This week Year 2 revised their knowledge of sentence types and suffixes through outdoor active lessons. We played Formula 1 Suffixes, speeding through an obstacle course to retrieve a route word to take back to our groups, before deciding which suffixes it connect with and working together to spell the Read more…
This year for Safer internet day the theme is ‘Want to talk about it? Making space for conversations about life online’. We started the day with an assembly delivered by the digital leaders who shared the importance of staying safe online. They encouraged children to talk about what they do Read more…
This week, Year 2 learnt about First Aid as part of our SCARF Learning For Life lessons. We first discussed what first aid is and why it is important. We then labelled a body outline with injuries that a First Aider may help with. We then looked specifically at Asthma Read more…
Today, the whole school celebrated NSPCC Number day by coming to school dressed as numbers and bringing a donation for the NSPCC. We also took part in numerous maths games and activities throughout the day including board games, colourings and numerous active games that also helped us to practise addition, Read more…
Today, the whole school celebrated Children’s Mental Health Week by coming to school wearing their clothes inside out. This lead our learning about talking about our feelings on the inside and how we keep good, positive mental health. We discussed our 5 ways to wellbeing, and took part in an Read more…
This week in forest school we have been using outdoor materials to make a cross. This is going to be part of a hall display for the Christian value – forgiveness.
This week we have been learning about Pocahontas in our computing lesson. In computing our unit is called ‘Effective searching’ so we have been using the internet to search for facts about Pocahontas. We worked really well together to complete the quiz questions about Pocahontas’ life.
In both English and Grammar lessons, Year 2 have been learning verbs, nouns, adjectives, adverbs and how to write expanded noun phrase. In Grammar this week, we consolidated our learning by playing the silly sentence game. We rolled a dice to pick a noun, adjective, verb and adverb, then we Read more…
Some of our Year 2 children have completed the phonics programme and are now taking part in daily Guided Reading sessions. Throughout the week, the children work in small groups to answer verbal questions and complete independent task based on a book. They make predictions, show skills in skimming and Read more…
We have been learning about Pocahontas this week and have been putting events in order on a timeline. We then discussed how she helped others or changed lives and what she did that was unusual or remarkable.
