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Date: 10th Mar 2020 @ 4:26pm
Swallows took part in a wonderfully inspiring workshop today that allowed them to experience all that their ‘Britain At War’ topic has so far has revealed. The children were inspired by a soldier who led them from the beaches of Normandy to the streets of London during the Blitz, with tales of heroism and togetherness. A great way to start the week Swallows!
The children asked questions, showed their knowledge and listened intently to the facts and experiences of ‘another generation’, some that have even been members of our families. Well done with some fabulous learning!
Date: 10th Mar 2020 @ 4:25pm
Swallows have spent this week working hard gathering as much grammar knowledge as possible, ready for their diary entries, based on a World War 2 evacuee, to take shape. Their focus today was to up-level sentences chosen because of their technical vocabulary, with some outstanding examples!
A science lecturer from Swallows
Date: 10th Mar 2020 @ 4:23pm
Swallows have been showing their learning across our last topic of ‘Animals Including Humans’ through a short presentation in their groups. The children were asked to work collaboratively to create a poster sharing their learning in one specific topic. Each child had to have a speaking role and each poster had to show at least one diagram. Some future lecturers in the making!
Date: 10th Mar 2020 @ 4:22pm
Swallows were thrilled to be able to spend some of their morning on the Funda bouncy castle. The children had a ‘blast’ racing along against their peers and they showed some great awareness and manners even when having fun! Congratulations to our winner of the Funda certificate for supporting your peers, well done!
Thanks for all your hard-work this half-term Swallows, everyone of you should be proud of the progress you have made settling in to life in Key-Stage 2! Keep up the effort into Autumn 2.
Date: 10th Mar 2020 @ 4:21pm
Swallows have been investigating whether people who use their muscles regularly are able to exercise for longer periods. We set up our task so that each team member had a role to play and each of the children were able to challenge themselves to beat their target!
The children had to perform swap jumps for 1 minute. We were presented with some really interesting data and discovered some hurdlers in the making! Jess Ennis-Hill would be proud!
Date: 10th Mar 2020 @ 4:13pm
Swallows enjoyed a fabulous trip to St. John The Evangelist’s Church today and were overawed with what they saw. Once they arrived, the children were set off to find as many objects as they could that relate to their previous learning. We searched for the church for features such as the Altar, Pulpit and the class’ favourite, the Organ.
Some of us even experimented with playing a Psalm or two!
Date: 10th Mar 2020 @ 4:05pm
Swallows have been working really hard today to up-level their writing by adding time conjunctions to sentences, all with a World War 2 theme!
They split off into pairs to create tables (drawing these directly onto their table tops!) using a list of conjunctions, then up-leveled these using some of their own ideas with knowledge and facts from life in Britain between 1939 – 45.
Fabulous learning!
Date: 10th Mar 2020 @ 4:04pm
Well done to all our homework heroes who have managed some fantastic efforts with their World War II designs. There have been some great examples of fighter planes, propaganda posters, Morse-code messages and even a full suitcase for an evacuee child, complete with gas mask! Keep up the great effort Swallows!
Date: 10th Mar 2020 @ 4:03pm
Swallows spent part of their afternoon in the sunshine (hopefully not the last we will see!) completing their Science study of the human skeletal system. We studied the three main functions of the skeleton and then the children showed what they knew already about the bones in an adult body. We learned that the three main functions are movement, support or shape and protection. They certainly had an enjoyable experience!
Date: 10th Mar 2020 @ 4:02pm
Well done to Swallows nominations for this week. Their focus and determination was a hard act to follow and something to be extremely proud of!
Date: 10th Mar 2020 @ 4:01pm
Swallows took inspiration from their chosen artist this week to create some freeze frames. They used the outdoor space to replicate the fields of northern France and show their interpretations of the stimulus ‘War’. John Piper is our chosen artist for this half term and the children’s poses evoked scenes of togetherness and sorrow.
Date: 10th Mar 2020 @ 4:00pm
Here is the first Reading Challenge winner of the year. Well done and enjoy the book you won!
Date: 10th Mar 2020 @ 4:00pm
Swallows took to the stage to perform as part of a vote to represent their year group on the School Council. The children who chose to write a speech, presented their arguments really well to the audience with clear and loud voices. There were some fantastic points raised about explaining strengths AND weaknesses, young politicians in the making!
Date: 10th Mar 2020 @ 3:59pm
We have been practising balancing this week in PE. We had to use different body parts and amounts of body parts to balance with.
Date: 10th Mar 2020 @ 3:59pm
This morning, Swallows Class and Eagles Class enjoyed exchanging their persuasive letters with each other. There was some great expression used when children were reading aloud and some very convincing arguments were made for the crayons to return! The Year 6’s were really impressed with some of our children’s letters and the Y3’s enjoyed performing them.
Date: 10th Mar 2020 @ 3:58pm
As part of our writing unit, today we tried to persuade the crayons to come back. We thought of different sentence starters and persuasive vocabulary and pleaded directly with the crayons.
Date: 10th Mar 2020 @ 3:58pm
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Date: 10th Mar 2020 @ 3:57pm
Today we registered our pod devices and then assigned our name to them – very technical for Y2! We then had a go at some maths work to practise our new pod skills.
Date: 10th Mar 2020 @ 3:57pm
Since September we have been looking at 10 different ways in which to say ‘Hello’ in different languages. We’re becoming pretty good at them now!
Date: 10th Mar 2020 @ 3:56pm
Here is our second entry for reading the 100 book challenge in an unusual place. A lovely read in a hot tub in Wales. Thank you for the picture!
Date: 10th Mar 2020 @ 3:56pm
We had a real treat this morning when Bolton Music Service performed a concert for us. We sang along and even had a dance!
Date: 10th Mar 2020 @ 3:54pm
This young lady took part in a reading scheme at the library over the summer and received a certificate and medal for reading lots of books. Well done!
Date: 10th Mar 2020 @ 3:54pm
This morning we took 10 minutes out of our day to read to our cuddly friends from the reading corner.
Date: 10th Mar 2020 @ 3:53pm
We’ve had a wonderful start to life in Y2 and can’t wait to see all of the exciting learning that will be taking place this year!
Date: 10th Mar 2020 @ 3:52pm
Continuing our Science topic on space, we watched the first landing on the moon. We discussed facts about Neil Armstrong and how, because there is no weather on the moon, his footprints are still on the surface of the moon. We then created our own ‘moon footprints’ using salt dough.
