As well as launching our new projects we have also been learning all about the festival of Harvest.

We have been lucky enough to have two assemblies to help us learn more about this.

Emma from St. Peters Church came to visit us and shared lots of lovely information all about Harvest. The two key words we had to focus on were: celebrate and share.

Mr and Mrs Baker (Miss Dexter's Grandparents) joined the KS1 children for a Zoom and spoke to us about the importance of Harvest in the Christian Faith. We had to guess the different seeds and vegetables (some of them were really tricky!), learn about why seasons are so important for our farmers and even learnt a song with some actions.

On Thursday the Year 2 children participated in a virtual author visit. Dara McAnulty is a naturalist, conservationist and author who incredibly is only 17 years old! He was talking about his book: Wild Child. It is an amazing book which teaches us how to look after our natural world and the living things to look out for. It is going to really help us in our project Super-Duper Heroes, when we begin to think about how we can be real life superheroes to look after our planet! We were also able to watch a fascinating video about how the illustrations were made for the book too!

This week our Bumblebees, Caterpillars and Dragonflies have began their project 'All about Me!'

For their Brilliant Beginning they all disguised themselves using their choice of dressing up items ready for a real life 'Guess Who' game! The children also enjoyed trying to recognise their teachers who also joined in the fun.

They are very excited to be bringing home their first reading book to share at home today. They will also bring home their reading record and home learning journal. This contains information and passwords which can help to support learning at home.

Over the last couple of weeks we have ended our Establishment Phase and have had an exciting start to our new project Super-Duper Heroes!

To end our Establishment Phase, we performed our class raps to the Year 2 children and then had an amazing time learning how to use all of our new playground equipment, with the help of the Year 2 children. We were able to learn how to safely play with the parachute, skipping ropes, archery, quad shooter, trucks and our MUGA area on the playground.

We have had lots of fun thinking about superheroes this week as we begin our new project. We also became detectives as Evil Pea caused havoc in our school! Poor Supertato and the other veggies were in trouble and we had to investigate what had happened and how to solve the problem!

To end our Establishment Phase we have been working hard on thinking of games and activities to teach our Year 1 friends. We worked in teams to decide how we could be positive role models and teach the Year 1 children how to use our playground equipment in a safe and fun way. We displayed our Super-PoWeRs, showing passion, well-being and respect and were very patient and sensible. We were also fabulous rap stars and our VIPs (Mrs Indge and Mr Wallace) were blown away by our amazing class raps!

We have been swooping into our Super-Duper Heroes project thinking all about what superheroes mean to us and how we can use this to develop our writing. We have been writing our own poems this week, thinking about the descriptive language we could use to describe things we might find in a superhero's pocket. We have also been thinking about how important our bodies are, drawing around ourselves and labeling each part of our body both inside and out!