Year 2 have started their exploration of Norwich compared to Shanghai by creating models of Norwich landmarks. Have a look at their versions of Norwich Castle, Norwich Market and Carrow Road!
Key Stage 1
Imagination Not Included…
This week, children have been learning the poem ‘Imagination Not Included’ by Mark Bird. They will be performing this to buddies in year 1 next week.
During Busy learning, children have been choosing to make their own version of our story map and they have been writing about their favourite toys.
They have also been using their imagination to transform cardboard boxes into rockets (complete with engine and rocket boosters), cars, desks, beds, costumes. They even made a cardboard box from playdough!
Great imagination Year 1!
Year 2 Self Portraits
Year 2 have started the year by creating self portraits. They sketched their own face before making a background for their picture using collage, black fine liner details and watercolours. They did a fantastic job, well done Year 2!
A mystery box!
Year 1 had a mystery delivery last week! A strange box arrived in our classroom in the afternoon. The children guessed what might be inside the box and were showing great curiosity. We opened the box and found a book inside called ‘Not a Box’. We read it and found that it is about how a cardboard box can be anything you want it to be if you use your imagination!
Settling in to Year 1
Year 1 have settled well into the new school year. We have spent some time getting back into school routines and the children have enjoyed exploring the resources in their new classrooms. They have been enjoying using marble run, playing in the small world area, creating their own spiral art and much more! We are so proud of how they have started the year.
Exploring watercolours
Year 1 have enjoyed exploring watercolours. Artist Emma Burleigh explained how she uses watercolours in her art work. She lets a picture emerge from marks on the page, allowing the paint to ‘do its own thing’. She also explained different paint techniques including using only two or three colours, colour washing and ‘wet in wet’. Children enoyed exploring the way the paint flows on the page.
Year 2 Smoothie Making
This half term in DT Year 2 have been taste testing and designing smoothies. This week they made their recipes and all enjoyed a delicious smoothie featuring a whole range of exciting ingredients.
A Day of Welcome
Last Friday, the whole school took part in the Schools of Sanctuary: Day of Welcome. During the day, they learnt about the lives of refugees and how we can make our community in Queen’s Hill welcoming. This years theme was ‘Community is our Superpower’.
Children in Year 1 learnt about different playground games that children play from around the world. They played ‘Chinlone’ and ‘Oon’ from Myanmar and ‘Cossak’ from Ukraine. They shared these games with their buddies in Year 4 too.
Children in Year 3 & 4 took part in a live lesson with schools across the country to hear stories from Dina Nayeri about her own personal experiences of being a refugee as a child and fleeing to the United States of America. As part of the lesson, children had the opportunity to try some Taekwondo moves, as taking up this sport was something that helped Dina feel part of her new community when she moved to America.
In Year 5, children designed and wrote postcards to refugee children, welcoming them to Queen’s Hill. They explained how they would be welcomed into the community. Collaboratively, Year 5, along with their buddies in Year 2, designed houses for Moomins after reading about the displacement of the Moomins in ‘The Moomins and the Great Flood’ by Tove Jansson.
Year 2 Maths – Tally Charts
This week Year 2 have started learning about tally charts. To practise making tally charts they went into the school car park and tallied up the different car colours they could see. After looking at their completed tally charts they found out white cars were the most common in the car park today.
Y1 – Plants
Year 1 have been learning about plants. They planted seeds and are excited to watch them grow. We have also been looking at real plants to notice the parts of the plants and used post-it notes to label them.