What is Christmas?

Why do we celebrate Christmas?
What do you do at Christmas?
Does everybody celebrate in the same way?
How can you find out?

merry christmas and a happy new year

A very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to children, parents and family in Year2 from Miss Nottingham and Mrs Pound and Miss Coomber and Miss Moody

our history topic

What is the name of the nurse who went to help the soldiers in  the Crimean War who was born in the Caribbean?
What did Queen Victoria present her with?
When did she become famous?

year 2 mathematics

We are learning how to read scales on rulers, measuring jugs and weighing scales.
Can you count in 10`s     100`s     200`s    50`s   5`s  and  2`s.  Practise please and it will help.

Put in the missing numbers:

1.      0   100     ---    300    400  ---   600

2.      50    100    ---   200  250  ---  350

3.    200   ---   600  800  ----

5.      25    --     35    40    --   50

6.    44    --    --   50   52    --   56

year 2 gold book

Well done to all who have been in the gold book.  We have well mannered and good behaved children who deserve to be in our gold book every week and it can be very hard to choose.  Keep up the great work Y2 from your teacher and class assistants.

Quiz

1.      If it is 2 o`clock now, what time will it be in 5 hours time?

2.     I start to watch television at 5 o`clock and finish at 9 o`clock.  How long have I watched television?

3.     I put my cake in the oven to bake at 12 0`clock.  It takes half an hour to bake.  What time should I take it out of the oven?

Autumn term two

We are looking forward to learning about Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole and visiting Florence at the Thackray Museum on the 12th December.
We are beginning to learn our words for our Christmas Carol Concert.
The children have made a great start on learning to tell the time.

gold book children

Faye, Ellie, Amy and Jonathan have all been in our school gold book recently. Well done and keep up the great manners and work.

What shape am I?

I have 6 square faces.
I have 8 corners [vertices].
I have 12 edges.
What 3d shape am I?

I have 3 faces.
One face is curved.
Two faces are circles.
I can roll on my curved face.
What am I?

I have a point.
I have a curved face.
I have a circle face.
I roll around in a circle shape.
What am I?

I am a rounded ball shape.
I have one curved face.
What am I?

Great Big Fire Of London

Can you answer these questions about the Great Big Fire of London?

In what year did the Great Big Fire of London start?

How did it start?

What factors caused it to spread?

What happened when it stopped?  How was London changed?

Who wrote in his diary?

mixed up words.

Can you change these letters to make real words?

tca       dgo    keew     frei    trega    

Have a go and have fun.

gold book

Well done to Danny and Hannah for being chosen to be in our gold book this week.
Big Write making jam sandwiches has been very well done by all our class.   Well done to parents and family for talking through and practising the writing.

gold book children

Jowita, Stephen, Bradley and Mia have worked so well and shown great manners and all deserve a mention in our gold book.  Well done!
Who will be next?

do you recognize this seaside resort?

We will be visiting this resort soon.  Where do you recognize?  Are you looking forward to going here? Why?

who is this?

Can you remember who this famous lady was?
What was she famous for?
Who did she help?
Tell me your answers please here.  Miss Nottingham

ks1 SATS

The KS1 Sats have all finished.  The children enjoyed doing them and we have  wonderful results for all.  The levels will be on the reports and given at parents` evening.
Well done Y2 from Miss Nottingham

pancake day

Tossing well.

pirates

Y2 have enjoyed their pirate themed work this term.

animal club and Y2

Joshua`s mum brought boxer Jess into animal club this week and all animal club university enjoyed shaking her paw.

symmetry.

Can you see the line of symmetry?  It is a mirror image line.

who is reading quietly

Who?

writing

Children writing in a diary about the Great Fire Of London dressed in their Samuel Pepys` wig.

learning logs

Children enjoy their learning logs.  They say it is fun and love working on their own or with their parents.