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• Friday 22 September 2023 Settling in The children continue to learn more routines and are listening well to instructions.
• Tuesday 19 September 2023 Welcome back! We have had a great start to the year in Kingfishers. We drew and painted our class bird the Kingfisher and the results are stunning!
• Friday 15 September 2023 A great start! Welcome to Year 2.
• Monday 17 July 2023 Samba concert! This week the children performed to parents to showcase some of the skills they learnt during their samba sessions, and they did fantastically! We are all so proud of their commitment and determination. Even though they were nervous, they did a great job! They have learnt so much over the last 8 sessions and been on a real journey. Well done everyone!
• Friday 14 July 2023 Sports Success! We continued with our guide books this week. The children are really enjoying making these. We discussed words we may use and how we may design it during carpet time and then they completed the page independently. This will be their last piece of independent english writing this year.
• Friday 7 July 2023 Chatty Children! We have been writing our guide books about Sturminster Marshall based on our story 'A Walk in London.' The children are hoping they can be sold in Nisa or Spar to help tourists when they come to the village! More problem solving in maths and using research methods in geography to help find out more about Poole Harbour.
• Friday 30 June 2023 A happy week! The week began with english and maths, where the children revised their previous learning. Problem solving has proved to be tricky in maths so we will be continuing with this for the next few weeks.
• Friday 23 June 2023 Disco dancers! The children are very excited today as most of them are going to the school disco later.
• Tuesday 20 June 2023 In the samba groove! We had samba last Friday and this Monday, and you can tell the children are really improving!
• Friday 16 June 2023 Hot, hot, hot! It has been a hot week and despite the children suffering from tiredness and hayfever they have soldiered on!
• Thursday 15 June 2023 Carey Camp This week the year 4s have spent the first part of the week at the Outdoor Education Camp in Wareham and they had loads of fun doing archery, low ropes, building dens and just playing together! The children had a campfire, hot chocolate and had to wash up their plates and cutlery and clean their tents for an inspection at the end of their stay!
• Friday 9 June 2023 9th June Welcome back and I hope you all had a relaxing and fun-filled half term break!
• Friday 9 June 2023 Fun in the sun! This week we have completed our independent piece of writing and started learning about 'time' in maths.
• Friday 26 May 2023 The last week! We started with a couple more quizzes and continued learning about 3D shapes in maths. We made a cube and there are a few treats in the cube to say 'Well done for trying your best'. In english we began to plan a fantasy story which we will finish after half term. We made a 'big' sculpture in art and tried hard to work collaboratively. I was impressed with the children's knowledge of TGFOL and TGFOD. They have obviously really enjoyed this topic.
• Tuesday 23 May 2023 23rd May We have finished and summarised Shackleton's Journey to the Antarctic and are just about to start writing our newspaper article on it. The children have all been shocked at the 2 year journey of this perilous expedition and amazed that they all survived!
• Friday 12 May 2023 Busy, busy, busy! Every week seems to go quicker and quicker! Another bank holiday Monday but in the four days we managed to create a sculpture in our forest school area in the style of Andy Goldsworthy. Your child should be able to tell you some facts about him.
• Saturday 6 May 2023 Fit for a King! Last week we had fun practising maypole dancing and this week it was the excitement of the King's Coronation which ended the week. The children had a lovely Coronation tea party (fit for a King!) and sang a beautiful song which some of the older children helped to create.
• Friday 5 May 2023 King's Coronation Another busy week in the Kingfisher classroom.
• Tuesday 25 April 2023 Samba! Year 3 and 4 have started their Samba lessons and all the children had a great time trying all the different drums and percussion instruments. They each were able to have a go on one or two different instruments and took part in call and response activities just to get a feel for all the different types of drums and what they sounded like. I am very much looking forward to watching them grow with confidence through the 10 week programme for their performance at the end.
• Friday 21 April 2023 First week back! We started a new story this week which involved the children predicting what 'Grandpa' did before he passed away by clues and objects left in his memory box. Fractions began in maths; so far we have learnt 1/2 and 1/4 of objects and numbers. History has been great fun; Year 3 (and some Year 2) have enjoyed telling us what they know about The Great Fire of London before we find out more about The Great Fire of Dorchester next week. We made 3D natural sculptures in art and learnt about securing the models so parts do not fall off. The children loved learning their maypole dance and we would like to thank the school society for all their help with this.
• Thursday 30 March 2023 Easter Fun! Easter fun included making easter nests, cards and an easter pouch as well as decorating an egg and creating an easter bonnet. Singing easter songs in the hall today was a treat to listen to. The children have enjoyed being off timetable and are excited about the easter egg hunt after school.
• Monday 27 March 2023 27/03/23 This week we have had lots of creative Easter and Textiles fun!
• Thursday 23 March 2023 20/02/23 The Selfish Giant
• Saturday 18 March 2023 Revision week. Decorating biscuits and other fun!
• Friday 10 March 2023 Sensational stories! Fantastic Writing!
• Friday 3 March 2023 World Book Day World Book Day fun.
• Friday 24 February 2023 Here we go again!
• Friday 10 February 2023 The Final Week! Every week is so busy and yet the children continue to work hard and show enthusiasm most of the time!
• Thursday 2 February 2023 Torches The children have worked so hard to make their torches using an electric circuit and a plastic water bottle as the body. I am very proud of them. Well done Kingfishers!
• Saturday 28 January 2023 Fun around the fire! The children learnt about more suffixes this week in english (er and est) and continued with making different amounts of money in maths. Jackson Pollock was an artist who used different shades to create a 'mood' painting. The children enjoyed learning about different techniques and ideas in art.

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