Lowry Day

What an amazing day we had! Thank you so much for all the fabulous costumes, they really helped us to be creative.

We spent the day doing lots of  talking, role play and imaginative thinking before planning our Bright Write.

Here is what we did:

Role played characters in the painting.

Found words to describe feelings, sights, sounds and smells.

Looked really carefully at the painting using magnifying glasses.

Hot Seated volunteers and asked them questions about their adventures in the painting.

Worked with our Learning Partners to create drama sketches about how we got into the painting and showed them to the class.

Listened to the story "Katie and The British Artists" By James Mayhew. Katie is able to magically climb into paintings and have adventures.

Here are lots of photos of us working and looking fab in our costumes

Pentecost Collective Worship

Great Bear Class have Collective  Worship every day as part of our learning. Sometimes we are in the hall, sometimes we are all together as a whole school and sometimes we are not! Here we are joining YR and Y2 for Collective Worship in Cygnus Class.

We are learning about Pentecost through  discussion, stories and short animations. We also sing and pray together.

Celebrating The Queen's 90th Birthday

On Friday, we enjoyed a lunchtime celebration for The Queen's 90th Birthday. Great Bear Class had made crowns and flags to wear and wave and looked brilliant in red, white and blue!

After our fish and chips lunch we were entertained by the school choir, Rigor Junior Morris, Year Six with a Kings and Queens of Great Britain poem and songs from the staff too! Everyone also sang "Sing"by Gary Barlow and Revered Rees led us in prayer and reflection.

It was a lovely afternoon and we enjoyed a special treat of cake in our garden area too!

Here we are looking very patriotic!

Life in the 80s!

Last week Great Bear class had a great time learning about childhood in the past and how it is different to being a child in 2016.

We found out that whilst a lot of the sweets are still being made today, they were much cheaper in the 1980s. We looked at how different the toys were from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, we used old Woolworths catalogues to do some retro shopping Numeracy.

We looked closely at toys from the 1980s and drew them carefully in Art. Great Bear Class also enjoyed watching old children's TV programmes and thinking about how they have changed. The animation styles and puppets made us laugh!

Great Bear Class became history detectives as we looked for clues in photographs to help us order them in a timeline. We looked at the clothes and hair styles, the toys and anything we could spot in the background, the children made some excellent observations.

Great Bear Class interviewed Mrs Dummett and Mrs Latham-Warde about their childhoods and could have asked questions all day, the children were all very engaged and interested in being a child from the 1960s, 70s and 80s.

We also had great fun carefully looking at all the wonderful things people had brought in from their family's childhood, thank you for allowing us to look at them.

Here are some pictures of us with 1980s toys and sharing things with the class.

Important Things Going On In Great Bear Class

Time just seems to be whizzing by as we quickly approach our final term together in Great Bear Class. So here are just a few reminders of things that are happening that we need your valuable support with!

May 9th-13th History Week-Changes During Living Memory-Childhood
We are looking for photos, toys, books, clothes or anything else that we might find interesting to help us understand how being a child has changed. We will treat any loaned items with the utmost of care. We would also love some visitors to come and talk to us and answer questions about their childhood.

13th May-Come in red, white and blue clothing for Queen's 90th Birthday celebrations.

18th May-Lowry dress up day to inspire "Bright Write" planning.

20th May-Athlete visit, please see letter sent home on Friday 6th May.

23rd May- Parents' meeting about Year One National Phonics Check 2.45pm in Great Bear Class.

9th June-Join us for a Phonics session, more details to follow.

Week of 13th June National Phonics Check will be taking place.


Date yet to be confirmed-RSPCA fund raising event.


Can I also say a HUGE THANK-YOU for all your support, especially those parents who have donated their time to support Great Bear Class by: hearing readers, making resources or donating resources to enhance our learning. It is all very much appreciated by all of us!