As part of our celebration of World Book Day we invited superstar author and illustrator Bethan Woollvin to meet our children in Years 1 and 2. Bethan came in to talk about her books and what life is like for her being an author. She gave the children a sneak peak behind the scenes of her exciting work,shared her favourite childhood books and talked about her own amazing books. She shared her delightful, girl power twist, fairytale of the classic Rapunzel fairytale which we all enjoyed. Bethan proceeded to teach the children all of the secrets of her wonderful illustrations. The children then had the opportunity to try their hand at their own witch illustration which they thoroughly enjoyed. It was an inspirational visit and one which will no doubt inspire the children with their writing going forward. It was so fantastic to see the children dressed as their favourite character from a story yesterday, everyone looked wonderful. During the day we read another book of Bethan Woollvin...
Year 2 have been enjoying investigating the properties of materials in their science topic and investigating how some materials can change their shapes by squashing, twisting, bending and stretching it. They have also been using important words like stiff, flexible, durable etc and they have been investigating what properties the objects need for their purpose. Well done Year 2. To continue with the amazing progress made why not go on the BBC website and look at ‘Changing the shape of materials’. Here is the link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z62txbk