Last week year 2 had their toy day for getting all of their marbles! They were very excited and played very nicely together.




This week year 2 had some special visitors from X-plore learning centre. They played some very exciting and fun maths games with us.




Year 2 are also really enjoying their golden time.

On Friday Year 2 visited Ashton Park to take part in their 'Toplink Festival' which is run by the year 10 pupils. It was great fun! Year 2 were so sensible and well behaved, they really stood out! Well done year 2 you should be very proud of yourselves!

Bears, bikes and abracadabra!

We had our magic show today! It was great and the tricks were very impressive. We got some ideas for tricks we can do in our magic show.





We had another visitor on Tuesday. Ian the 'bike it' man came to teach us some bike/scooter safety. He made a course for us to navigate. We were all very sensible and it was such good fun!






Another highlight of the week was our teddy bears pinic. We enjoyed sitting with our friends and our bears in the sun!

Gardening, sorting and measuring!

Lots of photos this week to make up for not many last week!
Year 2 had their first session of Citizneship on Wednesday. With Heather's, Miss Shepherd's and Mrs Jones' help we did some weeding and litter picking in the top and bottom plagrounds. Everyone was SO enthusiastic and we had two BIG bags of weeds at the end!




In numeracy we have been focussing on measures. Here we are measuring the capacity of some different containers. We were measuring in litres and millilitres.





We have been learning about the rainforest in Literacy and are gathering facts to write our own non-chronological reports next week. We had a go at sorting some animals of the rainforest.

Luckwell Election

Sorry for the lack of pictures this week. It has flown by!
Year 2 took part in the 'Luckwell' election this week. We all listened to the candidates manifestoes,made our decision and then filled in a ballot paper. After the votes were counted it was revealed that Patrick Rogers had won! Patrick will now have one of his 'wishes' made true.

We all wrote a story this week based on The Owl who was afraid of the dark. This was a 'sustained' story and was longer than any of the stories we have written before. It was a real challenge but the stories are great!

In numeracy our unit was 'Data Handling'. We sorted, grouped and then created a tally chart of the different coloured smarties in a tube. We have also been interepreting data fom graphs and tables.

Our topic work is going well...next week we will be tasting some brazilian foods and also creating some Brazilian pictures on 'Paint'.

Making shapes!

Last week year 2 began to really get their teeth into their new topic 'Brazil'. We looked at a map of Brazil and identified the geographical features such as the Amazon river and the rainforest.
We also learnt about the destruction of the rainforest and what we could do to help.
In PE we practised our Samba dance but before that we did a warm up. Here we are making shapes in groups. We made a traingle, square, circle, a number 6 and even a slide!

Year 2 have had great first week back. They all seem to have grown up so much over the holidays. They've been working hard and co-operating better than ever!
This week year 2 had their first golden time - this is a special time when the children can choose to do fun learning activities.
This Friday we decided to decorate the playground with chalk and paint! Did you see our drawings? There was a penguin family, a roaring dragon and even a St.George's flag!