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Y2 Termly update & photos

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  • Spring 2

    Published 24/03/23, by Hana Mehmet

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    This term in Geography, we have been having discussions and locating the continents and oceans on a world map and globe. We also had the opportunity to sort the physical and human features in Ghana and make comparisons to the UK. We thoroughly enjoyed our African drumming workshop and were able to perform this in front of our parents/carers and listened to traditional Ghanaian music.

     

    Maths

    In Maths, we have continued to develop our teamwork and communication skills through exploring measurements for capacity, mass and reading scales with different increments. We have also been learning about positional and directional language. We worked as a team to give our partners directions to travel from one area to another.

    Literacy

    In Literacy, we have continued to develop our writing skills and most recently wrote a persuasive leaflet on why people should visit Ghana. We worked as a team to read a range of leaflets to use as examples. We ensured we used persuasive language, questions, exclamation marks and commands to persuade our audience to visit Ghana.

     

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  • Spring 1

    Published 27/01/23, by Hana Mehmet

    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, Florence Nightingale, Rosa Parks, Gandhi, Emmeline Pankhurst and Mary Seacole. We used ‘Now Press Play’ to develop our listening and drama skills to act out being Florence and how hard she worked being a nurse. We ensured we used our ‘Curwen Core skills’ such as teamwork, empathy and communication to discuss our opinions.

    We have developed our history skills including ordering events chronologically on a timeline and using sources of information to find out about the past. We have thoroughly enjoyed learning facts, watching videos and sharing our thoughts.

    Literacy

    In Literacy, we have continued to develop our writing skills through writing a diary entry imagining we were Nelson Mandela. We used role play to imagine how he felt when he was put into prison and used emotive language to describe how he may have felt. We demonstrated resilience and strived for success through ensuring that we used a range of adjectives, conjunctions, exclamations and questions to vary our writing.

     

    Maths

    This term one of the topics we have explored is ‘Money’ we have looked at a range of coins and spoke about the value. We used our imagination and set up a shop where we have some shoppers and shopkeepers. We developed our resilience and chose what coins we would need if we wanted to purchase an item for a certain value. We will continue to explore money in school but also at home with our families!

     

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  • Autumn 2

    Published 04/12/22, by Hana Mehmet
    Topic   This half term we were super excited to share our learning about ‘The Great Fire of London’ in our Big Outcome in class. We presented what we have learnt through Drama, Art and Music and continued to develop our Curwen
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  • Autumn 1

    Published 14/10/22, by Nazmin Choudhury
    Literacy In Literacy, we used our listening and communication skills to share a range of stories and their morals. We have been learning to use nouns and adjectives in our writing and most recently developed our writing skills to write a non- chr
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  • Summer 2

    Published 11/07/22, 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. Applying our reading skills, we enjoyed learning lots of facts about the animals. We took p
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  • Summer 1

    Published 17/05/22, by Nazmin Choudhury
    We have had another fantastic half-term in Year 2. Topic One of the highlights of this half-term has been the arrival of the ducklings! This has helped us learn more about our Science topic ‘Animals including humans’- we learnt abou
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  • Spring 2

    Published 18/03/22, by Nazmin Choudhury
    Topic Our Geography topic has been ‘Comparing Accra and London’ (these are the capital cities of Ghana and England). We learnt to locate the 7 continents and 5 oceans on a world map and globe. We have explored Ghanaian culture by parti
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  • Spring 1

    Published 01/02/22, by Nazmin Choudhury
    Topic (History) Our topic this half term has been ‘People who Fought for our Rights’. We have been learning about some significant people such as Nelson Mandela, Rosa Parks, Gandhi, Emmeline Pankhurst and Mary Seacole. We used drama to
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  • Autumn 2

    Published 29/11/21, by Nazmin Choudhury
    This half term we have been busy as usual in Year 2! We have had lots more fun and exciting learning experiences. Topic A highlight of this half-term was sharing our learning about ‘The Great Fire of London’ in our Big Outcome on Zo
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  • Autumn 1

    Published 12/10/21, by Nazmin Choudhury
    Topic We have settled very well back into school life and we are enjoying our topic ‘Who Am I?’ We made some lovely art works showing what is special about us- we collaged images, symbols and photos and we even mixed our own colours to
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  • Summer 1

    Published 25/05/21, by Nazmin Choudhury
    Maths In Maths, we have been looking at Shapes. We looked at the properties of both 2D and 3D shapes; we even found shapes around the classroom. We had fun looking at the 3D shapes and counting the amount of vertices and faces they had. We used ou
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  • Autumn 2

    Published 11/12/20, by Nazmin Choudhury
    Topic We were very excited to learn lots of facts about our topic, the Great Fire of London. We developed our History skills such as analysing sources information and comparing past and present. We even took part in a webinar where some curators f
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  • Autumn 1

    Published 16/10/20, by Nazmin Choudhury
    Topic We have settled very well back into school life and we are enjoying our topic ‘Who Am I?’ We made some lovely art works showing what is special about us- we collaged images, symbols and photos and we even mixed our own colours to
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  • Spring 1 Update

    Published 12/02/20, by Nazmin Choudhury
    In Literacy we read a story called ‘Chocolate Planet’, about a planet made of sweets and chocolate. It inspired us to write our own fantasy story. To help us think of ideas we created our own chocolate planet with real sweets and chocolat
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  • Autumn 2 Update

    Published 13/12/19, by Nazmin Choudhury

    We have had a busy and very exciting few weeks at school, here are some of the things we have been up to in Autumn 2…

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