Year 2 have been exploring properties of shapes. In this lesson, children explored reflective symmetry. They learnt to identify shapes and images that had reflective symmetry and identified where the line of symmetry lies. They used mirrors to help them with their work.
This morning we have made our Christingles in class. We learnt about the different parts of a Christingle and what they represent: Orange – the world Red ribbon – Jesus’ blood Cocktail sticks – the four compass directions and the four seasons Sweets – the fruits of the Earth Lit Read more…
Year 2 had been invited to the Cherwell Centre today and had such an amazing time. They were treated to a hot chocolate and gingerbread man while surrounded by lots of elves (some naughty ones too). Afterwards they met Santa then went on to have a snowball fight with Elsa Read more…
The Ethos team were invited to design decorations for a tree to be displayed in St Luke’s Church. The children decided that they wanted the tree to represent our school using our Christian values, the nativity and our school colours. They worked hard making the decorations. Today we walked to Read more…
This week, Year 2 Elm enjoyed their first forest school session. They went down to the forest school area and created nature pictures using our finger painting. We then worked on our new skills builder skill of problem solving and worked in pairs to do an autumn scavenger hunt around Read more…
This half term we are learning about keeping healthy. In Science we are learning about the different functions of the body and in Design & Technology we are learning about the healthy food plate. For our first lesson in D&T we have been looking at the different food groups: carbohydrates, Read more…
A big thank you to all of the parents and grandparents that attended our share lunch and learning. It was a big success and the children and adults had a great time. We started our new topic about Human Lifestyle and learnt all about the organs in our body. We Read more…
In geography this half term we are learning about the countries of the UK. In this lesson, we used an atlas to identify where each country was. We then labelled our own maps of UK.
This week, we had 2 special visitors from Natwest bank who came into school to talk to us about money. We completed three different activities. The first one was looking at ‘wants’ and ‘needs’—we discussed how we need to have food, water, clothes, and shelter and how other things are Read more…
We have been learning about light this half term. We used our enquiry skills to learn what light is and how we can see objects. What the difference between day and night is. Which materials are reflective. How shadows are formed and how the size of shadows can be formed.