Blog Author: Jonathan Fyne

Year 2 have really #enjoyed and #embraced the learning on our Artsmark day celebrating Elmer's birthday. In the morning we listened to Elmer stories and painted our own pictures of Elmer. What super imagination! In the afternoon it was poetry time. We learnt some verses of a poem and performed it…

In our Active Bytes, Online Safety lesson, we talked about our favourite games, apps and websites and if they were age appropriate. We learnt what to say if someone asked us to play a game that was not for our age and to look at PEGI ratings. We then could use the iPads but kept having breaks, for…

We had a great morning in the outdoors with a focus on being creative and using our imagination. We had to find a natural resource and turn it into something else. We had some great ideas. We then had to make shapes using different resources. Our main activity was to create a character from the…

What a great start to the week it was! We enjoyed outdoor PE in the morning sun. We are working hard to improve our throwing and catching skills, as part of our unit of work on invasion games.

This week we have been learning about living things and sources of food. We have worked in small groups to find out the answers to different questions. In one lesson we had to sort the animals into carnivores, herbivores and omnivores. In our next lesson we learnt about what all living things do.…

Programming was a big hit this afternoon as Year 2 were introduced to a new app, Scratch Jr. They loved learning how to move the cat around the screen. You can download the app in the App Store. 

In our Jigsaw lesson we talked about how people communicate using touch. We came up with lots of ideas for touches we like such as a tap on the shoulder, a hug or a pat on the pack. There were also lots of touches that we didn’t like such as pushing, hitting and kicking. 

What a super afternoon we had in Year 2!

As a start to our Wind in the Willows theme, we got to meet and learn about different owls. Gareth taught us lots of new technical vocabulary, such as diurnal, indigenous and crepuscular. He even got one of the owls to fly around the classroom! We were…

Year 2 enjoyed the activities on St George's Day. We used collage techniques to make the St George's flag and composed music linked to the story. We learnt more about the story from a reading comprehension. In the afternoon we performed a dance to the story as either St George, the dragon or a…

Year 2 had the most amazing day at Green Slate Farm, despite the bitterly cold weather. The children thoroughly enjoyed their day and were praised for their excellent behaviour.

Morning activities

In the morning we learnt all about the lifecycle of a plant and planted our own seeds. We could…

In our Online Safety lesson the focus was on protecting devices and learning what to do if pop ups appeared. We learnt not to trust the statements and why we shouldn’t tap on pop ups. We then created our own pop up.

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Year 2 have really enjoyed their gymnastics work this half term. They enjoyed developing their skills on the different apparatus. The ropes were extremely popular! Look at how high some us got to! We are looking forward to our final lesson next week.