Year 2 have had the best morning at Winter Wonderland! We started by decorating a Santa hat and then got our tickets stamped by the conductor! After boarding the train, we listened to ‘The Polar Express’ around the campfire with toasted marshmallows and hot chocolate. We then were able to decorate baubles, collect a bell and had a big snowball fight on the yard. Thank you to parents and carers for coming and spending the morning with us and a big thank you to Mrs Whittle for planning the whole day!

Year 2 have had a fantastic morning during their advent prayer space session. We took part in activities that reflected on our year, thinking about both the good and bad events. We thought about who we are thankful for, who we love and what joy we have in our lives. Thank you Mr R for organising it for us!

As part of our Prehistoric Pots topic in Art, Year 3 used natural materials to create patterns in clay just like the Bell Beaker Folk used to in the Bronze Age. This is in preparation for our Gold task of creating a pot in the style of a prehistoric pot.

On Friday, Year 2 went to a tennis festival where they used their skills from PE to take part in lots of different games. They had the best time!

On Friday, Year 2 took part in a road safety workshop where they learned all about how to cross a road safely. We all practised crossing the road with our partners and even got to use a traffic light system!

Year 2 have had a great morning at Jarrow Library. We returned our books and then selected another one! We have been starting to get in the Christmas spirit and selected some books with this theme!

Year 2 have had the best morning completing some fieldwork in relation to their Geography topic ‘Let’s Explore the World’.

We travelled to Newcastle together and then separated and focused on different human features in the city. We stood outside of the library, the post office, the metro station and Fenwicks and tallied how many people went into the buildings.

We were then super lucky and had a look at the Fenwicks window… if you were on Northumberland Street and saw a bunch of us singing the 12 Days of Christmas, we had the best time!

Year 2 have had the best morning at The Hancock Museum continuing their learning about habitats!

We were lucky enough to get some explorer bags and were told by Miss Topping to go searching for the animals in their habitats before we then had some discussions about them. We displayed some fantastic vocabulary across the morning such as: prey, predator, adaptions and camouflage!

This week, during St Oz’s oracy CPD session, Mrs Smith and Mrs Sharrock set us all a challenge.

We needed to build upon our skills and trial sitting back-to-back with a partner and taking turns to describe how to draw a picture – such as a house or a monster!

Year 2 initially tried to take a sneaky peak at what their partners were drawing but then imagined they were stuck to their partner with an elastic band… this stopped us turning around and really put our skills to the test! We loved using our prepositional language and shapes to create our images!