This week we have created our own wishing tales based on the story of ‘Pumpkin Soup’. First we made our own text maps and planned the 5 parts of our story; opening, build up, (problem) unfortunately, luckily (resolution) and ending. Next we wrote our very own wishing tales. We changed the characters, settings and objects. …

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This half term in Art we have been learning about the Dutch artist Piet Mondrian.  We started by looking carefully at his work. We identified that he only used straight lines and primary colours in his art work. Once we knew about Mondrian’s work we then explored the different elements of his work. We practised …

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This week in Year 2 we learnt how to stay healthy and hygienic. Our key scientist: At the time Louis was alive, people believed that germs like bacteria just appeared out of nowhere! They knew that germs existed, but thought that they could suddenly appear on a person, making them ill. Louis carried out some …

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What marvellous mathematicians we are! For our first week in Year two we have been learning about place value within a two digit number. We have been learning that double digits are made of tens and ones, for example that 14 is made of 1 ten and 4 ones. We have been using our tens …

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This week in Year 2 we have learnt the story ‘Pumpkin soup’. We have learnt about the 5 parts of a story; opening, build up, problem (unfortunately), resolution (luckily) and an ending. We discovered that there are 3 main characters which include a singing duck, a squirrel with a banjo and a cat with a …

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Welcome back, everyone! It has been wonderful to see the bright, happy faces of all the children this week and to meet with you. We’ve had a fantastic start to the new school year, and I’m excited to share what we’ve been up to. At the beginning of the week, our headteacher, Ms Adams,  sent out …

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