Yesterday, Year 1's History lesson focused on Tring market and how what people buy and sell has changed over the years. We learnt how many people, including children, worked as straw plaiters to help their family earn extra money. The plaits would be sold at the market to be sewn into the famous ‘Luton Hat’. We had a go at making our own straw plaits. It was tricky to begin with but got easier with practice!
We had a lovely PSHE lesson today thinking about the special people in our lives. We spoke of family members as well as friends and step relatives. After our discussions, the children were tasked with drawing themselves alongside their special person and explaining in a sentence why they are special to them. It was lovely delving into everyone's special person and hearing about those who mean a lot to 2KW.
Year 6 had a very exciting afternoon using saws to cut pieces of wooden rod in preparation for our Anderson Shelters. Everyone worked very sensibly and took great care! Well done, Year 6!
A little snapshot of our Year 1 Maths and DT learning from last week!
In Maths we continued our work on wholes and parts from last week, introducing the part whole model and finding the wholes and parts of a number instead of an object and we practised using and doing this practically.
In DT we continued our work on mechanisms and made our own wheel mechanism with a central pivot point.
In Geography, Year Two worked on identifying countries and cities within the UK and the seas and oceans surrounding it. They looked at a compass to help them identify North, East, South and West. They also worked on finding the United Kingdom within a map of the world.
Our science topic in Year 2, animals including humans, has moved on to life cycles. Today in class, we discovered the life cycle of sheep and frogs. We discussed that life cycles demonstrate how animals begin as offspring and grow and change before becoming an adult animal. We compared the differences between sheep and frog and one thing we noticed was sheep have live young whereas frogs lay eggs.
In Year 2 in spelling we worked on different strategies to help us to remember the spelling of our /al/ words this week. We rainbow wrote, wrote our words in a pyramid adding a letter at a time and fancy writing.
