Blog by Miss D Ellison

Welcome back to our blog! I can't believe it is already our second half term in year 2.

"This week we have been learning about orang-utans." - Charley

"They have strong arm muscles." - Indy

In English we are looking at non-fiction texts. 

"They have long arms." - Filip

"They…

This week we have been learning EVEN MORE about The Great Fire of London because not only is this our history topic but we have also been looking at diary entries from Samuel Pepys. 

"The fire started on Sunday 2nd September 1666." - Ellie

"A diary has to start with the date." - Jack

"The…

English

This week in Rainbow class we have been writing our own class poem based on a poem we have been reading called 'Going through old photos'. The children worked in groups to find words to rhyme with their name (some were trickier than others!) Have a look at our rhyming poem…

This week in Rainbow class has been our first week with Miss Ellison and Miss Hargreaves and what a lovely week we have had. The children are beginning to settle well in to new routines and understand the expectations of being in year 2. 

On Tuesday we went to Ingol library where Richard…

After a lovely week with Mr Herd last week we are now back to business this week with Miss Ellison back with us. What a wonderful start to Bronze class we have had. 

The children have received many compliments from other adults in school about their super behaviour in and around school - keep…

Bonjour de la classe arc-en-ciel (Hello from Rainbow class)

Our last full week in Rainbow class and what a busy week it has been!!

On Tuesday we celebrated French day in Rainbow class, looking at basic phrases in French, building Eiffel towers, tasting french food, colouring the french…

This week, in Moonbeam class, the children have been working really hard and independently (can you see what I did there?!) on their dinosaur project. They have done more addition work and played some competitive adding games, they did really well. In English, they have been practicing their…

“In English this week we have been writing our own fact sheet. It was all about ourselves, home and school. We also drew a picture of ourselves.” Ada

“In we Mathematics we made potions using measuring jugs and we used; fairy water, dragon’s blood, unicorn tears and trolls bogey. It was fun but…

This week we have been super busy! Here is a what we have been learning with Miss Heaton:

Mathematics

“We have been weighing different things using cubes and then weighing scales” –Ada

“When we had weighed the toys we drew a graph to show this.” – Darcy

English 

“During…

Miss Heaton has been teaching us in Rainbow class most of the week, with Miss Ellison teaching us on Friday. Here is what we have been doing this week. 

Mathematics

“We have been adding and subtracting using a 100 square.” – Nicole C

“The pentagons didn’t use a 100 square. We drew…

Welcome back to our final half term in Rainbow class (and our last half term in Key Stage One too!) 

PE

"This week we have been practising for sports day." - Esther

"We have been practising running, the egg and spoon race, the sack race and the beanbag race." - Mikquell

Please make…

We have had a lovely week in Rainbow class this week.

Yesterday the children went to the cinema to watch Peter Rabbit. We all really enjoyed it and the children were impeccably behaved! I just want to say how proud I am of them all for representing our school so well.

Today we are…