Beebots and a trip to Playspace

Another busy week in Year 2. In ICT we have been creating graphs based on our survey of North Street Shops. We have also started to program the beebots to navigate our model Bedminster.

In Literacy we wrote our own stories based on 'The Tiger who Came to Tea'. Our titles included 'The Dinosaur who came to Dinner' and 'The Lima that came to Lunch'! In PE we have been improving our ball skills.
On Friday we went on a trip to Playspace and all enjoyed using the pedometres to measure our steps as we had fun on the play equipment!

Beautiful Bedminster

A fun start to the term in Year 2!

We have been getting stuck into our new topic, 'Precious Planet'. Mrs Fricker and Mrs Thwaites were so pleased with the amazing model buildings we made over the summer.

Well done everyone!

This week we went on two walks to investigate our local area. We enjoyed looking at the shops on North St and exploring Greville Smyth Park.

In numeracy we have been learning about place value and rounding numbers to the nearest 10.

In Literacy we are continuing to learn about stories, reading 'The Tiger who Came to Tea', using connectives and speech marks and developing our own characters.

Congratulations to Miss Morgan and her partner on the birth of their baby son Otto!!!

Last blog!

Year 2 had their picnic at Greville Smyth park on Tuesday as a reward for earning all of their marbles. It was great fun...until it started raining! I'm sure this will be a day in year 2 that we will all remember!









I would like to take this opportunity to thank the children and parents of year 2 for their genorosity. I was presented with a beautiful cake (decorated by the children), a voucher for NEXT and a beautiful carved stone.
In addition I would like to say how much I have valued the support of the year 2 parents this year. You are a great bunch and have made this year so enjoyable.
To the children of Year 2, what can I say?! You are a WONDERFUL class and Mr. Mackie is very lucky to be teaching you next year. I have had the most brilliant time with you all and will miss you all very much.
I promise I will bring 'Mini Morgan' in to visit you all when she/he arrives!

Miss Morgan

Lively living things!

Year 2 had a fantastic time during healthy schools week. We thoroughly enjoyed Miss Welton and Miss Peruguini's morning workout sessions! We had a great fitness session with Debbie Scroggs from Ashton Park.


Year 2 ALL took part and tried their best in the races on sports day. Well done year2!





Along with the rest of the class we took part in an A-life workshop where we learnt about healthy eating and taking care of our teeth.

Growing beans & worms in mud!!

This week, Year 2 have been very busy and have done lots of exciting science activities about growing.

On Thursday, we planted some of our own bean seeds with Miss Wallace.We have put them in a sunny place in our classroom. We will be making sure we water them and will be watching very carefully over the next couple of weeks to see whose plant grows the tallest!

We have been learning about the lifecycle of a frog. Miss Wallace took us in small groups to the school pond on Tuesday. We spotted some tadpoles and some of us even held some baby frogs.Some of the baby frogs still had their tadpole tails, we thought the frogpoles looked very funny!

We have been cooking again with Bev and Liz this week. We had great fun making ' worms in mud.'

On Wednesday, Year 2 made the most of the sunshine and had our PE lesson outside. Miss Wallace was very impressed with our kicking skills!

We have also been busy rehearsing our maydance this week. We are very excited about performing it to an audience next week!

Have a lovely weekend :)

Disco dancing and road safety!

Year 2 have been learning all about how to stay safe when crossing the road. They used role play equipment to act out particular scenarios.





On Thursday some of year 2 attended the PTFA summer disco. It was great fun! Well done to Joshkun for winning the 'best dancer' competition.

We're back!

Sorry for the recent lack of blog updates...the year 2 camera lead went AWOl but has now been returned!

Last week Year 2 had their topic 'WOW'. This is an event to engage and inspire the children and really 'kick off' the topic.
Miss Wallace and Miss Morgan secretly set up a sensory room in the art store downstairs. The children went in small groups and really enjoyed dancing to music and exploring and experimenting with LOTS of different light sources. Thanks very much if you loaned us some lights!







In cooking this week Year 2 made 'Shadow Gingerbread Men'.