Blog Author: Mrs Lomas

Year 2 have been exploring the concept of resilience and how it can help them overcome barriers in relationships and in their school work.

Knowledge:

• To identify strategies to help overcome barriers or manage difficult emotions
• To develop a growth mindset

Skills:

• I can…

Year 2 has a wonderful time visiting Hope Farm Church and learning a little more about the Nativity story.

Year 2 had an amazing Christmas party today.  They made reindeer food, played Pass the Parcel and ate lots of sausage rolls and cup cakes!

Year 2 have had a great time raising money for school by completing a reindeer dash this morning!

We have been learning all about how to make baby bear's chair using cardboard cylinders.

Knowledge:  To produce a finished structure and evaluate its strength, stiffness and stability.

Skills:

• I can identify that the chair I design needs to be strong, stiff, stable and support…

Year 2 have been exploring what living things need to survive.  This week, we have considered what is crucial or desirable to sustain life.

Knowledge:  Find out about and describe the basic needs of animals, including humans, for survival (water, food, air)

Skills: Can I describe what…

Year 2 have been exploring their emotions and using colour to express how they feel.

Knowledge: To describe a range of feelings and develop simple strategies for managing them

Skills:

I can use colours to describe feelings

I know that we often feel more than one emotion at a time

I…

Year 2 have been exploring atlases, maps and globes to identify the 7 continents of the world.

Knowledge: to locate the 7 continents of the world

Skills: to understand that an atlas is a book of maps.

Vocab: continents, Asia, Africa, Antarctica, Europe, North and South America,…

Year 2 have been sorting instruments into different groups - strings, woodwind, brass and percussion. They have listened to a piece of music to identify the instruments being played.

Knowledge: To listen to and analyse an orchestral version of a traditional story

Skills: I can name the four…

Year 2 have been looking at the importance of "Online Safety" and how their digital footprint stays on the internet forever.

Knowledge: Recognise common uses of information technology beyond school. Use technology safely and respectfully, keeping personal information private; identify…

We have begun to investigate the similarities and differences between what it was like in Victorian schools and the schools of today.

Knowledge: to compare three periods of time

Skills: to say what is different or the same about the three periods

Vocab: periods, Victorian, modern

Year 2 have had lots of fun completing as many press ups as they can in one minute.  They now need to record the circumference of their biceps each week to see if there has been any muscle growth!

Knowledge: Describe the importance for humans of exercise.

Skills: I can describe some of…