Month: April 2025

P2 have started the term in PE doing athletics.  On Wednesday we remembered that athletics is split into three areas, running, jumping and throwing.  We focused on jumping, performing in 7 different jumping activities.

• standing vertical jump
• 2 footed jumps following a directional pattern
• low hurdles
• standing long jump
• rebound jumps
• higher hurdles
• boxes of differing height to jump onto.

We were reminded that the standing long jump and rebound jumps are 2 of the 6 events we take part in at sports day.

What a fantastic and fun-filled week we had in P2a for our last week of term! Our class has been buzzing with creativity, collaboration, and a strong sense of community as we explored learning both inside and outside the classroom.

We ended off the week with an Easter egg hunt that had everyone excited and eager to work together. Not only was it a sweet treat, but it also gave us a great opportunity to practice our sense-making and problem-solving skills as we followed clues and searched high and low!

We also had a super fun dance party with 2b, where we let loose and enjoyed some joyful movement. Dancing together encouraged creative thinking, and we loved expressing ourselves through music and rhythm. We even had a little boogie in our own classroom with our teachers – such a fun way to build confidence and connection!

As part of our health and wellbeing, we spent time outdoors practicing our ball skills, showing determination and working on our coordination and teamwork. While we were outside, we also explored the changing season by looking for signs of spring. We spotted daffodils, budding trees, and fresh green leaves — perfect for sparking curiosity and encouraging observation.

Pupil Voice: “Look, I see yellow” “I have found new leaves on the trees”

In the classroom, we put our critical thinking to the test by diving into subtraction. We worked hard, helping each other understand tricky problems and celebrating our progress along the way.

A highlight of the week was our group work on school values. We had meaningful conversations about respect, determination, and safety, and created colourful posters to share what these values mean to us. It was wonderful to see how everyone contributed their ideas and worked together — such great collaboration!

Pupil Voice: “Its really important to show respect” “Being respectful helps us be kind”

All these activities helped us develop our metaskills — skills that support all learning. Whether it was creative thinking during dance and art, sense-making while searching for signs of spring, or critical thinking during subtraction, we were always learning and growing.

We have been continuing to reinforce our sense of steady beat using body percussion and we have also explored the relationship between beat and rhythm. A song that we have learned called ‘Pussycat Pussycat’ gave us an opportunity to learn about a question and answer style of song in music where we kept the beat by tapping while singing the questions and showing the rhythm of the answers by clapping.

Below are two videos which show us practising ‘Pussycat Pussycat’ where we tap the beat and clap the rhythm to show the difference.

We have also been learning about pitch – how high or low a sound is, and we’ve been using our singing voices to match the pitch that we’ve heard. We have also been learning how to use our hands to show if the pitch is high, middle or low. The song ‘Rain is Falling Down’ is one we have learned which has three different pitches.

After using our hands to show the pitch of the song, we talked about which words in the song were at a high, middle or low pitch and we put them into three different sets of clouds to show how the pitch changed in the song.

Here is a video of us singing the song and showing the high, middle and low pitches with our hand positions.

 

In PE, we have finished the term doing racket activities.  We have used short tennis and badminton equipment so far and will finished tomorrow with table tennis bats and balls.  We started off by developing our hand eye coordination through using beach balls and catching balls in hoops.  We have then spent a week each on the 3 different sports.

Our main focus has been on speed.  In racket sports you have to move quickly for a short distances and be able to stop in control and balance.  We spent a lot of time working on using different foot patterns which will help us coordinate our way quickly around a court.