2S Sealife centre

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What a fantastic day at the Sealife centre! We have had great fun exploring all the exhibits and the children were marvellous marine biologists! Throughout the day they asked lots of questions, made careful observations and found out lots about sea creatures.  

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Secret codes and hidden treasure!

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Year 2 found an intriguing message in their classroom which led them on a quest to crack a secret code.  After an exciting adventure we found hidden treasure and discovered that our new History unit is titled Tutankhamun. We found out what an archaeologist does and practised excavating some…

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Once upon a time…

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Year 2 started their new English unit - fairytales this week. They had great fun listening to the story of Hansel and Gretel and making a sweet house.  Now we can’t wait to start writing our own fairytales.

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A walk in the local area

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Year 2 have been on a walk in the local area this week to support our learning in RE and Geography.  When looking for God’s creations we found trees, birds, cats and even a horse. It was nice to see signs of Spring with buds appearing on trees and bulbs beginning to grow.  It wasn’t as nice to see…

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Reduce, reuse, repurpose!

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On our return to school this week the children in year 2 found the cloakroom full of rubbish! They were very annoyed and wondered where it had all come from.  This started the discussion for our new unit - reduce, reuse, repurpose! The children had an excellent understanding of what we should do…

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Christmas week

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The children in Year 2 have been working hard on their Owl and the Pussycat poems in English and telling the time in Maths this week.  They have also been writing about the Nativity and had fun making felt owls, Christmas cards and calendars.  Today was Christmas dinner day and the children looked…

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Dream house competition

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Huge thanks once again to Ascot Homes for allowing us to visit their construction site as part of our work in Science. Congratulations to Julia, Zoe and Zach who won their Dream House competition. They were presented with their prizes from Ascot Homes by John and Nick.

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Egyptians with Y6

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Later in the year we will be learning about the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb.  This week we visited Y6, who told us all about the Ancient Egyptian artefacts that they had been learning about. Y6 were very knowledgeable and made great teachers.  We particularly enjoyed writing messages using…

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Year 2 Trip to D’urton Rise

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Year 2 had a fantastic morning at D’Urton Rise housing development. After putting on our high-viz vests and hard hats we had the chance to look around a part-constructed house. Nick, the site manager, explained which materials they use to build different parts of the house and we discussed the…

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Geography

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Over the last couple of weeks we have been learning the names of the seven continents.  We played a game on the yard to locate the continents on a map drawn on the floor.   In class we practised finding them on a world map, on a globe and in an atlas.  See if your children can remember the names…

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Keeping safe

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In Year 2 we have been learning about people who help to keep us physically healthy and safe. We thought about the people in school who keep us safe. Mr Hannah visited our classes and told us about how he makes sure our school is a safe place.  The children listened well and asked Mr Hannah some…

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2B visit to Blackpool Sealife Centre

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2B had a fantastic day at Blackpool Sealife centre learning all about ocean habitats. They made careful observations like real scientists and found out lots of facts! Well done 2B, we are proud of how well you represented our school.

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