Class of 2025

Year 2 have had a great week with lots of Christmas fun and activities.

Year 2 were busy little elves as they worked on their Christmas cards and made sock snowmen! They were so proud of how they turned out!

They have enjoyed lots of Christmas activities in class. Santa's elves game was…

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…

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…

Year 2 have really #embraced our learning this week about the war effort at home on the Home Font. They have examined different sources to help them learn about the role that the Home Guard play. Watch the video of the Delph Side Home Guard 2020.

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Year 2 visited our Victory Garden today to place their poppy stones round our Cenotaph and remember the people who had fought in the wars. They also left some of their messages - "Lest we Forget" "We will remember them"