For our Design and Technology lesson we have been asked to make a healthy wrap. In the wrap we have been asked to think about the different food groups to include: protein -hummus, ham or chicken. Vegetables- tomatoes, cucumber or lettuce. Dairy- cheese. We looked at each food, felt it, Read more
Today, Year 2 were very lucky to take part in a special workshop called ‘Circus Sparks’ with Mick from Skylight Circus Arts. The aim of the sessions is to use circus skills to promote confidence in children. Today, we learnt balancing skills with feathers, plate spinning and tricks, and began Read more
As part of our topic ‘The Great Fire of London’ the children have been learning about fire safety and why The Great Fire of London spread so quickly. This week we had some special visitors come to school to help us with our learning. Some came into our classroom to Read more
For Coding week we have been using Purple Mash to create a program using a given design. We planned an algorithm that included collision detection. We used ‘The Princess and the frog’ to create a set of algorithms. We needed to move the princess to the right then when the Read more
In our maths lessons this week, we have been looking at how to partition numbers. We used Base 10 and Part-whole models to help us learn how to partition numbers in different ways.
This week, Year 2 began their History topic ‘The Great Fire Of London’. Our first lesson was all about fire safety. We began the lesson by talking about and spotting dangers around fire and thinking about where would and wouldn’t be a good place to start a camp fire. As Read more
What a fantastic first week back we have had in Elm! We have refreshed our memory of place value through Maths games, drew our favourite stuffed toys in art, spent time with our friends in Kayden’s garden, wrote new prayers for our prayer jar, sang songs, created art in memory Read more
Year 2 had such a fantastic day at Imagine That – We made lots of fun things and could take them home: bath bombs, slime, magnets, and snow! We had a great time exploring the science room and watched a scientist create a bubble volcano. We also explored the big Read more
This week in Science, we have been learning all about mixtures. We investigated what would happen when we mixed a substance with water. The substances we mixed with water were; washing up liquid, hand soap and bubble bath. We used our fingers as bubble wands to see which mixture would Read more
What a fantastic day we had for sports day! Well done to all of the children, they were amazing and a big thank you to Mr. Tomkins for organising everything. We had lots of fun!