Bitterns Activities

Bitterns as Readers

Our year 2 children loved preforming their poetry to their peers in year 1, who listened very carefully and gave great support and feedback. We were focusing on projecting our voices when reading to an audience as well as the importance of timing, rhythm and pauses.

In Bitterns we love reading! In class we enjoy daily reading sessions and weekly trips to the school library. We also love reading class books and have enjoyed titles such as James and the Giant Peach, The Lighthouse Keepers Lunch and Tell me a Dragon amongst many others. The children love discussing books with each other and will often recommend titles to their friends. We were fortunate enough to capture this clip of a few of our Year 2 children during a recent reading session. We were proud of their discussions around how to read the text and their understand of elements of grammar and expression. 

Year 2 Writing

Year 2 Independently writing about the impact of our changing world on polar bears. 

Collective Worship 6.3.23

Mrs Church told the story of Jeremiah, an important Old Testament prophet, who was given a very difficult choice: stop telling people about God or else go to prison or even get hurt. What would you do? 

Children voted: Jeremiah should show Courage and Perseverance and continue to do what he believed was right, even though it was dangerous.

And that is exactly what Jeremiah did.

Mrs Church interviewed teachers and children with these three questions:

  1. From 1-10, how much do you think you persevere?
  2. Can you remember a time when you persevered and it had an impact on you or somebody else?
  3. What are you persevering with right now?

Mrs King has persevered in learning about her ancestry. Noah persevered in a tough football match. Daniil has persevered to learn six languages. (SIX!) How about you?

Singing Assembly 28.2.23 

This week we had a very special singing performance by Year 2 children Jack, Ellen and Charlie, accompanied on ukulele by children from Herons. They chose to perform ‘How Great Thou Art’ and ‘The Wellerman’ and we were all blown away by their confidence and wonderful singing voices! As it is the time of Lent when Christians remember the time leading up to Jesus’s death on the cross, we learned the second verse of How Great Thou Art:

And when I think that God, His Son not sparing 

Sent Him to die, I scarce can take it in 

That on the cross, my burden gladly bearing 

He bled and died to take away my sin

Also, a group of Year 6 children announced a whole-school musical project: each class in our school will be filmed performing a song or piece of music and it will be edited together to showcase all of the wonderful musicians we have here. Stay tuned for forthcoming updates!

Collective Worship 23.2.23 – Home

Today Mrs Church led our Collective Worship on the theme of ‘Home’. It started off with a bluetit nest found in the Fledglings garden. These birds persevered for weeks to build the nest using little twigs as well as bits of thread, wool and human hair found in the garden. Children reflected on how you make a house into a home, before watching the new animation from Aardman Studios called ‘Home’. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ3mOQaA5nE This is a very powerful film and children had a lot to say about it.

Jake: It got me thinking, it’s really hard to move, hard to be a circle when everyone is a triangle.

Indie: William the Conqueror brought a new language to this country, which is why French and English are quite similar sometimes. The triangle and the circle joining languages made me think about that.

Elodie: When the circle saw the picture she got sad because she had to leave her brother and dad behind.

Frankie: We need to make it easier for people to move when they are escaping danger.

Jack O: There was no one the same as the circle. But then he joined friends. He had lots of friends in the end.

Scarlett: It’s okay to be different.

Collective Worship 20.2.23 – Reverend Darleen – Lent

Today Reverend Darleen talked to the children about the festival of Lent, a 40-day period where Christians remember the time leading up to and including Jesus’s death. (Click here for more information.)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/43045086 We heard the story of Jesus in the desert for 40 days and 40 nights. Three times the Devil tempted Jesus to make bad choices, but each time he refused even though it would have made his life easier. Lent is a great time to think about the choices we make. Reverend Darleen said that we do not have to give up something – e.g. chocolate – for Lent just for the sake of it. “God doesn’t want you to be miserable!” It’s better to give something up for a purpose – e.g. give up time to help out at home. 

Viking Day

We had a wonderful time learning all about the Vikings on our whole-school Viking day. We had the chance to look at artifacts, ask experts questions and even try some battle manoeuvres. Don’t our shields look magnificent together!

Thinking Day celebrations –  22nd February 

Salhouse Primary school’s Rainbows, Beavers, Brownies, Cubs, Guides and Scouts shared World Thinking Day with their friends today. 

Looking so smart and happy in their uniforms, they talked about the fun activities that they take part in. 

This week, in particular, they were hoping to make pancakes! Camping, activity days and trips to local areas of interest or much further away are also firm favourites with all of them. 

The children at Salhouse are very lucky because lots of parents are involved with the running of these organisations either as volunteer helpers or in uniform.

The day was formerly Thinking Day, and it is celebrated annually on 22 February by Guiding and Scouting organisations. It is a chance for the children to think about the global impact that they can have within their own groups and all around the world. They fund-raise and help in the local community with bag-packing or litter picking.  They understand that little changes can make a big difference when they happen all over the world. 

Children’s Mental Health Week – 6-12 February

We kicked off Children’s Mental Health week with a whole-school assembly. Children talked about what connecting with others means to them and ways we can connect to others. We talked about how powerful something as simple as a smile and a “hello” can be.

Abby (Coots) – We can call someone up to connect with them.

Florence (Kingfishers) – We can hold hands.

Blossom – You might fall out with someone, but they are still your friend. You are still connected.

Freddie – You can play a game with them.

Caitlin – When you’re playing a game, you can show it to someone else.

Jude (Coots) – You can go and get your mummy and ask her to sit next to you.

We played a silent connection game where you had to connect with someone else in the room without making a sound. Some people gave a thumbs up, some a pat on the back, others made a funny face! 

Indie – What we were doing was the opposite of what we did on Remembrance Day where we looked down and did not look at each other.

‘Together’ by Matt Goodfellow

We read this lovely poem together.

To find out more, visit

www.childrensmentalhealthweek.org.uk

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