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Oct 12
Art – Moulding our clay pots
This half term we have been learning about the English ceramic artist Clarice Cliff. We have loved studying her designs, she loved bold colours and used lots of shapes in her work. We used her ideas to recreate our own designs in our sketch book, using paint and pastels. We have also enjoyed using these …
Oct 05
Scientific Enquiry in Year 2
This term we have been learning about keeping healthy. We started by thinking about the need for humans to eat a balanced diet and what that looks like. The children created their own ‘eat well plates’ showing meals with the advised amount of carbohydrate, protein, fruit and vegetables, dairy and oil/fat/sugar. Next the children thought …
Sep 28
Inclusion Week
This week has been National Inclusion Week and we have been celebrating everything we do at Merry Hill to ensure we are an inclusive school. In our assembly on Monday we learnt the difference between equality and equity. Equality means that everyone has the same chances or gets the same treatment. Everyone is treated equally. …
Sep 21
Maths
This week in Maths we have been thinking about some different strategies to help us with our number fluency to twenty. We have thought about how to use part-part-whole to regroup the same number in different ways, for example 10+2=12 and 11+1=12. We enjoyed showing off all the different ways! Most recently, we have begun …
Sep 15
Funnybones
This week in English we have been reading ‘Funnybones’ by Janet and Allan Ahlberg. We looked carefully at the front cover and tried hard to predict what might happen next at different points in the story. We learnt about labels – what they are and why they are important. We used the Word Aware approach …
Sep 14
Pumpkin Soup
This week we have been working hard to learn the story ‘Pumpkin Soup’ by heart. We worked together in our classes to draw a story map and decide on actions to help us with our retelling. We have discussed the main characters and written sentences about them, remembering our capital letters at the start and …
Sep 07
First week in Year 2
We have really enjoyed meeting and getting to know all the new Bears and Giraffes this week. It has been lovely to see how everyone has grown over the summer! We definitely look ready for Year 2 now. We have been learning about: Handwriting We have started the year with some handwriting practise to get …
Jul 13
What a year it has been!
As we enter our last week of the year, we take the time to reflect on the year we have had. We have had some incredible moments of learning and amazing memories of our school trips. From our Wenzel’s trip, to the vocabulary parade and the Roald Dahl museum, we have had so many different …
Jul 06
Sports at Ashfield
This week Year 2 really enjoyed visiting the Year 5 children at Ashfield for a fun filled afternoon of sports. When we arrived we did a daily mile to warm up ready for the games. Then we listened carefully to the Year 5 children and their teachers whilst they explained and demonstrated each of the …
Jun 29
Roald Dahl Museum
This week Year 2 were very excited and full of magic when they began their trip to the Roald Dahl Museum. When we arrived we were buzzing with excitement as if we we had received our very own Golden Tickets! We were quick to get unpacked and ready to begin the day of adventure. We …