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Salvation Army
The Year 2 children had a wonderful morning at the Salvation Army. They enjoyed exploring the church by completing a treasure hunt, they tried some of the old Salvation Army uniforms and even had a go at playing some of the brass instruments. It was an informative visit where the children learned Salvation Army in Whitehaven was the 73rd church in the world to be opened, it used to be called the Christina mission, where there is need you will find a Salvation Army and they learned about the gentleman who started the whole thing off: William Booth. The children then enjoyed chatting with the church members over a cup of juice and biscuits.
World Book Day 2025
What a wonderful day we all had celebrating our love of books and reading. The children’s costumes were fantastic and everybody looked incredible. In Year 1 and Year 2 we celebrated one of our favourite authors Julia Donaldson where we enjoyed: designing our own planets for the seeds and the smoos, making our own scarecrows from the scarecrows wedding, creating paper dolls to match the story paper dolls and finally we enjoyed making and eating Gruffalo crumble. It was such a fantastic day and some of the Year 2 children enjoyed reading to the younger children. A great day was had by all!
Baking pancakes
Year 2 were learning all about Lent and why we have Shrove Tuesday (Pancake Day) to help Mrs Murphy get rid of all her sweet things in her cupboards at home so she wasn’t tempted to eat them during Lent they made pancakes. The children then thought about their own, personal Lenten promises.
Art
The Year 2 children were very lucky to have an artist come in and work with them. They worked on their mono-printing skills. All children had a wonderful, art filled day with Anne and created some fantastic mono prints.
Working Scientifcally
The Year 2’s have been scientists and were tasked with trying to find a new path for the dog to get across the bog from the 'Smartest Giant in Town' written by Julia Donaldson by answering the question: Which material is the most stretchy? The children used teamwork skills, math skills and observation skills to investigate the answer. They concluded that the best material would be…a latex balloon because it stretched the furthest.
Being historians
The children have been using non-fiction texts to try and find out what the city of London was like in 1666 before the fire started. They showed great: skimming, scanning, inference and team work skills.
Wheelchair Basketball
Year 2 had a fantastic wheelchair basketball session today. They learned the rules, worked as a team and had a whole load of fun. I think their smiles say it all!
Fluency & Prosody
Some of the Year 2 children are part of the Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Fluency program. Since starting this intervention their automaticity, fluency, understanding and prosody has improved take a look at some of their theatre reading. I was impressed and I am sure you will be too…
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Design & Technology - Cooking and nutrition
This half term in Year 2 we have been learning all about balanced diets. We have learnt about the different food groups and their purposes, we have learnt how to identify the correct equipment to prepare food and we then followed a design brief to create a healthy, balanced wrap. Take a look at what we got up to 🤩
Wildlife photographer
What a wonderful way to start a Thursday! On Thursday 7th November 2024, the Year 2 children had a visit from a wildlife photographer who lives in Kenya, South Africa. He talked to the children about where in the world Kenya is, what continent it is in, about his home, the animals that he gets in his garden: zebras, giraffes and hippos (who like to eat his rose bushes). He chatted to us about herbivores and carnivores and even showed us some videos of how they play fight, run and climb up trees. Finally, he showed us some South African artefacts which we were allowed to try on and explore. Asanti (Thank you) Peter for your wonderful lesson.
STEAM morning
Thank you to the many companies who gave our Year 2 children the opportunity to experience the STEAM days here the children were scientists, technologists, engineers, artists and mathematicians. All of the children had a wonderful morning and showed great team work skills.
Art - Creating pictures in nature
As part of our art topic this half term, the Year 2 children visited Longlands lake and country park to create pictures in nature. The children worked together or individually to use natural materials to create pictures.
Reading theatre
The children in Year 2 have started reading theatre. The children were given short extracts from our guided reading book “The owl who is afraid of the dark” and took on the role of the different types of characters.
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