Getting ready for Christmas!

We put up our class Christmas trees this week and are getting very excited!
We have been working so hard on our Christmas concert and we can't wait to show you our super performance next week.

Electricity

This week in science we have been learning about electricity. We have talked about how important electricity is in our life but also how dangerous it can be - and how we should be safe around it. Today we made electrical circuits. We made bulbs light up by connecting them to a battery with two wires. Next week we will be investigating conductors and insulators as well as putting switches into our circuits.

Christmas Shop!

We enjoyed buying items at the Christmas Shop. Thanks to all the Year 3 children for running the shop.

Winding Mechanisms

This week we have been making our winding mechanisms.

Can you explain to your adults how we made them?

Beauty and the Beast Masks

Each class has been busy making a beast mask for a competition organised by The Carriageworks. The masks are displayed in the hall.

Class 2 Red made their mask by using salt dough, sticks, paper and feathers.

Class 2 Blue made their mask by using newspaper, modroc and magazine cuttings.

We think they look great!

Natural Hazards

We have really enjoyed finding out about natural hazards. We have found out about earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis and many more.

What did you find most interesting?

Class 2 Blue had fun making their own earthquakes and volcanoes. Have a look at the photographs!

Super Bonfire Night art!

Bonfire Night

This week we have written some super Bonfire Night poetry, found out all about the Gunpowder Plot, made fantastic firework pencils and created some super bonfire and firework art.

Have a lovely Bonfire Night everyone and remember to stay safe!

Thank you!

Thank you to those people who managed to post a comment about our blog. Some people seem to have had problems and we are sorry about that - but thank you for trying. If you do write a comment it doesn't appear straight away because we have to approve it and then publish it so it may take a few days.

Bramley Fall Woods

We had a great trip to Bramley Fall Woods yesterday!

At Bramley Fall Woods I collected lots of leaves and twigs. Then we looked for the biggest leaf and the smallest leaf. We also searched for interesting things

by Evie

We liked the toadstools and the canal

by Otis and Daniel

I saw a root that looked like a spider and a lot of toadstools. We also found a skeleton leaf

by William and Amelie

I loved going on the bus and I enjoyed looking at and feeling things

by Jemima

On your homework sheet it said to look out for a question on this blog. Well here it is:

What have you enjoyed the most this half term?

You can comment on this post or write your reply in your homework book!

Crazy Portraits!

Everyone made a crazy portrait of someone funny. Some people did really, really funny hair styles! By Isabelle

We cut some eyes, noses, mouths and hair from magazines and they were funky! By Leo

Ed Miliband's visit to Featherbank

When Mr Miliband came to our school we did a concert and he put his handprint on the wall. By Eve W

Everyone really enjoyed it! Mr Miliband came all the way from London just to see us! Mrs Rhodes said "Once a Featherbanker, always a Featherbanker!" We REALLY appreciated it! By Flo

Welcome to Year Two!

We have had a brilliant half term and have been really busy. We will use this blog to tell you about all the exciting things we have been doing in school. Feel free to make comments on our posts. We really appreciate your feedback.

Enjoy the half term break!

Miss Dangerfield & Mrs Milne

Science Week

The whole school really enjoyed National Science and Engineering Week. During the week the children took part in six science activities on the theme of communication. These activities included learning how animals communicate, code cracking, writing secret messages using invisble ink and communicating by using flags.

Take a look at the corridor display for more information and photographs of our super science week.

We hope you enjoy the half term break.

from

Mrs Milne and Miss Dangerfield

Money Week

We have had a great 'Money week' this week. We all really enjoyed making things to sell in our class shop. We made piggy banks, trinket boxes, mugs, bracelets, keyrings and bookmarks. Class 1 and Class 2 both made a profit. Class 1 are going to give half their profit to charity and use the other half to buy ICT resources for the classroom. Class 2 decided to give all their profit to charity.

Thank you for your support. We hope you enjoyed visiting our class shops.

Gymnastic Competition

Our Featherbank gymnastics team entered the 'Primary Key Steps Gymnastics Competition' this week. They tried very hard and impressed the judges with their gymnastics skills. We are very proud of them!
More pictures of this event are displayed in school.

Bird fun

Yesterday we worked with an artist. We drew birds and tried to show that we were looking at them through a frame. It was lots of fun and we did some great work.

Hannah wrote:

'with the artist we made pictures of birds in different frames like cages and windows. We enjoyed it'

Erin wrote:

'we made a colourful bird and some dull birds. We made a frame for it. I drew a puffin. The frame was a telescope'.

Have a look at our fantastic work!

Homes for 'The Three Little Pigs'

We have had lots of fun designing and making homes for 'The Three Little Pigs'. The children worked together to find suitable materials for the homes.

Class 2 have done some writing about the activity:

'To build a house for the three little pigs we used polystyrene because it is very strong and looked water proof. We used red plastic for the roof because it was water proof and looked quite strong. We used cardboard because it was the best material for the door because it would make a fantastic door. We used masking tape to hold it together.' by Maggie and Joe

'We made our house out of polystyrene.We are doing about houses. We chose polystyrene because it was strong. Also we did plastic because we thought it will be a good roof.' by Kiara and Sam H

'Our group choose polystyrene because it was strong. We thought plastic would be waterproof. our house was strong.' by Rohan and Amelia