Otter Class Year 2
Summer Term 2022 Towers, Tunnels and Turrets Topic Web
Golden Leaves 30th June 2022
Congratulations to this week's winners who have been showing our values.
Trip to Cardiff Castle 14th June 2022
We had a great time at Cardiff Castle and experienced many things we have been learning about of the last term! Some of the highlights were….riding on the top deck of the double decker coach, going over the Prince of Wales Bridge into Wales, discovering the stocks, exploring the Keep and spotting all the castle defences, having a tour of the Victorian living quarters and enjoying a workshop run by a knight.
Otter Class Cardiff Castle
Golden Leaves 16th June
Well done to these Golden leaf winners for showing our whole school values!
Golden Leaves 9th June
This week's Golden Leaf winners in Key Stage 1
Golden Leaves 28th April
This week's Golden Leaf winners in Key Stage 1
KS1 Spring Term 2022 Big city, bright lights Topic Web
Making Bread rolls.
We had a great time learning how to make bread this week. We measured the ingredients to make a dough, then kneaded our own bread rolls and put them in the oven. We enjoyed eating them the next day and wrote our very own instructions in English. They were very yummy!
Otter Class Bread Making
Golden Leaves 7th April
This week's KS1 Golden Leaves winners for showing our values.
Golden Leaves 24th March
Well done to this week’s KS1 Golden leaf winners showing some of our values including respect.
Golden Leaves 18th March
Well done to this week’s KS1 Golden leaf winners showing some of our values including empowerment.
Firefighter visit Wednesday 16th March
We were all very excited to meet the Stratton Firefighters today. All their equipment was very different to what was used in the Great Fire of London in 1666. We discovered more about the special clothing they wear, fired water from the hoses, sat in the fire engine and looked closely at all the tools and life saving equipment.
Otter Class Firefighter Visit
Golden Leaves 10th March
Well done to this week’s KS1 Golden leaf winners showing some of our values including empowerment and respect.
Golden leaves Thursday 3rd March 2022
Well done to this weeks winners who have all shown values of nurture and respect.
WORLD BOOK DAY 2022
Everybody looked fantastic in their costumes! We enjoyed exploring the book Tattybogle by Sandra Horn, wrote some poetry and created some fabulous pictures.
Otter Class World Book Day
DT project - designing a vehicle for Paddington Bear to travel around London.
We have had great fun researching, designing, making and evaluating our vehicles for Paddington Bear. We learnt about chassis design, wheels, axles and the body and thought carefully about how we could make our vehicles move smoothly. We think Paddington enjoyed his trip around London!
Otter Class - DT Project, London
London story books
We are so proud to have written and illustrated our own story books. We enjoyed sharing them with each other in class then took them home to share too. Our stories were inspired by our guided reading book Katie in London written by James Mayhew.
Otter Class - London Story Books
It’s a Party! December 2021
Merry Christmas everyone! We hope you enjoyed watching us perform our nativity play for you.
Otter Class Nativity Play 2021
Otter Family Tree Workshop - Thursday 18th November 2021
Many thanks to our mums, dads and grandparents for coming into help us create our very own family tree. We talked about who was in our family, what they mean to us and where we can put them on our family tree. The hall was buzzing!
Otter Family Tree Workshop
St Michael’s Church trip Thursday 11th November
We loved exploring our local church, spotting the many artefacts and hearing about its history including spotting the cannonball hole on the outside of the church! Thank you Bella!
Rabbit and Otter Classes visit to St Michael's Church
Year 2 multi skills Warneford Visit Wednesday 10th November
We had a great time playing lots of different games with the Year 9s and Eastrop and St. Leonards Year 2 children. Here is a snapshot of our morning….photos were tricky to take as we were always on the move!
Thank you Warneford!
Otters and Rabbit Classes Warneford Sports Festival Sports
Firework Poetry workshop Tuesday 2nd November
A big thank you to Kate Williams, a published poet, who came to our school on Tuesday to help us create our own firework poems. We looked at firework pictures, discussed lots of good firework words and phrases and then wrote some of our own ideas. Kate brought along her ukulele for us to sing our ideas and we shared what we had written at the end of the session.
Otter Poetry Workshop
Class Portraits
We have enjoyed looking closely at ourselves as part of our ‘All about me’ topic. We learnt how to use different types of drawing pencils to create lines and shapes along with light and dark areas of our faces. We were very impressed with the results. What do you think?
Otter Portraits
Otter Highworth walk
We had a great walk around Highworth following our maps and spotting the landmarks we went past. We then created our own maps with a key when we got back to class. Do you think you could follow our route?
Otter Highworth Walk
Harvest festival
A big thank you to St. Michael’s church for coming in to talk to us about harvest. We had a lovely session and enjoyed designing our own flowers, fruit and vegetables.
Otter Harvest
Black History Month
We have been learning about Bob Marley and the impact he has had on music around the world. We listened to lots of his songs and enjoyed reggae music from different artists influenced by him. We discovered the musical instruments that are played in reggae which inspired our creative artwork.
Black History - Otter Class
