Spring Term Week 2
We have worked super hard this week and had lots of fun too! In English, we have been continuing to improve our descriptive writing and have tried hard to use adjectives and noun phrases in our writing. We have also put ourselves in the place of the characters in the book and have written a…
Spring Term 1 Week 1
Happy New Year! This week, we have enjoyed talking about our adventures over the Christmas holidays. In English, we have started to look at the book Katie in London. We have made predictions about what we think is going to happen in the story, written question and exclamation sentences and have…
Autumn 2 Week 7
We have had a brilliant last week at school. On Monday, we got to perform our Nativity to an audience! We were very nervous and excited but loved every minute of it. Miss Derry was very proud of us all. Our Christmas crafts were started on Tuesday. We loved making gingerbread house Christmas…
Autumn 2 Week 6
We started off the week by performing our Christmas Nativity for video. We loved being on the stage and in our costumes. On Tuesday we went to the post-box and posted our letters to Father Christmas. We all said a little Christmas wish as we sent them on their way to the North Pole. During the…
Autumn 2 week 4
We have been very excited this week because the Christmas tree has gone up in the classroom. In English, we have started a new unit using the book How to Catch a Santa. We have looked at letter writing and have written letters to Father Christmas that we are going to go and post next week. We have…
Autumn 2 Week 3
We have had a great week this week starting to learn the words for our Christmas performance and sing the songs. Miss Derry is very impressed with how hard we have been working. In English, we have come to the end of our unit looking at the story of Pinocchio and have rewritten the story. Some of…
Autumn 2 Week 2
The highlight of our week this week has been the pizza making. The children have been excited about it all week. They rolled out their own dough, put tomato sauce on the base, added cheese and other toppings that they chose. A big thank you to Mrs Pitchford for providing the dough and pizza boxes…
Autumn 2 Week 1
We have had a fun and busy first week back. In Design and Technology our topic is all about pizzas. We have taste tested different types of bread and talked about what would make a good pizza base. Tasting different pizza toppings was also a highlight. Some of them we liked and some we really…
Autumn 1 Week 8
The highlight of our week was our visit to the Wedgewood Museum in Stoke. We had a fantastic time! We were given the opportunity to paint our own pots, which Miss Derry is going to display in the classroom. A tour around the factory, taught us how the pots are made and glazed. We were fascinated…
Autumm Term 1 Week 7
This week in Maths, Year 2 have been learning about counting forwards and backwards in tens, adding and subtracting 10 from a number and using their knowledge of number bonds to 10 to help them work out the number bonds to 100. Ask them to tell you what all the different bonds they have found for…
Autumn 1 Week 6
In our English lessons we have started to look at non-fiction texts all about pirates. We have had a go at writing question sentences, using adjectives to write descriptions, looked at the features of a non-chronological report and collected information about pirates. In Maths, Year 2 have started…
Autumn 1 Week 5
We have had a super week this week. In English, we have been looking at poetry, with a special focus upon autumn poetry. On Monday, we went on an autumn walk and used our five senses to help gather descriptive phrases. We used the phrases collected to create a class poem, then we had a go at…
