We have loved reading 'Father' by Grahame Baker-Smith this week. We have been exploring character inferences and themes from the story. This week, we have been writing letters in the perspective of the boy to his father after he has left to go to war....
We tracked the emotions of Floella on her journey to England from Trinidad using graphs. It will help us writing our postcards to the queen based on the book ‘Coming to England’ by Floella Benjamin....
We are excited to explore the topic of Winter and Animals this term! We will be immersing ourselves in our core texts of ‘Blue Penguin’ by Petr Horácek, ‘The Gruffalo’ by Julia Donaldson and ‘The Great Race’. Day 1 and the fun has already begun!...
In our Writing lessons, we have been learning the story of 'We're going on a Bear Hunt'. Here we are exploring the textures and settings from the story! For the rest of this term we will also be reading about 'Fantastically Great Women who changed the...
We launched our new Science topic and Writing focus this week! In science we have begun learning about 'living things and their habitats'. Our first Science enquiry was about what makes something a living thing and we will build on this learning throughout this topic....
In English we have been looking at the stories of the 'BFG' by Roald Dahl and 'Planet Omar' by Zanib Mian. In one lesson we looked at descriptions and tried to match them with characters within the story....
This term we are reading the BFG by Roald Dahl. In our first lesson we wrote about how the characters may have felt when they first saw the BFG. Just in case you didn't know BFG stands for Big Friendly Giant!!!...
We have made an excellent start to the new year! In English we are looking at the story 'FArTHER' by Grahame Baker Smith. We started off our topic by using expanded noun phrases to describe the characters within the story. We are starting to write...
O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo? In our first week back we have immersed ourselves into our writing text Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. Using our drama skills, we acted out this tragic love story....
Something we find tricky in Year 2 is remembering our capital letters and full stops to make a sentence. This week we edited using traffic light sentences! We used green for go (capital letters) and red for stop (full stops). We worked well in partners...