Category: Year 2 Blog

This week we have been learning about our mental health. We took part in activities to learn how we can feel good. We enjoyed the bird watch, Nature day with Julie and Rachel from Park View 4U, making our moving vehicles, suggesting ways to feel good, meditations and reading. During our session in…

What a busy week we have had!

We had some more important visitors in class today when Hugo the tortoise was brought in by Mrs Wodehouse and Oliver. We observed and asked questions so now we know more about these amazing animals.

We have been out in the woods observing and recording seasonal…

Winter was certainly with us this week! On Wednesday we experienced freezing fog and ice on the ground. We had to adapt and how we moved and our play times to keep safe. We recorded our observations on our ipads. 

We also had an exciting visit to the Life Education Bus. We learned more about…

It's been another great week of learning in Year 2.

We have been enjoying our fraction topic in Maths and we can find fractions of amounts using our strategies. We also used what we know to solve problems.

In English we been finding out about the amazing author Julia Donaldson. We will…

Happy New Year and welcome back!

Having enjoyed a lovely, busy Christmas holiday, the children have returned eager to continue learning.

This week we made some new year resolutions. We thought how we could all turn over a new leaf and make a fresh start. We will be reminded of our…

Following our festive sing a long this morning, our term finished with a beautiful liturgy and the children were given the opportunity to reflect and remember the importance of Christ in Christmas.

May I take this opportunity to thank you for your support during this first term in Year 2 and…

Wow -what performances we gave! 'Hey Ewe' was amazing and we hope everyone who watched it enjoyed our version of this wonderful story. Mrs Smith is delighted with us for doing such a great job! Thank you to the parents who helped with costumes, preparing and learning lines and making sure we…

Advent has well and truly started and we are preparing ourselves for Jesus. We have been thinking about what Jesus would want us to do to show love to others.

In science, we have been observing our hyacinth bulbs and predicting how they will grow.

We have continued to rehearse our play 'Hey…

We have been busy rehearsing 'Hey Ewe' this week and Mrs Smith is very pleased that we have all learned our lines and we know what we are doing to retell this version of such a special story.

The Travelling Cribs have started their journey. Please take time to share prayer and reflection when…

This week ended with a beautiful reflective Adoration during Holy Hour. Father David, who had visited us last week to talk about the Montrance, came back to lead us in our Adoration worship. We showed reverence as we shared this special time together. Thank you to our readers; Lewis, Evie,…

This week has been anti-bullying week. We learnt what a bully was and that with help bullies can make better choices and stop! We will remember to tell someone we trust if someone is hurting us so they can help sort it out.

In RE we have been looking back through our homework to help us find…

We have worked hard this week to create our poems about Autumn in Squirrel Wood. We used some really effective word choices to describe what we could see and hear.  eg leaves like scrolls unrolling (Sophia) and a carpet of golden leaves (Michael).

In Maths we completed our unit about 2D shapes…