Year 2 visit to Santa at the Christmas disco
We are very excited for the countdown to Christmas! We enjoyed meeting Santa and getting an early Christmas present.
Investigating sound - Year 2
The children have enjoyed looking at new vocabulary relating to their sound topic. They have completed investigations to look at loud, quiet, high, low and fast and slow sounds. They have been using their scientific enquiry skills to ensure they are implementing a fair test! We loved creating our…
Outdoor number bonds
The children have loved embedding their number bond skills with practical activities outside! We hid our numicon and then found them looking quickly for a partner who had a bond to 10! Super work Year 2!
Safety first
The children completed a safety walk around school looking at any potential hazards, recapping our school rules and looking carefully for all the fire exits incase they hear the fire alarm. The children were very sensible and had excellent suggestions to keep themselves safe at all times.
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PSHE - How are you feeling?
The children enjoyed learning all about our SCARF scheme of work. Our first lesson was looking at feelings and how our actions can effect other peoples feelings. The children had a wonderful discussion about their emotions and we came up with the motto “It’s good to talk”.
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Jack and the beanstalk - year 2
Our cross curricular topic this half term is plants. We have been linking this with English and looking at the story ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’. We enjoyed hot seating the Giant in the story to explore the character and his feelings. We enjoyed learning new vocabulary and finding out what the words…
Position and Direction - Year 2
In Year 2 we have been using our previous knowledge of fractions and time to help us with turns and movement. We were able to turn 1/4 or 1/2 turns both clockwise and anti- clockwise. We enjoyed learning this really practically both indoor and outside in partners. We were able to give instructions…
Year 2 - Furness Abbey
Year 2 are learning about Furness Abbey in their local history topic this half term. We loved having a visit to the Abbey, looking at the ruins, exploring in Abbots wood and enjoying a fantastic fun filled day in the sunshine! We are now very much looking forward to our history lessons!
Secret Agent Training
Year 2 are half way through our Secret Agent Training and have had a day to reset our Growth Mindsets! We enjoyed creating secret agent masks, solve maths and English problems, sneak around school practising our spy skills and complete an obstacle course to ensure we are physically fit and ready…
Easter Bunny visit
We have had an exciting week this week with some sightings and pictures of the Easter Bunny. This has been a great stimulus for writing and created lots of where, when, why, who and what questions to think about. The children all created a newspaper report about the special visitor and we were…
Friendship Friday - Year 2
In year 2 we are really thinking about how we can be the best we can be! Whether that is being super resilient when it comes to writing, having a good growth mindset during maths, being the best friend that we can be and looking after our own mental health. We have a few mottos in year 2 that we…
Word processing - Year 2
We are enjoying our word processing computing topic and have already enjoyed exploring the keyboard and the different keys. In today’s lesson we looked at changing the size, colour and style of the font. We also linked it to our value this half term - friendship. We used our computing and PSHE…
