We are a class of Years 1 & 2 with our teacher Miss Sparkes and teaching assistants Emily Martin, Charlotte Harris & Viccy Florey.
For a parent's guide to national assessments for Year 2 (including a short video clip) click here .
If you need to brush up on some tricky grammar vocabulary that children are starting to learn you may find this glossary useful! |
posted 14 Oct 2017, 10:51 by Jenny Sparkes
All sorts of lovely apple activities. Paper weaving to make an apple basket, baking, play dough with puréed apple and cinnamon and spiced or fruity paint. The children had a wonderful day and the classroom smells delicious! |
posted 14 Oct 2017, 10:44 by Jenny Sparkes
Simon James is a favourite author of mine and I have always read them to my classes. They have always loved them so imagine our delight when the real Simon James came to our school. It was mesmerising for everyone in the room. The children loved seeing the original art work and listening to Simon bring the stories to life. "I love this. Every minute of it" (Arthur) a feeling shared by all. |
posted 1 Oct 2017, 13:54 by Jenny Sparkes
posted 1 Oct 2017, 13:50 by Jenny Sparkes
| | |  This week in Forest School we were going to doing woodland art but when we got to the 'Elephant Tree' we found conkers everywhere. The children (and adults) had great fun collecting conkers and this led to fantastic maths in the woods. We estimated, grouped into 10s and then 100s and found our total. Unbelievably 582. We managed to fit in some cooking as well including making some delicious Welsh Cakes which the children really liked. | |
|
posted 24 Sep 2017, 13:35 by Jenny Sparkes
 Bridge designing |  Testing our bridges | Bug hunting | | | | | | | Tiny conker | | | | Looking closely | Drilling a conker | | Whittling | Pear cooking | Feeding the fire | | | | conker opening queen | | | Smokey! | | | | | |
|
posted 24 Jul 2017, 12:19 by Jenny Sparkes
posted 20 Jul 2017, 14:01 by Jenny Sparkes
[
updated 20 Jul 2017, 14:13
]
posted 9 Jul 2017, 15:18 by Jenny Sparkes
What did we find? | | Exploring the bog | Sound map | | Plant identification | | Listening carefully | | Where are the sounds coming from? | Concentrating |  | | | Bob Marley sheep | Helping hand | | | Found a frog! | Exploring | | Looking closely | Identifying creatures | Cooling off | | | | | | Retrieving a dropped net | | | We visited a bog (mire) on Dartmoor to learn about why they are an important habitat. We worked with Devon Wildlife Trust to explore this amazing location. The children did lots of classification of plants and creatures using keys and spotter guides. It was a really hot day so the children paddled in the stream to cool off and to catch small fresh water animals.
It was a brilliant learning experience and a lovely day as well. | | |
|
posted 10 Jun 2017, 13:58 by Jenny Sparkes
This week we have been following the NSPCC's PANTS programme. The children really enjoyed making their own Pantasaurus and decorating giant pants. They also learned some new body part names and were absolutely brilliant about this (Sorry to those parents who have been traumatised by some of the conversations this week!) It is an important message so if you would like to revisit the song here is the link: Pantosaurus song |
|
Carefully cutting fudge up
