Year 2 (Class 6) - PSHE - Mental Health Week

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This week has been Children’s Mental Health Week. Children have watched the film Inside Out, thought about their emotions, named them and thought about when they feel these emotions. 

They then created their own emotions wheels. Pupils also thought about their personalities like in the film…

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PSHE

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Year 2 (Class 6) - History - Sir William Petty and The Great Fire of London

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On Monday class 6 had a visit from Sir William Petty. 

He told year 2 all about The Great Fire of London. 

He showed us how a storm lantern worked and it didn’t matter how many children tried to blow it out they couldn’t. He taught us about where the fire started and how it spread. 

In an…

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History

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Year 2 (Class 5) - Maths - Equal Groups

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Today children in class 5 investigated making equal groups in maths. 

They were given counters and had to see how many different equal groups they could make. 

They understood that there needed to be the same amount of counters in each group to make it equal. 

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Maths

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Year 2 (Class 5) - History - The Great Fire of London

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What a great morning we have had in year two. We met Sir William who was around during The Great Fire of London. 

He told us some fantastic facts about The Great Fire and we got to act out how fast the fire spread and how the people of London tried to put out the fire using leather…

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History

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Year 2 (Class 5) - Music - Orchestra Instruments

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This week children in class 5 enjoyed Mr Leadbeater visiting their class to show them the different instruments they might find in an orchestra. 

They looked at brass, woodwind and stringed instruments and loved having a go with instruments such as the French horn, tuba, banjo, cello and…

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Music

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Year 2 (Class 5) - Trackit Winners

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Year 2 - Here are class 5’s Track it point winners last term - well done!

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Year 2 (Class 6) - Trackit Winners

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Class 6 were the KS1 track it winners for the autumn term, well done everyone! 

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Year 2 (Class 6) - Music - Glockenspiels

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Class 6 have worked hard in music, practicing playing the start of little donkey on the glockenspiels. 

They then improvised the sound of a donkeys hooves, then wrote down their composition before practising it and performing it in pairs. 

We are still working on our timings but the pupils…

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Music

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Year 2 (Class 6) - Computing - Scratch

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Class 6 have worked hard in computing, learning how to use scratch, creating backgrounds and sprites. 

Class 6 have created algorithms to make sprites move, debugged their algorithms if they go wrong, even challenging themselves by adding sounds and text. 

The aim was to get a sprite to…

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Computing

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KS1 - English / Oracy / Phonics / Reading - Chair of Governors Visit

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It was wonderful to have a visit from  Sheila Banks  (our Chair of Governors) today. 

She enjoyed watching a phonics lesson in KS1 and working with children in class 5 as part of an Oracy lesson in Geography. 

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English Phonics and Reading Oracy

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Year 2 (Class 5) - Commando Joe's - Class Castle

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We built a whole class castle using our previous skills from commando joes sessions this half term and our knowledge of castles from our trip to Skipton castle.

 

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Commando Joe's

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Year 2 - P.E - Dance

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Year 2 had a fabulous time at their Cheer Dance session. 

They learnt part of a cheer routine, played some games and shared their best dance moves. 

I was very impressed by some of their dance moves.

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Physical Education

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