Y2 - Pine
Welcome to Pine Class.
The Class Teacher is Miss Davis.
We explored our new and improved school library this week!
Links to Articles: 3, 13, 17, 31
Links to Christian Values: Respect
Links to British Values: Mutual Respect, Individual Liberty
This week in English, our end point is to write an instruction text. So to begin, we learnt what commands and imperative verbs are. Here we are, giving commands to our partners.
Links to Articles: 28
Links to Christian Values: Friendship, Koinonia, Respect
Links to British Values: Mutual Respect
Author Visit
We were lucky enough to have author, Simon James Green, visit our school for a writing workshop! We worked together, showing koinonia, to create a hilarious story about invisible cows!
Links to Articles: 3, 13, 28, 29
Links to Christian Values: Koinonia, Trust, Respect
Links to British Values: Individual Liberty, Mutual Respect, Democracy
Pine Class 2022 - 2023
Games Day 2023
Summer 2 Learning Quest - Ahoy Matey!
Summer 1 Learning Quest - Into the Jungle
Look at our fantastic jungle jeeps! We had to cut our axles with a saw, place them through the chassis of our jeep, add the wheels on, then create and secure with a washer.
Links to Articles: 13, 28, 29
Links to Christian Values: Hope
Links to British Values: Rule of Law
We were lucky enough to have an Olympian visit our school this week. Her name was Sophie Ogilvie and she was a canoeist. We had to do our sponsored event by completing as many reps of each activity in the time that was given.
Links to Articles: 3
Links to Christian Values: Hope, Respect, Koinonia
Links to British Values: Mutual Respect
Our trip to the farm was amazing! We got the bus all the way to the farm, we saw lots of different animals including pigs, sheep and cows.
Links to Articles: 31
Links to Christian Values: Hope, Respect
Links to British Values: Mutual Respect
Spring 2 Learning Quest - The Secret Garden
To complete our landmarks topic in Geography, we researched the key landmarks in the UK. We then drew them and worked together to locate them on a map of the UK.
Links to Articles: 13, 17, 29
Links to Christian Values: Koinonia
Links to British Values: Democracy
This term, we have been developing our throwing technique. We have now perfected our underarm and overarm throw!
Links to Articles: 28, 29, 31
Links to Christian Values: Hope, Trust
Links to British Values: Mutual Respect
Today, we worked together to create a 'Forgiveness Box'. Then, we all thought of a scenario where we had to forgive, we wrote it down and posted it in the box. We did this to show we can 'forgive and forget' just like God did. We discussed how it made us feel to forgive and move on.
Links to Articles: 13, 14, 29
Links to Christian Values: Koinonia, Forgiveness, Friendship
Links to British Values: Tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs, Mutual Respect, Individual Liberty
We loved hosting our Reading Café for our friends and family and showing them how much we love to read!
Links to Articles: 3, 28, 29, 31
Links to Christian Values: Hope, Friendship
Links to British Values: Individual Liberty
As part of our World Book Day celebrations, we visited our local library and each chose a book to take back to school.
Links to Articles: 3, 13, 29, 31
Links to Christian Values: Trust, Hope, Respect
Links to British Values: Individual Liberty, Mutual Respect
Wow! We loved dressing up as our favourite book characters today! Happy World Book Day!
Links to Articles: 3, 31
Links to Christian Values: Hope, Respect, Koinonia
Links to British Values: Individual Liberty, Mutual Respect
We visited the Forest School to see what habitats we could find. We learnt what a microhabitat was and had to look very closely to see what minibeasts were living there!
Links to Articles: 28, 29
Links to Christian Values: Hope, Respect
Links to British Values: Mutual Respect
Spring 1 Learning Quest - Explosive Events
R.S.H.E - Job Talk
We had a very important visitor come to St. Paul's yesterday to talk about her job! She was a detective in the police! We asked her lots of questions about her job, what she does, how she got into that role, if she needed any training and many more! She even let us try on her hats!
Links to Articles: 3, 6, 12, 13, 15, 28, 29
Links to Christian Values: Hope, Trust, Respect
Links to British Values: Rule of Law, Individual Liberty, Democracy, Mutual Respect
P.E. - Dance
This term, our theme for Dance is 'Water'. This week we were exploring rivers, we had to move from the source of the river to the mouth of the river. We also had to listen and adapt to the style of music that was playing.
Links to Articles: 3, 6, 13, 28, 29, 31
Links to Christian Values: Hope, Respect, Koinonia
Links to British Values: Individual Liberty, Mutual Respect
R.E. - Thankful circle
We created a thankful circle. We looked at different values such as kindness, forgiveness, friendliness, sharing, having fun together and being cheerful. We thanked our friends for these values.
Links to Articles: 3, 12, 13, 14, 29
Links to Christian Values: Forgiveness, Trust, Friendship, Respect, Koinonia, Hope
Links to British Values: Mutual Respect
P.E. - Football
Today in football, we continued to develop our technique in dribbling the ball by trying to keep the ball under control. We also practiced making accurate passes.
Links to Articles: 29, 31
Links to Christian Values: Hope, Respect, Koinonia
Links to British Values: Mutual Respect
Autumn 2 Learning Quest - Heroes and Villains
D.T. Puppets
Today, we started sewing our puppets. We learnt how to thread a needle, do running stitch and a blanket stitch.
Links to Articles: 3, 13, 29, 31
Links to Christian Values: Hope, Koinonia
Links to British Values: Individual Liberty
Anti-Bullying Week
P.E. - Ball Skills
We learnt how to dribble the ball accurately with control. Once we had the ball under control we tried to gain speed as we dribbled.
Links to Articles: 3, 28, 29, 31
Links to Christian Values: Hope, Respect, Trust, Koinonia
D.T. - Puppets
This week we explored puppets. We looked closely at how they are moved and controlled by a person but also what materials are used and how the materials are joined together. We can't wait to make our own!
Links to Articles: 3, 28, 29, 31
Links to Christian Values: Hope, Respect, Koinonia
Remembrance
We were so lucky to have a visit from a Paratrooper! He told us all about his role as an officer and how proud he was to serve our country! We even got to hold his helmet!
Links to Articles: 28, 29, 38
Links to Christian Values: Hope, Trust, Respect
Autumn 1 Learning Quest - Magnificent Beasts
P.E. - Gymnastics
Still using the topic of 'linking', we tried to link our jump, roll and balance moves together.
Links to Articles: 28, 29, 31
Links to Christian Values: Respect, Trust
D.T. - The Queen's Tea Party
For D.T. this term we had to prepare and make a healthy dish! We had a Queen's Tea Party and made fruit kebabs and jam sandwiches!
Links to Articles: 28, 29, 31
Links to Christian Values: Hope, Koinonia, Respect
Geography
We worked together to use a compass. We now know there are four points on a compass and they are North, East, South and West.
Links to Articles: 28, 29
Links to Christian Values: Respect, Koinonia and Hope
Computing
We used our programming skills on Scratch to make our sprite move!
Links to Articles: 13, 28, 29
Links to Christian Values: Hope, Respect
Dream Jars
This term in English, we are writing our own set of instructions! So, to understand the steps we need to take to write a successful instruction text, we followed some to make a magical dream jar!
Links to Articles: 28, 29, 31
Links to Christian Values: 13, 28, 29
Science
This week in Science we were exploring animal life cycles! We looked closely at the different stages of a butterfly's life cycle and compared it to a human's.
Links to Articles: 28, 29
Links to Christian Values: Hope, Koinonia
P.E. - Gymnastics
Our gymnastics focus this term is 'linking'. In today's lesson we had to think about how we could link our bodies through the apparatus. We also had to think about how we could move around the space like a champion gymnast.
Links to Articles: 28, 29, 31
Links to Christian Values: Hope, Trust, Respect
Computing
To start our programmers topic, we reviewed how to control the bee-bots by setting them an algorithm.
Links to Articles: 17, 28, 29
Links to Christian Values: Hope, Respect, Koinonia
