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Y2SWH’s lovely pictures linked to our still life Van Gogh art unit .
Year 2 have enjoyed learning about Captain Scott in History this half term. We sorted reason cards into Scott’s journey and Amundsen’s journey. We discussed which reason we thought was the most important for why Scott failed to get to the South Pole first!
This morning, in Beginnings, we have continued talking and learning about farms! We had a circle time to discuss the things we saw yesterday when Farmer Rachel visited and decided we would make our very own Beginnings Farm! The children absolutely loved helping to create the farm and enjoyed ...playing with it even more. 🐐🐄🐖🐑🐓
Y3LJA - we are currently learning about money in maths. So today we got the money out and had a go at working out the cost of items and giving change.
The children in Beginnings enjoyed our visit from the farm today! We loved meeting all of the animals that came to see us. We listened to Farmer Rachel who shared lots of facts with us about her special animals. We asked lots of questions and were very gentle when touching and stroking the animals.... What a lovely treat! 🐄🐖🐐🐓🐇
Today in Y3NRO’s maths lesson we became customers and shop assistants; adding and subtracting money amounts. I would encourage exploring this at home, as we are evolving into a cashless world, yet money knowledge is still so important. 💷👛
F2SWH enjoying our outdoor PE unit and showing off some additional skills with the hoops.
Y3NRO - celebrating VE Day with a scone and a drink. 🇬🇧
Y3LJA - celebrating VE Day with a scone and a drink.
This half term Year One are finding out about different animals in Science. Today they looked at fish. They were able to identify the tail, fins and gills on the fish we looked at. We also found out that fish lay eggs.
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