Mar 27
This week we learnt about the spring festival Holi. This is a Hindu festival that celebrates colour! Holi is all about good overpowering evil. In the Holi story we learnt that Prahlad faced several challenges due to not wanting to follow the evil king. Instead, he prayed to Vishnu and he was saved. First we …
Mar 20
On Thursday this week, our Year 2 children took an adventure to the RAF museum to support their current learning on the history of aviation. We began our journey through the sky by exploring the different Hangers and worked on some activities alongside our peers. There were some exciting monoplanes, biplanes and we found our …
Mar 14
This week in Year 2 we have been busy completing an investigation all about height. Mrs Ineson held an assembly telling the whole school how we are going to be scientists this week. She discussed with us how we are all going to be part of a whole school experiment. The question we needed to …
Mar 06
Today has been World Book Day and at Merry Hill a love of reading is at the core of everything we do, so today was especially exciting for us. We began the day with our parents visiting us for a morning read, what fun it was sharing some of our favourite books with our parents! …
Feb 26
Over the last few weeks in English we have been learning about fantasy texts. We learnt the story ‘My Garden’ using a story map and actions to help us, and of course remembered to practise telling it with expression. Once we knew the story really well we looked at a written version of the text …
Feb 13
For the last two weeks, year two have been working really hard learning how to write explanation texts in English. An explanation text is a piece of writing that explains how to do something. We began our unit of learning like every other English unit, with a cold task. This is when we complete a …
Feb 06
This week in Year 2, we have been looking at money. We have focussed on making different combinations of the same amount. To do this, we used our prior learning of our part-whole models and physical money to show how an amount can be made in different ways. We learnt a key sentence this week …
Jan 30
Over the last 3 weeks in English we have been learning to write stories. We started by learning a story called The Great Kapok Tree off by heart. We used a story map and made up our own actions to help us. We thought it was a great story and really enjoyed listening to it …
Jan 21
This term in Art we are studying Yayoi Kusama, a Japanese artist known for her artwork with sculpture and bright colour. We have been learning some key skills a clay sculptor must know. First, we were given the clay tools, a rolling pin and a word mat with different techniques to manipulate clay. For example, …
Jan 16
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 …