Year 2 have had an interesting pumpkin week at school. We have looked at how a pumpkin grows, investigated the number of seeds in a pumpkin, made pumpkin pastel pictures and hanging pumpkins. After reading Winnie’s Amazing Pumpkin, we decided to make pumpkin pie too!
As part of our History topic, we had two special visitors in Year 1 to answer our questions about the past. The children were amazed to find that there were no iPads or computers in schools and that there was no planning time!
In Year 1 we are learning about how humans change as they grow.
We had a fantastic afternoon looking at how we have changed!
To follow on from our school harvest festival, the children in Year 2 explored the Jewish Sukkot festival and we made some Challah bread that is eaten during Sukkot.
It was delicious.
What brilliant bakers we are!
Year 2 have been reading ‘The Day the Crayons Quit’ and ‘The Day the Crayons Came back’. We have loved these stories and created some wonderful work from it. We have made our own rainbow crayons, wrote letters and postcards, created 3D crayons and melted crayons to create colourful art.
Yesterday we found a lost owl in Year One! Our special visitor has been telling us all about her three owl babies: Sarah, Percy and Bill. We asked Mammy Owl lots of questions to find out who she is and where she is from and she then told us her special story ‘Owl Babies’. Mammy Owl then split us into groups to retell the story by ourselves.
We have some brilliant story tellers in Year One!
We have had a brilliant week learning about our achievements in Year One. For homework, the children were asked to bring something into school that they are proud of, so that they could share it with the rest of the class.
We have lots of talented children in Year One!
As part of our ‘This is Me’ topic, Year One have had lots of fun learning about the human body!
We gathered together today to celebrate all of our children at Marsden and to present some special awards. Below are those children who were selected for their Positive Behaviour, Progress or Pride and Presentation.
Everyone at Marsden are so proud of them:
Pride and Presentation:
Nursery: Ellie and Poppy
Reception: Matthew
Year One: Jayden
Year Two: Ethan
Year Three: Harry
Year Four: Harvey
Year Five: Alistair
Year Six: Charlie
Positive Behaviour:
Nursery: Tom and Eleanor
Reception: Aimee
Year One: Dakota
Year Two: Grace
Year Three: Tamzin
Year Four: Amelia
Year Five: Georgie
Year Six: Poppy
Progress:
Nursery: Harriet, Sonny and Rhys
Reception: Alyssa
Year One: James
Year Two: Jace
Year Three Cole
Yea Four: Aiden
Year Five: Alania
Year Six: Phoebe
PC Wilkinson joined us to present the Citizenship award.
The nominees were:
Nursery: Millie
Reception: Georgie
Year One: Connie
Year Two: Jace
Year Three Maisie-Rae
Yea Four: Lyra
Year Five: Lucie
Year Six: Faith
Lucie was chosen as the winner as she has raised over £400 for charity by cutting her hair to donate to children undergoing cancer treatments. Well done!
We also celebrated the special talents of our engineering team, footballers, bikeability and the wonderful attendance from our whole school this year.
WELL DONE
Year 2 have made super puppets in class and used these to perform their own puppet shows to their peers. They had great fun, and we have talented story tellers and puppeteers in the class!
