Jul 03
Last week we were jumping, running and sporting our way to a united victory at our highly anticipated Sports Day! We were so thrilled to see our grown ups lining up to watch us as we demonstrated fantastic Merry Hill spirit, determination and team work. The day began with many games! There was an obstacle …
Jul 01
HThis week in maths we have been learning to use the correct mathematical vocabulary to name and describe 3-D shapes. We have really enjoyed using the 3D shapes to help us describe their properties and we have been using these key sentences to help us remember our new learning. The flat surfaces on a …
Jun 16
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 …
Jun 16
Last week Year 2 had a great day celebrating the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. In the morning we went to Ashfield to visit the Year 3 children. They read us a funny story that was called ‘The Queen’s Knickers’. After we all worked together to decorate and make a paper chain. We were very impressed with …
Jun 11
This term in Jigsaw we will be focussing on the Changing Me unit and looking at how we as people change as we grow up. This week in particular we have used retrieval practice to think about what we learnt in Science about the life cycles. We remembered that a living thing has different stages …
Jun 10
This week in Year 2 we have been working hard to write our own Tinga Tinga tales. We began the unit by all learning a myth called ‘Why Elephant has a Trunk’. We looked at the story to identify its features and practised using some of them, such as dialogue and expanded noun phrases. Then …
May 26
Each week we work hard in our music lessons with Mrs Goodwin. We enjoy learning lots of new songs and using the instruments. We have worked particularly hard on our use of vocabulary and are good at using the words tempo, pitch and dynamics. We use retrieval practice to recall the definition of these words …
May 26
This week in Year Two we have been Scientists again! We have been studying food chains and asking questions about them, for example: what would happen if the plant in the food chain doesn’t get its energy from the sun? We began the unit by doing a quick retrieval practice quiz to recall our prior learning …
May 19
This term in Computing we are learning about coding. We started our learning by finding out what coding is and using symbols to give instructions. Once we were confident with that we moved on to reading and creating our own codes using a range of programs on Purple Mash. We have learnt lots of …
May 19
This term in Year 2 we have been studying an artist called Edgar Degas. In particular, we have been thinking this term about the human figure and how this artist draws and paints the human figure whilst they are moving. We learnt he was one of the few artists of his time that would photograph …