Author: Sian Chatha

This week we carried out some experiments and found out that using warm water and soap is the most efficient method for removing oil and dirt from our hands. We also took part in a test, where we wanted to find out how easily germs spread, by using glitter and playing games with different objects that we passed around between

This week, we learnt how to mix primary colours to make secondary colours. We learnt that red, yellow and blue are primary colours and green, orange and purple are secondary colours. Here is how we made them.

This week in year 2, we practised instant recall of number bonds to 10 and used this skill to work with larger numbers. We learned how to find missing numbers in a calculation and became ‘Number detectives’. We enjoyed working with a partner to solve problems and dance to our counting songs to practise counting in twos, fives, tens and

We played a really fun Kahoot quiz in our history lesson, to practise our retrieval skills and see of we could remember our learning about ‘The Greatest Explorers’. We had so much fun!

This week we learned what a suffix is and how we can use it to change a verb to past tense. We also learned about action verbs and being verbs, as well as how to identify regular and irregular verbs. We finished the week with a fun activity, practising writing different forms of verbs with chalk on the playground.

This week in Design and Technology, we learnt how to follow a recipe and make Eton Mess. We chopped and mashed some strawberries, crushed some meringues, stirred in some Greek yoghurt and sweetened it up with a sprinkle of caster sugar. It was delicious!

In Design and Technology, we have been exploring why we cook our food. We discovered that cooking our food makes it taste better, safer to eat, easier to digest, last longer and softer and more edible. Here are some photos of us feeling some uncooked pasta and risotto rice and discussing why we can’t eat these foods uncooked. We also

This week in year 2 we have been learning about common nouns and proper nouns. We sorted words into groups with a partner and took part in a ‘Proper Noun Hunt’.

We have been learning to tell the time to the nearest quarter of an hour and 5 minutes. We used the clocks to consolidate our learning.