In Denmark class today we had a special Easter egg hunt to practise the maths we have been learning this term. The children had to find maths questions hidden in eggs around the field, solve the problems and match to the answers. The Year 1 children focused on addition and subtraction whilst the Year 2 children answered multiplication questions. 

Despite hunting high and low we couldn’t find the last egg anywhere and we were left with an answer without a question! This gave us a great opportunity to extend our thinking and come up with our own question. The children were given the answer 6 and had to think of their own maths question that would match to this answer. The children really impressed us with their work and came up with a huge range of maths questions involving addition, subtraction and multiplication that had the answer 6. Well done Denmark Class!

In our RE lessons in Denmark class we have been learning about the Easter story and what the cross means to Christians. The children have done some fantastic thinking and talking, reflecting on what is important to Christians at Easter time. We learnt about traditional and modern symbols of Easter and to conclude our learning we baked our own version of simnel cakes. The children decorated their cakes with 11 balls of icing and were able to describe how this represented 11 disciples. The children linked this to the Easter story and could explain why only 11 of the 12 disciples were represented.

We had the absolute pleasure of inviting Amelia Bowman, a local printmaker, into our class. 

Amelia Bowman is a Norfolk-based artist printmaker who creates intaglio collagraph prints and hand-drawn, digitally coloured pattern designs.

She demonstrated how she completes her pieces of art using a print plate, brown ink and colourful paper!  She used a pasta machine to fuse the art onto paper which in turn, created her art piece!  

The children then had a go at creating their own stamps using craft foam, super sticky paper, sand and ink.  They created flowers and printed them onto card to create a spring card to send home.  

The workshop was so inspirational and really helped to bring our CUSP art lesson alive!

This week we had a very special visitor!  We were very lucky to welcome a student teacher into our class who is originally from Africa.  Mrs Hindle grew up in Kenya and is from the same tribe as Akeyo, the main character from the story we have been learning about in English – Handa’s Surprise!

We learnt about what the villages are like in Kenya and compared this to the bigger towns and cities.  We learnt about homes and how having a straw roof helps t0 keep the houses cooler in the hot weather.  We used our geography knowledge to find Africa on the map and discovered that Kenya is near the equator, and this is the reason why it is so hot there. 

We got to handle special objects such as wooden sculptures, and we saw some lovely jewellery made from wire and beads.  We also got to handle some traditional clothing, and we got to try it on too!

We finished the session learning how to say hello and goodbye in Swahili and we sang a song in two different languages!

It was an amazing experience that really brought our story to life!  Thank you Mrs Hindle.

This half term in PE we have been focusing on bat and ball skills. The children have practised balancing a bean bag or ball on a tennis racket and then hitting it upwards and forwards. They then moved onto cricket bats and learnt how to control and hit a ball using a bat. They practised throwing the ball to each other and stopping or hitting it using a racket or bat. We have continued to work on our strength and balance with OT exercises and yoga.