Apart from soaking up the glorious sunshine, we have been tying lots of loose ends to the end of Year 2. We were thrilled to have a team of Wild Things in school this week. We were astonished by the Coral snake called Milksnake and a shy little albino hedgehog called Snowball. We were delighted …
Category archives: year2
Week of 5th July 2021
This week, we evidently caught the football fever! The excitement and enthusiasm is contagious here in school and we are eager to see how England performs in the final this weekend. On Friday, we displayed our fantastic football attitudes by wearing our favorite football jerseys and even some of our handmade football t-shirts! In literacy, …
Week of 28th June 2021
In between the scattered rain showers, we have been embracing our bug hotel in our playground. Miss Burbage is thrilled to hear about our new bug residents such as Gary the caterpillar and Strawberry the ladybug! The children’s enthusiasm and interest in our DIY bug hotel is very endearing and I am delighted to see …
Week of 21st June 2021
Setting up our DIY bug hotel was definitely our highlight this week. We will name it our ‘Bugingham Palace’ and have demonstrated so much for respect for all of the mini beasts that lurk around our playground. We love knowing that all of our Bugingham guests are free to enter and leave as they please! …
Week of 14th June 2021
We enjoyed the glorious sunshine this week and we embraced the much welcomed dry spell by having some of our lessons outside. We combined our DT and science by designing a bug hotel for our playground. We thought carefully how to attract some mini beasts and we have come up with a fitting name for …
Week of 7th June- Olympics Week
What an incredible week! We had a jam-packed week with such an exciting array of sporting activities such as fencing, archery, hockey, running races and lots of other fun games. Having New Zealand as our country of interest, the Maori people captured our imaginations. We were intrigued to learn all about the Haka and we …
Week of 24th May
We had a pleasant week winding down for our well earned half term. One of our highlights this week was an ‘eggciting’ investigation. Miss Burbage brought us in more mysterious egg shells from a farm she visited and we were eager to discuss. They generated lots of interesting questions and observations. In our learning teams …
Week of 17th May 2021
Despite the blustery and rainy weather, we had a jam packed week of many interesting activities. In D&T we finished our marvellous winding mechanisms and we have proudly put them on display. Seeing the finished product is always very satisfying and rewarding. Can you spot the sea creatures we chose to wind down?! The highlight …
Week of 10th May 2021
We had the pleasure of having our first ever Irish Dance lesson. We were very excited about the prospect of learning how to participate in such a fun and unique dance. Did you know that Irish Dance is a group of traditional dance forms originating from Ireland, encompassing dancing both solo and in groups, and …
Week of 3rd May 2021
Despite the chilly and blustery weather, we enjoyed taking our learning outdoors in our beautiful nature reserve. We read ‘Where the forest meets the sea’ by Jeannie Baker in little groups and it set our imagination wild! We were intrigued to read about the ‘vines and creepers , ‘twisted roots’ and the ancient hollow trees …
