This week, we had a windy and busy tennis lesson with our coach Gary.   We all practised our throwing skills, to develop accuracy.   Then we played a game, where we had to try to hit the ball away from the 'catchers' on the other team to score points!   We had to really concentrate on our forehand skills to hit accurately to not get caught by the catchers!

This week Kingfishers have made their own musical instrument using a variety of materials. 

On Friday 11th November, Year Two walked to Ilfracombe Parish Church to take part in the Remembrance Service.   In Woodpeckers Class we found out all about World War I and  II and why we remember with the symbol of the poppy. In Church, we laid a school poppy wreath and we also sang two songs for remembrance.   After the service we visited the war memorial and read some of the names of the soldiers that died.   Returning to class we created our own poppy designs using paint.

Kingfishers have enjoyed following instructions to make their own slime in English this week.

This week the children have begun their new topic 'Toys Through Time'. They have enjoyed looking at toys from all different decades. This week Kingfishers have made their own split pin teddy bears, created and put on their own puppet show, created marble runs from cardboard and visited our school toy shop. The children have had a fantastic first week back. 

Woodpeckers have explored why Diwali is celebrated as a festival. We have created pieces of artwork which include temples, diya lamps, fireworks and rangoli patterns using tissues paper, pastels and metallic pens. We also made diva lamps from clay, looking carefully at the shape and adding detail with tools before writing about why Diwali is celebrated by Hindus. 

This week the children have enjoyed preparing for the harvest festival. This week they peeled potatoes, cut broccoli and leeks for a delicious soup. The children also made and designed their own bread this week to share with their grown-ups. All of the children enjoyed welcoming their grown-ups to the classroom and could not wait to share their harvest songs with them! 

We peeled and chopped carrots, sweet potatoes, celery and broccoli to make our class vegetable soup. For our bread rolls we kneaded the dough and then left it to prove before making it into two bread rolls in a shape of our choice. We enjoyed sharing our soup and bread with our parents and carers in class to celebrate our cooking this half term. 

The children have thoroughly enjoyed becoming experts in geography this week. We spent the day learning the names and locations of the continents and oceans of the world. They used globes and atlases to explore the world and to find where they lived on the map. Kingfishers also created their own world jigsaws and found it interesting to see where food comes from around the world. 

In Woodpeckers this week we became experts about the world during our geography day. We learnt the names of the continents and oceans of the world, made our own jigsaw puzzle world maps, explored where different foods come from in the world and learnt about different climates in the world. During the day we looked at various atlases, explored globes and watched videos about the world.