Year 2 Blog

The children applied their knowledge of  Christopher Columbus and Neil Armstrong to correctly sort the different explorers equipment. The children needed to justify their decisions based on historical factual knowledge of the periods time.

The children extended their knowledge of algorithms through the use of a free app called Kodable.

We have reflected upon Remembrance Day throughout our learning and during our acts of worship. We also created a symbolic wreath made from our hand coloured Union Jack flags, cut out into our own unique hand shape.

Congratulations one and all keep up the monster effort!

Fostering the love of reading. Who is your favourite author?

This week we have explored multiplication and division through the use of arrays and grouping. I challenged the children to represent our mathematical symbols with a friend. The results have been quite inventive!

We created our own number sentences using division, repeated addition and multiplication to match our arrays.

Look at our smiley winners this week. One received the reader of the week and one received our mega maths modeller trophy for recognising the properties of numbers as we played property towers. Well done also to our star award winner Julian and our super learner, brilliant behaviour and Good…

Sequencing  how to brush your teeth is an unplugged activity to introduce the concept of an algorithm.

Our computing specialist, Miss Bently joined us today to introduce algorithms. An algorithm is ...