Friday 28 June 2019

Year 2 foragers!

What a fabulous time we had during our Outdoor Learning session this week - educational and nutritional! We visited Mrs Ricketts, who has been very busy tending to our fruit and vegetable area. We had broad beans, strawberries,blackcurrants, redcurrants - so many more to ripen and treat ourselves to in the forthcoming weeks!




We were also very lucky enough to see our sheep being shorn. The fleece felt so soft and warm. 

We have been making our own copthill cordial cocktails in maths and estimating and reading amount of volumes within different vessels. We have been recapping telling the time and of course improving our scores in big maths.











In English we have compared different poems - shape poems and kennings. We are getting very good at writing our own kenning poems using alliteration, rhyme and rhythm.  

Back to the seaside we have been looking at going to the beach over 100 years ago and seeing their old fashioned bathing costumes, changing huts and early photography equipment. All very interesting. In art we have using our sketching skills to draw Norfolk beaches and have mixed some fantastic water colours - they are good enough to exhibit!

We have seen some amazing productions this week - Year 6's Lion King which we all agreed was phenomenal - the costumes and makeup were so realistic and Reception's Jack and Beanstalk which was equally amazing. 



















Enjoy the fleeting heat wave!

Friday 21 June 2019

All things creative...

Almost another fun week done here at Copthill...the rain seems to have finally eased off as we have enjoyed exploring our grounds finding differing habitats and identifying trees. It is amazing just how many we could spot!

In 2F's forest school this week, they learnt how to make bracelets, snakes and necklaces with elder beads and other very colourful things! They were very creative!





































We are certainly speeding up with our doubling and halving recall and have been working out some very tricky column addition and subtraction calculations. Having the calculators to check our answers has been both very handy and enhanced our understanding of how to use them. We are pretty great at identifying odd and even numbers too.

English - we have been making up some wonderful kennings for animals and items used and found at the beach. These are a wonderful type of riddle, and we have had great fun trying to identify the subject matter using the kennings to help us!

We have started a new topic to lead us to the end of term - and what a great one! One to certainly get us in the holiday spirit - the Seaside! We have been learning classification words and looking at beaches around our country especially local beaches on the Norfolk coast. It seems we all enjoy heading there for a picnic and to make a few sandcastles (although it did seem that many preferred to stamp on them than make them...!)

We are learning the technique of mosaic in art which requires a skilled eye and patience. Our pictures are coming on a treat and despite the classroom floor looking like a mosaic, our tidying up skills are second to none and great praise has been received from our lovely cleaner Lainy.




Let's hope these skills are being transferred home too! Have a smashing weekend all!





Ball's and Beetles...

Here we are again with 3 weeks to go until we break up for our Christmas Holidays! In RE we have been looking at the Christmas story. The ch...