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16 December 2020

Year 2 Buildings Art

Year 2 have worked so hard today to design and draw their Buildings. They could choose what resources to use and had the option to also including a print in their work. Pretty impressive work Year 2.

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10 December 2020

Elf Day in Year 2

What a magical day in Year 2!

We have enjoyed different elf activities in class and loved learning how to draw an elf and our elf workout.

A highlight of our day was finding a real reindeer on the playground, although Mr Fyne did not believe us at first!! We got to meet Lightning and…

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9 December 2020

On the playground equipment at last #attendancewinners

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!

 

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9 December 2020

Year 2 Hour of Code

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…

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4 December 2020

Great Fire of London comes alive....

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…

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4 December 2020

Online Safety

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. 

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3 December 2020

The Great Fire of London

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. 
 

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27 November 2020

Year 2 are hard at work in handwriting

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!

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25 November 2020

London! London!

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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20 November 2020

More Art work in Year 2 - Printing and learning about the artist Lucy Jones

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…

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18 November 2020

We love Reading

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. 

 

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13 November 2020

Experimenting with tone and drawing buildings

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.

 

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