The flower harvest in Colombia

We have been getting ready for our Harvest celebrations for this Friday's special assembly. Our link school in Colombia taught us about their Flower harvest and the festival they have to celebrate. We didn't want to miss out so we made our own flower arrangement. Here's Year 2 in action .... We'll reveal how our final art display looks when it's ready!

Mr. Twit comes to Year 2!

This morning the children were treated to (or horrified by!) Mr. Twit making an appearance - food in beard and all. As would be expected he stank the place out, offended children (and teachers!) explained why he had not taken a shower since he was seven, and gave us a few interesting insights into how he and Mrs. Twit met... it made for some fine reading when the children described Mr. Twit in Literacy later that morning!

Thank you from the Recyclemania Team!

A huge thank you to all family and friends who supported the Summer Fair on Friday, there was a fantastic turnout certainly helped by the fortunately good weather! The Year 2 team would like to say a huge THANK YOU for all your support with recycled items and your purchases from the stall - we hope you are enjoying your newly acquired accessories! Here are a few snapshots from a fantastic afternoon.

We'll keep you posted on how we did in terms of sales compared to the other year groups!

Get ready for Recyclemania - Four day countdown!

To help spread the message of our environmentally conscious stall, the Year 2s have designed an amazing set of flyers to advertise across school and to potential customers (That's where you come in family and friends!) Here's an online preview of a few - we think you'll agree they are very professional and will certainly help draw custom in.

Don't forget to tell everyone they can buy bracelets, keyring, bag accessories and bookmarks from the Recyclemania stall.

Recyclemania logo

We can also reveal the winner of the Recyclemania logo. Drumroll please ... Chloe Oldfield! All the children had a briefing to use the name and tagline 'cash for trash' in a bold and eye-catching design. We think you'll agree this fits the brief perfectly. Well done Chloe!

 

Look out for our forthcoming flyers and posters to advertise the Reyclemania stall.

Recyclemania!

Yes that's right - an excusive reveal of Year 2's stall name for the forthcoming Summer Fair - RECYCLEMANIA! The children have had their entrepreneurial hats on this week. Although their products will predominantly be made from recycled materials there are certain items that the children need to buy to get the ball rolling. The children had a range of products to choose from and decided which items would be the most cost effective for their products so they can make the most money possible!

Investors in Pupils

The children have been working very hard all year towards their individual targets as part of our Investors in Pupils initiative. This term they have been working towards their new targets. These range from sitting on the carpet smartly to learning their timestables or remembering their reading books and diaries. The children take a lot of pride in working towards their targets and when they have achieved it 18 times they have a special trip to Mrs. Kelly's office for a reward in her treat box!

Children's targets: The children 'fly' into the purple circle when they are halfway to achieving their target.

The children take steps to achieve the class target together and as their reward they receive money from a budget they are given every term. The budget only decreases when whiteboard pens, pencils and glue sticks are lost ... money is then taken off for each of these. It's a fantastic way for the children to have ownership and a financial understanding of the resources they use in class. Last term's money was used towards a lovely new gardening area in 2B and 2C have just over £50 .... we'll update you with what treats they spend theirs on!  

2B's class target which has been met 8 times... only 10 spots to go until we achieve it!