Year 2 (Class 6) - History - Kings and Queens Day
On Kings and Queens day Class 6 dressed up in their finest attire.
They designed and made crowns, learnt about the reasons for the colours and animals on shields before designing and making their own, followed clues in teams to find a jewel thief and learnt what would get eaten at a Royal…
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Year 2 (Class 6) - PSHE - Children In Need
Class 6 really enjoyed taking part in Children in Need activities, they raised money by wearing their own clothes and bringing £1.
Then took part in making things as part of cool time in class, making ears, colouring and making bookmarks.
All for a good cause.
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Year 2 (Class 6) - Computing - Scratch Jnr (Algorithms)
In computing class 6 have been using the Scratch program to write algorithms.
They have practiced writing algorithms as a class then wrote their own, using their own underwater theme. They had to get their sea creature to the boat and back. Pupils also debugged their algorithms when they went…
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Year 2 (Class 5) - PSHE - Friendship Problems
Today the children reflected about what happens when we have problems with their friendships. They said that when they fall out with friends it makes them feel sad and worried.
We looked at different places we could get help when we are worried.
They made a worry cloud and designed a rainbow…
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Year 2 (Class 6) - Maths - 3D Shapes
Class 6 learnt some new vocabulary in maths when learning about 3D shape. They learnt, faces, vertices and edges.
They then explored different shapes and discovered how many faces, edges and vertices each shape had and if there were any patterns.
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Year 2 (Class 6) - Art - Leonid Afremov
Class 6 have been creating art work inspired by Leonid Afremov, they painted a background, tested different media, learnt how to draw a castle, learnt how to add texture to wood and brick, before applying it all in a final piece.
Class 6 have worked extremely hard and are very proud of what…
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Year 2 (Class 6) - English - The Paper Bag Princess
Class 6 have been reading The Paper Bag Princess by Robert Munsch, and we finally read the ending of the story.
It turns out one of the main characters isn’t very nice and the children explained why using a stem sentence for support and explained using ‘because’.
They have loved the story…
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Year 2 (Class 6) - History / Oracy - Castles and Voting
Class 6 have been learning about castles in history. In this oracy lesson the children were voting for the most effective defence using their talk tokens.
Then explaining why, using the stem sentence for support, applying all they have learnt about castles through the term.
The children…
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Year 2 (Class 6) - Maths - 2D Shape Vocabulary
Class 6 learnt some new 2D shape vocabulary. They learnt the words sides and vertices.
They learnt that the sticks were the sides and the play dough was the vertices and were challenged to make some 2D shapes. After making a square together pupils easily made triangles and rectangles counting…
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Year 2 (Class 5) - Music - Percussion Instruments
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Class 5 have been learning about the different percussion instruments in music.
They really enjoyed performing the song ‘Music In My Soul’ using the instruments the keep with the beat and tempo of the song.
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Year 2 (Class 6) - Computing - Microsoft Word Typing Skills
In Class 6 we have been practising our typing skills in our information technology topic.
We have been typing with 2 hands, learning to use capital letters with the shift key and highlighting, trying to use shift, space and enter correctly. Copy typing as well as finishing and forming our own…
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Year 2 (Class 5) - History - Kirkstall Abbey
Class 5 worked in groups today to create posters all about Kirkstall Abbey.
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