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  • Year 2: What are the countries in Southern Africa and can you locate the Kalahari Desert?

    Published 04/06/25
    This week in Geography, the children were exploring where in the world the region of Southern Africa is, which countries are located there, and what some of the physical features of the area are. The countries in the area we are looking at are: Angol
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  • Year 2: How has fire safety changed since 1666?

    Published 21/05/25
    This week in History, we have compared what people in 1666 had to today. The tools and equipment used to put out the fire have been changed / updated to make them more effective. Now we have a Fire Brigade whose job it is to protect us. They hav
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  • Year 2: How do we know so much about the Great Fire of London?

    Published 14/05/25
    This week, we learned more about Samuel Pepys (Mr Peeps) who wrote about his life in his diary, and gave a detailed record of what happened during the Great Fire of London. We also looked at some artwork, which was painted years later, and took
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  • Year 2: What did you learn at the Tower of London?

    Published 09/05/25
    On Thursday, Year 2 were fortunate enough to go to the Tower of London. We had the opportunity to visit on VE Day, which meant we got to see the ceramic poppies on display, and observed our 2 minute silence with the rest of the visitors. We also t
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  • Year 2: What effect did the Great Fire have on London?​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

    Published 02/05/25
    This week the children were asked to compare London before 1666 and after. Before the fire, houses in London were close together and the streets were very narrow. After the fire, the houses were spread out more, and the streets were wider. Before the
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  • Year 2: When did the Great fire of London start and what caused it?

    Published 23/04/25
    To start off our Great Fire of London topic, we investigated the timeline of the fire. We now know that the fire started in a bakery on Pudding Lane, on September 2nd, 1666. It lasted for around 5 days. Experts think that it was caused by a spark in
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  • Year 2: What toy did you choose for the toy museum?

    Published 02/04/25
     To review this half-term’s learning, the children had to apply all their knowledge of toys to curate their toy museum. The children explored how the materials and style of toy could help identify the age of the toy. The children understan
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  • Year 2: How do you make a bug hotel?

    Published 26/03/25
    This week in Science we built our own bug hotels, using recycled materials and natural materials we found in our Forest School area. We then combined this knowledge with our English knowledge of instruction writing, to do our next piece of Star
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  • Year 2: What are the features of micro-habitats?

    Published 19/03/25
    This week we designed bug hotels by using what we learned about different minibeasts and their micro-habitats. A big factor in where a minibeast lives is down to their diet, for example: Caterpillars eat leaves so they like to live on top or un
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  • Year 2: How do you make a jam sandwich?

    Published 11/03/25
    In English, we have been practising instruction writing. In order to better understand how to write instructions clearly, we wrote and then followed instructions on how to make a jam sandwich. They did an excellent job working together and were
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  • Year 2: What toys did our parents and grandparents play with? How do they compare?

    Published 05/03/25
    This week, Year 2 had an opportunity to look back in time at some of the toys that were played with by their parents and grandparents. Not only were they lucky to have some real photos of their parents and grandparents with toys (thank you to 1 paren
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  • Year 2: How can I do different jobs in a group?

    Published 28/02/25
    This week the children took part in a team drawing exercise, where they had to think about how to communicate and describe pictures to another. They took turns with the different roles in their team and fed back to each other what went well and what
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