As part of showing our support for a positive Internet, we took part in activities in school to explore our ideas of what a better Internet might look like and we urge all of our parents, friends and supporters to create, connect and share positive messages and use of technology.

Together we can make a positive difference

Together we realise that we can make #SID2018 the biggest campaign yet and make a real difference to the digital lives of children right across the UK.

In school after our whole school assembly, we watched the SID TV video for 7-11 year olds and discussed the themes mentioned in the film about friendship and how online actions make us feel.

On a jigsaw template, we filled in a pledge to do something positive online. It could be a picture of the kind things the children would do online or a pledge to take a positive action to make the internet a better place. The jigsaws show how our actions fit in with the actions of those around us, to create a better internet.

Find out more and get involved!

www.saferinternetday.org.uk #SID2018

This week, the children have been editing their narrative writing and have been fabulous editors in ensuring that they have looked at their sentences to see how they can improve them further.  Well done to each of them in working so hard to apply such an important skill.

On Tuesday, the class went over to  Dame Alice Owen’s school to take part in the local Speed Stacking Tournament. They were proud to represent the school and have been practicing hard in the lead up to the big day. Overall they came second.  Well done Year 4 – great work!

In ICT the children have been looking at writing instructions using simple algorithms.  To assist them with this, they used the virtual bee bots on the Ipad.

In Maths the children have continued with their work on decimals and converting minutes to hours and hours to minutes.

This afternoon the children continued with their wonderful environmental art structures using willow.

Luca and Evie were particularly proud of their twists and weaving techniques using the willow.

As part of Other Faith Week, we will be having a class trip with Year 3 to the synagogue on Monday morning.  Thank you to the parents who are able to assist us with this visit.

Have a lovely weekend.

Homework for this week:

1.  Spellings adding the suffix ‘ly’
2. Unit 6 from the English Skills Book
3. Mathletics – log on to see the activities uploaded (activities on decimals and measurement)
4. Learn timestables (especially 6 times tables)

This week, our focus in football was teamwork and strategy.

This week, we were also visited by the NSPCC. They spoke to the class about different types of abuse and discussed who to speak to if they are ever worried about anything. The children were incredibly mature and listened beautifully.

On Thursday, we visited Pizza Express and the children each made their own Pizza. They enjoyed a tour of the kitchen and freezer and were excited to take their Pizzas back to school for lunch. It took a lot of self control for them to not open them up on the coach journey back! They smelt amazing! Once back at school, we discussed if Pizzas were healthy. A lot of good points were made for both sides.

In English, the situation has become very desperate for the main character in our book. The children have now planned the next chapter of the story, filled with more tension and ending in suspense. They will bring these plans to life next week and I look forward to reading them.

In maths, we have continued to solve problems, this time focussing on the strategy of working backwards.

In science, we have begun learning about the life cycles of mammals. The children have created life cycle wheels about a certain type of mammal and next week they will share their knowledge with each other.

In R.E we have continued to learn about Passover, focusing on what beliefs the story teaches us. It was wonderful to hear the children felt it taught them about having trust in God. I also enjoyed reading about when they have used this belief in their everyday lives.

Have a great weekend

Mrs Lines

Home Learning:

Maths- Mathletics

English- Inspired by our trip to Pizza Express and our discussions about it at school, I have asked the children to write a recipe for a Pizza. I have given the children the list of SPAG elements I would like them to include. Our spellings remain the same this week and the children will be tested on Tuesday.

It has been another week of fun and leaning in Year 2! The children used their artistic talents to create some beautiful paintings of The Parting of the Red Sea. We used one point perspective drawing to show the Israelites making their way to freedom.

Year 2 thoroughly enjoyed putting on their wellies and gardening gloves and going out to prepare the vegetable patches. The children worked hard turning the soil, weeding the beds and planing some bulbs. We are casting our votes to find out what we will grow this year. Rainbow chard? Beetroot? Brussels Sprouts? Results in next week.

Year 2 had great fun using the shiny, new ipads to test out their algorithms. There was plenty of debugging going on!