Baa Baa Black Sheep

 



On Wednesday Class One had two very special visitors to the classroom.

Jed's mum and dad brought their pet Hebridean sheep.

They raised the sheep from when they were first born because their mother couldn't look after them.

The children wanted to let everyone know about the visit on the blog so they all chose a picture and did some independent writing.

Jed - I looked after the lambs when they were little.

 

Before the visit we talked about how to make the classroom a safe place for the lambs so they didn't feel scared. We also discussed the best place to put them so they didn't make a mess.

Samuel - I was watching James feed the lambs. They were drinking milk from a bottle.

Sumayya - The lambs wanted to cuddle me.

Tabatha - Me and Maya and Kitty like the lambs. They were black.

Thomas - I held the lamb. It felt soft.

Tom - The lambs horns are hard.

Eva - Me and Oscar were stroking the lambs. They were soft.

James - We stroked the lambs.

Kitty - Me and Maya stroked the lambs. 

Charlie - We held the lambs. 

Leo - I like cuddling the lambs. 

Maya - The lambs feet were so cute and so hard.

Oscar - Jed's mum was feeding the lambs. The lambs were drinking milk.
Thank you to Jed and his family. We had a great time and even enjoyed writing about it.
We will be learning more about caring for animals next half-term.

Year 1 Yorkshire Adventure

We are at Swinsty Reservoir, hiking around.

Leeds Tennis Finals

Fabulous result! We came second across the whole of Leeds and have qualified for the West Yorkshire Finals later this term. Everyone played well, but the girls were exceptionally good, being unbeaten in all of their 8 matches each.

Meet the Penguins ~ Class 2

On Wednesday morning Class 2 walked down to Harewood Park to meet the penguins and to do a penguin workshop.

We had to concentrate to carefully cut out our penguin hats and colour them in neatly.

 

 

We saw the penguins basking in the sunshine. There were only 2 penguins out and about and the others were in their nests resting. We listened Peter who told us information about the penguins and we asked questions.

 

 

We wore our penguin hats as we walked around the bird garden. We were very lucky to have such lovely weather for our visit.

 

 

Maths Open Afternoon ~ Class 2

  The last week of the spring term was our creative maths week and on the Friday we had an open     afternoon to show parents some of the different ways we learn maths in our classroom.

 

We baked some buns with Mrs Reynolds using maths skills to measure and weigh the ingredients.

 

 

We decorated the buns using fractions. We used halves, quarters and thirds. We had to make sure that each section was equal. All the children decorated a fraction cake to take home.

 

 

Some parents took part in our multiplication challenge where they had to complete times tables with speed and accuracy to beat the timer.

 

 

The pressure was on as the children made the challenge more difficult for the parents by making the times tables harder and reducing the time on the timer.

 

We love doing times tables in class 2!

 

 

Some children were showing the parents how to play tens and units bingo.

 

 

 

These year 2 girls were using hundreds, tens and units.

 

 

Mrs Pears was finding out about odd and even numbers with Hugo.

 

 

In the hundred square challenge we used a blank hundred square and you had to work out where the numbers would go using your knowledge of counting in tens and ones. It needed a great deal of concentration.

 

 

Some of the parents went wrong but luckily the children in class 2 were there to guide them and get them back on track!

 

 

In the magic maths challenge you had to start by thinking of a number between 1 and 10 and then writing down a number of calculations and see what you noticed about the number you ended up with.

 

 

The secret was a clever trick using inverse operations that meant that you ended up with the same number you started with.

 

 

Some children were learning number doubles by playing a game with dice and counters.

 

 

We used numicon to help us work out any doubles we were unsure of.

 

 

If you got the double correct you were allowed to move on one space.

 

 

We played arrays bingo to help us match times tables sums to the correct "groups of" pictures.

 

 

 

Thank you to all the parents that attended our maths open afternoon. It was lovely to welcome to you all to our classroom and we hope you had a great time doing maths!

 

 

 

Tennis area finals (Liveblog)

Our Year 4 team are competing in the area tennis finals at Boston Spa School.

We WON!!!!!!!!! Well done!

Next stop , the Leeds Finals at the end of April.

Tennis competition

Brilliant performance by the whole team. Year 5s came third and the Y3 / Y4 team won, which takes them through to the Leeds finals in a couple of weeks.