Today the children in 2L completed their first draft of their catapult designs. The children worked hard and had a great first try. I canāt wait to see how their designs progress.
Mrs Lewis
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Expert Engineers
Today as part of our expedition, āRags to Riches: What lies Within the Castle Walls?ā, the children in KS1 enjoyed meeting our expert Mr Mitchell who taught the children about levers. We have been learning about how castles were defended and attacked and our expert showed the children how to make catapults. The children had great fun launching their payload of pom-poms!
Thank you for coming in to help us Mr Mitchell!
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Athletics Tournament
Asking questions about the past.
2P have been using evidence to be detectives about the past. We looked at paintings of different roles that existed during times that castles were lived in. We looked for clues as to the clothes that were being worn and the objects being held. We used this to help us work out some of the key differences between rich and poor people at these times.
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Our visit to Sandall Beat Woods
Year 2 had a brilliant day learning more about castles in Sandall Beat Woods. We started our day with campfire cooking where we made vegetable soup and flatbreads. The children absolutely loved the soup and some even went back for thirds! We enjoyed toasting apple slices in cinnamon sugar and then we made sāmores. We were already quite full by the lunchtime.
In the afternoon we made our own armour out of milk bottles, built a fort and had a flour bomb battle before we set off back to school.
We had a great day in the woods learning about defending castles and cooking in a castle but weāre all very tired tonight!
Mrs Lewis
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Team building in Crew
Boggledybook Children’s Book Fair
We look forward to welcoming Boggledybook Children’s Book shop into school next Thursday. A great opportunity to buy great value children’s books at Ā£1, Ā£2 and Ā£3. Children can bring money into school and will visit the book shop throughout the day.
Mrs Graves
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Fieldwork explorers
2P had a fabulous time on our fieldwork visit to Sandall Beat Woods. We learnt about the food that poor and rich people would have eaten in Medieval times and how food was cooked over open fires. We made some Peasant food. We used the vegetables that would have been available at the time to make a simple vegetable soup. The children were really surprised at how tasty it was – well, most of them! We then made our own piece of flat bread, which was cooked in the clay oven. Finally, we did our own cooking over the fire to make caramelised apples and smores. We then constructed a simple castle structure and tested our security with a flour bomb attack. We just about got away unscathed! We practised our soldier skills and then had a flour bomb fight to see if we could beat our opposition. It was a fabulous visit and we are now much more knowledgeable about different roles in a castle.
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Last day for ordering your Childs Christmas cards
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Re-arranged Trip Details for 1CR and 2L
Dear Parents/Carers,
Firstly, apologies for the late cancellation of the trip last week and thank you for your understanding.
We are pleased to confirm that the trip has been rearranged for Tuesday 12th November 2024, for children in 1CR and 2L.
The fieldwork will include a walk to Sandall Beat Wood. The day will be spent in the activity centre doing different activities such as castle building and maybe even some campfire cooking!
The children will leave school at 9am and return to school by 3pm. Your child will need a packed lunch. If children previously ordered a packed lunch this will be arranged.
Children are to wear school uniform for this trip with comfortable, appropriate footwear for walking in woodland. Please ensure your child brings an appropriate waterproof jacket in case of extreme weather during the walk.
To help with finances at this time of year, the full cost of the trip will be covered by school. Therefore, there will be no charge for this trip.
Additionally, if you had kindly agreed to join the visit to support the staff and children, please could you confirm that this is still the case with the class teachers.
Mr Pickering (1CR) and Mrs Lewis (2L) will be leading the trip on this day.
Thank you once again for your support and understanding.
Mr Longley