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.

Game making and instruction writing

This week the children have been working collaboratively to create a new ball game.
We had lots of new exciting games to play.

In English we wrote the instructions for our new game. We used many features including; title, list of equipment, numbered steps, imperative verbs, time conjunctions, diagrams, an introduction and hints and tips.

We were very impressed with their lovely neat writing and professional layout.

The instructions were tested by other groups later in the week.

Daily Mile for Sports Relief

We are really enjoying completing 'a mile a day' to raise money for Sport Relief.

Every child and adult is running or walking for 10mins a day, every day this week. Once combined this should total the distance from Mulbarton to Cairo.

Jessie the school dog joined us today!

Please do help us raise money for this fantastic cause by sponsoring your child.

Many thanks :)

World Book Day :)

We have had a fabulous day of activities based around books.

We began with a whole school assembly where Mrs Bird launched the day.

Then we completed activities in our own classes for the rest of the morning.

In the afternoon we got into our houses and circle time groups and completed a world book day quiz in the hall.

Finally, all the adults read books at the end of the day and we chose which one we went to hear.

Our class book was 'Aliens Love Underpants' and we had 4 activities:

1) Making a rocket bookmark
2) Investigating magnets
3) Writing a story about a pet alien
4) Making symmetrical aliens and pants

We had lots of fun working across the Year 2 base.

The children all looked amazing in their costumes...........

     .........and the adults tried too!

Recount writing

After all this snowy weather we finally got round to writing a recount about our school trip to the UEA Sportspark.

This was a free writing activity where the children had to be aspirational and think for themselves about what would make their writing 'sparkle'.

Many Dojo points were handed out and a few children took theirs to Mrs Theobald - she was very impressed!