PSHCE

Year 2 have been looking at what makes them unique in our unit of work family and friends . We looked at snowflakes and thumbprints . The children designed their own thumbprint with elements of what makes them special and unique which they loved !

Journey Stories

Year 2 have had an exciting half term in English making up their own journey stories based on ‘ The way back home’ . We looked at a range of journey stories and found what the features were of this type of story .The children learnt what an expanded noun phrase was and then used these to describe the characters they had made up for their own stories. They learnt the story map off by heart and added actions, which they loved performing . The children then became authors and wrote their own story using their new story map and new characters.

Maths

We have been working hard as mathematicians, learning all about place value and how to partition numbers into different combinations of tens and ones. They have also been revising their number patterns within and to 10 and learning how to apply this to the number patterns within and to 20.

Art Skills

Year 2 have used their art skills to tell us more about themselves.

Art

Year 2 used their art skills to draw the Scottish national flag, the thistle.

United Kingdom

Polar Bear Class have had a busy term learning all about the countries that make up the United Kingdom, their capital cities and compass directions. They wrote their own information reports on England and published these:

Autumn Term – Welcome Videos – How to Enter School!

Please follow the guidelines in the video below for your year group to enter school following our new system…