Blog Author: Joanne Watson

This term we have been looking at plants and what they need to grow. After planting our own seeds for the garden areas around school, we thought that we would complete an experiment to find out which liquid would be the best to water the plants with:

Water, salt water, orange juice, cola,…

Reading Champions in Year 2

We have had the pleasure of listening to more reading champions discussing why they choose the books they have read, as well as what encourages them to read more at home. 

We have also been able to listen to Mr Banks continue his reading of the 'Magic Faraway…

This afternoon Year Two were visited by some of the RE champions form Parklands to take part in an RE workshop. They had 6 stations and each station looked at different aspects of Christianity and other religions. The students planned activities that really engaged the children and all that took…

Our reading champions this week have been James and Mia. They have shared with us their faviourte books and explained why  these books are their favourite. 

I can't wait to see what the children bring in next week. 

This week Year Two recieved a rather unusaul package. It was quite large with the words BEWARE on the sides of the box. 

"What could be inside?" asked the pupils. We carefully started to open the package and to our surpise we saw two scaly eggs. 

"Where did they come from?" questioned the…

Mother’s Day Assembly

What a wonderful way to end the week with the children celebrating Mother’s day with members of their family.

The children wrote and performed their own poem based on Gemma Lees poem ‘Ethan the Elephant’ and sang a song with Year One to thank their mothers.

At…

Engineering Week

This half term we have looked at materials and famous explorers. So we decided as a class that we would design and build a ship of our own.

First we looked at different materials to see which ones would be waterproof and therefore be used within our designs. After that…

World Book Week

What an exciting week have had in Year Two. We have had three authors visit us, reading champions from our class and we have had secret story tellers. It didn't finish there as the class participated in the whole school potato challenge. I can't believe how amazing some of their…

Yesterday Year Two started their Cheer Leading course with Mrs Smith. They did really well keeping to the beat of the "Fight Song" within their groups. 

Well done Year Two.

Jewish Visitor in Year 2

Last half term, as part of our RE curriculum, the whole school looked at different aspects of the Jewish religion.

This included looking at the bar mitzvah ceremony, the Torah, Shabbat, Sukkah, the exodus of Moses, and Shema – affirmation of the Jewish faith. Since…

This half term Year Two have been looking at Judaism and the festivals of Hanukkah and Sukkot. As a class we thought that we would look at what foods the Jewish people would have to celebrate the end of Hanukkah. We decided to make potato latkes as part of our DT curriculum: To use a wide…

Secret Story teller

How exciting opening the door this week to 2 secret story tellers! Ellison described it as bursting with excitment waiting for the story teller to open the door.

Both Mrs Jolly and Mr Makinson enjoyed reading to the children and sharing their love for reading. 

Who…