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  • Year 2: ​​​​​​​What have you learnt about your new classroom?

    Published 30/06/26
    On Wednesday this week, the children took part in ‘Move up Morning’. Everyone had the opportunity to go and visit their new classrooms and meet their new teachers. There was a real buzz of excitement in the air all morning and the childre
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  • Year 2: ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​How does the weather compare in other places in the UK?

    Published 24/06/26
    Very aptly for this week, we have been continuing our work on understanding weather and forecasts, and have been looking at how different places in the UK can have different weather.
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  • Year 2: What does a meteorologist do?

    Published 19/06/26
    This week, we learned more about the difference between seasons and weather. We watched some weather reports and looked at different weather measuring devices. We then created our own wind vanes and tested them! After that, we took on the role of bei
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  • Year 2: What is your Scratch Jr. story about?

    Published 10/06/26
    This week in computing, the children have been learning how to use the app Scratch Jr. to make a story. The children have had to plan a simple storyboard, and find the matching ‘sprites’ (characters) and ‘backdrops’ (settings)
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  • Year 2: What is the weather?

    Published 02/06/26
    This week in Geography, we learned about weather and seasons. We explored the four seasons of the year – Autumn, Winter, Spring and Summer – and discussed how each season brings different changes. We also learned that weather describes th
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  • How has fire safety changed since 1666?

    Published 20/05/26
    We have compared what people had to help them put out fires in 1666 to our Fire Brigade today. We looked at things such as the tools and equipment used to put out the fires, which have been changed / updated. We also explored how the Fire Brigade was
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  • Year 2: How do we know so much about the Great Fire of London?

    Published 14/05/26
    This week, we learned about how we know what happened during the Great Fire of London. We discovered that people living at the time wrote about the fire in diaries, letters and newspapers. For example, Samuel Pepys recorded his experiences in his dia
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  • Year 2: Are there any food chains happening in our allotment?

    Published 06/05/26
    Our carrot seeds are growing well. We know that the sun is giving them energy, and that we will receive that energy when we eat the carrots!    Sun ->  carrots ->  humans (us!) We came up with some other example
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  • What is a collage?

    Published 29/04/26
    In Art over the last few weeks, we have been inspired by the work of artist Romare Bearden, as well as art works of the Great Fire of London, and have created our own collages. The children had to paint their own coloured paper, thinking about the te
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  • Year 2: What effect did the Great Fire have on London?​​​​​​​

    Published 22/04/26
    This week the children were asked to compare London before 1666 and after. Here are some of the ideas they came up with: Before the fire, houses in London were close together and the streets were very narrow. After the fire, the houses were spread o
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  • Year 2 – When did the Great fire of London start, and what caused it?

    Published 13/04/26
    This week, the children have begun to explore the events of 1666. We created a timeline of what happened: The fire started on Pudding Lane on September 2nd 1666. It lasted for 5 days. Experts think that it was caused by a spark in Thomas Farriner&
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  • Year 2: What have you learned about toys?

    Published 24/03/26
    Throughout our topic, the children have explored the history of toys, including the earliest types, the materials from which toys are made, notable toy manufacturers such as Ruth Handler and Mattel, and the reasons behind the changes in toy materials
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