Shumba's Big Adventure - Part 2

Year 5 WOW Wall - June

Hello everyone,

We hope you had a lovely break and are feeling refreshed. The weather has been beautiful so hopefully you’ve been outside playing games, reading or just soaking up the sunshine!

Some of you have begun to send in your work again after the break – thank you. We really like seeing your work and have been very impressed with your effort and creativity.  Here are some pieces we have received. 

Many of you will know that the school has set staff and children a challenge to recreate well-known works of art or photographs during lockdown. We wanted to show you two fabulous recreations of very famous album covers received from Chloe. Do you recognise the albums? 

In school, our keyworker children have been having fun in the (slightly cooler) sunshine. 

Finally, I just wanted to draw your attention to this, which Miss Parker posted on the year 6 blog on Monday. This looks like a great activity, not only to send in, but to help you to document your own experiences through the lockdown and which can be looked at and reflected on at some time in the future

We hope you have a good week. Don’t forget to send through examples of your work and photos of the fun things you are doing. We will be in touch soon.

Take care,

Mr Davies, Mrs Paish and Mrs McWilliam

Year 2 Update

Hi there,

We've had a fantastic first week back after half term!  We've moved to the junior site and Mrs Slater is now teaching us.  We have loved reading Shumba's Big Adventure and have really enjoyed asking Shumba questions about his adventure and coming up with different scenarios for the animals.  Hope you all have too!  We've been reading scales in maths and working out the difference between different themometers!  We've also looked at animals and how they adapt for their habitat.  It's been a great week and we can't believe it's nearly the w/e.

Hope you're all well.  We miss you!  See you soon!!

Here is a lovely video to help you and your child talk about their experience back at school this week.  Or, if you want to prepare you and your child as you consider sending them in.

Friday 5th June

We've enjoyed seeing lots of you back at school with us this week and thank you to everyone who has sent us photos of their home learning!

We started the week by reading a new story about a koala called Kevin and Year One have enjoyed learning all about Australia. We've also had fun investigating the differences between Australia and the UK - the weather was the first thing we noticed! We found out about amazing places in Australia including the Great Barrier Reef.....

(models by Logan)

We've looked at lots of Australian animals and have used our knowledge about mammals, fish, reptiles and birds to sort them into groups.

After sorting the animals, we looked at some Aboriginal animal paintings - we liked how they use bright colours and dotty patterns!

 

 

In the story, Kevin the Koala was very good at clinging to his tree and munching leaves. We decided to think about what we are good at and how lucky we are that everyone is good at different things!

Lots of us in Year One are good at drawing, running and being a kind friend. Some of us are even good at cleaning and baking!

 

We also thought about what it felt like to be brave and talked about things we would like to try. We hope the deep end of the swimming pool is ready for us!

The Year One team hope everyone at home is well and staying safe.

We look forward to seeing more of your amazing home learning next week!

Year 2 Home Learning - Shumba's Big Adventure Part 1

Year 2 Update

Year 2 have worked as a team to finish a tricky jigsaw of the world. It has 250 pieces! They used an atlas to work out where the countries are with the help of Sunny the Meerkat. Miss Croud played a game with us to spot the continents and countries, and we found Uganda straight away!