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Eagles

Welcome to Eagles Class (Year 2)

Astor Dance Performance

Today twenty children from James’ Dance Club went to Astor School in Dover to participate in a multi school dance festival. Every one of our girls performed confidently with great stage presence. Thank you to all the parents for providing costumes and for offering help with transport. The children behaved extremely well and were a credit to the school. They should all be very proud of themselves. Thanks James for all your hard work.

WBD Hat Competition

Last week, to celebrate World Book Day, sixty of our children took part in our Hat Competition. It was wonderful to see how much care, time and creativity had gone into each and every hat. The entries showed fantastic effort from the children, with each one designing a unique hat inspired by a favourite story or book character. Today we announced the winners and took time during our celebration worship to recognise and celebrate every single hat. The display was truly breath-

Book Day Costumes

A big thank you to everyone who provided costumes and props for your children on World Book Day.

World Book Day in KS1 and Ducks

Take a look at all our fantastic costumes!!

Reading Escape Room

On World Book Day we were so lucky to take part in a Reading Escape Room! Year 3, 4, 5 and 6 pupils had to escape Crow Castle by working in teams and taking a journey through the rooms via the magic of books. From MacBeth to Charles Dickens, Frankenstein and Sherlock Holmes, the children had to turn detective and search for clues. They had to read, infer, comprehend, spell, scan, skim and riddle their way to freedom, or face the Crow Queen and be trapped in Crow Castle. Duck

Boogie on down to better health!

We started our assembly with a quiet check-in, thinking about how we were feeling. Lots of us were a little tired as it is our first week back after half-term...mostly the teachers! As we chatted, the hall felt calm and still. So then, it was time to wake up and shake up! The music started, our bodies began moving, and soon we were dancing our hearts out, with some brilliant cheerleaders leading the way at the front. After all that jumping, dancing, and smiling, we checked in

Year 2 Victorian Day

Thank you parents for the AMAZING costumes and accessories! We had lots of fun today learning all about Victorian school rules before practising our handwriting in the Victorian style, both on paper and on slate with chalk. We drew and played hopscotch, a Victorian playground game still enjoyed today, and sampled some delicious Victorian sponge cake - named after Queen Victoria of course!

Year 2 Victorian Workshop at Folkestone Museum

We are all cracking people!

Do you like eggs for breakfast, or maybe for lunch or dinner? Well in PSHE Year 2's whole lesson was about...you guessed it...eggs! Together, we had the chance to look at real life eggs, we observed their different colour, the speckles on some and not others and the different sizes of our eggs. After this, came the exciting part, we got to crack our eggs into bowls. We had to work as a team so that we didn't get any on the floor (Shame Mrs Semple wasn't as careful!) We then p

The Boss will see you now...

Today in PSHE Year 2 we’re dreaming big! We began our lesson by thinking about “dreams for our future” and goals that we hope to achieve. We all shared our ideas and watched a video about job roles to inspire and broaden our horizons. After this, we took park in a drama session where we acted out job interviews, and wow, were some of our future bosses tough! To finish our lesson, we thought about the word “aspire” and what this means in relation to our future dreams. Well do

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Dear Parents / Carers

Welcome to Term 4! We hope you are all well and enjoyed the short break. This term our topic is a geography topic… The UK: What kind of place is it?

English:
Our English lessons continue to be taught using the Talk for Writing method where we learn a text with actions, using this model text to inform our own independent writing. This term we will be looking at writing a non-fiction piece. As usual, we will practise accurately demarcating a sentence using different punctuation and develop our use of adjectives and adverbs to make our work more descriptive.

Maths:

Maths continue to be taught following the White Rose scheme of work. This term we will be learning about multiplication and division and different types of measurement including money, length and height. Through games, we will also practising our mental arithmetic skills and times tables.

Science:
Science will continue to be taught by Mrs Price on Tuesday afternoons. This term, we will be looking at ‘Food Chains’. We will start by looking at how different animals get their food followed by an introduction to food chains. We will then learn about roles within food chains then compare different ones.

Geography:
This term we will be learning about the UK and answering our big question... What kind of place is it? We will be looking at maps, atlases and photographs to learn about the countries and surrounding seas, the capital cities then look at different geographical features in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Art / DT:
The children will continue to have art lessons taught by Miss Hayward on Fridays. This term they will be taught about printing and surface textures before creating some ‘expressive paintings’.

PE:
This term we will focus on team building. Children continue to have lessons with their specialist PE teacher every Friday where they will be learning and practising their gymnastic skills. PE will take place on a Wednesday and a Friday. Please ensure your child has their full PE kit in school.

Computing:
This term teaching will continue to be by Mr O on Fridays. This term children will learn about coding.

RE:
This term our R.E unit is Christianity – Salvation. We will learn about why Easter matters to Christians.

PE is on Wednesday and Friday. Please can children come into school wearing their P.E kits on Fridays only.
Please read with your child as much as possible. Writing in their reading record books is very helpful. If books are put in the book basket in the morning and they have been read at home, they will be changed that day. We remind children daily but reminders from home will also help as some children do forget!
Please send your child into school with their full school uniform each day. Please ensure it is all clearly labelled.
Please remember to bring a water bottle each day and remind your child to bring it home again at the end of each day (we do this at school of course but extra reminders are always helpful!)

Thank you in advance for your support this term. If you have any questions or queries, please do not hesitate to ask.

Mrs Honzik