3rd July 2020 Talent Week - Day Three - Circus or Sports Skills The boys and girls have enjoyed learning circus and sport skills and someone has even taught their dog how to spin! 3rd July 2020 Nursery Places Available from September We have Nursery places available from September 2020. Please contact the school office to secure a place for your child on 0191 4334021 or info@dunstonhillschool.co.uk 💙💛💙💛 Click - http://www.dunstonhillcps.co.uk/information/admissions/nursery-admissions-2/ 3rd July 2020 Year 2 get measuring! Year 2 have been learning a lot about different ways to measure things in maths. To start with, we compared and ordered lengths of objects measured in centimetres (cm) and metres (m). More recently, we have considered mass and looking at objects measured in grams (g) and kilograms (kg). We thought about the difference between a gram and a kilogram and solved some tricky problems! Next, we moved on to liquids and how we measure them. We compared volumes of full, half full, quarter full, three quarters full and empty before we measured volumes in millilitres. Take a look... 2nd July 2020 Left, right, clockwise, anti-clockwise...Year 2 get moving! Year 2 have been learning a lot about position and direction over the past week. We have revised our understanding of left and right and used bossy, imperative verbs to give out directional instructions. We looked at the way a clock moves to help us remember clockwise and anti-clockwise (which also reinforced our understanding of left and right). Finally, our fractions work came in very handy to give more detailed instructions such as, "Make a three-quarter turn clockwise," then "walk forward two steps before turning right half a turn." Some of us even made life size grids to help us... 2nd July 2020 Shoes, shoes, shoes! Year 2 have been looking at lots of different things to do with shoes over the past two weeks! First, we watched a video called 'Caterpillar shoes,' about a kind caterpillar who gives away his shoes to the other insects living in the forest. We thought about what the woodlouse, grasshopper, flea, spider, beetle and other creatures (such as the poor worms and stick insects who didn't get any shoes) might say to the caterpillar after receiving their new shoes. We wrote some speech bubbles and then chose which character we might want to be and write a letter from... 30th June 2020 Talent Week - Day Two - Sweet or Savoury? WOW! The boys and girls have blown us away with their baking skills today! A massive well done to all of the children who have taken part in today's talent. All of the food looks scrumptious and we hope you enjoyed eating them. 29th June 2020 Talent Week - Day One - Getting Crafty! Today was day one of Dunston Hill's Got Talent and I think you'll agree our children are certainly a talented bunch! There were two different activities to choose from. Activity one: Design and make your very own animal! This could be your favourite animal, an animal from one of our suggestions or even a made-up animal. It can be made from whatever you like too! Think old socks, recyclable materials, wool, fruit, vegetables, hard boiled eggs. Activity two was: Use something from your recycling in the most inventive way you can. This could be making a model, creating a game or... 29th June 2020 Creating our own globes and maps As part of our Geography home learning week, we started by locating the different countries on various maps and the children found the different continents and oceans. Then we explored different creative ways we could make our own maps. We had some fantastic creations, take a look at the pictures below. 29th June 2020 Plastic fantastic? A greener world We all know how amazing plastic is - we use it every day! However. as part of our Geography Week we have considered that plastic might not always been as fantastic as we once thought. Linking to World Ocean's Day on the 8th June 2020, we learned more about how much plastic ends up in our oceans and how dangerous it can be for the sea creatures and wildlife who live there. It was shocking! We couldn't believe how long plastic takes to break down and how many animals are hurt or killed because of it. What was worse was... 26th June 2020 Exploring our local area! This week our theme has been geography and the children have been out and about looking at local landmarks, as well as identifying human and physical features in their surrounding areas. For example, some of us went out to look for landmarks in our local area and nursery and reception practised their use of positional language. We have been so impressed with some of the children's maps and models to show the different features they discovered. We even had some lego models to show aerial maps of the children's houses, which they then used to discuss human and physical... 25th June 2020 Where In The World... To launch our Geography week, we posted a special video for the children. It was called ‘Where in the world?’ We asked the children if they could guess where our teaching staff have been from the photographs near famous landmarks included in the video. We then received some amazing photographs of our children in front of landmarks around the world! See if you can guess where some of our children have be from the photographs below. 22nd June 2020 Brian Bear's Picnic This week's English home learning was based on the story 'Brian Bear's Picnic'. The children in Year 1 have enjoyed retelling the story using story maps, designing a picnic rug, writing thank you letters and much more! Keep up the great work, Year 1. 19th June 2020 Music and Musicals Week - Props and Tickets Galore What a lovely week we've had celebrating all things musical and musicals themselves. The teachers had great fun making the video for you all and it looks like some of you have had great fun getting things ready for your own musicals too. Take a look at the photos and the link to the video is here if you want another look at us all! https://youtu.be/zC7QQI1hQYc https://youtu.be/4CPEinZ2HxA 18th June 2020 Fun in Forest Home School! WOW! What an amazing Forest School we Year 5 have had! From Friendship tree trinkets to mandalas to garden treasure to rainbow wind chimes - what haven't we done?! We have loved seeing all of your amazing creations from all things wonderful and of course, natural. Great effort Year 5! 18th June 2020 Forest School Week in Year 3 What a gorgeous week you must have had during Dunston Hill Forest School week - your photos are great! There's mud and the great outdoors galore! Take a look at our children's magic potions and wands, mud faces, fairy gardens and more! 18th June 2020 A fantastic week of Forest School fun! Forest School is always a favourite of ours whilst we are at school, and Year 4 certainly enjoyed the activities which we were planned for last week. We were involved in making our own wind chimes and pan pipes, creating our own mud faces and ladybird houses, and we also enjoyed watching Mrs Cox and Mrs O'Hara on their 3 pm videos. Here are some of our photographs. 18th June 2020 Writing a Character Description This week, the children of Year 4 have focussed on writing a character description. To begin, we looked at the different language involved and we made a note of lots of powerful vocabulary, we then moved onto looking at what makes an effective character description. Towards the end of the week, we then created our own character descriptions about our own creatures and we tried to include lots of expanded phrases to help the reader to imagine what they look like. Miss Conway and Miss Whaley are extremely pleased with the quality of work which was saved over... 18th June 2020 Music and Musicals Week - Stars in the Making! Look at these up and coming young stars! They took songs they already knew and rewrote the lyrics based on their feelings and thoughts of the moment. Go Indie! Go Sonny! 16th June 2020 Skip counting in Year 1! Year 1 have been doing a great job with their skip counting at home in 2s, 5s and 10s! Well done! We love some of the activities they have thought of to practise! 15th June 2020 MUSIC AND MUSICALS WEEK - Day 1 - Rhythm and Pulse It's day 1 of Music and Musicals Week at Dunston Hill and children from all over school have been sharing their home-made drum kits with us, showing that they can tap out a beat (pulse) and a rhythm. We even had staff joining in with this whole-school task. Well done everyone! I hope you didn't make too much noise 🙂 14th June 2020 Year 5 Hit Teams! We would like to say a HUGE well done to those of you who have accessed Teams to complete your work. We are really excited to speak to you all and feel as though we are ‘together’ again. We have so many of you log on and share photographs of your peaceful working area, just like this one! Remember we are here to answer any questions which you may have about the tasks. 12th June 2020 Dear Diary.... This week’s English home learning was based on the film clip ‘A Cloudy Lesson’. It was about a grandfather who taught his grandson how to make clouds. At first, the boy couldn’t make any clouds and he ended up falling on the cloud maker and changing the shape. This led to them making lots of wonderful shaped clouds and the boy succeeded in the end! On Monday, we put ourselves in the place of the boy and did some hot-seating. We had to think about questions to ask the boy and the answers he might give. We also studied... 12th June 2020 Money work in Year 2 Year 2 have been looking at all things money-related this week. We started with recapping the different coins and their values before showing that we could make different amounts of money, using different combinations of coins. For example, we could make 6p by 5p + 1 = 6p or 1p + 1p + 1p + 1p + 1p + 1p = 6p or 2p + 2p + 2p = 6p. Of course, our Year 2s made much larger amounts than that! Next, we moved on to finding the total of different amounts of money. For this, we needed to use... 9th June 2020 Year 3 English - The Sound Collector Poem A stranger called this morning Dressed all in black and grey Put every sound into a bag And carried it away... Find out which sounds he took from the children's rewriting of Roger McGough's wonderful poem. You can watch him reading his own poem here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIL0kgnxJIo 9th June 2020 Year 4 team hit Teams! We would like to say a HUGE well done to those of you who have accessed Teams to complete your work. We are really excited to speak to you all and feel as though we are 'together' again. We have so many of you log on and share photographs of your peaceful working area, just like this one! Remember, we are available between 9am and 12.30pm, every day, and are here to answer any questions which you may have about the tasks. 9th June 2020 Rapping in Year 4! Last week, we worked on a persuasive writing unit through Oak National Academy. We looked at many pieces of persuasive writing and made note of what made them effective. Towards the end of the week, we then created our own persuasive raps to put across some really important messages about saving our planet Earth. Check out our videos! 8th June 2020 Sayeeda, the Pirate Princess This week's home learning in English has been based around the story of 'Sayeeda, the Pirate Princess'. Our Year 1 children have enjoyed creating treasure maps, writing adventure stories and even making pirate hats! They also thought about the objects they would love to find in a treasure chest. Well done, Year 1. 8th June 2020 Music on Mondays - Week 4 - Harmony Welcome to week 4 of Music on Mondays! This week, Mr Langford has sent me his lesson on Harmony. The lesson document below goes through what harmony is and how it links to the work on pitch from last week. There’s a link to the BBC Bitesize video about Harmony below. Go through the questions with someone at home as usual and try out some of the activities Mr Langford has suggested - have fun! https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zcbkcj6/articles/zgxx2nb Lesson 4 - Harmony 7th June 2020 Marvellous Maths in Year 1 As part of our Home Learning, our fantastic Year One children have been exploring measurement! From finding things the same length, ordering things by weight, weighing out ingredients for yummy cookies... our children have really impressed us! We have also loved seeing some mindful Maths activities such as playing board games and symmetrical painting as part of our PSHE week! 5th June 2020 Year 2 Creative Writing 'The Way Back Home' This week, we watched a short film clip called 'The Way Back Home' as a stimulus for our writing. The film is about a young boy who builds himself a rocket and goes into space. However, his rocket breaks down on a planet. He is then joined by an alien whose spaceship has also broken down. The boy parachutes down to Earth, collects his tools and climbs a huge ladder back up to the planet. He then successfully fixes both of the spaceships before the alien flies off. We asked children to imagine what the boy and the alien... 5th June 2020 Revision, revision, multiplication and division! Year 2 have worked their socks off for the last two weeks to revise their knowledge of multiplication and division. We have looked at arrays, grouping, sharing and our 2-, 5- and 10-times tables. The Year 2 children have shown their understanding of bar models and base 10 to support them and they have completed some tricky problem solving and reasoning questions, too. Over the last few days, our focus has been on different methods to solve division calculations. We've looked at the difference between sharing and grouping and also how we can use our times tables knowledge to... 4th June 2020 Looking After Our Stone Pets What is Wellbeing? Well-being is the state of being healthy, safe, comfortable and happy. It is fundamental to our overall health and it helps us to overcome difficulties and achieve what we want in life. More generally, well-being is just feeling well and that is something we want you all to feel. Introducing our 'stone pets'... Having someone (or something) to talk to to keep you company, share worries with, or just to chat to is so important. Having your own stone pet that you could keep as a friend is a perfect way to do that! The children loved creating... 4th June 2020 Becoming More Mindful What is Mindfulness? Mindfulness teaches us how to find some space and stillness in the midst of our busy minds and our hectic lives. During this difficult and strange time, it seems the perfect opportunity for us to practise paying attention on purpose, in the present moment with curiosity and kindness to things as they are. It helps to train your mind to: be focused, attend to the ‘here and now’, be enquiring and curious, be less judgemental and be compassionate. Mindful colouring is a great way to relax peacefully and focus on the here and now. It helps us... 4th June 2020 Mindful Moments What is Mindfulness? Mindfulness teaches us how to find some space and stillness in the midst of our busy minds and our hectic lives. During this difficult and strange time, it seems the perfect opportunity for us to practise paying attention on purpose, in the present moment with curiosity and kindness to things as they are. It helps to train your mind to: be focused, attend to the ‘here and now’, be enquiring and curious, be less judgemental and be compassionate. Look at our wonderful glitter jars! Taking a moment to focus on something can really help us to be... 4th June 2020 Don't Worry Bout a Thing Worry Dolls Worry is something that everybody feels from time to time, and some people might feel it more than others. Worrying is a very normal emotion! But the way it makes you feel isn’t always something we enjoy. What can happen to your body when you are worried? It might make your heart beat faster, you might feel hot, you might feel sick or you might get butterflies in your tummy. It is important to know that there are different ways to deal with worries. It can help to talk to someone that you trust about your worries, as... 4th June 2020 Making Our Mental Health a Priority What is Mental Health? Our mental health is so important: it affects how we think, feel and act. It also helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others and make choices. Mental health is important at every stage of our life and we must look after it and make it a priority. We know it can be really difficult sometimes to focus on the ‘here and now’, so we thought this activity that we was a lovely way to help our children focus. They added all of the things to a picture that they will be freeing from their... 4th June 2020 Looking After Our Mental Health What is Mental Health? Our mental health is so important: it affects how we think, feel and act. It also helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others and make choices. Mental health is important at every stage of our life and we must look after it and make it a priority. This afternoon, we challenged our children to find some time for themselves and do something they loved to do! It’s was as easy as that, as sometimes taking time for yourself is exactly what you need! We can see this task was certainly enjoyed... ... 3rd June 2020 Money, Money, Money We have been very proud of the children who have been working hard at home, learning about money! They have been super at adding coins together to find totals and writing amounts of money. 2nd June 2020 If you could create a new sport, what would it be? During P.E week, some of our Year 2 children decided to create a new sport. We loved all of your ideas and your creativity certainly showed during this task. We had ideas like: underwater gymnastics, underwater badminton and underwater horse riding... There seems to be a common theme! Well done to everyone who joined in. 2nd June 2020 More P.E week fun! WOW! What a busy week we have had! Thank you to all of our families who joined in with some of the activities this week. I really hope that you enjoyed P.E week! Staying active is very important, especially at the moment as exercise is a great way to clear our minds and support our mental health. This week the children have been involved in many active challenges such as: creating an origami fortune teller to design a workout, completing a wordsearch and carrying out star jumps for every word found, climbing the equivalent of the Angel of the...
3rd July 2020 Talent Week - Day Three - Circus or Sports Skills The boys and girls have enjoyed learning circus and sport skills and someone has even taught their dog how to spin! 3rd July 2020 Nursery Places Available from September We have Nursery places available from September 2020. Please contact the school office to secure a place for your child on 0191 4334021 or info@dunstonhillschool.co.uk 💙💛💙💛 Click - http://www.dunstonhillcps.co.uk/information/admissions/nursery-admissions-2/ 3rd July 2020 Year 2 get measuring! Year 2 have been learning a lot about different ways to measure things in maths. To start with, we compared and ordered lengths of objects measured in centimetres (cm) and metres (m). More recently, we have considered mass and looking at objects measured in grams (g) and kilograms (kg). We thought about the difference between a gram and a kilogram and solved some tricky problems! Next, we moved on to liquids and how we measure them. We compared volumes of full, half full, quarter full, three quarters full and empty before we measured volumes in millilitres. Take a look... 2nd July 2020 Left, right, clockwise, anti-clockwise...Year 2 get moving! Year 2 have been learning a lot about position and direction over the past week. We have revised our understanding of left and right and used bossy, imperative verbs to give out directional instructions. We looked at the way a clock moves to help us remember clockwise and anti-clockwise (which also reinforced our understanding of left and right). Finally, our fractions work came in very handy to give more detailed instructions such as, "Make a three-quarter turn clockwise," then "walk forward two steps before turning right half a turn." Some of us even made life size grids to help us... 2nd July 2020 Shoes, shoes, shoes! Year 2 have been looking at lots of different things to do with shoes over the past two weeks! First, we watched a video called 'Caterpillar shoes,' about a kind caterpillar who gives away his shoes to the other insects living in the forest. We thought about what the woodlouse, grasshopper, flea, spider, beetle and other creatures (such as the poor worms and stick insects who didn't get any shoes) might say to the caterpillar after receiving their new shoes. We wrote some speech bubbles and then chose which character we might want to be and write a letter from... 30th June 2020 Talent Week - Day Two - Sweet or Savoury? WOW! The boys and girls have blown us away with their baking skills today! A massive well done to all of the children who have taken part in today's talent. All of the food looks scrumptious and we hope you enjoyed eating them. 29th June 2020 Talent Week - Day One - Getting Crafty! Today was day one of Dunston Hill's Got Talent and I think you'll agree our children are certainly a talented bunch! There were two different activities to choose from. Activity one: Design and make your very own animal! This could be your favourite animal, an animal from one of our suggestions or even a made-up animal. It can be made from whatever you like too! Think old socks, recyclable materials, wool, fruit, vegetables, hard boiled eggs. Activity two was: Use something from your recycling in the most inventive way you can. This could be making a model, creating a game or... 29th June 2020 Creating our own globes and maps As part of our Geography home learning week, we started by locating the different countries on various maps and the children found the different continents and oceans. Then we explored different creative ways we could make our own maps. We had some fantastic creations, take a look at the pictures below. 29th June 2020 Plastic fantastic? A greener world We all know how amazing plastic is - we use it every day! However. as part of our Geography Week we have considered that plastic might not always been as fantastic as we once thought. Linking to World Ocean's Day on the 8th June 2020, we learned more about how much plastic ends up in our oceans and how dangerous it can be for the sea creatures and wildlife who live there. It was shocking! We couldn't believe how long plastic takes to break down and how many animals are hurt or killed because of it. What was worse was... 26th June 2020 Exploring our local area! This week our theme has been geography and the children have been out and about looking at local landmarks, as well as identifying human and physical features in their surrounding areas. For example, some of us went out to look for landmarks in our local area and nursery and reception practised their use of positional language. We have been so impressed with some of the children's maps and models to show the different features they discovered. We even had some lego models to show aerial maps of the children's houses, which they then used to discuss human and physical... 25th June 2020 Where In The World... To launch our Geography week, we posted a special video for the children. It was called ‘Where in the world?’ We asked the children if they could guess where our teaching staff have been from the photographs near famous landmarks included in the video. We then received some amazing photographs of our children in front of landmarks around the world! See if you can guess where some of our children have be from the photographs below. 22nd June 2020 Brian Bear's Picnic This week's English home learning was based on the story 'Brian Bear's Picnic'. The children in Year 1 have enjoyed retelling the story using story maps, designing a picnic rug, writing thank you letters and much more! Keep up the great work, Year 1. 19th June 2020 Music and Musicals Week - Props and Tickets Galore What a lovely week we've had celebrating all things musical and musicals themselves. The teachers had great fun making the video for you all and it looks like some of you have had great fun getting things ready for your own musicals too. Take a look at the photos and the link to the video is here if you want another look at us all! https://youtu.be/zC7QQI1hQYc https://youtu.be/4CPEinZ2HxA 18th June 2020 Fun in Forest Home School! WOW! What an amazing Forest School we Year 5 have had! From Friendship tree trinkets to mandalas to garden treasure to rainbow wind chimes - what haven't we done?! We have loved seeing all of your amazing creations from all things wonderful and of course, natural. Great effort Year 5! 18th June 2020 Forest School Week in Year 3 What a gorgeous week you must have had during Dunston Hill Forest School week - your photos are great! There's mud and the great outdoors galore! Take a look at our children's magic potions and wands, mud faces, fairy gardens and more! 18th June 2020 A fantastic week of Forest School fun! Forest School is always a favourite of ours whilst we are at school, and Year 4 certainly enjoyed the activities which we were planned for last week. We were involved in making our own wind chimes and pan pipes, creating our own mud faces and ladybird houses, and we also enjoyed watching Mrs Cox and Mrs O'Hara on their 3 pm videos. Here are some of our photographs. 18th June 2020 Writing a Character Description This week, the children of Year 4 have focussed on writing a character description. To begin, we looked at the different language involved and we made a note of lots of powerful vocabulary, we then moved onto looking at what makes an effective character description. Towards the end of the week, we then created our own character descriptions about our own creatures and we tried to include lots of expanded phrases to help the reader to imagine what they look like. Miss Conway and Miss Whaley are extremely pleased with the quality of work which was saved over... 18th June 2020 Music and Musicals Week - Stars in the Making! Look at these up and coming young stars! They took songs they already knew and rewrote the lyrics based on their feelings and thoughts of the moment. Go Indie! Go Sonny! 16th June 2020 Skip counting in Year 1! Year 1 have been doing a great job with their skip counting at home in 2s, 5s and 10s! Well done! We love some of the activities they have thought of to practise! 15th June 2020 MUSIC AND MUSICALS WEEK - Day 1 - Rhythm and Pulse It's day 1 of Music and Musicals Week at Dunston Hill and children from all over school have been sharing their home-made drum kits with us, showing that they can tap out a beat (pulse) and a rhythm. We even had staff joining in with this whole-school task. Well done everyone! I hope you didn't make too much noise 🙂 14th June 2020 Year 5 Hit Teams! We would like to say a HUGE well done to those of you who have accessed Teams to complete your work. We are really excited to speak to you all and feel as though we are ‘together’ again. We have so many of you log on and share photographs of your peaceful working area, just like this one! Remember we are here to answer any questions which you may have about the tasks. 12th June 2020 Dear Diary.... This week’s English home learning was based on the film clip ‘A Cloudy Lesson’. It was about a grandfather who taught his grandson how to make clouds. At first, the boy couldn’t make any clouds and he ended up falling on the cloud maker and changing the shape. This led to them making lots of wonderful shaped clouds and the boy succeeded in the end! On Monday, we put ourselves in the place of the boy and did some hot-seating. We had to think about questions to ask the boy and the answers he might give. We also studied... 12th June 2020 Money work in Year 2 Year 2 have been looking at all things money-related this week. We started with recapping the different coins and their values before showing that we could make different amounts of money, using different combinations of coins. For example, we could make 6p by 5p + 1 = 6p or 1p + 1p + 1p + 1p + 1p + 1p = 6p or 2p + 2p + 2p = 6p. Of course, our Year 2s made much larger amounts than that! Next, we moved on to finding the total of different amounts of money. For this, we needed to use... 9th June 2020 Year 3 English - The Sound Collector Poem A stranger called this morning Dressed all in black and grey Put every sound into a bag And carried it away... Find out which sounds he took from the children's rewriting of Roger McGough's wonderful poem. You can watch him reading his own poem here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIL0kgnxJIo 9th June 2020 Year 4 team hit Teams! We would like to say a HUGE well done to those of you who have accessed Teams to complete your work. We are really excited to speak to you all and feel as though we are 'together' again. We have so many of you log on and share photographs of your peaceful working area, just like this one! Remember, we are available between 9am and 12.30pm, every day, and are here to answer any questions which you may have about the tasks. 9th June 2020 Rapping in Year 4! Last week, we worked on a persuasive writing unit through Oak National Academy. We looked at many pieces of persuasive writing and made note of what made them effective. Towards the end of the week, we then created our own persuasive raps to put across some really important messages about saving our planet Earth. Check out our videos! 8th June 2020 Sayeeda, the Pirate Princess This week's home learning in English has been based around the story of 'Sayeeda, the Pirate Princess'. Our Year 1 children have enjoyed creating treasure maps, writing adventure stories and even making pirate hats! They also thought about the objects they would love to find in a treasure chest. Well done, Year 1. 8th June 2020 Music on Mondays - Week 4 - Harmony Welcome to week 4 of Music on Mondays! This week, Mr Langford has sent me his lesson on Harmony. The lesson document below goes through what harmony is and how it links to the work on pitch from last week. There’s a link to the BBC Bitesize video about Harmony below. Go through the questions with someone at home as usual and try out some of the activities Mr Langford has suggested - have fun! https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zcbkcj6/articles/zgxx2nb Lesson 4 - Harmony 7th June 2020 Marvellous Maths in Year 1 As part of our Home Learning, our fantastic Year One children have been exploring measurement! From finding things the same length, ordering things by weight, weighing out ingredients for yummy cookies... our children have really impressed us! We have also loved seeing some mindful Maths activities such as playing board games and symmetrical painting as part of our PSHE week! 5th June 2020 Year 2 Creative Writing 'The Way Back Home' This week, we watched a short film clip called 'The Way Back Home' as a stimulus for our writing. The film is about a young boy who builds himself a rocket and goes into space. However, his rocket breaks down on a planet. He is then joined by an alien whose spaceship has also broken down. The boy parachutes down to Earth, collects his tools and climbs a huge ladder back up to the planet. He then successfully fixes both of the spaceships before the alien flies off. We asked children to imagine what the boy and the alien... 5th June 2020 Revision, revision, multiplication and division! Year 2 have worked their socks off for the last two weeks to revise their knowledge of multiplication and division. We have looked at arrays, grouping, sharing and our 2-, 5- and 10-times tables. The Year 2 children have shown their understanding of bar models and base 10 to support them and they have completed some tricky problem solving and reasoning questions, too. Over the last few days, our focus has been on different methods to solve division calculations. We've looked at the difference between sharing and grouping and also how we can use our times tables knowledge to... 4th June 2020 Looking After Our Stone Pets What is Wellbeing? Well-being is the state of being healthy, safe, comfortable and happy. It is fundamental to our overall health and it helps us to overcome difficulties and achieve what we want in life. More generally, well-being is just feeling well and that is something we want you all to feel. Introducing our 'stone pets'... Having someone (or something) to talk to to keep you company, share worries with, or just to chat to is so important. Having your own stone pet that you could keep as a friend is a perfect way to do that! The children loved creating... 4th June 2020 Becoming More Mindful What is Mindfulness? Mindfulness teaches us how to find some space and stillness in the midst of our busy minds and our hectic lives. During this difficult and strange time, it seems the perfect opportunity for us to practise paying attention on purpose, in the present moment with curiosity and kindness to things as they are. It helps to train your mind to: be focused, attend to the ‘here and now’, be enquiring and curious, be less judgemental and be compassionate. Mindful colouring is a great way to relax peacefully and focus on the here and now. It helps us... 4th June 2020 Mindful Moments What is Mindfulness? Mindfulness teaches us how to find some space and stillness in the midst of our busy minds and our hectic lives. During this difficult and strange time, it seems the perfect opportunity for us to practise paying attention on purpose, in the present moment with curiosity and kindness to things as they are. It helps to train your mind to: be focused, attend to the ‘here and now’, be enquiring and curious, be less judgemental and be compassionate. Look at our wonderful glitter jars! Taking a moment to focus on something can really help us to be... 4th June 2020 Don't Worry Bout a Thing Worry Dolls Worry is something that everybody feels from time to time, and some people might feel it more than others. Worrying is a very normal emotion! But the way it makes you feel isn’t always something we enjoy. What can happen to your body when you are worried? It might make your heart beat faster, you might feel hot, you might feel sick or you might get butterflies in your tummy. It is important to know that there are different ways to deal with worries. It can help to talk to someone that you trust about your worries, as... 4th June 2020 Making Our Mental Health a Priority What is Mental Health? Our mental health is so important: it affects how we think, feel and act. It also helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others and make choices. Mental health is important at every stage of our life and we must look after it and make it a priority. We know it can be really difficult sometimes to focus on the ‘here and now’, so we thought this activity that we was a lovely way to help our children focus. They added all of the things to a picture that they will be freeing from their... 4th June 2020 Looking After Our Mental Health What is Mental Health? Our mental health is so important: it affects how we think, feel and act. It also helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others and make choices. Mental health is important at every stage of our life and we must look after it and make it a priority. This afternoon, we challenged our children to find some time for themselves and do something they loved to do! It’s was as easy as that, as sometimes taking time for yourself is exactly what you need! We can see this task was certainly enjoyed... ... 3rd June 2020 Money, Money, Money We have been very proud of the children who have been working hard at home, learning about money! They have been super at adding coins together to find totals and writing amounts of money. 2nd June 2020 If you could create a new sport, what would it be? During P.E week, some of our Year 2 children decided to create a new sport. We loved all of your ideas and your creativity certainly showed during this task. We had ideas like: underwater gymnastics, underwater badminton and underwater horse riding... There seems to be a common theme! Well done to everyone who joined in. 2nd June 2020 More P.E week fun! WOW! What a busy week we have had! Thank you to all of our families who joined in with some of the activities this week. I really hope that you enjoyed P.E week! Staying active is very important, especially at the moment as exercise is a great way to clear our minds and support our mental health. This week the children have been involved in many active challenges such as: creating an origami fortune teller to design a workout, completing a wordsearch and carrying out star jumps for every word found, climbing the equivalent of the Angel of the...
