Christian Story of Creation

The Bitterns have been learning about the Christian story of creation this week. We have been thinking deeply about how our wonderful planet was created. We have learnt about each of the seven days of creation and the order in which all aspects of the world were created.

Bitterns Science 

In science we are exploring everyday materials. To start our learning on the topic we began by building houses for the Three Little Pigs. We then tested the materials using a fair test to see which would withstand wind (the wolf). The children enjoyed building their structures as a team. We had rich discussion about the strengths and weaknesses of each material and the children identified which material was best suited for building a strong and robust house. 

‘The Lego bricks would be best for building the house because they are strong and solid. They are waterproof, they won’t let the rain come through.’  Year 2 Child 

‘The paper would blow away in the wind, it is not good for building a house.. . it would just get soggy.’  Year 1 Child 

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!

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