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Coach Dan has been delivering a Change4life club with different classes at Lunchtime, since Lockdown. The children have been playing games, practising their skills and keeping active throughout Lunchtime. 

Using inspiration from Orla Kiely, we made our own designs. Firstly, by drawIng the pattern and then using the printing block and paint. 

We have been looking at the designer Orla Kiely. Using her design, we made our own printing block to create our own designs. 

Year 4 had a super Egyptian day. The children had the chance to dress up and the costumes were fabulous. During the day, we made Egyptian bread, played games, completed a quiz and made pyramids. We also wrote our names in hieroglyphics and completed some Egyptian…

Today we had our final session of Play Leaders Training with Scott and Greg. We have been learning about how to teach younger children to play new games at breaktimes and lunchtimes and we cannot wait to get going now.  We have learnt how to organise and manage different games and have had to…

Steve Pemberton joined us this afternoon to introduce some of the many skills of cricket.  Maybe one day someone from Y2 will be the next Freddie Flintoff!

We discussed rhythm and the pulse of the music. We enjoyed using and naming all of the instruments and finding out the different sounds we could make.

Steve came in to promote All Stars cricket clubs with the Y1,Y2 and Y3 children. They practised throwing, catching and striking and to work together as part of a team through the ‘spirit of cricket’. 

We made a collage of a plant naming each of the parts of the flower and describing their jobs. 

We enjoyed planting our sunflower seeds and making sure we knew what the seeds need. 

We used our construction to help us count and spot patterns when counting in 2s. 

We used ten frames to spot patterns when counting in 2s.