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 🙂