Find out what has been happening in school this week.

• Artist of the month

  Fri 17 Mar 2023

  Artist of the Month! This month we celebrated Roger Hargreaves, the author and illustrator of the Mr Men and Little Miss series 📚

  Roger Hargreaves’ characters are being used in this years comic relief so it seemed fitting to focus on these characters.

  The children loved watching old Mr Men animations along with a ‘how to’ video of Mr Bump https://youtu.be/Upj7RSYM6mE

  

• Throwing sticks with Y2

  Thu 16 Mar 2023

  There was a lovely feel to the woods today with a few trees starting to grow leaves and the sun shining through the branches. It felt like spring was trying to show itself.

  Year 2 have made a start on their throwing sticks today. Matthew explained this is a Stone Age technique and told us how they work. The children chose the trees to cut and use and sawed their own length of wood. We then used flint to strip the bark. This proved a bit tricky for everyone but they worked really hard and by dinner time we were finished.

  After dinner, we learnt the safety rules for using knives and began to make the points on their sticks. Again, this is hard work, using new skills. We will finish next week and they will get to aim at the targets but everyone worked so hard.

  A game of Eagle Eye to end the day before heading back to school

  

• Year 2 in the woods for forest school

  Thu 02 Mar 2023

  Year 2 have their turn in the woods this term. It’s only the second time they have been but there was some excellent recall of our safety rules and how to behave in the woodland environment. As always, we started with shelter building and fire making.

  The children split into two groups-boys and girls- they were given help to set up the frame of the shelter, instruction on what to do and off they went. Some really good teamwork, especially from the boys. The girls made a very neat job of their construction and after a lot of hard work, both teams had a really good shelter. 
  Fire lighting next. We say it every time, but this really isn’t as easy as Maria makes it look. However, all children has successfully lit their cotton wool by hometime. We will build on this over the next few weeks.

  It was so cold in the woods, but the children did very well, worked hard and achieved a lot. Well done Year 2.