Blog by Nicola Hazzard

Year 2 have enjoyed learning all about Florence Nightingale and her impact on nursing during the Crimean war. They loved learning this poem and performing it with their lamps. Well done Year 2 and Mrs B for all your creative history lessons! 
 

The children enjoyed using mirrors in todays maths session to see if there were any vertical, horizontal it diagonal lines of symmetry. Super work! 

We have been looking at homophones and their different spellings in our spelling lessons. The children were looking closely at the following in this session. - to, too, two - see, sea -here, hear - won, one - flower, flour - quiet, quite - no, know Complete the homophone challenge at home! Can you…

Year 2 have enjoyed learning about a new artist - Salvador Dali. He is a Spanish artist who creates unusual dream like creations. We have loved exploring this unusual approach and have made sketches, collages and paintings.

Year 2 had a great day today at the panto and party! Well done Year 2. We also had a special visitor with another little gift!

This half term we have been learning all about digital photography. We know how to take a good photograph, if we should take it in portrait or landscape format, to take a selfie and to edit our pictures to enhance them! Lots of budding photographers in the making!

The children enjoyed a wonderful Christmas yoga session. Looking at the word Christmas and doing yoga poses for each letter, we had lots of amazing ideas including stars, icicles, reindeers, stockings and trees. Well done Year 2!

We are very excited for the countdown to Christmas! We enjoyed meeting Santa and getting an early Christmas present. 

The children have enjoyed looking at new vocabulary relating to their sound topic. They have completed investigations to look at loud, quiet, high, low and fast and slow sounds. They have been using their scientific enquiry skills to ensure they are implementing a fair test! We loved creating our…

The children have loved embedding their number bond skills with practical activities outside! We hid our numicon and then found them looking quickly for a partner who had a bond to 10! Super work Year 2! 
 

The children completed a safety walk around school looking at any potential hazards, recapping our school rules and looking carefully for all the fire exits incase they hear the fire alarm. The children were very sensible and had excellent suggestions to keep themselves safe at all times. 
 

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The children enjoyed learning all about our SCARF scheme of work. Our first lesson was looking at feelings and how our actions can effect other peoples feelings. The children had a wonderful discussion about their emotions and we came up with the motto “It’s good to talk”.  
 

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