Concentration was required, not a sound in Y2.
Applying paint a required skill, even more concentration.
Our designs were based on a Kenyan Village scene.
What do you think of it so far?
A fine selection was created.
The tiles were fired, glazed and now we can feel proud of all our hard work.
The Ceramic Experience was excellent and great fun. Why don't you try it?
This week in art club we have been weaving coloured paper to make interesting pictures and patterns. We put our patterns into a frame to finish them off. We decorated our frames. Take a look at our fab designs!
We deserve our Party Cake. It said WELL DONE Y2.
Playing 'Pass The Parcel'
In an orderly line for the buffet. Yum!Yum! Mrs Kirkland did us proud.
What a magical morning we have had today! 4 musical wizards appeared in our community room today and we helped them make lots of musical, magical spells. We found lots of ingredients to put into the magic pot. Some of us were a little bit frightened of the spider.
We sang lots of magical songs and learned how to cast spells with our invisible magic wands. Have a look in the gallery to see us having lots of fun.
Some of our KS1 children have been taking a French club after school. We have looked at where France is and one of it's most famous landmarks. We have built our very own Eiffel Towers using multi-coloured artstraws. We think they look great.
Some of the girls though that they looked like hats.
What do you think?
When we had finished we tried some delicious pain du chocolat - Chocolate croissants. Yum.
An egg-traordinary event took place at egg-actly 1:30pm in our Quiet Area. It was reported to Mrs. Kirkland that a large rabbit had been seen hopping about our school field. Class 2 went out to investigate. They were very egg-cited and egg-static when they found some spherical objects hidden in and around ther area. 'Look what we have found' egg-claimed Class 2.
Where's the rabbit?
Got to be here somewhere!
Have we found anything?
Is there anything here?
We would like to thank Mrs.Kirkland for organising our excellent Science Week. We had laboratory technicians from Shasun in Dudley showing us lots of fascinating experiments - Dr. Mark making loud noises and squirting water - Nigel Wild telling us all about food and Zoo Lab brought in some fascinating creatures!
Dr. Mark spraying the pupils with water.
Nigel Wild (Chef) telling us all about the science of food.
Investigating a slippery customer.
Being charmed by a snake? These brave girls were.
Watch this closely.
Wow!
First attempts were not up to standard. A bit on the small side. Let's try again. Crookhillers NEVER give up!
On Thursday we were really lucky because we had a music workshop at school. We were singing songs about pirates and parrots. It was great fun and we all got to join in. Have a look at our photos below.
As promised here is my web entry, introducing baby Eva Bainbridge. She was born on 8th January and both her and I are doing fiine! Keep up the hard work at school and we'll pop in for a visit soon!
Earlier on in the year Class 1 and 2 had to come to school dressed as their favourite book character for a trip to Saltwell Park. While we were there we saw lots of different book characters and some of them read stories to us. We even had a story in French. As well as listening to some great stories we had the opportunity to practice our circus skills. We even saw one of the men fire eating. Something not to try at home!!! We had a fabulous afternoon out.
KS1 had a lady from Beamish come to talk about things from the past. We looked at how people used to live and compared it with how we live today. We really enjoyed getting in the tin bath. It is very small.
We got to play with all the old toys that children used to play with both inside and out.
Mrs Kirkland has been working with us and we have been looking at forces! We really enjoyed using the force cards to make plasticine creatures!
Playing blow 'rice' football was great.
We have learnt that forces are fun!
On Monday, Key Stage 1 and Reception went to 'Down on the Farm' to visit Santa and see the animals.
On Friday 5th December, Class 2 braved the cold to venture down to the CLC. Our theme for the session was Grace Darling, as our topic has been the North East. We made some great photo books, added text and then also added audio to each page! It was great fun and hopefully coming soon will be some of our photo books for you to check out!
Class 2 have many talents and in this project they combined two of them! First of all, we constructed models of a bus. Just like the tour bus we rode on when we went on our tour around Newcastle and Gateshead. Then we used our electrical knowledge to build a circuit to create working headlights. This made fabulous, realistic models, and to think they started life as a cereal box!
Class 2 are overrun by small, scary vampire rabbits! After reading 'Tinsel Toon' we made clay vampire rabbits just like the statue that features in the story. At first, they looked quite cute but once we painted them, they look pretty scary! We can't wait to take them home.
