Feb 29
The children have returned to school on great form after half term, ready to learn! In Maths this week we started to work on written addition methods. As calculations increase in difficulty and become harder to solve mentally, it is important for children to be able to record these. We started the week by revisiting …
Feb 15
In English we have been learning about instructions. We were very surprised when we came in from playtime to see a trail of glitter through the corridor and in to our classroom, we didn’t know where it could have come from! Our teachers then found a letter on each of their chairs. We were very …
Feb 15
For the last week, year two have been learning all about calligrams. We learnt that a calligram is a set of words arranged in a way that represent its meaning. We began by practising calligram words. We thought hard about how to draw some words, take a look below at some of our wonderful work. …
Feb 08
As a school we have all enjoyed learning about Andy Goldsworthy, an artist who loves working with nature. Year 2 have really been inspired by his work. Andy Goldsworthy image Here is a power point all about his life with incredible images of his art: As we viewed his work we asked the following questions:– …
Feb 02
The children looked splendiferous as they entered school today! They all really enjoyed becoming word detectives to find out the meaning of new words as well as celebrating the range of words we knew. Some children celebrated words in their home language, others chose words from their favourite sport and some from books, conversation and …
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 …