It has been wonderful to welcome everyone back this week. Our new big question is ‘Is our local area bee-friendly?’ There are lots of lovely ideas in our home learning leaflet for you to explore this topic further. In geography, we thought about how to locate our school on our map and its place in …
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Shire Hall
Meadow 2 had a wonderful time at Shire Hall. We found out about the Great Fire of Dorchester, how it started and also how it was put out. We enjoyed seeing the building where the fire started, it used to be a candle maker’s shop. Candles were made of tallow (animal fat), reeds or beeswax …
Our week 15.03.24
This week, we have continued to enjoy all our learning about the Great Fire of London. We looked at lots of different sources of evidence about the fire and considered what each one told us. If you’d like to explore these more, have a look at this website: https://www.fireoflondon.org.uk/browse-the-collection/. We have begun to learn about …
World Book Day
It was great to see so many fantastic costumes for our Vocabulary Parade, well done Meadow 2!
Big Plastic Count
We would like you and your child to take part in the Big Plastic Count 2024 from Monday 11th in the morning to Sunday 17th March in the evening. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0nQHO7Mw-k In 2022, nearly 250,000 people from schools, households and communities across the country made The Big Plastic Count the biggest ever investigation into UK household plastic waste. …
Our week 1.03.24
In PE this week, the children enjoyed using skipping ropes to play different skipping games. We will continue with these games and learning to skip next week. The children have enjoyed thinking about how London would have been in the past, compared with how London is now. They agreed that both London in the past …
Our week 23.02.24
We hope that you all had a lovely half term break. In maths, we have started to look at division by sharing and division by grouping. We will be focusing on this over the next couple of weeks so practising times tables at home will really help with this. Please see earlier blog posts for …
Number Day
We had great fun playing maths games for number day – this one was a great hit in Meadow 2: https://www.timestables.co.uk/times-table-duck.html
Our week: 9.2.24
Thank you to everyone that came to ‘Stay and Multiply’. The children really enjoyed sharing the multiplication games with you. There are lots of ways to make times table learning fun and ‘sticky’. We played a range of games including: multiplication bingo, a multiplication muddle board game, times table wheels and also looked and commutativity …
Safer Internet Day
Today, is National Safer Internet Day. The children have spent time discussing how to stay safe online. The main focus of our learning has been the importance of talking to a trusted grown-up if the children come across anything they don’t like or are unsure of online. Ask your child at home about what they can remember about our discussion and …