Welcome to Magpies Class

Please look on here often in order to find out what we got up to, examples of excellent work, as well as for homework, letters and topic webs.

Current Magpies Stars

Star of the Week: Savannah for showing resilience, enthusiasm and kindness all year.

Super Speller:      Hattie for always making wonderful contributions in our phonics lessons

                              and trying her best.

FOREST SCHOOL

Have a look at what some of our Magpies have been getting to up in Forest School this term! It is possibly their FAVOURITE part of the week and always come back full of smiles, stories and, of course, lots of muddy clothes!

Music

Magpies have been learning to read and compose rhythmic notation. They then performed their compositions to the class.

Steel-pan Workshop 

Magpies had a great morning experiencing steel-pan music. They were able to play the drums, dance to the music and play musical games! 

28th June 2023

Year 2 have been looking at patterns with shapes and turns this week! Look at the patterns we have made in the pictures below. We described the turns to each other using our key words 'clockwise', 'anticlockwise', 'quarter', 'half', 'three-quarter', 'turn', 'left' and 'right'. 

5th June 2023

DT this term is based on foods around the world, specifically dips and dippers! Our first lesson we explored different dips - hummus, thousand island, raita, guacamole and salsa! We learnt where they came from. Then we evaluated them based on their appearance, smell and texture!

5th June 2023

Where are you KENYA!?

Today we started our new Geography topic of the term - Sensational Safari! In our first lesson we learnt where Kenya was, it is a part of the African continent and we took turns finding it on the world map outside in small groups!

15th March 2023

The Great Magpies' Bake Off!

Today our Magpies have been baking! We did some measuring/weighing of ingredients, some whisking, some stirring, some rolling and some cutting to make Mother's Day biscuits. Then we baked them in the oven and watched them carefully until they were ready. 

14th March 2023

Today our Year 1 Magpies have been measuring using objects as part of our topic on 'length and height'. We used cubes, paper clips and counters to do our measuring.

We also put ourselves in height order starting with the smallest and ending with the tallest!

PE

24th January 2023

We have been doing dance in PE this term! Have a look at how much fun we have!

History

23rd January 2023

We are learning about different nurses this term and who has made a significant impact in nursing history! So far we have learnt about Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole and the role they played in the Crimean War. Today we explored Edith Cavell and her role in World War One. We did some role-play for our activity and had a go at acting out different scenarios in partners and in groups. For example, we took turns playing Edith Cavell and having a go at bandaging our partners up who were the soldiers. We also pretended to hide the allied German soldiers as this is something Edith did too!

Computing

17th January 2023

We are exploring robots this term! Today we discussed what a robot is, what they do and why they do it. We also talked about what a command is. Then we had a go at giving our bee-bot floor robots a command and watching them do it.

RE

13th January 2023

We are looking at different religious stories this term. Today we looked at Christian stories and then talked about what we could do to live a good Christian life. One of our ideas was to 'always be kind' so we ended our lesson by shaking each other's hands and saying something kind to one another.

Maths

12th January 2023

Year 2 are exploring money this term! Today we worked in groups to make the same amount of money but using different combination of coins. We discussed this brilliantly! Can you see how much we were asked to make each time?

Maths

12th January 2023

This term, our Year 1 children are exploring numbers to 20. Today they had a go at representing different numbers using different manipulative. Can you see what numbers they have made? 

Maths

9th January 2023

In Maths today, we had a look at different coins and notes. We had very good recognition by the end of the lesson! We put them in order from smallest to greatest amounts and then had a go at comparing them in groups, telling each other which coin/note was greater and which was smaller.

Ice Rink Fun!

14th December 2022

As part of an annual tradition at Smeeth, the ice rink arrived as promised today! Our children had so much fun skating (and falling!) around on the ice! 

Christmas Dinner!

13th December 2022

Geography

12th December 2022

We have spent our afternoon comparing the capital city of Brazil (Brasilia) to the capital city of England (London). Here are some of the facts we have sorted into different groups. We know that whilst Brazil is a larger country compared to England, it has a much smaller population. 

Maths

12th December 2022

Some of our Magpies have been making their own 2D shape patterns today! 

Maths

30th November 2022

We have been building with 3D shapes to help us remember their different names. Check out our train designs below using different 3D shapes.

Maths

28th November 2022

We have started looking at 3D shapes! Today we had a go at sorting them into different groups and explaining why we had put them into these groups with each other.

DT

10th November 2022

We have been looking at fire engines in DT! We've looked closely at the designs of fire engines and how they have changed over the years (dating back to the model of a fire engine during the Great Fire of London!). In groups, we used recyclable materials to build our very own fire engines!

Science

10th November 2022

Today we were investigating with magnets! We learnt that anything which attached to the magnet meant that the object was 'magnetic' and anything which did not attach to the magnet was 'not magnetic'.

Science

3rd October 2022

Today we explored different everyday objects and discussed what everyday materials they were made from. We then put them into a venn diagram to show our understanding.  

English

3rd October 2022

This week we have started looking at poetry. Today we had a go at learning the lines to a simple poem and performing them to an audience in groups. 

Maths

3rd October 2022

We have been comparing numbers to 10 this week in Year 1 using the greater than, less than and equal to symbols!

English

14th September 2022

These are some of our interesting predictions from some of our Magpies on our new story called 'Rapunzel' this term! They looked at the front cover and discussed what they think might happen in the book (without reading it first of course!).

History

13th September 2022

In History this term we are exploring The Great Fire of London. In our lesson today we were looking at the different jobs people did in the year 1666 and compared them to the jobs people did now. We then had a go at acting out a snippet of a job from 1666 in partners for the rest of the class to guess! Can you guess what they are?

PE

8th September 2022

Our indoor PE lesson today with Mrs Horton focused on team building games!

Science

8th September 2022

Today we identified different everyday materials!