Pippin Year 1 and 2
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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).
Easter activities
Welcome to Pippin Class 2019 - 2020.
Spring 2 - Land Ahoy
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
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.
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.
Pippin Class 2018 - 2019.
Summer 2 - Beachcombers.
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.
RE - learning how to play the Jewish game Dreidel.
Design and Technology - creating flags using the colours on the Brazilian flag.
Colourful carnival day.
RE - making Hanukkiah
Solving problems using money
Scented Garden - memorable experience.
Dinosaur planet - memorable experience.
Dinosaur planet learning journey.
Creative homework
Newsletters
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
- Bradfield Primary School
- Heath Road, Bradfield, Manningtree,
- Essex , CO11 2UZ
- E-Mail: admin@bradfield.essex.sch.uk
- Telephone: 01255 870241