Reduce, reuse, repurpose!
On our return to school this week the children in year 2 found the cloakroom full of rubbish! They were very annoyed and wondered where it had all come from. This started the discussion for our new unit - reduce, reuse, repurpose! The children had an excellent understanding of what we should do…
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Christmas week
The children in Year 2 have been working hard on their Owl and the Pussycat poems in English and telling the time in Maths this week. They have also been writing about the Nativity and had fun making felt owls, Christmas cards and calendars. Today was Christmas dinner day and the children looked…
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Dream house competition
Huge thanks once again to Ascot Homes for allowing us to visit their construction site as part of our work in Science. Congratulations to Julia, Zoe and Zach who won their Dream House competition. They were presented with their prizes from Ascot Homes by John and Nick.
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Egyptians with Y6
Later in the year we will be learning about the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb. This week we visited Y6, who told us all about the Ancient Egyptian artefacts that they had been learning about. Y6 were very knowledgeable and made great teachers. We particularly enjoyed writing messages using…
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Year 2 Trip to D’urton Rise
Year 2 had a fantastic morning at D’Urton Rise housing development. After putting on our high-viz vests and hard hats we had the chance to look around a part-constructed house. Nick, the site manager, explained which materials they use to build different parts of the house and we discussed the…
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Geography
Over the last couple of weeks we have been learning the names of the seven continents. We played a game on the yard to locate the continents on a map drawn on the floor. In class we practised finding them on a world map, on a globe and in an atlas. See if your children can remember the names…
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Keeping safe
In Year 2 we have been learning about people who help to keep us physically healthy and safe. We thought about the people in school who keep us safe. Mr Hannah visited our classes and told us about how he makes sure our school is a safe place. The children listened well and asked Mr Hannah some…
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2B visit to Blackpool Sealife Centre
2B had a fantastic day at Blackpool Sealife centre learning all about ocean habitats. They made careful observations like real scientists and found out lots of facts! Well done 2B, we are proud of how well you represented our school.
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Sealife Centre Blackpool
2Sacrament had a fantastic time at Sealife Centre this week. They found out lots of facts about ocean habitats and identified features on the different types of sea creature. Their behaviour and interest was excellent and we were very proud of how well they represented our school.
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World Book Day
We had a fantastic day, reading books and completing book related crafts like these super corner bookmarks.
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Recycling
Happy New Year! Year 2 have made an excellent start to their new unit of work this week. In the coming weeks we are going to be learning more about how to reduce waste, re-use/re-purpose items and the importance of recycling.
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Levers and sliders
In Design Technology we are making our own moving pictures using lever and slider mechanisms.
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