LKS2 celebration of learning

24th June 2025Stacey McClare

Thank you to everyone that joined us this afternoon for the LKS2 celebration of learning. It was wonderful to see so many parents and carers joining us for our final COL of the year. We have thoroughly enjoyed all of the expeditions this year and our final product this time has honestly made all children so proud of their achievements during the summer expedition. The leaflet they have produced for the final product is of high quality and showcases a range of work from the expedition. We know Magna are going to love giving the leaflet out to the general public over the next few months. As we explained earlier, it will also be available on their website along with all the other work we have created during the expedition. Well done to all children today, those children that spoke so well at the beginning of the COL, all children for sharing their paragraph of writing and taking parents and carers on a gallery walk. Then to everyone who took part in the volcanic eruption experiment. A fabulous celebration of learning, well done everyone!

How do people use water?

5th June 2025Ruth Shields

This week we continued our geography case study by exploring the reasons why humans use water. We learned that water is used for drinking, agriculture, leisure, transportation, making electricity and as habitats for animals and plants. As well as exploring the uses of water, we also learned about the impact this can have on the environment. In some cases this can be positive, however, in others it can be negative.

Writing – Experience Day

5th June 2025Ruth Shields

In our experience day, we had the chance to explore the story that we’ll be using as a stimulus to help us write. Due to the story being a picture book, we had to make inferences about what we thought was happening based on the images. We then used some of the pictures to complete a silent conversation which allowed us to shared our notices, feelings and actions we could see in the images.

Drawing Bar Charts

5th June 2025Ruth Shields

In maths this week, we have continued on with our statistics unit and learned how to draw bar charts. During input, we had an opportunity to demonstrate our understanding before going into our books.

First and Second draft

20th May 2025Ruth Shields

As with any piece of art work, it’s essential that we have time to draft and redraft our work. By critiquing and reworking, then that’s when improvements can be made to the piece. It was lovely to see the children take on board feedback so that they could improve their second draft.


Art Skills

20th May 2025Ruth Shields

Before we can attempt our first draft, it’s important that we understanding atheism mediums that we will be using. For our art, we will be using watercolour and acrylic so we needed to practice using these paints. We used the wet on wet, wet on dry and then dry on dry which showed us different effects.

Andy Warhol – Popart

20th May 2025Ruth Shields

In art, we started by learning about a new artist called Andy Warhol. We learned some key facts about him then explored his style of art which is popart. Popart means popular art. Once we had learned about the artist, we had the opportunity to critique some of his work using I praise, I notice and I wonder. We really liked the bright colours which we later learned are called contrasting colours. These are colours that complement each other but make them stand out and look vivid.

Understanding Tectonic Plates

20th May 2025Ruth Shields

To depend our understanding of tectonic plates and their movement, we used crackers and whipped cream to represent the tectonic plates and molten lava. We had the opportunity to move the plates so that when they moved away from each other the lave (cream) was able to seep through. This is what would happen with a volcano. We then rubbed the plates (crackers) together which represents what happens during an earthquake. Finally, we used the cracker and rice cake to show what happens when 2 plates push together. This is when mountains would be formed.