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4 July 2019

Aspirations Week

Day 2

Today we went on a visit to Fylde Fish Bar, in Burscough, to learn about working in a fish and chip shop. We found out about the different jobs that you can do there and also got to make our own homemade fishcakes. We enjoyed tasting them with some chips! We also learnt about the…

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1 July 2019

Aspirations Week - The Prison Service

Year 2 enjoyed the first day of aspirations week. They talked about the jobs that they would like to do when they were older. A highlight of the day was meeting the Prison Service and learning about what they do. The children got to meet Alfie, the sniffer dog, who showed the children how he could…

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30 June 2019

Formby Beach

What an amazing day out at Formby Beach! 
In the words of the children, Year 2 enjoyed their "best school trip ever" on a sweltering hot day at Formby Beach. Children enjoyed collecting natural resources and then making a picture in the shaded Pinewoods. After lunch they enjoyed playing on the…

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21 June 2019

Silver Award Winners

What an amazing day we had after finding out we were silver award winners!

We loved our BBQ lunch and thoroughly enjoyed all activities, including the inflatable slide, assault course, circus skills and meeting the farm animals. Laughter, fun and smiles all afternoon!  The consensus was…

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16 June 2019

A busy week in Year 2

It was an action packed week in Year 2. We enjoyed the Mile a day in the sun on one of the only days it did not rain. In History we are learning about seaside holidays in the past and worked a group to sort the photos into photos from today and the past. In Maths we logged into Times Tables…

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16 June 2019

Making owl puppets

Year 2 have loved making their owl puppets. They designed their owls and then had a go at joining materials using a running stitch and then added details to finish their creations. They were very proud of their finished work.

 

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7 June 2019

Year 2 Zoo Lab

What a fantastic end to the week! We had a visit from Zoolab who brought us in lots of different animals to meet. We learnt facts about the animals and their habitats, which linked to our science work from last term, and were even allowed to stroke and hold some of the animals.

 

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4 June 2019

Elmer Day in Year 2

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…

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25 May 2019

Online Safety - Keeping healthy online

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…

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25 May 2019

Outdoor learning

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…

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19 May 2019

Outdoor PE in the sun

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.

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19 May 2019

Science - Living Things

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.…

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