Year Two

To start off this half term, we had a brilliant day dressed as Pirates! The children stayed in character the whole day and really enjoyed being immersed in the topic with lots of different activities. We started the day with Book Talk, with the book 'The Pirates Next...

This week we have started our first computing unit! We have investigated what is information technology, where we would find it and what benefits it has to us. So far, we have sorted out information technology into what is and what is not, did a technology hunt around...

In Maths, we have been looking at place value as our first unit and have been exploring tens and ones. We have looked at representing two-digit numbers in a variety of ways. We have been using multiple manipulatives to practically show our understanding. These have...

The children have started their first Talk For Writing text ‘Little Charlie’, a journey story, and we will be focusing on the fundamentals in writing such as capital letters, finger spaces, punctuation, letter formation and presentation. They have loved starting their...

What an exciting start to Year 2! The children started off our first topic ‘Capital Cities’ by exploring and tasting 4 different foods from the 4 countries in the UK. The children really enjoyed looking for clues as to where they were from. They actually got them all...

With Mr McGrady from NTFC, we focussed again on our fitness, and tried some different skills – on Mondays we should be worn out by the end of the day! Please ensure that your child has their PE kit in school every day. We explored online bullying as a part of our...

What a busy start to the year we have had. We had a snow storm in the classroom this week, to launch our new topic of Wild Weather. We also looked at the weekly weather forecast to see what may happen and even spotted a snow flurry or two. The children were shocked to...

The Autumn 2 Term is always a busy one and we have certainly crammed plenty of learning and fun along the way. We finished the term with creativity in all shapes and sizes. We finished our Nativity play, A Magical Christmas Journey’ – our confidence grew through every...

The children completed a wonderful performance of A Magical Christmas Journey to their grandparents this week, ready to do their performances to the rest of the school and parents next week. We finished our geography topic of Treasure Hunters, by completing a...

Firstly, apologies for the lack of photos this week, as we have been very busy rehearsing our Nativity with our first Dress Rehearsal and our first time on the stage where we will be performing! We are very excited. We even more excited to welcome our families in to...

Linked to our current theme of Treasure Hunters, we explored Cogenhoe using two different maps and learnt about the history of some of the place names. We had a wonderful time and saw our village in a different light. In our Literacy lessons, we wrote a persuasive...