Class 2

We have been talking in Welsh about the weather. We had to mime what we do for each type of weather and then we made our own bingo game and played.

Today we have been finding out about how people used to find out about news and important events. We watched a film about town criers and how people would listen to news this way. We all had a go at ringing bell and reading a scroll to tell people that a fire has started in … Read more

We have been comparing numbers and using the greater than and less than symbols. We started using playdo to decide which symbol to use before we completed work in our books. We also had a quiz using our true or false cards. We have a class let called Alli the alligator who comes out of … Read more

We have been using Just2easy to do some creative writing. In our literacy lessons we have been looking at using the past tense and beginning to think about how to write a diary like Samuel Pepys. Using Jit5 we chose  a background and then typed sentences using the past tense, imagining we had visited it … Read more

We created fire pictures with a black silhouette of buildings. 

We have been looking at buildings from 1666 and then we used the iPads to do a keyword search to locate images of flames. We found out that as there were no computers, radios or news reporters we can only find out about what happened from artwork done at the time and from people’ writing … Read more

We have been finding out where and how the fire started. We found out it began in the bakery owned by the baker for the King. They woke up at 1 in the morning and then escaped through a window and onto the roof of a neighbour. We used drama to retell the events and … Read more

We have been looking closely at what London looked like in 1666. We went on another virtual visit through the narrow streets of London. We talked with our Learning Partner about the shapes and how houses were built. Then we used Google Earth to find Pudding Lane and how different it looks today. Then we … Read more