Author: Miss Topping

P2/1 have been exploring another seasonal event this week. In the gym hall children worked collaboratively to create firework dances – there was lots of spinning, sparkling, energy and dramatic flair!

Back in the classroom fireworks inspired our literacy with a themed word hunt around the classroom and a listening lotto challenge. We enjoyed our first collaboration session with our nursery friends, which offered the chance to create some beautiful art, make our own sparklers and role play using them safely, and share our knowledge about staying safe at bonfire celebrations in the floorbook.

P2/1 are very excited about Halloween! Children have enjoyed building their fine motor skills this week by making pumpkins and ghosts from play dough, and then using describing words to write about their creations. They have also tackled a witch’s potion challenge, where they had to use tweezers to find the letters in the cauldron that matched the sounds on their potion recipe.

The oldest and youngest pupils at Longridge enjoyed the chance to learn together during an outdoor PE session. They were challenged to make up new playground games with a spooky theme. Children showed lots of great creativity in their ideas, and we saw competitive and fun games involving zombies, skeletons, ghosts, wolves and lava. There were fantastic communication skills developed as children explained the rules to their games and gave each other feedback using a star and a wish.

The children are ‘tres bien’ at speaking French in P2/1! This week Camenbear visited our classroom to help us learn how to chat to people we meet. Everybody had fun bringing lots of soft-toy friends on a make-believe aeroplane, and Pilot Camenbear flew us to France to practice our new words and phrases! We said ‘Bonjour’ and ‘comment ca va?’ to friends we met, and they answered with ‘bien merci!’ or ‘ca va mal’ before everyone said ‘au revoir’ and got back on the plane home to Longridge.

Friday 26th September was European Day of Languages, which was a perfect day for this year’s French Friends leadership group to introduce themselves! This group of primary 6 and 7 pupils volunteered for the role of encouraging a love of languages across the school, and have showed enthusiasm and passion from the very start. They visited every class to introduce themselves, share their exciting plans for the year ahead, and give every class their first set of French Focus Phrases to help build speaking French into our everyday routines. Tres Bien!