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  • Mary Poppins and migration!

    Published 25/02/22

    Year 2 has had a busy start to this half of the term! The children are thoroughly enjoying our new class reader, 'Mary Poppins', and have done some excellent work in English linked to the book. They read the letter, sent from Jane and Michael Banks, to Mary Poppins, advertising for a new nanny. They explored the ideas, language and sentence types used, and then came up with their own requirements for a new nanny. On Thursday, they wrote their own letter to a Nanny. Here is an extract from Toby's letter:

    You are wanted for two strong boys who live in a lovely house in Sheen. You must have the best video games, the largest TV and the greatest Fifa mobile. As well as this, you have to be cool, witty and amazing! Don't be unpleasant, rude or unfair. 

    In maths, the children learnt how to use arrays to write repeated addition sentences and multiplication sentences. In geography, we read 'Coming to England' by Floella Benjamin and discussed how she might have felt, leaving her home country of Trinidad, and arriving in England. The children had a colour-filled art lesson where they learnt about primary, secondary and tertiary colours. They mixed colours to create new colours and experimented using their paintbrush in different ways: stippling; creating dots; and using long and short strokes.

    They are very much looking forward to continuing reading Mary Poppins in English, and making their cars in DT next week! ​

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  • A motivating Mental Health Week!

    Published 10/02/22

    This week in Year 2 we have been celebrating Mental Health Week with a range of activities. We have been discussing what a Growth Mind-set is and how challenges help us learn and grow. In addition, we have been meditating, doing yoga and using calming techniques to help us feel our best self. Year 2 are very good at communicating our feelings using the Zones of Regulation and helping our classmates feel calm and safe. Finally, we have been discussing our goals for the future. We decided that having a positive attitude and never giving up could allow us to achieve anything! Have a peaceful and relaxing half-term.

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  • Taking our time with time!

    Published 03/02/22
    In maths this week, Year 2 have been reviewing their understanding of time.  We recapped on telling the time to the hour and half past the hour. We then looked at quarter to and quarter past times, before moving on to solving time problems. In E
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  • Touring London and animal reports!

    Published 27/01/22
    Year 2 have really been enjoying their geography topic of 'London'. First we went on a London bus tour where the classroom was set up like a tour bus. We used our tickets to board and our teachers took us on a tour. We saw amazing landmarks l
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  • Butterfly life cycle and jars of positivity!

    Published 21/01/22
    Year 2 have been absolute superstars this week whilst all their class teachers have been unwell! They have worked hard at school, and at home, and have continued with their brilliant learning. This week Year 2 have linked Science and English to resea
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  • Affirmations, poetry and bee-bots!

    Published 12/01/22

    A great start to the year! 

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  • Poetry, partitioning and people!

    Published 07/01/22

    The children have had a super start to the Spring Term. They were eager to tell us all about their Christmas Holidays and wrote superb recounts. In English, the children have explored some interesting poems and thoroughly enjoyed performing them.  They then wrote their own shape poems and enjoyed reading Benjamin Zephaniah's poem 'People need People'. They wrote some brilliant poems about how people need people in their lives, using  Benjamin Zephaniah's poem as their inspiration.

    In maths, the children have been partitioning numbers into different combination of tens and ones. This term's science topic is 'Animals' and the children enjoyed finding out about the different animal groups and sorting animals into the correct categories.

    In geography, the children used atlases and maps to locate continents  and to explore the UK in greater detail. Well done to all the children for making such a positive start back to school. We look forward to all the fun and exciting things ahead!

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  • Forest schools, fire and festive fun!

    Published 17/12/21

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  • Measuring and recycling!

    Published 10/12/21

    This week in Year 2 we have been finishing our own version of the story of Lost and Found. We are so proud of the wonderful stories that Year 2 have created this half term, they have been working so hard! In maths we have been looking at measurement and learning about millimetres, centimetres and mitres. We have had lots of fun measuring different things around the classroom. Finally, in science we finished off our topics of Everyday Materials by creating a collage made from recycled materials. Year 2 are very passionate about protecting the environment and fighting climate change.

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  • More story writing and money!

    Published 02/12/21
    This week, Year 2 have continued to write their Lost and Found stories and produced some wonderful work which included conjunctions, adjectives, adverbs and some ambitious vocabulary. We are looking forwards to finishing the ending next week. In scie
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  • Travelling to the South Pole!

    Published 26/11/21

    What materials would we use to make a waterproof bag?

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  • Lost and found!

    Published 19/11/21

    This week in English we have continued to look at the story of Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffers. We are now very good at re-telling the story using actions. This really helped Year 2 to create a story map using words and pictures to recount the tale. Year 2 also created a 'Lost' poster for the Penguin from the story. This included a description of what he looks like, his personality and what he likes to do for fun. We were very impressed with the students detailed descriptions and extravagant offers of rewards. We have also enjoyed looking at 'Why light is so important to Christians' in RE and using collage in art.

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