Hope the children love their stockings from us all and thank you for all our lovely cards and presents. Happy Christmas and all good wishes for the New Year from us all in Class 2 and see you in 2016!
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| Oliver with Father Christmas! |
Friday, 18 December 2015
Last few days before Christmas ....
Such a busy end of term, the Nativity was beautiful, the party fun and just the carol service to go!
Hope the children love their stockings from us all and thank you for all our lovely cards and presents. Happy Christmas and all good wishes for the New Year from us all in Class 2 and see you in 2016!
Hope the children love their stockings from us all and thank you for all our lovely cards and presents. Happy Christmas and all good wishes for the New Year from us all in Class 2 and see you in 2016!
Friday, 11 December 2015
HELLO
Hello,
I wanted to take this opportunity to introduce myself. My name is Mrs Riggs, and I am lucky enough to be carrying out part of my teacher training with Fordham All Saints. I have spent the last two weeks getting to know, and working with, the wonderful children in Class 2. I have loved every minute! I feel very privileged to have arrived, just as all of the Christmas preparations are underway, and have thoroughly enjoyed hearing the children practice their Christmas songs - I have found myself humming these in the car on the way to and from school!
Next term, I will continue to work in Class 2, and will be teaching the children for part of the week. I am really looking forward to what promises to be a very exciting half term.
I wish you all a very merry Christmas and a happy new year!
Mrs Riggs
I wanted to take this opportunity to introduce myself. My name is Mrs Riggs, and I am lucky enough to be carrying out part of my teacher training with Fordham All Saints. I have spent the last two weeks getting to know, and working with, the wonderful children in Class 2. I have loved every minute! I feel very privileged to have arrived, just as all of the Christmas preparations are underway, and have thoroughly enjoyed hearing the children practice their Christmas songs - I have found myself humming these in the car on the way to and from school!
Next term, I will continue to work in Class 2, and will be teaching the children for part of the week. I am really looking forward to what promises to be a very exciting half term.
I wish you all a very merry Christmas and a happy new year!
Mrs Riggs
Sunday, 6 December 2015
week ending 4th December
Such a busy week and still two weeks to go!!
This week saw science experiments - finding the best materials to repair an umberella with a hole in it! As one child suggested, when asked what we could do .... go out and buy a new one! Fair enough, but if we didn't have enough money?! The children got the idea. It was lovely to see the children working together, older children helping the younger children to record their findings and try to make it a fair test!
We also read a great story about Neil Armstrong, from when he was a little boy and found out lots about him, including his childhood and the different jobs he did. We watched as Neil Armstrong landed on the moon! The children thought about what he might have felt / said. They then painted some wonderful moon scenes and then used speech bubbles to write about what Neil Armstrong thought / said.
We then made christingles and learnt about the meaning of the different parts and took part in the beautiful Christingle Service in church. We also made our game for the Christmas Fayre!
19 sleeps till the real Santa!!
This week saw science experiments - finding the best materials to repair an umberella with a hole in it! As one child suggested, when asked what we could do .... go out and buy a new one! Fair enough, but if we didn't have enough money?! The children got the idea. It was lovely to see the children working together, older children helping the younger children to record their findings and try to make it a fair test!
We also read a great story about Neil Armstrong, from when he was a little boy and found out lots about him, including his childhood and the different jobs he did. We watched as Neil Armstrong landed on the moon! The children thought about what he might have felt / said. They then painted some wonderful moon scenes and then used speech bubbles to write about what Neil Armstrong thought / said.
We then made christingles and learnt about the meaning of the different parts and took part in the beautiful Christingle Service in church. We also made our game for the Christmas Fayre!
19 sleeps till the real Santa!!
Sunday, 29 November 2015
Powerdown Day and end of the week .....
We had a great day on friday with no electricity and the children loved the little tealights that we used to see what we were doing! That morning we designed our own flower garden for one of the veg trugs, as part of a competition. We read stories about gardens: one about a little boy's garden, set in this country and one about a little Indian girl's garden. We looked at pictures of plants and looked at real flowers, then set about our own designs in a variety of ways. The results were delightful and so varied - Mr Wainwright will have a very hard job to judge the winning garden! Well done to ALL of Class 2 for being so creative!
We have also been learning about different explorers in Class 2. This week we compared the times of Christopher Columbus to those of Neil Armstrong. The children were fascinated to know that when computers were first invented, they took up a whole room!!!!
Some children also used numicon and puzzles in their maths work, other children did some different Thinking Things Through maths activities, for example finding out how old a grandma was from a series of clues, and finding all the possible ways of sharing 20 baby birds between 3 nests - but they could only use even numbers! Very tricky, but well tried, that group.
Our Nativity Play is also coming along and it's 26 Sleeps till Christmas!
We have also been learning about different explorers in Class 2. This week we compared the times of Christopher Columbus to those of Neil Armstrong. The children were fascinated to know that when computers were first invented, they took up a whole room!!!!
Some children also used numicon and puzzles in their maths work, other children did some different Thinking Things Through maths activities, for example finding out how old a grandma was from a series of clues, and finding all the possible ways of sharing 20 baby birds between 3 nests - but they could only use even numbers! Very tricky, but well tried, that group.
Our Nativity Play is also coming along and it's 26 Sleeps till Christmas!
Sunday, 22 November 2015
Friendship Week
Last week the children enjoyed a variety of activities to do with Friendship.
At the end of the week we watched a short film about a chameleon who was different to the others and from this film, we generated lots of 'feeling' words which we used in our literacy / art activities.
The children used some great language to describe how the chameleon felt at different times in the film: dejected, glum, miserable, nervous, joyful, ..... We also thought about places a red chameleon could hide and the children came up with some great ideas!
We have also been building some flying saucers and rockets in Class 2 (to rescue Little Wolf from the moon!) and the children are currently making some aliens to fly the space craft. The children have as ever done a great job with these!
The build up to Christmas has always been my favourite time of year at school and we are beginning work on our Christmas Play now, which this year is called 'Mary's Knitting'. Lots of singing, acting, dancing and dressing up to come!!
Enjoy a few photos below to demonstrate the children's work:
At the end of the week we watched a short film about a chameleon who was different to the others and from this film, we generated lots of 'feeling' words which we used in our literacy / art activities.
The children used some great language to describe how the chameleon felt at different times in the film: dejected, glum, miserable, nervous, joyful, ..... We also thought about places a red chameleon could hide and the children came up with some great ideas!
We have also been building some flying saucers and rockets in Class 2 (to rescue Little Wolf from the moon!) and the children are currently making some aliens to fly the space craft. The children have as ever done a great job with these!
The build up to Christmas has always been my favourite time of year at school and we are beginning work on our Christmas Play now, which this year is called 'Mary's Knitting'. Lots of singing, acting, dancing and dressing up to come!!
Enjoy a few photos below to demonstrate the children's work:
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| 'The red chameleon is hiding in the red bit of the rainbow.' |
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| 'The red chameleon is hiding in the rose garden at sunset!' |
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| 'The red chameleon is hiding in the tree with the autumn leaves.' |
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| Speaking and listening - retelling the story of QPootle5 with stick puppets. |
Thursday, 12 November 2015
Chelmsford Cathedral
On Tuesday morning Class 2 and the year 2s from Class 3 went to Chelmsford Cathedral for an Advent and Christmas workshop. We had a great time learning about the Christmas story and then dressing up and acting it out. It was an excellent introduction to the Nativity and will help the children understand their roles when we come to perform our version in December. Thank you to Molly's parents for your help on our trip.
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