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Crab Class Weekly News

Friday 7th November 2025

Crab class have really enjoyed learning about the story of the gunpowder plot this week. We completed some role play to really familiarise ourselves with the story- ready for some writing about it next week! 

Friday 24th October 2025

Crab class enjoyed reading with Arctic class this week. They also continued learning about Rosa Parks via Now Press Play. 

Friday 17th October 2025

Crabs enjoyed visiting the book fair this week. They also enjoyed practising blending pastels in art.

Friday 19th September 2025

What a busy week of learning we've had in Crab class! We were looking at using adjectives to describe things we might find in a beach, investigating the strongest material to build a bridge in science and learning about some religious teachings in RE.

Friday 12th September 2025

This week is science Crab class we're learning about materials and their properties. They sorted materials into groups and discussed why different materials were suitable for different purposes.

Friday 5th September 2025

What a busy but fantastic first week of Year 2! Crab Class have created posters about our three school rules - Be safe, be ready, be respectful, worked collaboratively to create marble mazes and created some portraits in the style of Picasso.

Friday 11th July 2025

We have started looking at the picture book 'Flotsam' in crab class this week. The children enjoyed role playing scenes from the book.

Friday 6th June 2025

Crabs were learning about seeds and bulbs in science this week. They examined them to compare them and learnt about how they are different. 

Friday 23rd May 2025

Crabs enjoyed using clay to make their 'wild thing' characters this week- inspired by the story 'Where the Wild Things Are'.

Friday 9th May 2025

Crab class learnt about VE Day this week and enjoyed the school picnic to celebrate.

Friday 25th April 2025

Crab class enjoyed learning about capacity in maths this week and put their measuring skills to the test by making a magic potion.

Friday 28th March 2025

Crab class enjoyed making their ‘moving vehicles’ as part of their DT project this week. 

Friday 21st March 2025

This week in RE Crabs learnt about how Jewish people prepare for Shabbat. They created their own collages of what a Shabbat table may look like. 

Friday 14th March 2025

Crab class had great fun on our 'Great Fire of London Day' this week.

Friday 7th March 2025

Crab class have continued to learn about the Great Fire of London this week. This week's learning focused on why the fire spread so quickly. We also made the most of the glorious spring sunshine and did some gardening in our courtyard area.

Friday 28th February 2025

This week in Crab class we have been improving our times table skills and playing games to practise these skills. In RE we have been learning about Jewish artefacts.

Friday 14th February 2025

Year 2 have been enjoying performing poems this week and have written their own about Antarctica and penguins.

Friday 7th February 2025

This week has involved working collaboratively to create artwork, measuring heights of different penguins (and seeing how our height compares) and practising our money skills at the Crab class ship. It's been a busy week! 

Friday 31st January 2025

Crab class were investigating why penguins huddle in our science lesson this week. We enjoyed carrying out an investigation, making predictions and seeing how close they were to our actual results. 

Friday 24th January 2025

Crab Class has been perfecting their gymnastics skills this week, exploring a variety of balances and moving creatively across the apparatus.

Friday 17th January 2025

Crab class have been learning about 3D shapes this week. They had a go at building their own, using straws to help count the edges and vertices of each shape.

Friday 13th December 2024

Crab Class loved performing their Year 2 Christmas Nativity to their grown ups this week and made us all very proud. Thank you to Mrs Brown who put it all together.

Friday 6th December 2024

Crab Class enjoyed making some Christmas robins this week and wrote some super letters to Florence Nightingale in our English lesson. 

Friday 22nd November 2024

Crab Class enjoyed a trip back in time this week and were visited by Florence Nightingale. With Florence’s help they sorted events on a timeline, learnt a lot of facts about Florence’s life (she had 15 cats that she enjoyed looking after!) and travelled to Scutari Hospital where, fortunately, Florence was able to train our nurses to look after the injured soldiers.

Friday 15th November 2024

In science this week Crab Class have been learning about the 7 life processes, using the mnemonic 'Mrs Gren' to help remember them. They then went outside to find things that were alive, once alive and never alive.

Friday 8th November 2024

Crab Class have enjoyed learning about the gunpowder plot this week. In one of our English lessons we completed a role play activity and acted out some of the events.

Friday 25th October 2024

Crab Class enjoyed performing poetry this week and in RE lessons we explored a range of Islamic artefacts. 

Friday 18th October 2024

Crab Class enjoyed completing a colour match hunt on their trip to the library gardens this week.

Friday 4th October 2024

This week Crab Class were testing materials to test for the best waterproof coat.

Friday 27th September 2024

Interviewing characters from the book 'The Queen's Handbag' in English, partitioning in Maths and testing materials for their stretchiness in science- it's been a busy week! 

Friday 20th September 2024

Crab Class enjoyed refining their PE skills this week and practised rolling and aiming balls at targets.

Friday 13th September 2024

Crab Class had a brilliant morning at the beach this week as an introduction to our topic focusing on our local area.