Y2: Gallery
Date: 26th Jun 2024 @ 4:34pm
In book club today we read the story Giraffes Can't Dance - the moral of the story is that you can dance if you find the music that you love!
The children followed step by step instructions to draw their own giraffes complete with our mission statement I CAN!
They also enjoyed listening to a song version of the story.
Date: 26th Jun 2024 @ 4:31pm
How can we find out about the past?
Skill: evidence and interpretation
Year 2 looked at old photographs of Newton le Willows today to begin to find out what life was like in the past. They described what they could see in the pictures, discussed the types of transport that they could see and the clothes that people were wearing.
Date: 26th Jun 2024 @ 4:25pm
Today, Year 2 found out all about the Jewish festival of Hanukkah. They used key vocabulary and were able to describe how the festival was celebrated and why.
Date: 19th Jun 2024 @ 4:27pm
We took inspiration from the interesting illustrations in the book THE TUNNEL by Antony Browne and created our own water colour pieces of art.
Y2 Superhero comic art masterpiece
Date: 14th Jun 2024 @ 3:51pm
We added detail to our pieces and outlined key features in black pen to make them stand out. We put our pieces together to make one big masterpiece.
Date: 12th Jun 2024 @ 4:38pm
Year 2 had an amazing time at Knowsley Safari Park. They saw lots of animals on their walk around, had time to explore the adventure playground and found out lots of fascinating facts in a classroom session. In the afternoon they watched a sealion show and birds of prey display before finally taking a coach tour around the park. It was a fun filled day!
Date: 12th Jun 2024 @ 4:33pm
At book club today we visited our library to find our favourite books by our favourite authors. Then we listened to the story THE TUNNEL by Anthony Browne. We predicted what might happen and recorded our ideas before reading to the end of the story.
Y2 Superhero comic art continued...
Date: 7th Jun 2024 @ 1:37pm
Wow! Take a look at our group pieces. Today we added pen and pastels to our work.
Date: 24th May 2024 @ 1:32pm
Year 2 are working in groups to produce a large piece of superhero comic inspired art.
Date: 16th Apr 2024 @ 12:44pm
In our English lesson today the children worked in pairs to read fascinating facts about orangutans. They then took on the role of nature narrators for an orangutan documentray - just like Sir David Attenborough.
Date: 16th Apr 2024 @ 12:40pm
Year 2 have been learning about the units of measurement - cm and m. Today they estimated which objects in and around our classroom would measure more than a metre and less than a metre. Then they used a metre ruler to check.
Date: 14th Mar 2024 @ 3:48pm
Year 2 developed their throwing and catching skills in PE this week.
Date: 14th Mar 2024 @ 3:46pm
Year 2 have been working so hard on their multiplication and division facts in maths this week. They have completed lots of word problems and talk it, solve it challenges.
Some of the children have been using counters to make arrays and create repeated addition and multiplication facts.
Date: 14th Mar 2024 @ 3:41pm
What food do you need in a healthy diet and why?
Year 2 are learning about what makes a balanced diet. They researched healthy foods and meal ideas on the internet to help them design a healthy meal of their own.
Date: 8th Mar 2024 @ 4:56pm
Another fantastic 'Article of the Month' assembly delivered by our Rights Respecting Team. This month's article is 'Article 23 - A child with a disability has the right to live a full and decent life with dignity and, as far as possible, independence'. The ambassadors did an amazing job of educating our school and introducing this month's activities.
Date: 7th Mar 2024 @ 3:27pm
As part of their PSHRE learning, Y2 have collected pennies for UNICEF. They raised £44! Well done!
Y2 Intra school sports competition
Date: 8th Feb 2024 @ 1:36pm
Year 2 took part in an intra school sports competition today. They completed lots of fitness challenges with a fun pirate theme.
Date: 2nd Feb 2024 @ 2:28pm
Today our reading ambassadors met to discuss their ideas for World Book Day which we will be celebrating on Friday 8th March.
They created posters for the event and displayed them around the school.
Date: 2nd Feb 2024 @ 2:25pm
This week has been National Storytelling Week. Our reading ambassadors led storytelling sessions in Foundation Stage and Key Stage 1. In our assembly on Thursday we spoke about the skills needed to be a good storyteller. We looked at celebrity storytellers such as musicians, dancers, actors, singers and authors.
We are all storytellers!
Date: 2nd Feb 2024 @ 2:21pm
In our reading lessons this week Year 2 have read the poem of THE SPIDER AND THE FLY. In the poem the spider COMPLIMENTS the fly to lure her into his den.
The children made compliments sheets for the fly. This links wonderfully to our quote of the month for January - Mirror, mirror on the wall, give a compliment and that's not all.
National Compliments Day - whole school assembly
Date: 25th Jan 2024 @ 3:51pm
Wednesday 24th February was Natonal Compliments Day. Today we had an assembly to celebrate the process of complimenting and self complimenting. Some of our children shared their own compliments and we watched a video 'The Reflection in Me' about a girl who listens to what her reflection tells her about herself.
The main message was to value ourselves and that when we are kind to ourselves, we feel happier and brighter in general.
Date: 25th Jan 2024 @ 3:46pm
Year 2 enjoyed playing number games on NUMBOTS to help improve their rapid recall of number facts.
Date: 19th Jan 2024 @ 2:06pm
Year 2 have used maps as inspiration for their artwork. Take a look at their colourful maps taking shape.
Date: 18th Jan 2024 @ 4:54pm
Today, the children have participated in an assembly all about World Religion Day.
They have listened to some Learning Clips about different religions across the world.
Then, we talked about the similarities in the religions - with love and care being a central theme to all religions.
