2025 - 2026

Year 2 have had a great start to our Towers, Tunnels and Turrets topic this term. We have read, sequenced and retold the story of Rapunzel. We have also thought of questions that we would like to ask the characters and used drama to hot seat the children to answer the questions in character. We have thought about suitable construction materials to build a tower for Rapunzel and have looked at real life towers around the world using google maps in the computing suite. We are looking forward to learning all about tunnels over the next couple of weeks!

 At the end of last term, Year 2 were challenged to created a brand new locality for Beebot the robot to live in. They thought about shops and services they had seen in our Minster fieldwork and also made some exciting additions such as: zoos, swimming pools, theme parks and a whole selection of restaurants. They created these through drawing and making 3D structures. They were also challenged as part of their DT project, to design and create a waterproof shelter for Beebot to protect his computer in the rain. After testing materials and looking at shelters in our school grounds, the children worked hard to build a structure from scratch.

Year 2 had a wonderful trip out into the village last Wednesday. We were being 'Street Detectives' and playing a Minster 'I spy', looking for different significant buildings within our community. We also completed a traffic survey to see the different vehicle types using our Highstreet, cars were the most common. We then visited Minster Abbey and enjoyed seeing the different parts within the Abbey and learning about the Sisters' way of life. It was an extremely peaceful place to be and the children all enjoyed it immensely. We are hoping to make a return visit in the Summer term.

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What a great start Blue Class have had to Term 3 and our 'Street Detectives' topic. We had a visit from Paul Willins, a member of the community who has lived in the village his whole life. He spoke to the children about how the village, particularly the shops and services have changed over the years and explained what the school used to be like when he was a boy. We also had Jane talk to us during our lesson on significant people in our community, about her role as a crossing warden. Children enjoyed the opportunity to draw and write about someone in the community that helps and supports us in our day to day lives.

Yellow class had a fabulous time designing and printing their own pirate flags this week.

I'm sure you'll agree; they look fantastic.

Ahoy me hearties! What a swashbuckling day Blue Class had last week aboard the Jolly Roger! We learnt how to talk like a pirate and dance like a pirate. We used atlases to investigate keys and maps before making our very own treasure map using a key. We used a stylus and ink to make different types of marks and then challenged ourselves to draw a pirate ship with ink. We solved clues to reveal where the treasure was hidden in our classroom and enjoyed some pirate stories. It was a wonderful day and the children all looked amazing in their pirate gear. Thank you parents for your support with this. 

In Year 2, we have loved our work on recognising different types of sentences and enjoyed writing some of our own in chalk on the playground. We are using this skill in our independent writing this week as we begin to write our own riddles.  We have been learning how to count in 3s in maths and although this was tricky at first, we are becoming masters of this!

Year 2 have loved their work on the book the Disgusting Sandwich, especially making their own disgusting sandwiches, with 5 revolting ingredients. After making them, they wrote a recount using time openers to explain the chronological order of their making. Some wonderful independent writing was produced!

Blue and Yellow classes have been enjoying their Science lessons; exploring what happens when water is added to different materials and using the vocabulary of dissolving, sinking and floating. They absolutely loved following instructions for George's Marvellous Medicine and investigating the reaction that occurred when they followed these instructions correctly! Whizz popping fun!

Year 2 had a wonderful start to their Muck, Mess and Mixtures topic with a Mucky mixtures morning. They were using their sense of touch to describe the textures of different mucky mixtures. Shaving foam and jelly proved to be the favourites. Wonderful vocabulary was generated from their explorations.