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  • Year 2: What is a day in the life of a Chinese student like, and how does it compare to your school day?​​​​​​​

    Published 28/01/26
    This week in Geography we compared our school day with a typical Chinese school day.  There are lots of similarities and differences to our school days. Some similarities are: wearing uniforms, learning maths and literacy skills, as well as a
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  • Year 2: What are the physical features of China and why are they significant?

    Published 21/01/26
    The children have been really enjoying their time learning more about the human and physical features of China, and using their computing skills to create their Google Slides pages. 
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  • What is inside a seed?

    Published 15/01/26

    This week in year 2 we have been talking about healthy food and we made our own healthy wraps, which were delicious! 

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  • Year 2: Can you describe where China is on a map? Can you remember any countries that share a boarder?

    Published 07/01/26

    This week in year 2 we have introduced our new topic of China and looked at where it is on the map. We have been looking at money and learning how to make different amounts. In writing we have been looking at retelling the story of Zog using time adverbs to help us.

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  • Year 2: Who was your favourite character in ‘A Christmas Collar’?

    Published 16/12/25
    This week, Year 2 have been reading a story called ‘A Christmas Collar’. It was about a dog called Lumi, who finds one of Santa’s reindeer collars! The children have been practising how to retell a story, as well as how to describe
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  • Year 2: What was your favourite ‘Lights, Camel, Action!’ song?

    Published 10/12/25
    This week the children have worked so hard on their nativity performance, as well as keeping up with the learning of the week. We are so proud of their attitude towards their learning, as well as their performance, and are looking forward to one more
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  • What did we learn from Florence Nightingale this week?

    Published 03/12/25
    This week the children in Year 2 had an excellent time meeting Florence Nightingale! We got to meet her and listen to her life story, which included acting out some of the characters with her. We then were able to explore the museum and go
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  • Year 2: Who was Mary Seacole? What makes her similar/different to Florence Nightingale?​​​​​​​

    Published 26/11/25
    Mary Seacole (Mother Seacole) was a British-Jamaican nurse. She had expert knowledge of herbal remedies, which she had learned from her mother, who was also a nurse. Examples of this include aloe vera for burns, or ginger for nausea/diarrhoea. She tr
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  • Year 2: Who was Florence Nightingale, and why was she significant?

    Published 19/11/25
    In preparation for our trip, we started learning about Florence Nightingale. We acted out what it would have been like in hospitals before Florence Nightingale's time. Although the children thought it was very silly to lie on the floor, some
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  • Year 2: What does it mean to be significant?

    Published 14/11/25
    This week in History, we had a great discussion about the word significant: A significant person is someone who has changed events in the time they lived; improved or worsened people’s lives; changed people’s minds/ ideas or had a last
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  • Year 2: What are the careers we can have in medicine, and how have they changed over time?

    Published 05/11/25
    This week in History we discussed how medicine has changed over time. For example, technology over time has improved, so instead of one doctor for everything, we now have specialists, like orthopaedic doctors, paediatricians for babies/ children and
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  • Year 2: What does 'Isn't Life Wonderful?' mean to you?

    Published 22/10/25
    This week the children have explored a poem called Isn’t Life Wonderful? From a book called Cloud Busting, by Malorie Blackman. We read the poem and explored the themes, which is all about noticing the little things that make life wonderful. Th
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