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  • Year 2: What is life in China like?

    Published 08/02/24
    To finish our topic work on China, the children have spent the week learning more about Chinese life and celebrations. We learned about Chinese languages, and had a go at writing some numbers and words. We learned more about the culture in China, as
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  • Year 2: What is a day in the life of a Chinese student like and how does this compare to your school day?

    Published 01/02/24
    This week in our Geography lesson, we compared our school day to the school day of a typical Chinese school. Although there were lots of similarities, the children were intrigued to hear about the differences. For example, the average school day
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  • Year 2: What happened on Monday?

    Published 25/01/24
    This week, the children had an exciting encounter with some dragon eggs. We were called into the hall by Mrs. Bell, who had asked us for our help. We then found some large, shiny eggs in a nest in the middle of the hall! We knew we had to investigate
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  • Year 2: What is inside a seed? What is the life cycle of a bean plant?

    Published 15/01/24
    This week, the children set up their experiments to see whether a plant will grow if we take away one of its basic needs. There are 5 pots, and four of them are missing either soil, water, light or temperature. The fifth one has all of the thing
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  • Year 2: Where is China located?

    Published 11/01/24
    The children really enjoyed our first lesson on our new topic, which is all about China. When we showed them the flag of China, the children knew instantly what it was, and had clearly spent some time over the holidays learning facts about China - so
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  • Year 2 - What are hospitals like? How do they compare to hospitals from the past?

    Published 18/12/23
    To finish off our topic about the History of Medicine, the children spent the afternoon looking at how hospitals today compare to the hospital Florence Nightingale would have worked at during the Crimean War. The children were able to identify s
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  • Year 2 - What was your favourite part of the Nativity performance?

    Published 14/12/23
    Firstly, the Year 2 team would like to thank everyone who has helped and supported the children in making the Fireside Nativity such a success. The children have worked very hard, and we are extremely proud of the effort that was put into their perfo
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  • Year 2: What are the features of a letter?

    Published 07/12/23
    This week, the children have been investigating what makes a good letter. We started with the key features, such as the sender’s address, as well as the recipient’s (the person it is being sent to). Then we looked at how to make our
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  • Year 2: How does Christmas compare with other festivals of light?

    Published 30/11/23
    This week, the children in Year 2 have been very lucky indeed. On Monday, our Sutton Schools Workers came to deliver a 'Discover Christmas' workshop - the children watched our guests perform the Nativity story to us, and then the rest of the
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  • Year 2: How did we use the Chromebooks to organise and edit our photos?

    Published 23/11/23
    This week, Year 2 learned how to take photos with a Chromebook. We used our toys from home, along with Google Slides, to create a sideshow that acted like a stop-motion video. The children had to work very carefully and only move their toys a small a
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  • Year 2: How can we apply what we know about materials to be an inventor?

    Published 16/11/23
    We have been spending our Science time learning about properties of materials, and how inventors like John Dunlop and Charles Mackintosh used materials to invent new products like pneumatic tyres and raincoats. We looked at our recycled material
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  • Year 2: What did Charles Mackintosh invent?

    Published 09/11/23
    This week, we learned about Charles Mackintosh - inventor of the raincoat! We used different materials to test which were waterproof and which weren't, and then we designed a new raincoat out of those materials. The children were very creative in
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