The children in Year 2 enjoyed making their own robot soup. They added lots of ingredients which robots would find tasty! None of the children thought that people would like robot soup much, and that the nuts and bolts might hurt our teeth! Once we had made robot soup the children wrote instructions so that any robots who loved our soup would be able to make some for themselves.

A quick look at some of the activities in our PE carousel. Confident, happy children working together linking ideas. Well done Class 6!

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In year 2 we have been learning about the ‘Battle of Hastings’ this week, we re-enacted the battle and had so much fun.

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A fun morning carousel of activities including measuring, weighing, capacity, beebots, money, mathletics, shape and number work! A great response from the children who said lots of positive things about the morning. One child said he enjoyed learning how to measure using centimetres. Another said she had learned how to weigh using grams and she wasn’t sure before. Well done children!

Year 2 had a wonderful day at Durham Cathedral. The bus arrived on time and the journey through to Durham was exciting for the children. A short walk up the hill and we were at the Cathedral. Harry was our tour guide and he knew lots of facts about St Cuthbert. Some of the children got to dress up as monks or milk maids. The story of St Cuthbert came to life through the stories told by Harry then we finally got to visit Cuthbert’s shrine. Tilly and Kieran lit a candle and we did a little prayer. Everyone was ready for dinner so we went to the cloisters after our tour and enjoyed lunch with Class 5. We did some observational drawing then looked at the lego Cathedral. It was amazing! Everyone enjoyed their day.

In Class 5’s PE lesson we have been developing our throwing and passing skills further. Mr Thompson set out a carousel of activities designed to test our accuracy and challenge us to further improve our skills. We had to roll a ball carefully along a narrow bench, throw a ball through different sized hoops from different distances, pass different sized and shaped balls to a partner and then pass a beanbag through the apparatus to our partner! It was a challenging lesson which we all enjoyed!

Class 5 have been looking at what germs are, and how they can be good or bad for us. To learn how easily germs are spread we used paint to represent the germs and then shook hands. We were surprised at how quickly the germs spread around the class! We then tried to clean the ‘germs’ off using a dry paper towel, cold water and finally warm water with soap. We found that warm water and soap cleaned our hands the best and also looked at the best way of cleaning our hands properly.

Class 6 children have been working in the Wildlife Area exploring the natural habitats of many living minibeasts. We talked about giving nature a home and how we should not harm living creatures. The children enjoyed working in the mud kitchen and some of the children enjoyed picking the apples which are now ripe and ready to cook. They know that it is autumn time and how this affects trees, we are making a reading tree in school using recycled materials and the children have used autumn coloured paper to make collage letters for Harvest Festival.

Before we visited Durham Cathedral, we looked at pictures and identified things we would see when we were on the guided tour. We were learning about St Cuthbert and how he is an important figure in the history of this special place. Some of the children made stained glass windows as we would see many of these on the trip. The children now recognise the Rose window and The Sanctuary Door Knocker amongst other things. All the children enjoyed the preparation work ready for their trip.

In PE in Class 6 we learned how to throw and catch using a range of different sized balls and beanbags. Mr Thompson set up some interesting activities where we had to throw the ball high or low or see if we could roll the ball across the thin bench. We had to throw the ball into hoops and then move further back so we had to vary the strength we used on the throw which was tricky. The lesson was a lot of fun!