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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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