Category: Our Classes

This week, the Year Two children returned to school for their last half term in the infants. They were very proud of the Bee and Butterfly garden that they have been caring for and watering over the last few weeks as it is filled with flowers that are being visited by many insects.

Hidden amongst all those flowering plants, there were also lots of ripening strawberries. Through the week, we have been harvesting the strawberries and freezing them. On Friday, we finally had enough to make our own strawberry and banana milkshake. It was delicious and now the children know how make a milkshake as well as a wrap. Here are the instructions if you would like to make one too!

Although it was wetter than we would’ve liked, Kew still looked amazing. Year 4 had a fun, interesting day learning about Marianne North and exploring the fascinating and beautiful Gardens. It was a good day for steps total! A huge thank you to the parent volunteers. Having so many adults with the children makes the day much more interesting and relaxing for everyone and the pupils can be properly supported when away from school which makes it more enjoyable for them.

The children should sleep well tonight! They were all a credit to the school and I hope they enjoy sharing the details of the day with you. I’m not suggesting that you hire the venue out!, but this link takes you to images of the Marianne North Gallery – https://www.kew.org/venue-hire/marianne-north-gallery

This term, we have been learning about the Eatwell plate and what foods go in each food group. We have learned that it is really important to have foods from a variety of food groups in order to eat healthily. We taste tested combinations of ingredients to see what went well together and then designed a wrap that would be tasty and healthy.

We had great fun preparing ingredients for our wraps and learned how to chop foods up with a knife by making a bridge with our hands. Once we had made our wraps, we reviewed them against our success criteria to see just how tasty and healthy they were. We tried to include ingredients from at least three food groups in our wrap and we have found that there are new foods that we will try.

When reviewing the wraps, many of the children said that they were wonderful, tasty, fantastic, delicious and brilliant. Lucy said ‘I loved it so much’ and Tadhg wrote ‘I’ve never had a wrap that good!’ Well done to the Year 2 chefs who have learned a great skill that they will be able to do at home too.

This week we have been learning the Glory Be. We have done well verbally and ordering the lines.

This was the view from the teachers desk this afternoon during indoor playtime. Don’t worry, its all tidy now.

In the Judaism workshop, we explored the rich traditions of the Jewish festival of Passover. We learned about its historical significance and why it remains such an important celebration today. We also discovered the symbolic meanings behind each item on the Passover plate. Afterwards, we examined a variety of foods to decide whether they could be eaten during Passover, and we even got to taste some unleavened bread called matzah. To finish, we had the opportunity to look at the Torah and try on a kippah, deepening our understanding of Jewish culture and customs.