Games’ – Welly Wang and Caber Toss!

Come and Try – Netball

Come and Try – Cricket

Come and Try – Beanbag toss

Egg & spoon race – the only traditional race we managed before it was rained off 🙁

The rain was dripping off our faces as we were waiting to get back inside! It was great fun! 🙂

Thank you so much to the parents and family members who came to cheer us on at Sports Day and sorry the weather ruined it a little! We hope you enjoyed it as much as us 🙂

What a busy week it has been in Class 2!

On Monday, Amy and Sean from Indepen-Dance came in to chat to the class about Indepen-Dance and explain more about what they do. We learned that Karen started the company after experiencing some discrimination towards the group of adults with learning difficulties she took to an aerobics class. This links in to exactly what the class have been learning about can happen in terms of discrimination to different groups, and it was great for them to hear a real life example of this and how it was dealt with in such a positive way.

Hearing from Amy and Sean

Key facts from the presentation

Then on Tuesday we had our first of 3 creative dance lessons with Wils and Adam. We were learning about making different shapes with our bodies, travelling in different ways and using props to help us dance.

Doing some warm up work

Creating fabulous dance and movement

Creating movements with the parachute

Relaxing at the end of the session, enjoying the bubbles!

On Wednesday the children went to the Tramway to watch an Indepen-Dance class. It was fantastic to be in a real dance studio and watch the very talented adults dancing. We were lucky enough to be asked to create our own little story and perform it as a dance for the group, which was great fun (though Miss Hewitt was busy helping and didn’t get any photos of our dancing!).

The fantastic Indepen-Dance class at the Tramway

Thursday saw the return of Wils for our 2nd dance session and this time Sean was with him. Another fab session creating movements and shapes. Everyone is very much looking forward to our final session next Thursday.

Amazing work again with Indepen-Dance

The children have been very excited following how many people have seen their fantastic video we shared on the blog last week, so far it has… 232 views! Please keep sharing the video with family and friends and help us get over 250 views! The children were very excited to hear that Judith Ralston, friend of Class 2 after our work earlier in the year on weather forecasting, tweeted to say how great she thought the video was 🙂

Judith complimenting our work 🙂

Ivo and Hector have been joining us for lots of different parts of the day such as –

• learning about fractions, counting in 10s and 2s and adding ten to different 2 digit numbers in maths
• practising for sports day during P.E time
• learning about our new feeling ‘frustrated’ this week in PATHS
• doing some ICT with Mr Stewart
• joining us for breakfast on Friday to do our learning evaluations from the week and have the Friday breakfast treat of Nutella on toast!

Super sports stars!

Hazel from PATHS was delighted to hear Kayden’s story about using the steps for calming down and problem solving that he had been taught and tweeted about him!

Bilal has been working so hard on his doubles sums and got some amazing scores on ‘Hit the button’ this week so was given the superstar lanyard to wear for the day – well done Bilal!!

The class have also been working on writing their own reports, reflecting on their learning this year and talking about their favourite memories. You will be getting these along with their end of year teacher reports next week.

Happy weekend 🙂

It has been a very hectic few weeks with lots going on both in our class and in the wider school!

Ivo and Hector have been joining us from Class 1 for more transition visits, Tylor and Isaac have been visiting their secondary schools for their transition days and Huzaifa has started working in the mainstream P6 class for some mental maths.

Over the last few weeks we have been learning –

• answering comprehension questions in full sentences
• creating our character profiles for our imaginative writing piece
• about setting and using the 5 senses to complete a description of our setting
• the wh, au and aw phonic digraphs
• rounding numbers to the nearest 10 and 100
• estimating totals to add and takeaway sums using rounding
• quick recall of our doubles
• acting out various scenes of discrimination
• filming pieces for our equality movie
• about the feelings shy and lonely
• discussing making new friends and important skills required to do this
• about Ramadan and Eid
• sports day skills – relay, sprints, egg and spoon race, 3 legged race

Another busy week in store next week, Miss Hewitt will try to remember to take some photos!

Have a lovely weekend 🙂

The P7 pupils in Class 2 have been starting their preparations for their leaver’s assembly *sniff, sniff*

Miss Cohen, who has been working with them along with her P7s, has asked if you can help them practice singing the leaver song at home as part of their homework.

Here is the link for the video –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96JDkI2tBhI

They have a copy of the lyrics in their homework pouch to help them sing along 🙂

What a lovely sunny week it has been!

This week we enjoyed the lovely weather by planting a beautiful Hydrangea that Isaac and his family kindly bought to plant by ‘Isaac’s Path’ .

We planted this exciting addition to our outdoor grounds with help from Ivo and Hector from Class 1 whenthey joined us for this lesson as part of their transition. They will both be moving up to Class 2 after the summer and were a super help in our gardening lesson 🙂

We all shared different jobs such as digging the hole (including breaking up some stubborn roots that were in our way!), loading compost into the wheelbarrow, filling the watering cans, covering the plant with compost, watering our beautiful new addition to the outdoor grounds and taking photos on the class I-pad of everything 🙂

Here are some pictures of us at work –

Gathering tools from the gardening shed

Over to the path we go

Collecting the compost

Digging the hole

Putting some water in the bottom of the hole before adding compost

Filling the hole with compost

The plant going in!

Ivo giving the plant another big drink

Hector sweeping the path to get rid of the mud to make sure it was clear for Isaac’s walk 🙂

Class 2 and Class 1 friends 🙂