Pumpkin Class Blog 

Pumpkin Class for September: Welcome from Mrs Smith!

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Information for Parents

From 8th June 2020, the home learning will be slightly different. Each year group will be set work from Hamilton’s Education Trust to include daily Maths and English Activities. These will be clearly labelled each week on blog pages. In addition to this, staff will be setting Science/ other subject activity, SMSC/ well-being activities as well as spellings on Spelling Shed.

The DfE states, ‘no school will be penalised if they are unable to offer a broad and balanced curriculum during this period.’ The Government have worked closely with other key partners to ensure the support is there for ‘remote’ learning resources.

There are also additional resources available that are recommended from the DfE:

• Oak National Academy, an online classroom set up by teachers, covering the curriculum (including specialist content for pupils with SEND) for every year group from Reception through to Year 10. By the end of week two, Oak had 1.4 million users who had viewed over 4 million lessons
• BBC Bitesize which has developed a comprehensive new education package, available on TV, via the red button and iPlayer and online at BBC Bitesize. Bitesize Daily TV shows were watched by over 2m households on iPlayer in the first two weeks of transmission Staff will, in addition, be providing weekly web based learning activities including Hamilton, Spelling Shed, SMSC and science/other activity. Please see our web site for links.

Thank you for your continued support, you are doing an amazing job!

Date:

23 March

Posted by:

Mrs Smith

Sports Competition

We recently had our second intra school competition, led by Premier Sports, on Archery and Dodgeball. Please see the overall winners…. Well done to Red team!

Date:

11 March

Posted by:

Mrs Smith

‘Don’t Tip The Ship!’ Science Investigation

On Tuesday’s Science Day Seedlings, Sunflower and Pumpkin classes all joined together to investigate 3 different things. In this group we made boats that were all the same and tried to keep them afloat with different objects. We counted how many cubes, stones or counters we could put into the boats without them sinking. We had lots of fun investigating in the water!

Date:

10 March

Posted by:

Miss Brady

British Science Week: Is everyone's body the same?

The children played 'Simon Says' to learn the different parts of the body. They compared their bodies with others: looking at eye colour, hair colour, height, size of their hands and feet and length of their arms and legs.

J- I looked in the mirror and I could see that I have blue eyes.
J- My hand was bigger than a Year 2 boy's. I was surprised because I'm in a little class and he is older than me.
C and T- We found out that we have the same sized hands.
A- Mrs. Brady's hand was almost the same size as mine!
B and E- We are what we thought: the older person is taller.
W and J- We had the same sized feet, even though we are not the same age.
T- Everyone in our group has two arms, two hands, two eyes- but some things look different. There might be different colours and different sizes and shapes.
F- I enjoyed drawing around a person and making the picture look just like them.

Date:

5 March

Posted by:

Mrs Fielding and Mrs Smith

World Book Day

Date:

5 March

Posted by:

Mrs Fielding

World Book Day KS1 Group Activities

Date:

5 March

Posted by:

Mrs Fielding

World Book Day Books in a box

Date:

4 March

Posted by:

Mrs Smith

Our favourite books

Today some of Seedlings and Pumpkin children worked together for the day with Mrs Smith.

Our whole day was about our favourite books. In Maths we made pictograms and tally charts showing the most popular book we’ve read this year.

In English we wrote about our favourite books and shared our fabulous reading together.

In art we read FUNNYBONES by Janet and Allen Ahlberg, then made skeletons out of many different pasta shapes.

What a great day we had!

Date:

4 March

Posted by:

Mrs Brady

KS1 Singing Festival 2020

The KS1 Choir gave an amazing performance of 'Sail Away' at Grimsby Auditorium. They enjoyed a full day of singing songs, learning actions and dancing. It was great to perform to such a large audience at the end of the day. Well done to everyone in the choir.

L- I used my face to make Carlos the Crab's moody face. F- The band played rock music. I played air guitar.
L- I got to be a member of Bonny the boat's
crew.
O- I could do all the different actions.
A- I really enjoyed singing the songs.
G- Lots of people from my family came to watch me.
C- The songs were all about all the plastic that has got into the sea.

Date:

3 March

Posted by:

Mrs Smith

The ‘Lady of the Lamp’

We have combined our learning skills this week to make Florence Nightingale’s lamp.

In History we have learnt about the work Florence did in the past and how nursing changed because of her.

In Design Technology we have used skills to join materials to make her lamp.

In English we are writing diaries in character as Florence – watch out for these – we will be publishing them very soon.

Date:

3 March

Posted by:

Mrs Smith

Pictograms

This week in maths we have been making pictograms - this one shows our favourite colours.

First we organised ourselves into which was our favourite colour.

Next we represented this information as a pictogram.

Date:

2 March

Posted by:

Mrs Brady

Key Stage 1 Choir

Sunflower and Pumpkin members of the choir enjoyed a fantastic workshop with the musicians and actors from MAPAS (Music and Performing Arts Service).

They have been learning lots of new songs written by local musicians Josie Moon and Pat McCarthy called 'Sail Away'. They are due to perform these songs at Grimsby Auditorium with children from many other schools.

C- I love these songs. I can't stop singing them.
A- I like the ones when we can dance like a crab or wave at a whale.
A-A real band with guitars came to our school.
S- Carrie and Cosmo were very funny.
F- I love Dance of the Dolphins because it's rock music.
J- Carlos the Crab made me laugh so much.
A- We have lots of fun in the choir.
L- I can't wait to sing at the Auditorium on the stage.
A- I just love singing with my friends.

Date:

12 February

Posted by:

Miss Wilson

Friendship Event

Children enjoyed the various crafts and activities at our Friendship fundraising event.

Date:

31 January

Posted by:

Mrs Smith

Can I share my opinions about a text?

Juniper and Pumpkin class reading collaboration this week was all about sharing their opinions of their books. Not only did children read some of their books to their collaboration partner but they also spoke about their views of the text; the characters; their choice of book; and author.

Children were also asked about their thoughts on the reading collaboration this term. These were comments shared:

“I think it’s great to share stories with each other.”
“I like getting to know the children in Year 2.”
“I think it’s a good idea to listen to others read and share our thoughts.”
“I look forward to Friday’s collaboration time because we can enjoy reading.”

Date:

20 January

Posted by:

Mrs Smith

Animals including Humans

In our science this week we have been using the following vocabulary: predator, prey, hunt, food chain

We have all made food chains for the emperor penguin.

We learnt that:

• an emperor penguin’s prey is fish, squid and krill
• an emperor penguin’s predators are leopard seals

We can read the ‘story’ of our food chains too.
“Plankton is eaten by Krill; Krill is eaten by squid; squid is eaten by fish; fish is eaten by penguins and penguins are eaten by leopard seals.”

Date:

15 January

Posted by:

Mrs Smith

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Today we have had a visitor from North East Lincolnshire County Council to show us how to use our bins properly at home.

Jenny showed us how to ‘wash and squash’ our plastic bottles before putting them in our orange boxes. She also showed us on a map where all our recycling goes.

We are doing a competition to design posters for the new bins around Laceby. So keep watching out for the winning posters.

Date:

10 January

Posted by:

Mrs Smith

Penguin Hook Day

Our new topic this term is Animals Around The World.

To start this topic, we are researching penguins and where they live.

Our hook day was exciting because we dressed as penguins and our learning in Maths and English was linked to penguins. We have multiplied with penguins; written penguin poems; found out new information about penguins and also learnt a song and dance. We also enjoyed lots of penguin craft and made ‘fishy sandwiches and biscuits’ for a penguin picnic.

Date:

12 December

Posted by:

Mrs Brady

Key Stage One Stars Shine in Christmas Nativity Performances

Well done to Sunflower and Pumpkin classes for their wonderful performances of 'Shine Star Shine.' Lovely singing, acting, dancing, reading and instrument playing.

Date:

4 December

Posted by:

Miss Perrin

Feeling Festive at Stanford School

At Stanford we have a Christmas tradition where each class makes a Christmas hoop to decorate the hall. Each year we have a different theme and this year it was ‘Winter Wonderland’. The children have worked very hard to make decorations to put on the hoops and they look fantastic….don’t you agree?

Date:

Friday 22nd November

Posted by:

Mrs Hill

Year 2/3 reading collaboration

Juniper class used the story plan created with our visiting author Pippa Goodhart to write our own stories. We edited our drafts and then presented our finished versions in little story books along with illustrations.

This morning Juniper class were proud to share their stories with Pumpkin class.

Date:

11 November

Posted by:

Miss Wilson

LQ: Can I listen to the musical performance ‘Giraffes Can’t Dance’?

We thoroughly enjoyed the story ‘Giraffes Can’t Dance’ performed through music by MAPAS. There were lots of actions and we learnt all about the different types of musical instruments including ‘percussion’ and ‘string’ instruments.

Pupil Voice

R.M “The shakers were a percussion instrument.”
O.B “I liked the big taiko drums.”
E.S “I liked the giraffe song when he learnt to dance.”
S.C “I was chosen to play a percussion apple, I had to shake it in time with the music.”
J.M “A bow is made from a horse’s tail!.”

Date:

11 November

Posted by:

Mrs Perrin

Stanford Remembers

The children in their individual classes have been thinking about Remembrance day, what it means and why we wear poppies. Today we joined collectively for our Remembrance assembly to observe 2 minutes silence thinking about those who have sacrificed their lives for others during times of war. After this some Year 6 children shared poems they have written about the wars.

Date:

7 November

Posted by:

Mrs Smith

Surprise Visit for Pumpkin class

In Pumpkin class we have been reading a book called ‘The Bottle of Happiness’ by Pippa Goodhart. The children have really enjoyed the story and even created their own bottles of happiness. Today was extra special as Pippa came to visit us! She read stories and shared her books with us, then helped us to create an idea for our own story. We were all so delighted to meet her and learnt a lot about being an author. We can’t wait to write our new story about Winnie The Witch.

Date:

4 November

Posted by:

Mrs Smith

Reading Breakfast

Pumpkin class invited parents, carers and other adults into the classroom on Thursday for a special reading event.

As well as reading some of our favourite stories we shared some breakfast treats and juice. Lots of adults came and read with us, we shared picture books, chapter books and information books. Thank you to all who came.

Date:

30 October

Posted by:

Miss Wilson

Happy Halloween!

There were spooky spiders, ghoulish ghosts and perfect pumpkins at our Halloween activity event after school.

Pupil Voice:

L.B "I made a ghost with a scary face."
A.D "I liked making a mummy with white strips. I did it by myself."
E.W "I made a spider, I had to twist its legs."
A.V "I enjoyed the hotdog."

Date:

17 October

Posted by:

Mrs Smith

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Chartwells school lunch company came today and read us the story of The Very Hungry Caterpillar. We learnt about healthy eating and eating 5 portions of fruit or vegetables every day.

Then we made caterpillars and butterflies using a rainbow of coloured fruit and veg. We had so much fun!

Date:

11 October

Posted by:

Mrs Smith

Superstars This Week

Look at all our stars this week, they give us something to celebrate!

Keep making those good choices Pumpkin Class.

Date:

10 October

Posted by:

Mrs Marsden

World Mental Health Day

As today was World Mental Health Day the children have been thinking about how we can promote positive mental health and what we can do to help us to control our emotions if we are experiencing negative emotions.

In Year 1 they looked at a book called Little Beauty where a gorilla goes through different emotions. The children talked about the different emotions and thought about whether the gorilla had done the right thing to help himself. In

Year 2 the children coloured in hearts and then thought about what they could do if they wanted to feel calm.

Date:

9 October

Posted by:

Mrs Smith

The Battle of Hastings
By Year 2

Today we have been using a paper copy of the Bayeux Tapestry to follow the story of The Battle of Hastings in 1066. We had already read the story and watched an animated version on line but we have been looking closely at the stitching on the tapestry. We also recreated parts of the battle ourselves through art work.

Date:

8 October

Posted by:

Mrs Smith

DT Evaluations
by Year 2

As part of our design and technology work this term we have been evaluating our castle models.

We thought about the following questions:

• Did our finished product look like our design?
• Were the mechanisms successful?
• How easy or difficult was it to make?
• If were to make another one would we do anything differently?

We thought you would like to read some of them.

Date:

30 September

Posted by:

Miss Wilson

Harvest Festival

Our Harvest Festival was a joyful celebration introduced by our head boy and girl and Star anise class performed a poem. Rev. Philip Stevens came to say a prayer and give thanks for the food at harvest time. Thank you to everyone who contributed to our celebration, the donations of food will be sent to the homeless charity, Harbour Place.

Date:

27 September

Posted by:

Mrs Smith

Spelling Beehive

Well done all of you that got your bee onto the beehive this week by practising your spellings on Spelling Shed.

Stickers are on their way to you today!

Remember to practise every week (new words set on Fridays) to get your bee on our hive.

WELL DONE

Date:

11 September

Posted by:

Mrs Smith

Activity Day

What a fantastic activity day we had last week! After collecting so much recyclable material, we designed our castles using them. Firstly we drew what we wanted our castle to look like.

Then we chose the most suitable materials and got making. We helped each other out when we needed to – Mrs Smith said we were great at teamwork.

Finally we painted out models to give them a really good finish.

We will now be evaluating our finished models, keep watching our blog page to see these too.

THANK YOU FOR HELPING US TO COLLECT SO MUCH RECYCLING.