2A Maths Outdoor Learning

We've been learning Addition and Subtraction in Maths. We decided to get some fresh air and practise our adding and subtracting by playing a game of Snakes and Ladders on our huge, newly painted one hundred square! We had lots of fun! 😀 Thank you Mr Kelly for raising the money for the new playground markings.

2A Phonics

We've been enjoying some outdoor learning this week in 2A. We were practising the /ear/ trigraph in our Phonics lesson!

Black History Month in Year 2

As part of our learning about Black History Month we have been researching two famous poets. First we used the internet to research Valerie Bloom, we discovered that she was originally born in Jamaica and moved to the UK in 1979.  We loved listening to and joining in with her performance poetry which introduced us to Jamaican patois. 

We also researched Benjamin Zephania and discovered that although he was born in Birmingham in the UK his work is also influenced by the music and poetry from Jamaica. We also found out that he likes to write songs , plays and act.

National Space Week in KS1 music lessons

Did you know this week was National Space Week?

We were sent a song to sing which was written for children in Southampton. It had a fabulous chant in the middle with all of the planets named in it.

The children from KS1 learnt the chant and the chorus while Mrs Williams sang the verse. We made up actions and then sang to our teachers in singing assembly.

Mrs Williams was very impressed as she brought in an inflatable "Jupiter" and many children in KS1 knew which planet it was.

Could you recognise any of the planets?

Gardening club have been harvesting!

After school last week the gardening club harvested potatoes which they had planted and this week it was onions. I could smell those onions from a mile away!

They washed and prepared the vegetables so cooking club can use them to make potato rosti's tomorrow, yummy!

Watch this space for pictures of the delicious, fresh food they will be making and eating.

Keep on using the environment to learn :) 

Could you plant with you children? Could you harvest and wash vegetables at home? 

Why not give it a try?!

2S - E-Safety Week

We had fun in 2S this week learning all about how we create a digital footprint when we are online and how it can be difficult to change or erase this. We soon realised that we need to be very careful when using the internet in order to keep ourselves safe and respect other people's feelings. With our talk partners we came up with lots of great ideas  about the sort of information we should keep private (like our passwords, address, names, photos etc) and designed our own footprints to create a display to share our advice with the rest of the school.

Music in KS1

We have been seeing what has been in the KS1 Music bag over the last few weeks and today we found the last puppet in the musical scale - Elsa. Here she is joining the other puppets in the musical scale box.

We talked about why Chase is the leader of the puppets and not Anna when the alphabet starts with an A. This is because middle C is very important in music.  Can you name all of the other characters? Which characters would you choose for the letters A to G?

Science Week

The 11th-15th March was Science and DT week in Shirley Warren!  The theme of the week was Journeys with each year group having their own stimulus to explore.

Year R - Looked at tunnels: thinking about what makes a good one before constructing their own.

Year 1 - Looked at bridges: thinking about what materials would be best before creating their own that would have to carry the weight of a beebot.

Year 2 - Looked at static electricity and how it could transport the paper animals they made.

Year 3 - Found out about the important role bees play in pollination and then created their own digital animations to show this.

Year 4 - Investigated forces and the effect they had on the fabulous flying machines they created.  They then used iPads to create their own explanation videos.

Year 5 - Found out all about scientists that had visited space.

Year 6 - Had two mini projects of their own; 6L investigated natural disasters whilst 6W looked at the journey of diseases before creating their own viral videos.

The children thoroughly enjoyed practically investigating these areas and learnt lots during the week! Special mention needs to go to the ambassadors from each class that stood up in a special assembly at the end of the week and shared what they had been doing; they were fantastic.

If you want to find out more, why not ask your child what they discovered during this week or try and carry out your own experiment at home!

Year 2 Scooter Training

Year 2 had a lot of fun doing their scooter training before half term! They learnt so much including how to use their brakes correctly, how to steer around objects and to keep an eye out for potential hazards on the pavement. They discussed and acted out being polite to pedestrians and saying ‘Excuse me please‘ and ‘Thank you!’. With the trainers, the children and Mrs Bedwell talked about watching for vehicles coming in and out of driveways across pavements and when to stop to stop and walk with the scooter. Well done Year 2, you did excellent listening and we hope you found it helpful!

Dance update

Year 1 Dance :

Technical focus : contrasting textures in movement, contact, levels, turns, travelling pathways.

Curriculum Link : Traditional Tales

The curriculum link for this term was traditional tales with the classes exploring the different material used to build houses &  using contrasting movement dynamics, contact,  levels, turns & gestures to tell the story of the 3 Little Pigs.   

Exploring moving as light as material [or straw] and gently landing into the shape created

           

Year 2 Dance:

Technical focus : Creating still, strong shapes, balance, contrasting textures in movement.

Curriculum Link : Woodland creatures, literacy – writing key words.

After Christmas, we thought about our favorite types of chocolate and explored how we could use movement to describe them! Here is a group being observed for their ‘Aero’ chocolate ‘moving like bubbles’ exploration.

For our curriculum link, we watched a video of woodland creatures & explored how we could change levels, execute a variation of jumps, turns, gesture & stillness to move like those creatures. We also explored how we might move ‘over, under & around’ each other, like the creatures did in the video ! We were also very good at creating interesting shapes with levels & copying those shapes.

       

Year 3 Dance

Technical details : Repeating gesture patterns, canon, unison, travelling pathways, contact, levels, Hip-hop grooves

Also focus on increasing core conditioning &  cardio fitness as part of our warm up.

Year 3N have spent Spring 2 exploring basic hip hop grooves and will next term create its own class groove to show case for the summer term ! This activity included the task of creating a repeated pattern movement phrase to a count of 8 and to a section of the beat.

Focusing on our curriculum link of ‘The Titanic’ class 3N created a video explaining the difference between unison & canon using a motif inspired by giant cranes building the titanic.

 Year 3S had the opportunity to perform their titanic ship dance to their parents & guardians & demonstrated the use of canons, unison, gesture patterns, travelling pathways & contact.

2S Class assembly!

2S gave an amazing performance today for their class assembly! We crammed in loads of information that we've learnt about Florence Nightingale. There were some very clever nurses in Southampton General who told the story of Scutari Hospital in the Crimean War. Some children also showed off their super writing in role as Billy, a soldier who was treated by Florence Nightingale. Here's us doing a fantastic job!

If you want to sing along with us and hear the song we sang, click here!

Well done 2S, I'm so proud of you :)!

Safer Internet Day in 2S!

We had great fun yesterday learning all about connections online. How are we connected? Who to? We made a class 'web' of connections. Some of the people, places and things we were connected to linked to other people's plates, making an even bigger web! This is just like the internet. What fun we had!

Safer Internet Day: Advice

As you know, today was 'Safer Internet Day.'  The children spent the day taking part in activities and discussions to help them analyse their online behaviour so that they could identify the best ways that they could keep themselves safe when they are online.

To help you support your child in this, we have included information from the 'Safer Internet Day' website which is specifically aimed at parents.


https://www.saferinternet.org.uk/advice-centre/parents-and-carers/parents-guide-technology 

2J Do Safer Internet Day!

This morning, we learned all about this year's theme for Safer Internet Day - "A Better Internet Starts With You." 

We thought about how were connected to different places because this is a bit how the internet works. We used pictures, paper plates, drawings and lots and lots of wool. We are definitely connected in 2J!! After that, we made a promise about how we could be a good friend on the internet. 

KS1 Safer Internet Day Assembly

It's Safer Internet Day today! Here we are in our KS1 assembly this morning finding out all about the day. We practised "Lock it, Block it, Show it, Tell it" to remind us what we need to do to keep ourselves safe. 

Year 2 Xmas Dance....Jingle All The Way.....

Christmas Carols on the Steps

Last night we had our Shirley Warren Christmas Tradition of "Carols on the Steps" - it was amazing and it SNOWED! 

Y2 Christmas Crafting

We've been very busy making a huge amount of Christmassy bits and bobs. We've had so much fun. Here's a sneak peak of some of the bits we've made before they go home today!

2S Class Reward!

We have been working hard all term, so what better way for us to finish off than with a film?! 2S have had a great time this afternoon, cuddling up with our teddies, watching Polar Express. What fun we've had! We can't wait to get started next term so we can earn our next class reward!

Merry Christmas, and have an amazing couple of weeks off! See you in 2018 :).

Norman Banquet in Year 2

Yesterday in Year 2, we dressed up as Knights, Kings, Queens, Princesses and Maidens to finish off our topic of Castles and Knights. In the afternoon, we changed our classroom around and had a banquet! We tried lots of foods that people would have eaten in Norman times. Lots of the foods were new to us, especially the chicken broth, so we were all really brave trying lots of new foods.