Blog Author: Mrs Cartwright

We have prepared our apples, covering in salt and bicarb just like the ancient Egyptians would have with natron. We will see how they turned out after the holidays! Will they be mummified?

slicing, toasting and buttering our hot cross buns which we have been learning about in RE, linked to Christianity. 

In PSHE today we learnt about the different teeth we have and the job they do. We then explored our own teeth and compared them, as we learnt that everyones are different. We finished the session with each getting a tooth brush and tooth paste, to promote a healthy mouth. 

In music 2C work with Miss Cassidy who has been helping the children understand how to operate a keyboard, and play with the different functions it has. They have played their own songs, listened to songs through the headphones and even tried writing the notes onto the keys.

Over the next couple of weeks we will be learning about money. We will explore different coins and amounts, use these to solve problems and make amounts too. We are also opening up an Egyptian takeaway in our role play area, where we can buy the food using our money in class.

In PSHE today we talked about keeping our environment clean and how we can look after it. Litter picking in your area is a great idea of how you can help keep litter from going into our water ways, seas and help keep animals from harm.

A flyer from the local area sparked an interesting takeaway role play today in class. The children each gave themselves a job: chef, waiter, customer and played together brilliantly. All while using a topic themed resource.

2C and 2R got together to call Nancy Judd, an American Trashion artist. The children have been learning about Nancy's work during Arts Award. They got to speak to Nancy and ask her lots of questions about her work and any hints or tips for us with our project.

The class wanted to recreate our normal assembly, so we did! They absolutely loved being the band and remembered every part of our usual assembly format.

We have had a wind and weather themed day. 

Phonics was all about weather and learning new vocabulary. Then we moved around like different weather types in PE.

For Arts Award this half term we have the focus of 'Trashion'- Trash Fashion! We began this week by exploring what trashion is and how the word is made. We then got busy diving into the recycled paper and using a broken book to make our own character necklaces.

For our new topic in DT we are food tasting. Today was our first lesson and everybody got involved in some way. We used our senses to describe the foods. The pupils tried three different types of bread and four different hummus flavours!