Jan 25
This term our science topic is Animals, including humans and looking at growth over time. We started by thinking about ourselves and the lifecycle of a human. We brought in photos of ourselves as babies and really enjoyed looking at a gallery and working out who was who! The children then thought about the word …
Jan 18
This term in Geography we will be looking at the UK, focusing more on its position and context within the world. Our main focus will be the world’s rainforests; their locality, climate and layers. After studying the UK and surrounding seas last term, this term we are now focusing on the world map! We began …
Jan 11
The children have returned to school in great form after the Christmas break and have shown they are ready to learn! This week in Maths we have built on our prior learning of rebalancing an equation when adding, to make it easier to calculate and applying this understanding to subtraction. We started by revisiting finding …
Dec 19
What a Christmassy end of term! The children loved performing their Christmas songs for you and were then very proud to share all their hard work! Do keep up with reading over the holidays, the children have books in their bag, do read books from home and if possible, visit the local library. We wish …
Dec 14
The Year 2 children were delighted that some of the crew from Watford Fire Service’s White Watch were able to come and visit us on Tuesday afternoon (after they had to postpone the morning visit due to a call out!) Last week we completed our Tudor Houses in Design Technology, linked to our topic The …
Nov 30
Our next unit of writing is non-fiction! Lots of us are excited to learn the features of a non-fiction text. This unit will focus on recounts and in particular a diary. We began our non-fiction journey with a mystery. As part of the hook of the unit, we had to venture into the corridors and …
Nov 23
This half term Giraffes and Bears have been excited to design, explore and build structures working toward building our own Tudor house, linking to our work in History on the Great Fire of London. We started by thinking about what a structure is:‘something that has been built(the parts joined in an ordered and structured way’. …
Nov 16
This week in Year 2, we begun our science lesson with the word absorbent. We discussed its meaning using our Word Aware strategies at Merry Hill. First, we said the word, next we clapped the syllables in the word, then we discussed its meaning, and finally we rapped the word! We especially enjoyed that last …
Nov 09
As part of our History Curriculum at Merry Hill, we have been thinking in depth about Remembrance. In particular Year 2 have been focusing on the following two questions: 1)Who and what do we remember on Poppy day?2) What can we learn about the past from our local war memorial? We started our week by …
Nov 02
This week we have been focusing on counting on and back in multiples of 10. We started by orally rehearsing our multiples of 10 which went very well, so we new we were ready for a challenge. First, we learnt a very important fact: When we add 10 the ones stay the same and the …