Blog Author: S Grierson

Today was the first day back and we got straight into the swing of things by going round the classes taking part in the fractions carousel. In Year 2 we listened to whole notes (semibreves), half notes (minims) and quarter notes (crotchets) that were played by our three puppets who were sad, happy…

This afternoon Year 2 took part in the Harvest celebrations at the Cathedral. Some of our children read at the ambo and others held up letters that spelt our HARVEST. We joined in the singing and collected food for the charity committee to distribute.

Today the firefighters from Lancaster Fire and Rescue service came to visit Y2 and Y6 to tell us some important information and teach us valuable skills. First we learned about the importance of having fire sensors in our home and told us to go home and check that we had some fitted to our…

How much is a kilogram? Well in Year 2 this morning we found out. We filled our weighing scales until the dial touched the 1kg marker. Then we had to go and find just one object that would fit on the scale that also had a mass of 1kg. Can you guess what that might have been?

Nate visited us again this year for our annual wheelchair basketball experience. We all got chance to sit in a chair and manoeuvre it before splitting into teams and having a game of basketball. As always it was great fun and gave us an insight into what it is like for people who have to use a…

Today, Y2 were joined by Margaret Wright. Margaret used to be a head teacher and RE leader and still works in Lancaster diocese training teachers. Today she came in to tell Y2 the Noah's Ark story like we've never heard it before. We were fantastic listeners and asked very thoughtful…

Tobias and his dad have been exploring the outdoors looking for signs of autumn. Tobias brought his autumn box into the class to share with us and earned his green key for asking investigative questions about the world around him.

Today we used the outdoors to measure using a metre measuring rule. We had a giant 10 m tape that we measured the width of the playground with and then working in pairs we measured everything in our outdoor area; the shed, the climbing wall. the fences...you name it, we measured it!

Today we investigated centimetres and found out exactly how small they are and what they are useful for measuring. Then we got to work finding as many things in the classroom that we could that measured less than 30cm.

We all love going on the PE apparatus but as well as being great fun it helps us to develop our co-ordination, strength and balance.Today Y2 showed Dan just how good our PE skills are AND how brave some of us are climbing up - and over-the climbing frame.

Year 2 started their year with a very welcome yoga session as part of our learning about Marvellous Me. We learned how to relax and breathe which will help to keep us calm and focussed throughout our busy year.