Year 2 have been super busy preparing for Christmas this week as we inch closer to the Christmas holidays.  Year 2 have been focussing on learning about the traditions of Advent in preparation for celebrating Jesus’ birth.  They have made Christmas cards, decorations, Advent Wreaths...

We have had a very busy week in Year 2 this week.  During the topic of Baptism in RE, the children learned that for Christians, Jesus is "the Light of the World" because he brings hope, guidance, and life, which combats the "darkness" of sin and sadness. They listened to the...

This week we have been looking at stories based upon Friendship. We have been looking at the story Lost and Found, Elmer and The Rainbow Fish. We have been talking about the qualities of a 'good friend' and how we can all be a good friend to one another. We made a class 'recipe for frien...

This half-term our class book is “The Tunnel” by Anthony Browne.  The children looked at the front cover of the book and predicted what it would be like to go through a tunnel.  They then generated a list of vocabulary to describe what it would be like in the tunnel.  They...

This week in year two, we have been exploring work by a wonderful artist who uses mark making to create portraits of animals. She is called Olga Gamynina. We had lots of fun using the pens, pencils and crayons exploring mark making with to reimagine parts of her work. We really focused on the dir...

Year 2 have had another very busy week this week.  During RE the children began by learning about the Creation story in Genesis 1 and that God put humans in charge of caring for and protecting His creation, that God created the world and all living things over six days, and on the seventh day h...