b"Issue 14 The British School of AmsterdamYear 2 Year 3Year 2s Autumn term started offYear 3 have had a great start with much excitement when anto the year and have been abandoned hot air balloon wasbusy with their learning. found in the school playground!They hit the ground running with their Netherlands They discovered it had started its journeytopic learning about the Netherlands and the in Paris and had ended up in the Britishchallenges it has faced being a low-lying country.School of Amsterdam, so very quickly setThe children challenged themselves to find solutions about working together to find out more!to this problem and then learned some of the measures the Netherlands has put into place to They wrote about their discoveries andprotect itself from the sea. A highlight of our topic predictions using a range of very interestingwas our visit to the Zuiderzee museum in Enkhuizen describing vocabulary. There is rarely a quietwhere the children were transported back in time day in Year 2, which was certainly the caseto experience school life in the past and even got when later in the term they had a surpriseto dress in traditional costume from the local area. visit from Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella,We also looked at traditional canal houses and were Prince Charming, Hansel and Gretel!lucky enough to have our own artist in residence, The characters told them lots about theirMrs Breeze, run a workshop on showing her own lives and their individual stories whichclay work (based on Amsterdam houses) which inspired the creation of many Twisted Tales,the children replicated in their own creative way. in which the children wrote about well- The children were pleased with their resulting clay known stories with an unexpected twist work and have produced some creative pieces. they made for extremely gripping reading!The second half of the term was just as packed Amongst all of this, the children settled intowith our Ancient Egypt topic. The children Year 2 and have quickly adapted to their newlearnt about Howard Carter's discovery which happened 100 years ago, this November. routines and risen to the expectations.Amazingly the children had their own tomb to They have adapted to Junior School lifediscover and even an Egyptian Museum in the seamlessly and new friendships have beenYear 3 shared area. In English, the stories of made as children who have joined the yearthe Egyptian gods gave the children great ideas group have been made to feel welcome.to create their own Egyptian Myths and Tomb Discovery adventure stories. We learnt about food and farming; Egyptian gods and beliefs and even made our own miniature coffins and mummies. The highlight of the topic was Egyptian day in which the children mummified bananas and crafted their own jewel of the Nile necklace! They danced, sang and feasted their way through the day! YEAR 2YEAR 39"