We had a fantastic time at forest school today. We celebrated the big garden bird watch and made some bird feeders and hung them from the trees. We toasted marshmallows on the fire and made s’mores. We also built dens and explored the trees and nature.
We have been learning all about space this half term in science in Year 2. This week we looked at what planets are in our solar system and learnt all of their names. We then used inflatable planets and put them in order from the sun.
This half-term, Year 2 are working with clay in Art. In our first lesson, we went down to our forest school and explored the Clay by experimenting with tools to make marks, shaping the clay with our hands and then making a model of our choice. In the following lesson, Read more
We made our own Christingles in class together. We thought about what each part means and what it represents. We then wrote some prayers and coloured in some Christingle pictures.
Today, our Ethos Council went to visit Springbank care home along with the Ethos council from Holy Family. The Ethos council children made Christingles with the residents and explained what each part means. They also helped to colour in pictures of Christingles and then wrote prayers for the residents. At Read more
We have introduced our new story MeerKat Christmas. We have looked at the shapes so we know how to set out a postcard. We looked at the journey of a postcode from being posted in the post box, going through the post office and finally getting to its destination. We 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
We have been learning about sacred books in our new topic for RE. In this lesson we learnt about the story of ‘the lost coin’, we discussed that it was a special type of story called a parable and Jesus told parables to help people learn something or understand ideas. Read more
As part of our Great Fire of London topic we having been thinking about fire safety. We decided to help others stay safe as bonfire night is approaching. We made fire safety posters and displayed them around the school to help keep everybody safe on Bonfire night.
Year 2 had a fantastic time today exploring prayer in different ways. We watched some videos showing how Christians in Ethiopia live and what they do when they go to church. We thought about how their church was very different to ours. We discussed that even though the church was Read more