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Crab Class Weekly News

Friday 26th April 2024 

It's been a busy week in Crab Class. We've written alternative versions of Little Red Riding Hood, observed plants and bulbs in science and even did a bit of gardening in the Year 2 courtyard area.

Friday 19th April 2024

Crab Class enjoyed working collaboratively to create rainforest themed artwork as an introduction to our new topic, Kampong Ayer- the world's largest water village.

Friday 22nd March 2024

Crab Class enjoyed our Great Fire of London day this week and wrote some super diary entries in English.

Friday 8th March 2024

A toy shop came to Crab Class this week so it's a good job we've been learning about money! The children applied their money knowledge to select the right coins to pay for the items and our cashiers were super at checking they had been given the correct amount.

Friday 1st March 2024

Crab Class have enjoyed the start to our new topic about the Great Fire of London this week. They took part in some role play activities, imagining what it would have been like to live in London in 1666. 

Friday 9th February 2024

We were treated to a visit from Billy's Band this week and really enjoyed listening to their music and singing some songs. We also took part in performances of our own during our English lesson on performance poetry. 

Friday 2nd February 2024

Crab Class travelled back in time and met explorer Robert Falcon Scott this week. They learnt all about his expedition to Antarctica and how, unfortunately, he was beaten to the South Pole by Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen. In PE The children continued to practise shape making and balancing skills.

Friday 26th January 2024

Learning the 'science behind the penguin huddle' and consolidating our addition and subtraction skills are just some of the topics covered in Crab Class this week. 

Friday 19th January 2024

Learning in Crab Class this week has consisted of looking at Jewish artefacts in R.E and comparing Antarctica to the Arctic in science. We were surprised at how many differences we could find. 

Friday 12th January 2024

We have been immersing ourselves in all things penguin this week. We completed some penguin art activities and learnt a lot about Antarctica. Crab Class were surprised to learn that Antarctica is a desert.

Friday 8th December 2023

We've had a busy week of learning and Christmas performance rehearsals this week. We can't wait to perform to our families!

Friday 1st December 2023

Last week Crab Class received a letter from Florence Nightingale. She requested our advice so we got to work this week and wrote her some letters offering some ideas to improve the hospital conditions. In our PE/dance lesson this week we travelled to the circus and thought about how to portray the theme of circus through dance movements.

Friday 24th November 2023

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. We had a great day and Year 2 are looking forward to using this experience to help with other areas of their learning next week.

  Friday 17th November 2023

This week in Crab Class there was a mysterious disappearance of the class crayons. With a bit of detective work we deduced that the crayons were fed up with poor treatment and messy colouring. They left us a book of letters explaining their grievances, so we were able to reply and luckily we persuaded them to return. In science we were looking at micro habitats and went outside to find some in the school garden.

Friday 10th November 2023

It’s been a busy week of learning in Crab Class. We learnt about Diwali and the story of Rama and Sita in RE. In PE we started our new unit focussing on dance and thought about how garden creatures might move. Our current history topic is focussing on significant figures and we learnt about a range of brave and hardworking women.

Friday 3rd November 2023

In Crab Class this week we have been learning about ‘The Gunpowder Plot’ and took part in some role play. There are some fabulous actors in the class!

Friday 20th October 2023

Crab Class had a great time at Leigh Library Gardens this week. We carried out a ‘colour scavenger hunt’ and collected leaves and twigs for our year 2 bug hotel.

Friday 13th October 2023

We've had another busy week in Crab Class. In science we were testing what materials would make the best bridge. We discovered paper was not the best and plastic blocks or Lego would be the best!

Friday 6th October 2023

This week in Crab Class we wrote some seaside themed poetry, focussing on the senses, we investigated how to make paper waterproof in science and continued improving our map skills in our outdoor learning session with Mrs Brown.

Friday 29th September 2023

In Crab Class this week we were investigating waterproof materials, in order to find out the best material for a waterproof coat. We also practised using adjectives to describe nouns around the classroom and we went on a local walk as part of our geography (photos to follow next week).

Friday 22nd September 2023

Crab Class had a very exciting computing lesson this week, using the VR headsets to find out about islands, coasts and compared life in different geographical locations. In English we carried out some hot seating and met a few characters from the story 'The Queen's Handbag'. We then interviewed them to get their views on the events from the story.

Friday 15th September 2023

We’ve been learning about physical and human geographical features in geography, place value and number skills in maths and improving our target throwing in PE- it’s been a busy week in Crab Class!

Friday 8^th September 2023

Wow, what a fantastic first week of year 2 we have had! Crab Class have worked so hard, despite the incredibly hot weather, to work as a team, follow our class agreements and design and make marble mazes. During this activity they demonstrated brilliant teamwork skills and perseverance. In geography we learnt a song about the continents, and we created Picasso portraits in art. Well done to Crab Class for a 'crabulous', 'crabtastic' first week!