CHINESE NEW YEAR – Reception, Year 1 & Year 2
For two consecutive afternoons, children in Reception, Year 1 and 2 have worked together to learn about Chinese New Year. They worked collaboratively to make a spectacular Chinese New Year dragon which you will find in the school hall. They drew their own colourful Chinese dragons using pastels. They also made folded paper dragons and lucky money bags. We sang a Chinese New Year song and listened to the story of the Chinese New Year. There was a race across the river and the Chinese calendar was formed by the order in which the animals got across the river. This year it is the Year of the Rat. KUNG HEI FAT CHOI! (which means ‘Happy New Year’ in Chinese)
January 2020
Welcome back to the first term of a new decade!
A drone has crashed on our secret island! We are worried about the safety of our creatures and that we might be discovered and so we are writing stories full of mystery in order to scare people away. This is what we wrote together…..
W/c 13th January 2020
Last week we had a lovely visitor called Helen who came all the way from Cork in Ireland. She was interested to see how we do our Mantle work and visited all our classrooms. In the afternoon she helped us to act out a famous Irish story called “The Children of Lir”.
W/c 20th January 2020
Natural History Scientists have been working hard to help our dinosaurs to remain undiscovered. The consequences for our creatures could be catastrophic if people find us! We have written mysterious stories in an attempt to scare off the sailors who were spotted close to the island. The crashed drone has been reprogrammed with ‘fake’ island pictures. Now we are thinking about how we are going to get to the other nearby island to “plant” the drone? How much longer would we be staying on the island? We are starting to miss our families and friends so watch out for the postman! How are we going to leave unseen? One scientist remembered the cave behind the waterfall. Could this be the way out?!
W/c 27th January 2020
The Natural History Scientists have discovered enough scuba diving equipment for all the scientists on the island. What could it be used for? Who left it there? Is it there to help us get off the island undiscovered? One scientist has found an underground lake behind the waterfall and thinks we should investigate it further. Along with exploring the island and its mysteries further, we have started to record our daily routines on the island. This is so that we know where everyone is at any given time and also to see that we are doing our jobs effectively.
We have scared off the sailors with some scary stories of the island. I don’t think they’ll ever come back again!
The dinosaurs are safe and well now and we know that we will soon have to leave the island. We are really missing our families so have written letters home to them explaining that we are okay and that we will be home soon. We have been sharing our memories of our times on the island. It has been quite an adventure!
Today we have been wondering how we were actually going to leave the island undetected. Is there a tunnel under the sea? Should we fix the broken plane? Could we build a boat of our own? Could we build rafts?
SHIP’S LOG
Monday 2nd March 2020