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Year 2 Class News

Beach Clean!

This afternoon, Year 2 took a trip to the beach. They were collecting litter and caring for our local environment. We will be using this data in our presentation for STEAM next week.

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Gillmoss Recycling Centre

The children have been learning all about recycling and looking after our world, today they took an exciting trip to Gillmoss Recycling Centre, were they learnt all about the journey of recycling  from our homes to it's final destination. The children helped to sort different materials into the correct recycling categories and then curiously watched through the windows at the tour of the materials recovery facility, here, they saw recycling in action! Finally they explored hands on activities and resources on how to help recycling, from litter picking to solving puzzles. 

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Creating Digital Music

This half-term, Year 2 have been learning how to use a computer to create music. We have listened to a variety of pieces of music and considered what music makes us think and feel. We experimented with lots of the fun activities on Chrome Music Lab and particularly enjoyed 'Spectrogram', 'Kandinsky' and 'Rhythm'. Finally, we created our own digital music using 'Song Maker' - Scan the QR codes to listen to some of our creations. 

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Coordination & Control Skills

In the PE lesson this week we were applying our coordination and control skills to small  games. This promotes team  spirit and working cooperatively with your peers.

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Traditional Tales

For the past two weeks the Literacy focus in Year 2 has been Traditional tales. We have shared the text and completed comprehension tasks. We have also identified key features of Traditional tales. Today we have worked in groups to produce a play and performed this for our peers. Such fun!

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The Water Cycle

This afternoon Year 2 have been looking at The Water Cycle. They had fun using costumes to dress up and performed a drama reinforcing the learning objective Water Cycle.

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12 Days of Christmas

Today the children enjoyed learning the traditional song and actions along to "12 Days of Christmas!"

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Literacy Detectives

In Literacy lessons, Year 2 studied clues to our next story. They were excellent detectives many guessing correctly that the text  is The Night Before Christmas.

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Special Guest - Father Christmas!

Guess what! We had a special visitor today it was only the big guy himself! We were able to ask Father Christmas questions and he kept us updated on the reindeers especially naughty Rudolph! Excitement grew this afternoon as we visited the Christmas fair which included many treats and fun activities!

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Walk to West Kirby War Memorial

Year 1 and Year 2 visited the local War Memorial today. They enjoyed an Autumnal walk and did some observational sketching. Next we looked at the physical geography of the Wirral . We then had a two minute silence to reflect and show respect. Lest we forget.

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Exploring Chester Zoo

On Tuesday Key Stage 1 enjoyed a trip to Chester Zoo. While there the children had a great time exploring the enclosures and see all the different animals that they have been learning about in science! We also had a lovely time in the Education Hub were the children learnt all about how to identify living things and classify animals according to their characteristics. They particularly enjoyed going around each table and completely the quizzes. They all had a great time and we were fortunate enough to have good weather as well!

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Using Instructions in the EYFS Garden

Today Year 2 continued their work on instructions with a practical activity in the EYFS Garden. They made a Hedgehog Hibernation Box following written instructions. All the children enjoyed this activity. In Year 2 we are showing that we care for nature.

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Zoo Lab Fun!

Today KS1 had a visit from Zoo Lab. The presenter Chris was very impressed with the children’s knowledge and  enthusiasm. They looked at molluscs, insects, arachnids, myriapods, amphibians and reptiles They learnt a great deal and thoroughly enjoyed the interactive experience.

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European Day of Languages

On Monday, Year 2 enjoyed going from class to class experiencing different countries for European Language Day. They enjoyed traditional food from each country as well as learning about different cultures!

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Welcome back to school Year 2