Class 2
Welcome to Class 2
In the morning, year 1 are taught by Mrs Raynes and year 2 are taught by Mrs Milward.
In the afternoon they are taught together by Mrs Raynes (Mon - Forest School) and Mrs Milward (Tues-Fri).
We have support from our fantastic teaching assistants Mrs Crumpton, Ms Brown and Miss Greening.
The year 1 classroom has lots of continous provision for the children to learn through play. We have lots of areas such as construction, role play, computers and the reading area.
The year 2 classroom is in the IT room and is set up for more formal learning.
Fire, Fire!
This half term, our topic is ‘Fire, Fire’, where children will be learning about the Great Fire of London and discovering the life and diary of Samuel Pepys. We are very much looking forward to our visit to Aston Hall, which will enrich and support our learning.
In art, pupils will explore the work of Samuel Rolle and create their own charcoal artwork inspired by his style. Our design and technology lessons will focus on building Tudor houses, as children investigate how to make structures stronger and more stable. We look forward to sharing our learning with you over the coming weeks.
Our Tudor houses
We have really enjoyed learning all about the Great Fire of London and as part of our topic sharing we made our own Tudor houses. In DT, we looked at different joining techniques to make joins stable and explored the features of a Tudor house. Year 1 had the challenge of attaching a roof, Year 2 not only had to attach a roof but also add a jetty. The children have done a fantastic job, their houses look amazing!
Artwork
We have been exploring the work of Samuel Rolle and have developed our skills of using charcoal and oil pastel. We applied this skill to produce a mixed- media piece of artwork inspired by Samuel Rolle. We have also developed our understanding of pencil grades to create light and dark tones and have shown this thorugh our sketches of Tudor houses.
Diwali Pots
We made beautiful diva lamps as part of our Art learning, using coils to shape the clay.
Topic Sharing
We had a fantastic afternoon showing our parents, grandparents and other adults around our 'Enhanted Wood' at Forest School. We had a challenge to use our map reading skills that we have learnt during our topic.
Trip to Puzzlewood
The children in class 2 had a wonderful trip to Puzzlewood on Wednesday, as part our 'Enhanted Wood' topic and our Science topic of 'Animals'. We enjoyed helping give the animals their breakfast, feeding goats, chickens, ducks, ponies and donkeys. We then explored the magical woodland: climbing up steps, balancing on planks and walking along the twisting paths. We also had great fun in their maze, hunting for different animals pictures.
The Enhanted Wood
Our topic term is called ‘The Enchanted Wood’. During the topic we will be learning about physical features of Geography such as forests, mountains, valleys and rivers. In History, we will look at how Eckington has changed over time and our own family trees. If you have any old photos of the school or village that you would like to share, please get in touch. If you or a grandparent used to go to the school we would love to hear from you. We are excited to be going on a trip to Puzzle Wood soon, to enhance our learning.