Farsley Farfield Primary School

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Year 2 News 22.11.24

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English To end our work on Follow the Swallow, we planned and wrote our own postcards from the point of view of Apollo to tell his friend all about the adventures he had during his migration to Africa. We have then been focussing on non-fiction texts during the rest of our English lessons this Read More

Year 2 News 15.11.24

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English This week in our English lessons, we have been exploring a new text by Julia Donaldson called ‘Follow the Swallow’. The story follows two birds, a swallow and a blackbird, as they meet in the garden and become friends. Apollo the Swallow then migrates to Africa for the winter months whilst Chack the Read More

Year 2 News 8.11.24

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English This week, we have been celebrating all things fireworks! We have spent the week exploring poetry and looking at the language and techniques used by a range of poets. After reading a selection of firework poems as a class, we chose our favourite and added actions before performing to the rest of the Read More

Year 2 News 25.10.24

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It has been a busy week to end the half term filled with fun and lots of new learning challenges. English This week in our English lessons, we have been creating our own super veggies inspired by our work on Supertato. We began with a drama based lesson where our veggies were put in Read More

Year 2 News 18.10.24

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English What would you do if you found an esca-PEA on the loose? This week, we have been exploring Supertato, a story that follows an evil pea out to cause mischief in a supermarket and a superhero potato that saves the day. After reading the story, we wrote our own book reviews summarising what Read More

Year 2 News 11.10.24

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Library Visit On Monday we visited the library as part of our local geography. We found the infants and junior buildings on a map and then looked for the library. We planned our route and used the map to check what we would see on our journey. At the library, Kate read some stories Read More

Year 2 News- 4.10.24

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English This week, we have been reading the story Mr Wolf’s Pancakes, an alternative version of the traditional tale The Little Red Hen. We discussed the similarities and differences between the two texts and which we preferred. We then planned our own stories that have a main character wanting to make something and three Read More

Year 2 News 27.9.24

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This week we had lots of fun meeting up with out reading buddies. We talked about our favourite interests, drew pictures of each other and of course, shared our favourite books! English This week in our English lessons, we have been looking at traditional tales. We read the story of The Little Red Hen Read More

Year 2 News 20.9.24

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It has been another fantastic week in Year 2 full of learning and fun! English This week during our English lessons, we have continued our work on instructions. We looked at how co-ordinating conjunctions (and, but) and subordinating conjunctions (because, when) can be used to expand sentences and give further detail. We had a Read More

Year 2 News 13.09.24

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English In English this week we have been learning all about instructions. We have looked at the features of these and learned all about imperative (bossy) verbs, time adverbials and commands. We have sequenced instructions in chronological order. Next week we will be writing some of our own instructions. Spellings This week we have Read More