6 months ago
Posted on 10th May 2026 by Emma Noden

Woodland Wednesday – creating fairy gardens

Our morning began with an invitation to predict what might lie behind this small door. We shared our ideas firstly through drawing and then we talked about them together.
We were surprised to then find that our Woodland Wednesday bag had been filled by the forest fairies. They had left a letter thanking us for the wonderful potions we made a couple of weeks ago to wake up the forest. The fairies also told us that they would like to visit our woodland but to be able to do this, they needed somewhere safe to stay within it. Using the instruction manual left by Blossom Brightwing, we worked hard to create some safe fairy homes. Have a look at our creative ideas- some homes had ponds, doors, paths, archways and much more.

6 months ago
Posted on 10th May 2026 by Emma Noden

Reading around the world

The May challenge in our “year of the reader” calendar is to “read around the world”. We have created a read around the world basket of books in our class book nook and the May book in our book calendar was a book called: A Gift for Amma, a story about a young girl who is looking in an Indian market for a gift. We really enjoyed the colourful illustrations in this book!

6 months ago
Posted on 10th May 2026 by Emma Noden

David Attenborough’s 100 birthday celebrations

We had a wonderful day celebrating the 100th birthday of Sir David Attenborough. We could not believe what 100 looked like when shown on ten 10-frames!

We started the morning looking at a giant map of the world’s continents and talking about how David Attenborough has visited all 7 of them. We talked about some of the animals he has been fortunate to work so closely with and looked at where these were on the map of the world.

In our woodland, we made seed bombs with Shropshire Wildlife Trust. We were also lucky to have students from Thomas Adam’s helping us too. I wonder where you will plant your seed bomb?

We shared a thought provoking story called Love Our Earth. We talked about what we love about our world and what we can do to protect it. We sorted pictures of different everyday actions into those that would make Earth happy and those that would make it sad. Each of us then used drawing, and added colour with watercolours, to show what we love about our planet.

6 months ago
Posted on 10th May 2026 by Emma Noden

David Attenborough is 100

Class 2 had a great day thinking about how David Attenborough has had such an impact on the world we live in now. We watched some clips of his documentaries and carried on our learning during activities time.

weighing animals – making estimates and then using the balance scales to find out the weight of the animals.
grouping and classifying animals and then making a block graph to show how we had grouped them.
creating fact files about animals.
pretending we were David Attenborough and making our own documentary.
creating a picture of different animals to go on a display of 100 animals for 100 years of David Attenborough.
creating ocean plates – thinking about how our use of plastic can impact our oceans.

We also enjoyed a workshop with the Shropshire Wildlife Trust creating a wild flower seed bomb. We are hoping that lots of children plant these at home or somewhere they find suitable and then we will help to improve habits for lots of our worlds tiny creatures!

6 months ago
Posted on 10th May 2026 by Emma Noden

Paper sculpture techniques

During our art sessions we have been learning paper sculpture techniques, we explored different ways to make paper 3D and stand out from the page.

6 months ago
Posted on 10th May 2026 by Emma Noden

3D shape

Class 2 have been learning about the properties of 3D shape and exploring these using small 3D shapes. They have identified the vertices (corners), the edges and the faces.

6 months ago
Posted on 10th May 2026 by Emma Noden

Science – investigating the effect of exercise on our heart rate

As part of our science learning this term we took part in a science investigation to see the effects of exercise on our bodies. We learnt how to take our own pulse whilst we were resting for 30 seconds and then took our pulse again when we had been doing exercise, reading etc. After we examined what we noticed about the difference in our pulse.

6 months ago
Posted on 10th May 2026 by Emma Noden

Supertato English Talk for Writing Unit

A few weeks ago we were shocked to find some vegetables in our classroom who were being taunted by the Evil Pea. During this Talk For Writing unit we have been writing speech bubbles, thinking of and writing questions and answers for characters in the story, learning the text using a text map and writing our own versions of the story. Children came up with their own villain character (Evil Pizza, Evil ice cream, Evil Broccoli are some examples) and their own super hero character (Super Broccoli, Super Carrot etc). Children used the model text to guide their writing of their own fast pacing story!