​Today, the children learned about how the amount of daylight changes depending on the season. They learned that in the winter the days are shorter and that it can start getting dark when they leave school on an afternoon. They were introduced to reflective materials and thought about jobs that need high visibility clothing to… Read more »

Today, we learned about our local area. We used atlases to find the shape of countries around the world and places we had visited or knew about. We used Google Earth to find our school, the Head of Steam and some of our houses. We learned about parts of the UK, the countries and capitals.We… Read more »

On Friday, Year 2 went to Beamish as part of our Victorians topic. We had a fantastic time exploring and learning about life as a Victorian. We saw a lot of amazing things and took part in activities like cleaning a Victorian house and doing chores, as well as finding out about what it would… Read more »

The children in Year 2 have started their new exciting topic – The Great Fire of London. We thought carefully about our chosen artist (L.S. Lowry) and drew our picture in that style. We used charcoal to draw with – it was tricky but we showed fantastic resilience. We have some fantastic artists in Year… Read more »