Blog Author: Jonathan Fyne

The rain finally stopped and we were able to enjoy our attendance winners award. We were so excited to use the playground equipment. We really hope the weather is fine for the next 2 days!

Year 2 really enjoyed their 'Hour of Code' and explored different programming apps as they learnt to write their own code. It was quite challenging as they progressed through apps and they needed to debug the errors. We used Busy Code on Busy Things and the Bee bot app, Alex and Lego Fix the…

What a great way to learn about the Great Fire of London!
Year 2 loved their GFOL workshop today as they explored life in 1666, helped to build London and then joined in the retelling of the story. They then learnt about the different ways that people tried to put the fire out and attempted the…

Year 2 discussed their online lives and talked about all the different things that they did online. We watched a video to help learn more about keeping safe online and talked about what we would do if we had any worries online. 

Year 2 were so engrossed in their first lesson about the Great Fire of London. After we had a pretend fire drill, we found something in class. It was some burnt bread, cheese and wine! We started to learn about how the fire started and what happened. 
 

Year 2 are working so hard on improving their handwriting. They are learning to take care to form letters correctly, get them the correct size and begin to join letters in their writing. The challenge is to remember to always write as nicely as they do in handwriting!

Year 2 have enjoyed starting to learn about London. We had to find clues to work out which place we were learning about. We then learnt about where London is and facts about London. We played a True False game and even found London on Google Earth  and spotted some landmarks. 

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It has been a busy week in Year 2 with 2 more art lessons linked to our work in buildings. We learnt how to make a print of our drawings by making a foam print. We loved seeing our drawings as a print.

We then looked at the work of Lucy Jones who is an artist and printmaker. We enjoyed…

We are really enjoying our different reading activities in Year 2 during Guided Reading. Groups enjoy reading and even had a go at following instructions from their Guided Reading books. We also enjoy reading comprehension and working out which words are real and nonsense. 

Year 2 started their new art topic today by experimenting with how to draw narrow and broad lines and use tone, using drawing pencils and charcoal. They then looked at buildings in Skemersdale and London and had a go at drawing them.

Year 2 children spend the afternoon revisiting their walk from yesterday. We talked about the different human and physical features that we spotted on the way. We looked at our route again on a map and then had a go at making our own maps of the route. Finally we found Delph Side on Google Earth…

Year 2 went on a walk around our local area as part of our Geography work. We worked on their mapping skills to follow a map of the route and had to spot different human and physical features. We learnt that the river in Skelmersdale is the River Tawd. We also had a go at drawing some of the…