Author: Miss Topping

P2/1 had their second session with Kids Gone Wild this week, and the skills development and imagination they showed was fantastic. Children found Big-Foot tracks and rainbow fox houses in the ground, developing their talking and listening as they shared exciting ideas and discoveries. They climbed trees, rocked in hammocks and flew down a zip line, building their gross motor skills. They collaborated to take turns, build dens and create treasure trails with arrows and an ‘x’ marking the spot. But most of all, they had a fantastic, memorable day in nature together.

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.