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Class Blog 25th April 2025

This week we returned to school after the Easter holidays to find a letter from our class mascot Sammy the Hedgehog.

She wrote to tell us that she had left Birk Hill School because she was so bored without us during the holidays.

We decided that we would write a letter to her and persuade her to come back.

We thought of reasons why she should return and we will include these in our letters which we will write next week.

Class Blog 4th April 2025

This week we celebrated Easter. We made Easter cards and sang Easter songs for our families, and took part in an egg hunt, hosted by the Easter bunny!

Happy Easter everyone and enjoy a well deserved break 😊

Class Blog 28th March 2025

Over the last 3 weeks in English we have been planning, writing, editing and illustrating our own stories based on the Mr Men and Little Miss books by Roger Hargreaves.

Class Blog 21st March 2025

This week we had our Birk Hill Environment Day. We had a fantastic day learning about the importance of recycling and ways to look after our planet. We also had a school wide competition where the children had reused an old milk bottle to create something new. We were amazed at the different ideas the children came up with.

Class Blog 14th March 2025

On Friday, the year 2 children had a visit from Firefighter Chris from Derbyshire Fire and Rescue. He told us about the many important jobs that firefighters have and taught us about fire safety.

Class Blog 7th March 2025

We had a wonderful day celebrating World Book Day on Thursday 6^th March. We all wore our comfy pyjamas and enjoyed a day filled with creativity and imagination as we became mini authors for the day!

We designed, wrote and illustrated our very own books inspired by our current Spotlight Author, Roger Hargreaves.

We played Mr. Men bingo, took part in a story quiz and decorated bookmarks by drawings characters from our favourite stories.

We visited the school library and enjoyed some time reading for pleasure before choosing a book to write a review on.

Class Blog 28th February 2025

This week in English we have been learning about similes and poetry. We read and performed a range of simile poems before creating our own similes to describe our favourite toys. We wrote our poems out in neat and performed them to the younger children in school.

Class Blog 7th February 2025

This week in Design and Technology we have been learning about levers and linkages, our challenge was to design and make our own moving toy as part of our ‘Amazing Inventors’ topic! Have a look at the fantastic toys we made…

Class Blog 31st January 2025

This week we celebrated the start of the Lunar New Year with ‘A Day in China’.

We all took our flights and had out passports stamped at passport control before taking part in lots of activities linked to the celebration of the Chinese New Year.

We made Chinese flags and had a go at writing the date in Mandarin.

We ate some prawn crackers whilst watching some educational videos about China and the history of the Chinese New Year and Lunar Calendar.

We made paper chain snakes to celebrate the beginning of the year of the snake!

We had a go at drawing our own traditional Chinese dragons and turned them into puppets.

We enjoyed some Chinese fan dancing and traditional Chinese lion dancing.

Inspired by out fantastic fan dance lesson, we made our own fans decorated with beautiful Chinese Plum Blossom - The national flower of the Republic of China!

Finally, we made "hongbao" which are red envelopes traditionally filled with money and gifted to family and friends during Chinese New Year.

Class Blog 24th January 2025

This week in Music we practiced playing a range of musical instruments alongside our new song ‘I Wanna Play in a Band’.

Class Blog 17th January 2025

This week in maths, the year 2 children have been learning how to use the column method to answer addition sums containing 2-digit numbers. We have been practicing keeping our working out neat by keeping to the ‘one digit per box’ rule.

Class Blog 10th January 2025

Happy New Year from Hedgehog class!!

This week we returned to school after the Christmas holidays, it’s so nice to be back.

In English, the year 2 children have been reading ‘Traction Man’ by Mini Grey and using adjectives to describe the main character. We will use this as a word bank to write descriptive sentences next week.

Class Blog 20th December 2024

This week was our last week in school before the Christmas break. We have had a wonderful week and had some very special visitors including Reverend Andy, Father Christmas and a Magician! We finished our week by baking some delicious homemade bread following our own instructions that we wrote last week. Merry Christmas Hedgehog Class 😊

Class Blog 13th December 2024

This week, in Design and Technology we began making our Tudor house models. We followed our design plan carefully and used joining techniques we had learned to join materials together.

Class Blog 6th December 2024

This week we started our Christmas celebrations in Hedgehog Class. We have been learning about the story of the first Christmas in RE and started rehearsals for our upcoming Christmas performance. This week also kicked off our fantastic Year 2 writing competition which will be judged by some of the children. We are asking all Year 2 children to write a descriptive letter to Santa. We can’t wait to read them all 😊

Class Blog 29th November 2024

This week, as part of our learning on The Great Fire of London, we have been looking at how houses have changed though history. We looked at a timeline of different houses used before, during and after the events of the great fire. We found out that after the Great Fire of London, houses were built of stone and bricks instead of wood, I wonder why?

Class Blog 22nd November 2024

This week we were joined by Reagan from Shape who taught us some fantastic new games to play in PE. We played ‘Monster Ball’ where we had to avoid the large medicine ball and attack it by aiming and throwing fireballs at it, we had so much fun!

Class Blog 15th November 2024

This week we have been learning all about the Great Fire of London. We have been researching the events and created a timeline to show how the fire began and spread. Next week we are going to become journalists and write a newspaper report all about it.

Class Blog 8th November 2024

As part of our cultural learning, we took part in ‘A Day in India’. We researched facts about the country, took part in some Bollywood dancing, learnt about Diwali and made diya lamps and rangoli patterns.

Class Blog 25th October 2024

This week in Key Stage 1 we had our learning showcase event. We invited parents in to look at our learning from our mastering number sessions and our fantastic writing.

Class Blog 18th October 2024

This week, in Maths we have been learning about fact families. We learned that fact families contain only 3 numbers and these can be used to make 4 different sums. We were given 3 numbers and had to write the 4 sums underneath.

Class Blog 11th October 2024

This week, in English we have been learning about dragons! Year 1 have been learning about the Welsh Dragon and wrote descriptive sentences about him. Year 2 have been researching and writing a report about the Komodo Dragon.

Class Blog 4th October 2024

This week, in computing, we have been learning about our digital footprint and how to stay safe online. We talked about what information is safe to share and what we need to keep private.

Class Blog 27th September 2024

This week in Hedgehogs class we have been writing letters to the Giant from the story ‘Jim and the Beanstalk’. We learnt about the format of a letter and thought of some interesting questions we wanted to ask him. We then spent the week planning our letters before writing them up in neat.

Class Blog 20th September 2024

This week in Hedgehogs class we began researching our learning theme ‘Brilliant Britain’. As part of our Art and Design learning we have been looking at the British artist, L.S Lowry and had a go at recreating some of his drawings using only 5 colours; black, white, blue, red and yellow.

Class Blog 13th September 2024

We are so happy to be back to school for another year, and in our brand-new class!

This week Hedgehog class have taken part in our schoolwide ‘WOW’ week.

We have enjoyed arts and crafts, cooking and preparing food, taking part in sports activities and carrying out some amazing science experiments!

We are excited to get stuck into our normal timetable and new learning theme ‘Brilliant Britain’ next week.