Blog by Tag: Year 2

Earlier this week Year 2 visited Tesco as part of our new Geography topic ‘Journey of a Fruit Salad’. The children looked at a range of different fruits and their country of origin. This afternoon the children were given the opportunity to taste a range of fruits. They tasted mango, pineapple,…

The children made a shape pattern by drawing around 3D shapes. They then painted the different sections using primary colours.

The children worked in groups to sort animals into vertebrates and invertebrates.

Year 2 enjoyed practising their jumps, rolls and balances in gymnastics today.

Today we were visited by Margaret and Michael from Lancashire Hawks and Owls. They brought some of their amazing birds with them to show us. We learnt lots of facts about the birds and we we able to stroke some of them.

ADDvanced Solutions Community Network has released their Autumn 2 programme, offering support to parents on a wide variety of subjects eg. Organisational skills, Masking, Theory of Mind, Preparing for Christmas and more.  The courses are held in a variety of locations, at different times of the…

The Year 2 Lego club have been very busy this half term, creating and building each Tuesday after school.  Super work!

Year 2 joined a Children’s University masterclass where we heard from an illustrator called Laura who does animations for CBeebies. She demonstrated how to draw a range of amazing monsters and then the children all had a go.

This afternoon the children were comparing the lives and works of Florence Nightingale and Kitty Wilkinson. They worked as a group to sort facts into a Venn diagram.

The children worked in small groups to complete a role on the wall activity describing the appearance and personality of the wolf in the story.

The children worked in table groups to do a range of fine motor skills activities. The focus activity was sewing a felt door onto a felt house wall. 

The children played some jumping warm up games before practising individual skipping techniques.