Blog Author: Mrs Sothern

Today Year 2 took part in an online Titanic masterclass with many other schools. They were joined by Emma, Daniel and Nathan who talked about museums and the Titanic. They learnt lots of interesting facts about this famous ship and how, despite it never visiting Liverpool, it had strong links with…

Earlier this week Year 2 visited Tesco as part of our new Geography topic ‘Journey of a Fruit Salad’. The children looked at a range of different fruits and their country of origin. This afternoon the children were given the opportunity to taste a range of fruits. They tasted mango, pineapple,…

The children made a shape pattern by drawing around 3D shapes. They then painted the different sections using primary colours.

The children worked in groups to sort animals into vertebrates and invertebrates.

Year 2 enjoyed practising their jumps, rolls and balances in gymnastics today.

Today we were visited by Margaret and Michael from Lancashire Hawks and Owls. They brought some of their amazing birds with them to show us. We learnt lots of facts about the birds and we we able to stroke some of them.

Year 2 joined a Children’s University masterclass where we heard from an illustrator called Laura who does animations for CBeebies. She demonstrated how to draw a range of amazing monsters and then the children all had a go.

This afternoon the children were comparing the lives and works of Florence Nightingale and Kitty Wilkinson. They worked as a group to sort facts into a Venn diagram.

The children worked in small groups to complete a role on the wall activity describing the appearance and personality of the wolf in the story.

The children worked in table groups to do a range of fine motor skills activities. The focus activity was sewing a felt door onto a felt house wall. 

The children played some jumping warm up games before practising individual skipping techniques.

The children practised their jumping and team work skills when using french skipping ropes.