Author visit!
This morning, we had a visit from an author, Clare Luther, who talked to us about her books and answered some of our questions. It was great fun!
Living and Learning
- Drug, alcohol and tobacco education (DATE)
- Keeping safe and managing risk
Here are the weekly Living and Learning statements, for this half term, to support this learning.
- I don’t interrupt (with my mouth or my hand).
- I can make things better.
- I know what a drug is.
- I am aware of risks.
- I make safe choices.
- I stay safe online.
Class Novel
After the Christmas holidays, we’ll continue reading Beware! Killer Tomatoes by Jeremy Strong.
Here’s the blurb….
Jack’s in trouble. Big trouble. Not only is he in hospital with a leg in traction (boring) but he knows the police are coming for him. Because of an accident – a tomato-related accident – involving a supermarket pyramid and an old-age pensioner. Whoops!
Be mindful
At this busy time of year, mindfulness can help children to take control of their emotions.
During our recent themed week, all children took part in mindfulness workshops to learn a variety of techniques to use at school and at home. Here’s a reminder of a few of them that might be useful for over the holidays. A mindfulness newsletter/parent guide will be sent out in the new year.
Breathing hug
Start with both arms in the air. Put one hand across your tummy and the other on your shoulder. Breath slowly in and out.
Breathing tree
In a standing position, raise your arms as you breath in and release your arms back down as you breath out.
‘Ok’ breathing
Make an ‘o’ sign on your tummy button to represent that it is ok to feel different emotions. Slowly breath in and out.
Mindfulness bottle
This is a bit like a snow globe. Shake it up and watch it. Simply watch the disturbance as it begins to settle – as does our mind.
Take a bottle, add glitter and food colouring and seal tightly.
Lights, Camel, Action!
This week, we’ve enjoyed three fantastic performances of our Lights, Camel, Action! production. We’re sure you will agree the children have done a great job and we’re very proud of their performances. Every child tried their best and learnt songs, dances and often lines.
Thank you for coming to watch the children. They love to spot a familiar face in the audience! We hope you enjoyed the show.
We also raised £202.41 for our new school charity, Make a Wish so thank you for your donations.
After a busy first term in Year 2, it’s time now to enjoy the holiday with family and friends. See you back at school on 02 January 2018!
DT – Puppets
Finally, we evaluated our finished products.
We thought about what went well and what we found difficult. We also considered what we would do differently if we were going to do it again.
DT – Puppets
Once we’d seen our puppets, we had to decorate them. We tried to follow our designs as closely as we could!
” My puppet changed a little bit but looked almost the same as my design. It had short, yellow hair and I used pen to make the cheeks look red.”
DT – Puppets
After we’d practised sewing, it was time to make our puppets using needles, thread and pieces of felt.
“The sewing was hard. I had to be resilient because I got a big knot of thread in my puppet so I had to start again!”
DT – Puppets
We’ve been designing and making puppets this half-term.
We started this project by first designing a purposeful, functional and appealing product.
DT – Puppets
After we’d designed our puppets, we practised tying knots, threading sewing needles and sewing using pieces of binka fabric.
“Putting the thread through the needle was tricky at first!”
“We had to use triple knots because one knot was too small and the thread came out.”
“At first it was a bit tricky but then I got the hang of it and was quite good! “
