Year 2 visited our local library during our world book day. We browsed in the children’s library and enjoyed reading a story called ‘The Day the Crayon’s Quit. Back in the classroom, we re-read the story and based our learning on the text.
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Jan 30 2023
History – Great Fire of London
Year 2 have explored the events of The Great Fire of London. We looked at how and where it started and that it happened in 1666. We learnt that it destroyed most of London and that six people lost their lives. This led us to think about what went wrong and what the people in …
Nov 28 2022
What is Weather?
In topic this half term, our focus is Geography: Antarctica. We have been learning about weather and comparing weather in the UK to Antarctica. We know that weather and climate is determined by lines of latitude and how close or far away a place is from the North and South Pole and the Equator. We …
Nov 28 2022
Verbs…
In Year 2 we have been learning about a range of grammatical devices. This week our focus is verbs. Today we discussed that a verb is an action/ doing word. We then made up a song to help us remember what verbs are. We then acted out a range of verbs. Finally, we challenged ourselves …
Nov 28 2022
Always, Sometimes or Never…
This week in maths we have worked together in partners to decide whether mathematical statements are sometimes, always or never true. For example, one statement said “if you add two even numbers together, the answer is always odd”, we had to work together to put the statements to the test. We done this by showing and …
Nov 28 2022
West End in School…
Last week we were thoroughly excited to experience West End in School. We had a visit from them and got to participate in a session full of dance, drama and fun! We were retelling the story of Man on the Moon, through facial expressions, body language and dance. Here are some pictures from our session…
Nov 14 2022
Bhaktivedanta Manor…
Today we visited a Place of Worship. We went to the Hindu Temple, Bhaktivedanta Manor. Here we got to visit the shrine, where people come to pray and worship the Hindu Gods. We listened to some percussion instruments and the song ‘Hare Krishna’. We then went on to learn about the story of Rama and …
Oct 16 2022
A Mischievous Monster…
Last week we arrived back to our classroom from playtime as normal and we were faced with a huge mess! We couldn’t believe our eyes. Someone or something had been in our classroom! We began to look around the room for clues as to who was responsible for this mess. We found a picture and …
Oct 03 2022
Mathematical Representations…
In maths, it is important that we are able to understand how to represent things in a variety of ways. Today we were reminding ourselves of Number Bonds to 10. We then represented the number bonds in a range of ways. For example, we used Tens Frames, Number Sentences, Numicon and Part-whole Model.
Oct 03 2022
Room on the Broom…
As part of our work on enriching our pupil’s curriculum and bringing Literacy alive, our children were extremely keen to visit Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson, in theatre. The show was so exciting and engaging!
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