Pippin Year 1 and 2
Welcome to Pippin Class.
2024-2025
Our topic this term is ‘What is it Like Here?’. In this topic the children will be learning key skills to explore maps. They will learn to locate features on aerial maps of our school and the local area. Before producing their own maps, the class will go on a walk around Bradfield village.
In science we will be looking at parts of the human body, investigating our senses and how we interact with the world around us.
Our focus in history is ‘How am I Making History?’. We will be looking at personal chronology and finding out about the past within living memory.
In art the children will be learning about sculpture and 3D art. We will be making three- dimensional shapes and structures using familiar materials.
In DT we will be exploring and learning what forms a balanced diet.
Welcome to Pippin class
PE and Outdoor learning.
Our PE day is on Friday.
Outdoor learning will take place one afternoon once a half term.
Please send children into school in their black tracksuit/black shorts and green or yellow PE top on these days. (weather appropriate). Wellies can be kept in school in the cloakroom stored in a named bag. Please ensure that earrings are removed unless your child can take them out. Remember that earrings need to be removed before PE sessions.
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Information and how to support your child's learning at home
Useful Websites
Pippin 2021-2022
Spring Term Topic: Bright Lights, Big City
This project teaches children about the physical and human characteristics of the United Kingdom, including a detailed exploration of the characteristics and features of the capital city, London.
In the Childhood project, your child will learn words and phrases related to the passage of time. They will explore artefacts to help them to understand childhood in the past and how childhood has changed over time. They will explore the six stages of life and explore timelines and family trees. Everyday life in the 1950s will be explored, including shopping, transport, family life and childhood. They will also learn about the significance of Queen Elizabeth II's coronation in 1953 by studying photographs and online sources. The children will use maps to explore how places have changed over time and highlight any similarities or differences between childhood today and childhood in the 1950s. At the end of the project, they will create knowledge organisers for children who are about to study the topic of childhood.
Oh, I do like to be beside the seaside. Do you? That’s good, because you’re about to become an expert beachcomber. Head to your nearest beach to look for interesting and unusual objects, using your senses to spot, sniff and seek them out. Have you seen the rock pools yet? We can take a peek into the cool water to learn about the weird and wonderful animals and plants in their microhabitats. Maybe we can kick back in a deckchair and do a little reading. What’s your favourite book about the seashore? Let's invent an amazing rock pool resident. What features will it need to survive happily in its watery habitat? Make a 3-D model of your plant or creature. Got your shorts and sunglasses on? Bucket and spade at the ready? Let’s get beachcombing.
Beach Day - Our Memorable Experience
Summer 1 Topic - Muck, Mess and Mixtures
Let’s get messy. Muck and mess are good. In fact, they're marvellous. Dive in and get your hands and feet all sticky and covered in paint. Play with liquids, squish some dough and check out the slushiest and mushiest foods. Pour, mix, stir, splat. How does it feel to get your hands covered in goo? Make a wobbly jelly and draw with wibbly clay. Write recipes, instructions, riddles and poems – there are loads of scrummy words to describe messy mixtures. Work with paint and other squelchy stuff to create a new gallery space. What will you make? How will you arrange it? How will the virtual gallery make you and your visitors feel? Don’t worry about the mess – it’ll always wash.
Artwork inspired by Mondrian
Exploring tint and shade
Artist Session - using natural materials to paint
Messy morning memorable experience
Spring 2 Topic - Scented Garden.
Tiptoe through the tulips as your senses discover the blooming foliage and enchanting fragrances of flowers and herbs. Round and round the mulberry bush we go, planting bulbs and seeds, and then watch them grow beneath sunshine and showers. Explore the astounding world of the scented garden, but be careful, there are some wild and dangerous plants out there that do astonishing things. Don't touch them. Use the marvellous properties of plants, flowers and herbs to make an exceptional gift for somebody special. Everything is coming up roses. Why not grow your own?
Information about Tapestry
A selection of Read Write Inc books for you to enjoy at home.
Spring 1 Topic - Towers, Tunnels and Turrets.
See the castle ahead? Get ready to invade its mighty walls. Shoot a projectile with an archer’s aim. Head across the drawbridge, over the moat and up to the top of the tower. Meet Rapunzel who lives in a tall, tall tower. Let’s build a brand new one. Whose is the tallest? Can you measure it? Then dig deep, deep down, making burrows and tunnels, just like the animals who live underground. What’s that sound? I hear little hooves going trip, trap, trip, trap, over the rickety bridge. Watch out for the angry troll underneath. He likes to gobble up little girls and boys. Make sure your bridge is sturdy enough to take our weight and get us safely to the other side. And finally, meet three little pigs who need your help to build a strong fortress. Inside its strong walls, they’ll be safe from the big, bad wolf. No huffing and puffing will blow your fortress down.
Curriculum
Christingle
Memorable experience - an afternoon tea party hosted by the Queen
Innovate - creation of a weather station
Looking for signs of seasonal change
Memorable experience - looking for signs of Autumn.
2019 - 2020
Summer 2 - Wriggle and Crawl
Wiggle and Crawl home learning ideas for week beginning 13th July
Wiggle and Crawl home learning ideas for week beginning 6th July
Wiggle and Crawl home learning ideas for week beginning 29th June
Wiggle and crawl home learning ideas week beginning 22nd June
Wiggle and crawl home learning ideas week beginning 15th June
Wiggle and crawl home learning ideas week beginning 8th June
Mrs Luck-Davies reads Farmer Duck by Martin Waddell
Mrs Luck-Davies reads I'm Not Sleepy by Jane Chapman
Mrs Luck-Davies reads The Mixed-up Chameleon by Eric Carle
Mrs Luck-Davies reads They All Saw a Cat by Brendan Wenzel
Weekly Challenge
Mrs Luck-Davies reads On Sudden Hill by Linda Sarah and Benji Davies
Mrs Luck-Davies reads The Big Wide-Mouthed Frog by Ana Martin Larranga
Mrs Luck-Davies reads I Want My Hat Back by Jon Klasson
Mrs Luck-Davies reads There's a Snake in my School by David Walliams
Mrs Luck-Davies reads Guess How Much I Love You by Sam McBratney
Weekly Challenge Time!
Mrs Luck-Davies sets an I spy challenge for you to do.
Mrs Luck-Davies reads Harry the Dirty Dog by Gene Zion
Mrs Luck-Davies reads One Spring Day by Nick Butterworth
Oi Frog!
Hairy Maclary
Listen to Mrs Quince read a story.
Here are a couple of links for you to use during the period that the school is closed. Most of the main activities for the children can be found on Purple Mash (login details are in the contact books).
Welcome to Pippin Class 2019 - 2020.
Summer 1 - Beat, Band, Boogie
These may provide you with some ideas of things you can do or create during the school closure.
Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum! Get ready to take to the high seas and set sail in search of treasure!
This half term, we’ll visit a harbour to find out about boats and ships of all shapes and sizes. We’ll write about our visit, read information books, investigate amazing sea rescues and write postcards and poetry influenced by the sea. Our science skills will help us to understand how boats float and we’ll design and make model ships using a variety of materials. We’ll study paintings of boats and draw detailed pictures of our own. Our map reading skills will help us to identify different seas and oceans, and we’ll learn about famous sea explorers. Stories of pirates will inspire us to make pirate flags, treasure maps and fact files. We’ll even find out how to talk and sing like a pirate!
At the end of the project, we’ll share our learning with you. We’ll hold a special assembly, set up a maritime museum in our classroom and perform stirring sea shanties. Shiver me timbers; it’s going to be good!
This half term, we’ll visit a harbour to find out about boats and ships of all shapes and sizes. We’ll write about our visit, read information books, investigate amazing sea rescues and write postcards and poetry influenced by the sea. Our science skills will help us to understand how boats float and we’ll design and make model ships using a variety of materials. We’ll study paintings of boats and draw detailed pictures of our own. Our map reading skills will help us to identify different seas and oceans, and we’ll learn about famous sea explorers. Stories of pirates will inspire us to make pirate flags, treasure maps and fact files. We’ll even find out how to talk and sing like a pirate!
At the end of the project, we’ll share our learning with you. We’ll hold a special assembly, set up a maritime museum in our classroom and perform stirring sea shanties. Shiver me timbers; it’s going to be good!
Trip to Harwich Lifeboat Station.
RE - exploring Sikhism - how children get their names.
The countdown has begun. Are you ready for blast off?
This half term, we’ll travel through space to learn about the Solar System. We’ll investigate an alien crash site, write an incident report and try to find the aliens who have landed. Where could they be? We’ll make models of the Solar System and design spaceships, space buggies and space-related toys. Books and photographs will help us to learn about the first lunar landing and the astronauts who venture into space. Floor robots will be programmed to move around an alien landscape, and we will compose space sounds and dances. We’ll also explore satellite images, investigate rockets and use ICT to communicate our ideas and present our work.
At the end of our project, we’ll share our learning in a variety of different ways. We’ll read our exciting science-fiction stories aloud, sing space-themed songs and create an exhibition of our space models. It will be out of this world!
Making and testing rockets
Making circuits
Moon Zoom memorable experience
Let’s put on our capes and discover our superpowers as we search for an answer to the question, ‘What is a superhero?’
This half term, we’ll describe our favourite superheroes, create fact files, read a range of comic books and write our own. Learning about real-life heroes from organisations such as the RNLI or Mountain Rescue and from the past, including Florence Nightingale, Elizabeth Fry and David Livingstone, will allow us to appreciate human bravery. As part of this project, we’ll explore our senses of smell, touch, taste, hearing and sight and investigate different foods. We’ll also test our superpowers by climbing, running, jumping and moving to music. There’ll be opportunities for us to create superhero works of art and to compose superhero soundtracks on digital instruments.
We’ll have plenty to share at the end of our project. We’ll design colourful posters to show how ‘superkids’ should behave around school and create an exciting, whole-class superhero performance.
This half term, we’ll describe our favourite superheroes, create fact files, read a range of comic books and write our own. Learning about real-life heroes from organisations such as the RNLI or Mountain Rescue and from the past, including Florence Nightingale, Elizabeth Fry and David Livingstone, will allow us to appreciate human bravery. As part of this project, we’ll explore our senses of smell, touch, taste, hearing and sight and investigate different foods. We’ll also test our superpowers by climbing, running, jumping and moving to music. There’ll be opportunities for us to create superhero works of art and to compose superhero soundtracks on digital instruments.
We’ll have plenty to share at the end of our project. We’ll design colourful posters to show how ‘superkids’ should behave around school and create an exciting, whole-class superhero performance.
Superhero innovate - Professor Slime
Making smoothies
Superheroes memorable experience.
This half term, we’re going to discover that animals come in all shapes and sizes! Meeting an animal expert will allow us to ask and answer questions, share information about the pets we have at home and write animal information booklets.
We’ll study animal artwork, draw detailed animal pictures to capture their special features and make collages, sculptures and prints. Famous animal fables will make us laugh, and we will have fun reading them aloud. We’ll spot similarities and differences between animals, look at different habitats around the world and investigate camouflage. Designing a zoo is even on the agenda!
At the end of our project, we’ll share our work with you! An exhibition of our amazing artwork and performances of animal songs, with musical accompaniment, will allow you to take a walk on the wild side with us.
We’ll study animal artwork, draw detailed animal pictures to capture their special features and make collages, sculptures and prints. Famous animal fables will make us laugh, and we will have fun reading them aloud. We’ll spot similarities and differences between animals, look at different habitats around the world and investigate camouflage. Designing a zoo is even on the agenda!
At the end of our project, we’ll share our work with you! An exhibition of our amazing artwork and performances of animal songs, with musical accompaniment, will allow you to take a walk on the wild side with us.
Diwali celebrations.
In RE we have been exploring Diwali. We have looked at the story of Rama and Sita as well as exploring what it means to be lucky and thinking of welcoming in the new year.
We have made diva lamps to help welcome visitors into our classroom.
Finally we held our own Diwali celebrations where we tried different Indian food, wore traditional clothes and made Diwali cards.
Paws, claws and whiskers express event.
Diwali celebrations
We welcomed Angus the cockerpoo to spend the afternoon with us on Monday.
We looked at everything he needs to keep him happy and healthy. He showed us his bed, food, car harness, his favourite toys and brushes.
We took him outside so that he could show us his tricks and how fast he is catching a ball.
Beach school.
Please find below the presentation for Pippin class 2019 - 2020.
Pippin Class 2018 - 2019.
Summer 2 - Beachcombers.
Pack up some sandwiches, pick up a fishing net and keep your eyes peeled because we’re off to the coast to go beachcombing!
This half term, we’ll visit a local beach to experience the sights, sounds and smells of the seashore and explore any rock pools to find living and non-living things. Bringing shells, pebbles and seaweed back to the classroom will help us to learn about a wide range of coastal plants and creatures. We’ll read a range of seaside stories and use the coast as a setting for our writing. Maps and film footage will help us to find out more about the coast and we’ll create a wide variety of artwork. We’ll use books and the internet to search for information about the seashore and use our knowledge to write our own non-fiction books.
At the end of the project, we’ll decide how we should look after the coastal environment and how the beach can be kept clean. We’ll use our ICT skills to create a final presentation including photographs, captions and sound files.
This half term, we’ll visit a local beach to experience the sights, sounds and smells of the seashore and explore any rock pools to find living and non-living things. Bringing shells, pebbles and seaweed back to the classroom will help us to learn about a wide range of coastal plants and creatures. We’ll read a range of seaside stories and use the coast as a setting for our writing. Maps and film footage will help us to find out more about the coast and we’ll create a wide variety of artwork. We’ll use books and the internet to search for information about the seashore and use our knowledge to write our own non-fiction books.
At the end of the project, we’ll decide how we should look after the coastal environment and how the beach can be kept clean. We’ll use our ICT skills to create a final presentation including photographs, captions and sound files.
Bright Lights, Big City.
Hop on board a big, red bus and head for England’s capital. Yes, that’s right, we’re on our way to London!
This half term, we’ll take tea with the Queen and visit Buckingham Palace online. Using maps and research, we’ll locate Buckingham Palace, understand compass directions, plan routes around London and learn about the countries of the United Kingdom. Our research will take us back in time to the Great Fire of London and to famous London landmarks, as well as giving us an understanding of what it’s like to live in a big city. We’ll write adventure stories, take a virtual trip to London Zoo and make souvenirs for tourists.
The Great Fire of London
Chicken visit
Great Fire of London - creating Pudding Lane.
Memorable experience - Queen's tea party.
Spring 2 - 'Muck, mess and mixtures'.
This half term, we’ll have a messy morning to investigate mixtures, from paint and toothpaste to jelly and shaving foam.
We’ll enjoy the story of George’s Marvellous Medicine and write recipes, leaflets, lists and stories of our own. We’ll use our science skills to explore everyday materials, investigate soap products and understand why mixtures freeze and melt.
We’ll taste a wide variety of foods, learn about healthy eating and follow recipes to make some yummy treats including pizza and ice cream! Our artwork will also rely on our mixing skills. We’ll use marbling inks to make unusual patterns, create food landscapes inspired by Carl Warner, paint with ice cubes, model clay into exciting shapes and use a variety of materials to make mixed media collages.
At the end of our project, we’ll turn our classroom into a gallery and invite you to view our exhibition. We’ll arrange images from the project into a PowerPoint presentation and demonstrate our messy science investigations. We’ll also design and create our very own mud kitchen to play in. Yuck!
Pictures inspired by Leonid Afremov
In English we have been following recipes to make things from Roald Dahl's Revolting Recipe book.
We made;
The Enormous Crocodile,
Toffee-apple Trees,
Mr. Twit's Beard Food,
Bruce Bogtrotter's Cake and
Snozzcumbers.
Roald Dahl's revolting recipes
Our memorable experience
Our Spring 1 topic was Rio de Vida.
We would like to thank you for coming to our carnival to listen to us sing and watch us dance. We hope you all enjoyed the Brazilian sweets we made as well as looking through all of our work.
Maths - creating 3D shapes.
Design and Technology - creating flags using the colours on the Brazilian flag.
We held a colourful carnival day on Monday. We painted pictures to Samba music, wrote words to describe how the music made us feel, made colourful masks and decorated the classroom with rainbow bunting. We have also started to learn a Samba routine.
Colourful carnival day.
RE - making Hanukkiah
Solving problems using money
Scented Garden - memorable experience.
Dinosaur planet - memorable experience.
Dinosaur planet learning journey.
Creative homework
Class presentation.
Information
- Our class PE sessions are on a Tuesday (invasion games) and a Thursday (Dance). Please ensure that your child has a PE kit in school at all times and that earrings are either removed before school or that your child can take them out independently.
- Our class library session is on a Wednesday afternoon. Children in who are in guided reading will have two books.
- Open door sessions take place on the first Thursday of every month at 2.45pm. This is an opportunity for your child to share their learning with you in class.
- Family reading takes place on a Tuesday and Friday morning.
Websites we enjoy!
Countdown
BugClub