Year 2
Mrs ChapmanWelcome to Year 2
After School Yoga 🫶🏻
Some boys and girls from key stage one have had some after school fun and really enjoyed our yoga club. Yoga is a really good way to increase our strength and balance, help us sleep better and support our posture. This club has benefitted our children after a busy...
Perfect Pizza
As part of our design and technology unit this half term, Year 2 have been designing and making healthy pizzas. They tasted different types of bread to find their perfect base. They looked at different toppings and as a class we compiled tally and bar charts to show...
Sunderland National Glass Centre
Today Year 2 became glass artists for the day at Sunderland Glass Centre. First of all, we explored the gallery exhibits looking at the amazing art work and found out how artists get their inspiration. We then used our observational skills to sketch some of the glass...
The Hobbit Production
We have been so lucky today to have the treat of M&M production company coming into school this morning to give us a fantastic performance of The Hobbit. Thank you so much to the parent group for making this happen! After the show, Years 4 & 5 got to...
Litter Picking
Year 2 have been wonderful volunteers for our community! They went out into the local area yesterday as part of the ‘Safer Streets’ campaign. They were great at keeping Birtley tidy and thank you to Craig who helped us do our job safely and carefully.
All About Islam!
Today Year 2 had some very special visitors, Brother Khadim and his wife took the time to come over from Newcastle to tell us a bit about their religion as we have just started our new RE topic. It was so interesting to hear about the similarities with some of the...
Sports day
Children from years 1 to 6 have had a very hot but enjoyable sports day. Every child took part in all the races and it was lovely to see some great sportsmanship from everyone cheering on their houses. Congratulations to Sage who won this mornings sports day for years...
Costain Roadworks
Today Year 1 and 2 received a special visit from Costain roadworks. We talked about how Costain are currently working on the A1 motorway to widen the roads and what impact this has on our environment. Costain are planting lots of new trees by the side of the road...
Proud Painters
Year 2 have been very proud of their art work inspired by the French artist Henri Rousseau. This week they explored colour in his work and learnt how to create shades and tints of colours he used in his jungle paintings. The children were amazed at the different...
Perfect Programming!
Today we looked at identifying a sequence on Scratch Jr. This is one of our computing apps and the children loved investigating it and trying to make a program. It was important for them to get their sequence of commands in the correct order for it to work. They went...
BM Superstars! 👏👏⭐️⭐️
This afternoon our Year 2 superstars enjoyed some special tasty treats as a huge thank you for their amazing attitudes to their KS1 SATs. Everyone has worked SO hard and persevered right to the end which was wonderful to see. They then had some well deserved time to...
Marvellous Mini Beasts 🐜 🐌
In science Year 2 have been exploring the school grounds to hunt for mini beasts in their micro habitats. We found lots of different mini beasts under logs, stones, plant pots and even on tree bark. We talked about the conditions of the different habitats and the...