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2LA Yorkshire Wildlife Park
2LA had a brilliant day out at Yorkshire Wildlife Park. We saw lots of incredible animals, took part in a workshop about different world habitats, had a sunny picnic and a play in the adventure playground. Here are a few pictures of our amazing day! 17
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English This week in our English lessons, we have been focussing on non-fiction writing. We began by grouping sentences together based on a topic and chose appropriate subheadings to go with each paragraph. We then had a go at writing some of our own sentences that linked to a given topic sentence. Using fact Read More
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English This week the children have retold one of the Tingatinga tales. This is a great way for young children to practise writing stories as they already know the key events and language. We focussed on moving the story along using time adverbials and adding detail and description to entertain the reader. Next week Read More
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It’s been another busy week in Year 2 this week and we have particularly enjoyed learning how to skip and celebrating all things reading! World Book Day On World Book day this year, we enjoyed 4 different sessions in all the KS1 classes. Mrs Tomlinson read a book called ‘I like Myself’, Mrs Broadhead Read More
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We have had a wonderful first week back after the holidays and have been busy learning about lots of new topics! English This week in our English lessons we have been looking at the Tinga Tinga tale ‘Why Elephant Has a Trunk’ inspired by Rudyard Kipling’s ‘Just So’ stories. We began by watching the Read More
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English The children have really impressed us this week with their super diary writing. We completed some activities to practise writing in the first person at the start of the week. Then we planned our diary entries by thinking about what Florence would have seen, heard and smelt when she arrived at Scutari hospital. Read More
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English This week we completed a book review of George’s Marvellous Medicine. The children started by saying what the story was about, then wrote about their favourite parts and characters. They finished by saying who they thought would like the book and why. The children have really enjoyed this- why not try another Roald Read More
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Florence Nightingale Workshop On Tuesday we had a visit from ‘Florence Nightingale’! She told the children all about her life and the challenges she faced. We enjoyed being nurses at the teddy bear hospital. We then looked at some artefacts and talked about what they could be and why Florence would need them. History Read More
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English This week we began our new narrative unit where we are going to be writing a story about a character who takes some magic medicine. We began with a drama lesson where we had a go at acting out our story. The magic medicine made us fly! We then looked at different right Read More
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English Continuing our work based on George’s Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl, we have been focussing on instructional writing this week. We began by looking at the features of instructions and picked this out in an example text. Things then got a little bit messy as we created our own wonderful concoction of ingredients Read More
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