In our English lessons recently we have been working on the lovely book Building Boy, by Ross Montgomery and David Litchfield. We have been sentence stacking, where we work together to generate and discuss different words and see how they fit … Continued
In our maths lessons recently we have started looking at calculating, including addition and subtraction. This builds on the work that the children did in year 1. I am really keen on using resources to help children build their fundamental … Continued
In the children’s art lessons with Mrs Bayliss, Cole class have been working on using pencil to create large-scale wave pictures, as part of our topic work based around the sea and islands. The children have experimented with using different … Continued
We love forest school! At Appleton Primary we believe that forest school is a vital part of our curriculum, and every child in the school accesses forest school at some point during the year. We are very lucky to have … Continued
We have been celebrating National Coding Week by talking about what coding is and why it is important. Mrs Barker told the class about the first time that she saw a computer (a BBC model B that her dad had … Continued
Mrs Barker has been working hard as part of her extra chartered teacher qualification on looking at how resources can be used in maths lessons. Year 2 are already learning about how using resources can help them with the mathematical … Continued
We were thrilled to unveil our new library to the children on Monday morning. Each class visited the library and had a few minutes to explore the new layout and exciting new additions. We would like to say an enormous … Continued
Today Year 2 travelled to the Sir Roger Bannister running track at Iffley Road, which was where Sir Roger famously broke the four-minute-mile. We were met by Tony and Emma, two coaches from headington Road Runners, who put us all … Continued
Back in November we were given the opportunity to run an Antarctic flag design competition as part of the Antarctica Day 2017 celebrations. The winning design from each class was sent with a real scientist to Antarctica, where they were … Continued
This week we have done lots of practical maths around capacity/volume and temperature. We have solved problems about volume, used water to explore the capacity of different containers and used a range of different thermometers to measure temperatures both inside and … Continued