Cricket

Today, we have enjoyed a visit from a cricket coach.

Lewis works with our school as part of the 'Chance to shine' initiative working with the year 3 and 4 children. However, as the year 4s were on a school trip we had a special one-off session.

The children practised their cricket catching, bowling the ball by keeping a straight arm and hitting with the bat.

Hopefully we can arrange another session with Lewis as the children thoroughly enjoyed themselves.

'Wiggle and Crawl' topic launch

Today we launched our new topic:

WIGGLE AND CRAWL


We had a visit from some Mini Monsters and completed a bug hunt in the school grounds.

First up was Gary and Fernando the Giant African Land Snails. They were very slimy!

They have tentacles in their head and hide in their shell when scared. They just have 1 foot.

Next, we met Mildred who has LOTS of legs, 250 to be precise. We also found out the she doesn't move very quickly and let's out 'stinky juice' when predators arrive.









After that, it was everyone's favourite - Winston the Bearded Dragon. He was very cute!

Winston has 'spikes' on him and puffs himself up when predators are around. However, when we touched him we found out that his spikes aren't really sharp.

He's very friendly and always looks like he is smiling.

Last, but not least, we met Taco the Corn Snake.

She was very sneaky and kept trying to go up Ed's shirt.

She eats mice and sheds her skin.

 After meeting big mini-beasts we went in search of our own.

We found; millipedes, centipedes, slugs, woodlice, worms, beetles and snails.

Sports afternoon for the grown ups

To finish off our topic 'Bounce' our amazing Year 2 children hosted a sports afternoon for their grown ups. They invented their own games and showed great confidence teaching them to others.

Well done to all involved and thank you to the grown ups for attending.