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  • Spring 1

    Published 30/01/26, by Hana Mehmet

    This term our theme has been “Stories for Us,” and it has been lovely to see how much the children have enjoyed sharing stories together. They have listened with excitement to a wide range of stories and are learning how to look after books with care. We have spent time exploring our Book Corner and continuing visiting Curwen Library. Next week we have a special trip to Plaistow Library with our families and friends. Story time has become a much-loved part of the day, where the children delight in discovering new stories and rhymes. They have been confidently pointing to pictures and noticing the writing in books, showing a growing love for reading and storytelling.

    The children are expanding their vocabulary by learning new words and phrases such as front cover, back cover, pages, author, and title. They have been actively using their imagination and experimenting with a variety of materials and resources to bring stories to life. Both independently and in small groups, the children have enjoyed creating pretty cottages and story settings for the characters, using different media and materials to express their ideas.

     

    We have been introducing and modelling new words for the children and encouraging them to use this vocabulary in their play as they acted out familiar stories, including making Goldilocks’ Breakfast using yogurt, strawberries, raspberries, mango and blueberries; yummy! Working as a team, they carefully checked the ingredients and followed simple instructions to prepare their own breakfast.

     

    By listening to the stories and using real objects, the children have been learning and using new descriptive words such as big, medium, and small. They confidently matched the characters to the correct-sized beds, bowls, chairs, and spoons, showing their growing understanding through hands-on play.

    Thank you for taking the time to read. Next term, we are excited to explore our new theme, “People Who Help Us.”

     

     

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  • Spring 1

    Published 30/01/26, by Hana Mehmet
    Topic (History) This term, our topic has been “People Who Fought for Our Rights.” We learned about significant individuals such as Nelson Mandela, Rosa Parks, Elizabeth Fry and Emmeline Pankhurst. We developed our History skills by ord
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  • Autumn 2

    Published 27/11/25, by Hana Mehmet

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  • Autumn 1

    Published 05/10/25, by Hana Mehmet

    Literacy

     

    In Literacy, we used our listening and communication skills to share a range of stories and their morals. We discussed why voting is important and we demonstrated our understanding of this when we voted for our School Council leader. In writing, we used our sounds, capital letters, finger spaces, question marks and exclamation marks to write about different topics. Most recently, we used our listening and teamwork skills to listen to a story about our new topic ‘The Great Fire of London.’

     

       

     

    Topic (History)

     

    In History, we have been learning about ‘The Great Fire of London’ and the children have been extremely enthusiastic to learn about how the fire started and the impact it had on London. We have looked at a range of sources such as information books, images and researched some information about who, where and how the fire started.

    Year 2 also enjoyed their first trip of the year, we visited St Paul’s Cathedral for a tour around the cathedral, then off to London bridge, Pudding Lane and finally finished off the day by using our artistic skills to sketch the Monument.

       

    Maths

     

    In Maths, we have been continuing to develop our resilience when developing our mathematical skills through learning about place value and the properties of a number. We have used concrete objects such as dienes to understand place value and manipulated them to create a range of numbers in the hundreds, tens and units. The key vocabulary that we focussed on was ‘place value, amount, tens, ones/units, hundreds and same value, different appearance’.

           

     

     

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  • Summer 2

    Published 27/06/25, by Hana Mehmet

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  • Summer 1

    Published 20/05/25, by Nazmin Choudhury
    Topic This term we had a visit from the ducklings. This tied in well with our topic ‘Animals including humans.’ We discussed the different lifecycles and what animals and humans need to survive. We used our communication and teamwork s
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  • Spring 2

    Published 25/03/25, by Hana Mehmet

    Spring 2 has been another busy half term for Year 2!

    Literacy

    This half term Year 2s have become experts at persuasive writing. How wonderful! We learned about the different features of persuasive language (using exclamations and questions, the power of 3, emotive language, and so on) to write a letter to the evil Queen in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, begging her not to kill us (please, please oh generous, wonderful and merciful Queen!). We also continued using our persuasive skills to convince visitors to visit Ghana, our focus for Topic (Geography) this term. You won’t want to miss it!

     

    Maths

    We started this half term with some really tricky maths – but our children tackled tricky column addition (and for some of us, column subtraction) with aplomb. We then moved onto measures and reading scales for the rest of the half term, with plenty of opportunities for practical activities such as measuring length with trundle wheels, weighing mass with scales and measuring volume with measuring jugs.

     

    Topic (Geography)

    As we geared up for International Week, we focused on comparing Ghana and the UK for Spring 2. We started with exploratory learning on the laptops, looking at Google Earth and learning directional language to locate Ghana and neighbouring countries. We recapped and expanded our knowledge about the continents, oceans, the equator, as well as physical and human features to describe and compare the 2 capital cities.

     

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  • Spring 1

    Published 23/01/25, by Nazmin Choudhury
    Topic (History) This term our topic is ‘People who Fought for our Rights’ and we have been learning about some significant people such as Nelson Mandela, Rosa Parks, Elizabeth Fry and Emmeline Pankhurst. We have developed our History s
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  • Autumn 2

    Published 03/12/24, by Nazmin Choudhury
    Literacy In Literacy, our focus text has been ‘The bear and the piano’ where we explored the characters personality and used our comparing reading skills. We also explored expanded noun phrases and used our innovation skills to descri
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  • Autumn 1

    Published 15/10/24, by Nazmin Choudhury
    Literacy In Literacy, we have been developing our Literacy skills and listened to a range of stories about democracy week and why it is important to have a fair vote. We also developed our writing skills and wrote about the story ‘How to He
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  • Summer 2

    Published 11/07/24, by Nazmin Choudhury
    Topic Our Science topic culminated with a trip to Colchester Zoo, where we looked at animals from around the world and learnt about their natural habitats. This was such a positive experience for us, we’ve understood how animals adapted to s
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  • Summer 1

    Published 21/05/24, by Nazmin Choudhury
    Topic This term we had a visit from the ducklings, this tied in well with our topic ‘Animals including humans.’ We discussed the different lifecycles and what animals and humans need to survive. We used our communication and teamwork s
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  • Spring 2

    Published 21/03/24, by Hana Mehmet

    This term our topic has been comparing Ghana and the UK. We used resilience and used maps to locate Ghana and identify its human and physical features. Through this we learnt about the different continents and oceans.  With what we have learnt about comparing Ghana and the UK we used our innovation skills to prepare for our International week.

          

    In Literacy we have been looking at features of a persuasive letter and leaflet. We used our reflection skills from letters we’ve written in the past to help us write our letters. With this, it also helped us writing a persuasive leaflet persuading people to visit Ghana.

        

    Maths this term has been about looking at units of measure. We explored a range of different ways we measure different objects and identified the most appropriate unit to measure in.  We used our teamwork skills and worked with our partner to read measurements.

          

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  • Spring 1

    Published 26/01/24, by Nazmin Choudhury
    Topic (History) This term our topic is ‘People who Fought for our Rights’ and we have been learning about some significant people, such as Nelson Mandela, Elizabeth Fry, Rosa Parks and Emmeline Pankhurst. We deepened our understanding
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  • Autumn 2

    Published 01/12/23, by Nazmin Choudhury
    Literacy In Literacy, our focus text has been ‘The Dark’ which allowed us to explore expanded noun phrases and use our innovation skills to describe through drama. We also applied all of our knowledge from The Great Fire London to writ
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