This week is Children’s Mental Health with the theme ‘being ourself’. We talked about how everyone is unique and special. We’re then given a name of someone in our class and it was our jobs to do something this week to make them smile! This could be anything from leaving Read more
This week we have been learning about keeping safe online. We discussed how using Purple Mash we can complete ‘safe’ searches and what this means – all the content in Purple Mash is created for children, there are no links outside of Purple Mash and details of your work are Read more
We have all completed our PANTS lesson to discuss the importance of keeping safe. We created an acrostic poem to explain what PANTS means: Privates are private Always remember your body belongs to you No means no Talk about secrets that upset you Speak up, someone can help. We then Read more
For our Picture News lesson we have been looking at the effect climate change has had on Antarctica. We discussed different ways we could help and how by doing something small could still help. We then decided what we would like to do to help. Some examples were: turning lights Read more
Our first Forest school session was so much fun. As this was our first time in Year 2 we discussed the rules of Forest school. We then became explorers and went exploring the forest area. We completed a scavenger hunt looking for things like: spiky leaves, rocks, spider webs, feathers. Read more
We’ve had lots of fun for our Christmas party. We played games, danced loads and had party food. Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas 🎄
We have had a lots of fun this week learning about 2D and 3D shapes. To help learn the different properties we drew around 2D shapes using different colours. We then looked at how many vertices 2D shapes have by using string to make each shape and how many fingers 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 children in Juniper have been given the opportunity to run a stall at the Christmas Fair this year and to plan, research, source and make the products that we will sell. The whole class has been involved in deciding what sweet products would sell best, researching Christmas themed sweets, Read more
Last week for Design and Technology we discussed our favourite food then we drew our favourite meal. Afterwards we swapped our meals with a partner and they had to use the checklist to identify the food groups they included in their meal and any that they didn’t include. We then Read more