On Thursday afternoons this half-term, Year 2 are completing a carousel of activities to improve various skills. They are improving their letter formation using ‘bubble writing’, working on their comprehension skills using information based on our current topics, practising their spellings through a variety of activities and, this week, practised Read more…
We took part in ‘The great science share’, we worked win groups to complete a rainbow colour mixing experiment. We poured a cup of milk into a bowl, we then dropped food colouring in different areas then dropped washing up liquid into the centre to watch what happened. Then we Read more…
Year 2 have been working hard completing their assessments this week. Wow! Miss Lomax and Mrs Graham could not be any prouder of them all! They have worked so so hard not just this week but all year- this has really shown in their recent work! Well done Year 2! Read more…
This half term in computing we have been looking at spreadsheets. We setup a shop on a spreadsheet on purple mash. We had to add a food item at the top and add a price next to it. We then used the add button and equals so the spreadsheet could Read more…
This morning we’ve been to the Golden mosque in Rochdale. We had a fantastic day and have learnt lots of information about the Islamic religion. The children were really well behaved and really enjoyed looking around the mosque.
In gardening club over the last 2 weeks, we have had lots of fun making caterpillar grass heads and creating watercolour paintings. We have planted plugs into our planters and we hope to see some growth soon.
This week in Guided Reading, we began our new book ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’. The children were really excited to begin this story. They have been fantastic at answering prediction, retrieval, inference and grammar questions about the pages they have read so far. Some children have also been adding Read more…
We have started our new art topic this week- Map it out. For our first lesson we have been investigating maps as a stimulus for drawing. We looked at a range of different maps and discussed which ones look old or new, real or imaginary, useful or art. We talked Read more…
On Wednesday, we had a really exciting Easter Fun afternoon. We used natural materials to decorate Easter cards, we went on an Easter egg hunt on Kayden’s garden, we spotted the Easter bunny, we drank hot chocolate and ate Easter treats left by the bunny, watched an Easter Film and Read more…
We have been working together to create a chair for Baby bear. We needed to work together to make a chair that would not only be comfortable but would be strong as well. Once we finished the chairs, we tested how many books we could put onto them before they Read more…