Blog Author: Miss McKendrey

What a perfect end to our topic on the Great Fire of London! Year 2 had the pleasure of visiting Whitehaven Fire Station today. The staff were amazing and demonstrated how quickly the fire would have spread in 1666. The children learned about fire fighting today and what equipment is like compared…

Year 2 had a Halloween themed multiskills session for P.E. Today. They pretended to be ghosts, vampires, zombies and skeletons while trying to steal treasure from the haunted house and playing evading games. A spooky time was had by all!

A small team from Year 2 represented the school at a Year 2 indoor football tournament at Whitehaven. The children showed great sportsmanship and worked well together as a team. We are very proud of them!

As part of our topic on the Great Fire of London, Year 2 have been learning about what houses were like in 1666. Then they used this knowledge to design and create models of Tudor houses.

What an amazing turnout of costumes for the launch of T T Rockstars. Year 2 had great fun taking part in rock star dances and playing their air guitars. They even had time to log on to the app during a computing session. I wonder who will be the ‘most improved’ and ‘most practised’ each…

Today Year 2 used the iPads to complete an interactive quiz about the facts they’ve learnt about the Great Fire of London. They instantly saw the results on the large interactive screen and were extremely pleased with how many questions they got right. Well done Year 2!

Year 1 and 2 children made models of their favourite things during this week’s construction club. They worked well together and helped each other improve their models.

This half term we are learning how to refine some of the gymnastics moves we learned last year in preparation for a competition later in the year. Today we focused on jumping and using this to mount the apparatus correctly.

There was a lot of interest in this year’s school council election. The children interested told the class why they would be a good Year 2 representative on the school council. The vote was very close with Isaac and Pearl being the two winning representatives. Their classmates have full faith in…

Year 2 have been working on representing numbers up to 100. They used a range of equipment to make given numbers using tens and ones.

Congratulations to the winning boy and girl in this half term’s reading rewards. A special mention to Georjie-Rose who read five times or more every week for all nine weeks.

We encourage everyone to go along to the local library and join the Summer Reading Challenge. Keep it up during the…

Reception thoroughly enjoyed their end of year trip to the Lake District Wildlife Park. They enjoyed learning about all the animals. They especially enjoyed cuddling guinea pigs, watching a bird of prey display and stroking the bearded dragon and the snake.