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Jan 21
Exploring the Rainforest!
This week in Year 2 we have been travelling across continents and swinging through the layers of the rainforest! In English, we have been learning the story the Great Kapok Tree. This story is about a man who ventures into a rainforest to chop down the special Kapok Tree, but the sacred animals of the …
Jan 14
Special Places
This week in RE we have been thinking about places that are special to us. We decided a special place could be used for lots of different occasions. It might be somewhere that helps us to feel calm, somewhere we can go when we want to be on our own, a place to go when …
Jan 13
What We’ll Build
This week in PSHE we have been thinking about our own goals for the new year. For this, we began our lesson in a circle time with the book ‘What We’ll Build’ by Oliver Jeffers. This beautifully illustrated book is a tale of a father and daughter laying the foundations of their lives together. Using …
Jan 06
Welcome Back
It was lovely to see so many smiling faces back at school on Wednesday morning. There was lots of excitement to see our friends again and share news about our holidays. Year 2 have been keen and eager to get straight on with their learning this term. In our Mastering Number sessions we have been …
Dec 17
Festive Spirits!
We have been overcome this week with excitement for Christmas! I’m sure lots of Year two children have come home this week abuzz with festive spirit. The classrooms have fueled our excitement even more, which you can see in these pictures of our advent calendars, Christmas walls and trees! We were very busy this week …
Dec 16
Great Fire of London Carts
This half term we have been learning all about vehicles, the parts they are made from and how they are made. This is because we wanted to make our own carts that could carry our belongings away in case there’s ever a ‘Great Fire of Bushey’. We were very interested to learn about Kiichiro Toyoda …
Dec 10
Designing Cars!
As you may know, this term in our Time Travellers topic we have been learning all about the Great Fire of London. In Giraffe’s and Bears we are very lucky to have a fiery display and last week we had the awesome opportunity to add to our class display by crafting our very own burning …
Dec 09
Greater than and fewer than
This week in Maths we have been using ‘greater’ and ‘fewer’ to compare 2 digit numbers. We started by thinking about other words that mean the same as greater than and fewer than. Our teachers wanted us to explain how we knew which number was greater than or fewer than. We decided we could explain …
Dec 03
Morning handwriting
We have been working really hard to improve our handwriting this half term. Every morning when we come in to school we put our things away and then sit at our tables to get going. We have been making sure that we start and finish our letters in the correct place and thinking about the …
Dec 03
National Tree Week
This week in Mini Explorers, we have been celebrating National Tree Week. This is the UK’s largest annual tree celebration when lots of volunteers around the country are dedicating their time to the environment by planting new trees, preserving old ones and so much more. So, Mrs Mitzman and Mrs Rogerson thought this would be …