Blog by Tag: Year 2

We have been exploring the four countries of the United Kingdom.  We learnt the names of the four countries, their capital cities and lots of fun facts about each one.  

The children enjoyed competing as a team against the other house teams to gain points. We remembered to apply the ‘Values of the School Games’ within the competition.

In literacy, we have been reading the story ‘The Way Home For Wilf’. Today we acted parts of the story and the rest of us had to guess which bit we were doing.  Our acting was so good everyone could guess which bit we were doing!

Our good friend, Debbie Green, came into class today to teach us all about the books of the bible.  It was lovely to see her again and we learnt a lot!

Across school, for National Poetry Week, the classes buddied up to share some time together to read poetry! Year 6 were lucky enough to have Year 2 as their buddies, and thoroughly enjoyed reading poems to the younger children and listening to them read also! 

We have been thinking more about the numbers to 100.  Today we practised making different numbers using the Base 10 equipment.  Mrs Cross then asked us to add or take away different amounts of tens or ones.

Look at our fabulous self portraits.  Can you tell who is who?

We have been learning all about the four countries of the United Kingdom including their capital cities.  This map on our classroom wall is there to remind us of their names.

In PSHE we have been thinking about our happy places and how we could bring elements of these into our classroom.  We came up with some fabulous ideas about how to create a more positive environment for everyone. Being kind, sharing, playing more, having fun, laughing, smiley faces, stars and even…

Look at our lovely name art.

Steve came in to promote All Stars cricket clubs with the Y1,Y2 and Y3 children. They practised throwing, catching and striking and to work together as part of a team through the ‘spirit of cricket’.