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This week we have enjoyed our new activities in the classroom, finding hidden words to sound out, writing tricky words in our mark making area and using the number monster to help us with our addition.

We have been exploring various habitats and insects this week as part of our English…

The main thing for my blog this week (as I missed all the spotty fun on Friday!), was the introduction of the Star Reading Challenge in school. On Wednesday, we had an assembly to look at what was involved in the reading challenge and all the exciting, different ways that we can enjoy books,…

This week has been centered around people who help us. We have found out about lots of different jobs and the things people might do at work to help others.

We went for a big walk on Monday to find people in our community who help such as the Doctors and the Dentist.

We have a super police…

Where has the week gone? This term is flying by already.

In Science this week we have been explorers, looking at different habitats around the School grounds and looking for different living things. We found spiders, worms and saw a squirrel! The children were very excited about all the…

This week in diamond class we have been very busy as usual. During our maths lessons we have been using a formal written method for subtraction and calculating the perimeter of polygons. In English we have started a new unit of work looking at a non-fiction text about animal migration.

On…

This week in Rainbow class we have been learning about Remembrance Day. 

We read some information about how we wear poppies to remember all the people who have fought in and lost their lives in various wars since World War One. We also talked about how buying poppies and other items helps to…

Well we have been really busy in Bronze class this week.

In English we have been carrying on with our Who Killed Tutankhamen topic. We have been working hard to bring together all the evidence we have found out over the last few weeks to begin writing our final report which will decide whether…

We experienced something new this week – a trip back in time at the Imperial War Museum in Manchester. This was a fantastic day that everyone enjoyed (including staff!) We had many compliments from members of the public and staff at the museum. Well done Gold Class! Look on our gallery page for…

I had a fun time in Diamond Class on Wednesday this week, we looked at homophones in SPAG and had a good discussion about the difference between a homophone and a homograph - do you know the difference? In English, we looked at a non-fiction text about the Arctic tern and thought about how we can…

A fun but fast first week back with only three days, I hope you all enjoyed the half term.

Over the past few days we have enjoyed our new areas in the classroom, an Autumn walk and discussing how to stay safe on Halloween.

In English this week we have been on an Autumn walk where…

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…

We’re back in business in Gold class – refreshed after an extra-long half term break! This week we began our new unit in English – poetry. In particular, poetry from World War 1 and World War 2. We started the unit by creating a ‘self-help’ poster that detailed the key poetic features included in…