Class of 2018
Exploring texts about dinosaurs
This week in English we have started learning about non-fiction texts and the children have really enjoyed reading a variety of texts about dinosaurs. We have used our knowledge of the features of non-fiction texts to sort them into fiction and non-fiction!
Category: Class of 2018
Homophones!
Class 2 have been working hard in their phonics lessons where we have been focusing on our Phase 5 Alternative sounds! We have now started our spelling lessons and all of the children have really impressed Miss Hole and Miss Ewen with their enthusiasm and understanding of the homophones we have…
Category: Class of 2018
Scarecrows!
Over the half term, Class 2 were set the challenge of designing, making and evaluating a scarecrow that we could use in our outdoor classroom to protect the carrots that Year 6 have planted! This week we have shared our learning logs with each other and some of the children brought their…
Category: Class of 2018
Tags: Class 2 Design Technology Science
What is chronological order?
Miss Hole and Miss Ewen have been so impressed with Year 2's incredible attitude to learning upon returning from the holidays. We started off our week with our Launch Day for our new History topic.....Significant People in History!
The children worked hard to solve a number of challenges such…
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The World's Seven Continents
Year 2 have been working really hard during their Geography unit on locational knowledge. We have been learning about the five oceans and seven continents of the world. Today, the children were tasked with labelling a world map with all the continents and they did an excellent job! The children…
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Our amazing School Councillors
On Friday, Class Two listened to 6 exceptional speeches as we selected our new school councillors. It is no easy task to write a speech and talk to all of your peers and they did a brilliant job at explaining the qualities that they could each bring to the role. All of them should feel incredibly…
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Exploring our provision areas
Class Two have been deepening their understanding of the different topics we have covered this half term with an afternoon spent accessing the practical activities in the classroom. It was brilliant to see the children so engaged and working alongside one another to challenge themselves. The…
Category: Class of 2018
Tags: Class 2
Animal Habitats
During our SITE launch, Class 2 received a letter from Farmer Pete saying that he had seen lots of animals over Summer and he wasn't sure that they would be able to make shelters for the Winter months. After investigating our local habitat, children identified evidence of different animals such as…
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Music with our homemade instruments!
Year 2 are thoroughly enjoying their music lessons with Mrs Crowley. They have been exploring body percussion. Today they brought in their own homemade instruments and discussed all of the different sounds that they can make. Some excellent music was created!
Category: Class of 2018
Tags: Music
Skip counting in 3s and 5s
Class 2 have been working hard in maths on place value and our understanding of 2-digit numbers. Today we practised our skip counting forwards and backwards in 3s and 5s with numbers up to 100 to help us understand 'more than' and 'less than' when compared two 2-digit numbers.
The…
Category: Class of 2018
Tags: Maths
The Dot
In Art, Class 2 have read 'the dot' by Peter Reynolds. This story explains that art is all about expressing yourself and having confidence in your art work as everyone has the ability to be creative.
After completing some painted dots in our sketch books, the children explored with chalk on…
Category: Class of 2018
Tags: Art
Creating our own freeze frames
Class 2 have being getting to grips with their focus text for English which is Harry and the Bucketful of Dinosaurs.
The children have been thinking carefully about the plot and how Harry is feeling at each stage of the book. Today, the children created freeze frames and used their body…
Category: Class of 2018
Tags: English