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More Measuring in Bowfell

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This week has been all about estimating and measuring in Bowfell.  We started with a treasure hunt all around school on Monday trying to find the objects in our photographs.  Once we had identified the pictures; we each estimated the length of the objects before we measured them using unifix blocks.

On Wednesday, we started to explore capacity and volume.  We have learnt lots of new vocabulary like: greater than, smaller than, half full, empty and full.  We worked well together comparing different containers; sometimes we were surprised because they could hold more or less water than we expected.

Next week we will be having more fun with our learning when we move on to weighing!

Meet our 2017 Eco Team!

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At lunchtime today, Eco Team had their very first official meeting with Miss Dawson. It was very productive and the team have thought up lots of fantastic ideas to encourage the school and the community to care for the environment. Just a few ideas discussed include: creating an Eco Code, organising a litter pick, creating posters to display around school (saving electricity, looking after plants, not littering), an Eco Book and even adopting an endangered animal such as a Red Squirrel.

We will be meeting again next week to make a start on these ideas! We will keep you posted with our exciting news.

Knots Galore!

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We began today with a few games of hide and seek – Finlay, Jason and Alfie were particularly good at hiding! The theme for this week was knots! We were challenged to see how many sticks we could bundle up to carry, securing them with any of the knots we have learnt in class or by making up our own. Q. How many sticks can you carry? A. Lots – over 100 in come cases. Lots of counting, estimating and problem solving here!

Others explored knotting and tying to attach leaves and twigs to trees to form hanging sculptures.

We finished off the afternoon with some warming hot chocolate – mmmmm!

Many thanks to the adults who came with us – we’ve all been grateful to the weather and enjoyed our time in the outdoors.

Estimating and Measuring Capacity

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This week, year 2 have been developing their understanding of measuring and estimating. They have learnt how to compare, describe and order a range of containers and used vocabulary such as greater than, less than, half, empty, full, estimation, measurement and capacity.  We have learnt that the unit of measure for liquids is millilitres and litres. Today we tried to predict whether a container will store more or less than 500ml and then checked our estimates using funnels and measuring cylinders.   The food-dye in the water helped us to measure more accurately.

Lots of excitement when our estimates were right – well done everyone!

Disco Fever!

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What a fun filled Friday evening we all had dancing and playing games, with grateful thanks to the wonderful Paul Jones. School Council organised a super time for us all and took on the responsibility of running music bumps and musical statues as well as organising the refreshments too.  Thank you to everyone who supported us!

Fun in the Woods

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Today Skiddaw class enjoyed their afternoon in the woods exploring their senses and making magic potions. Some might make you tall, invisible or turn you into an animal. Others might change you into a leaf to blow about on a branch and fall in the gentle breeze. Lastly, we were camouflaged by covering ourselves with leaves and used our sense of hearing and sight to experience the woods – we heard cows and rumbling and saw butterflies flitting about. We are looking forward to our second session next week!

Autumn Pumpkins

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Bowfell Class have continued exploring autumn today. Starting by hearing about all their autumn adventures over half term. Today we’ve cut open a pumpkin to see what was inside, we described the textures and smells before using tens frames to count out the seeds. Year 1 also had a go at using the seeds and tens frames to find number bonds to 10.

Did You Know…?

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As part of our Geography topic, Skiddaw class have been researching interesting facts, from a selection of websites, about a European country. We have worked together in teams to present our facts, in a big poster. We chose to research Germany, The Netherlands, France and Iceland. We are hoping to amaze you with some of our fun facts in Good Work Assembly this Friday – we hope to see you there!

Our Pupil Parliament Trip

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On Friday the 13th  of October – unlucky for some, but not for us! – Olly, Rosie, Finn and Mille left at 9am to go to Pupil Parliament, at the Netherwood Hotel in Grange. We all set off really excited about the day ahead of us, preparing to meet John Bercow (the speaker in the Houses of Parliament). When we arrived, we started off with a welcoming speech from David Bone. Then we did some fun ice-breakers to get to know other schools. After the ice-breakers, we headed for a well-deserved break. Later on, after break, we had time to ask John Bercow questions about his life and his job. Then we had a delicious lunch of pizza and chip!

Finally, we had an amazing debate on whether or not ordinary people can save our seas from plastic pollution, or should the government step in some more? Did you know, by 2050 there will be more plastic in our seas than there are fish? Shocking isn’t it? Take a look at our photos and the poster we created and have a think about how we can make a difference.

by Olly and Rosie