Year 2
Mrs ChapmanWelcome to Year 2
Fantastic Gymnastics!
Year 2 have been working extremely hard in their gymnastics lessons. They have been performing a range of shapes and balances then linking them together using travelling actions. The children then had to perform their sequence with greater control, thinking about...
#Take10ToRead – World Mental Health Day
Reading can help you relax, boost your mood and escape elsewhere! On Tuesday 10th October, children across the school took part in #Take10ToRead, a national campaign to promote the wellbeing benefits of reading. KS2 joined a zoom call with author Susie Dent of...
The Great Fire of Gateshead and Newcastle! 🔥
Year 2 have enjoyed a day out at The Discovery Museum. We took part in an exciting workshop investigating Victorian Newcastle through the events of the Great fire of Newcastle and Gateshead in 1854. We heard the story of the Great fire, how it started and discussed...
KS1 French Club 2023
Years 1 and 2 are enjoying an introduction to the French language and culture at French Club. Here we are having great fun dancing, as we learn French numbers and creating pointillism pictures of the Eiffel Tower in the style of Georges Seurat. We can’t wait to try...
Creating Pictures
In our computing topic this half term which is Creating Pictures we have used Purple Mash to explore different styles of art and have tried to recreate different artists work in our own way. This week we looked at work by the famous artist William Morris and on 2Paint...
Our Wonderful World!
In our topic in RE this half term we have been looking at our wonderful world and thinking of all the things that we love around us. We have looked at different religious accounts of how the world was created. Hindus believe that Brahma is the creator of the world and...
National Fitness Day
Everyone in school did a great job at getting involved in National Fitness Day! The children were able to complete some fitness in their classrooms to get their bodies moving and allow their minds to be refocused. It’s lovely to see children enjoying some physical...
Magic Maths
Year 2 have been working their magic in maths today. They have found different ways to partition numbers using tens and ones in a part whole model.
We’re Going To Find A Monster!
This week in our English lessons we have been looking at a new book ’We’re Going to Find a Monster’. We thought about what the characters in the story might see, how they might move and what they would say. We then acted this out with our partners.
Aboriginal Art
In our art lessons Year 2 have been looking at aboriginal art. We found out that aboriginal art consists of symbols which are used to communicate and tell stories. We tried really hard to draw some of the most frequent symbols that we spotted in paintings such as a...
Going on Safari! 🐘🦛🦓🦁
In our music lessons Year 2 began the unit ‘Going on Safari’. We went on an African adventure and listened to a range of amazing animal sounds. The children then had to explore different percussion instruments to try to replicate the sounds. We varied how we played...
Robot Algorithms
Today in our computing lesson we started to think about following instructions given by someone else. We needed to choose a series of words that could be acted out as a sequence. We went outside and in partners gave clear and precise instructions to our ‘robots’. We...