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Year 2 had a wonderful trip to Singers Hill Synagogue. The children were amazed when we walked into the beautiful building. The children have been learning about Judaism, including different festivals and the layout of a synagogue.

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Year 2 had a wonderful outdoor learning day! We did a range of activities related to outdoor learning and woodland school. The children loved taking part in one of our 50 Things - making a daisy chain. The children were as quiet as a mouse as they concentrated on making their daisy chains correctly.

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Year 2 had a wonderful outdoor learning day! We did a range of activities related to outdoor learning and woodland school. The children loved taking part in one of our 50 Things - walking barefoot in the grass. The children said how the grass tickled their feet and that they felt relaxed afterwards.

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Year 2 have had a wonderful day exploring the celebration of Hanukkah. The children explored the story of the Maccabees and how Jewish people celebrate the festival of Hanukkah. We made our own dreidels and played with them, this is a traditional game played by Jewish children. We also explored the meaning behind the menora and created our own menora collages. We all had a wonderful day!

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This half term, Year 2 have loved having some extra friends in the classroom. The children have enjoyed watching caterpillars wrap themselves into a chrysalis and then breaking free to become butterflies! On this sunny afternoon, we were ready to release them back into their natural habitat. The children watched in amazement as the butterflies flew in different directions!

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Year 2 have had a great day immersing themselves in the world of explorers thinking about places in the world to explore, what they need to pack and discovering facts about some famous explorers in history.

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Year 2 have had a wonderful day at Cotswold Wildlife Park! We saw penguins, meerkats, capybaras and giraffes! The children had a fabulous time and it was enjoyed by everyone!

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2E had their final woodland school session today. We have thoroughly enjoyed exploring the outdoors over the last few weeks. Today, we made bird feeders to hang in the garden. The children used pinecones as the base. We covered the pinecone in dairy free lard before rolling it in rice. As it was our final session, we had hot chocolate and biscuits. The children loved it and were seeing who could have the biggest hot chocolate moustache!

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Year 2 had a fabulous session with Karen from Little Litter Warriors today! We hunted outside the school for litter that had been left. We were shocked to find 1,037 pieces of litter between the two classes! 2R found a crisp packet from 1999 and 2E found a crisp packet from 1996! The children were proud of their hard efforts and knowing that they have been able to help the environment!

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2E had a wonderful third session in Woodland School today! We continued our focus on the story 'Stickman' and looked at when Stickman becomes a flag for a sandcastle. We quickly realised we could not make sandcastles in woodland school, so we made MUD castles instead! The children worked in teams to make their very own mud castles and mud pies. We loved completing one of our Swan Lane 50 things and got VERY muddy in the process!

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Year 2 had a fabulous World Book Day! Everyone had a wonderful time dressing up, sharing books and completing the reading trail!

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2E had a second fabulous session in Woodland School. We explored our focus text 'Stickman' in further detail by making our own flags and swan nests. The children had to use their team building skills to make their nests.

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The children have had a super start to Spring 2 with their WOW Day based on our Geography focus, continents and oceans. The children enjoyed dressing up in the colours of different countries to make their own Year 2 world map. We also explored making Aboriginal art and playing African drums.

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Today 2E has their first session in Woodland School. We didn't let the rain stop us! We read our Woodland School book 'Sickman' by Julia Donaldson before making our own stickmen. The children had the extra special treat of having a hot chocolate and biscuit! The children loved it and can't wait to continue Woodland School after half term.

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Today in Woodland we discussed how at this time of Year the birds could struggle to find food - we used pine cones, fat and rice combined to make our own nature bird feeders - we all then chose a spot within Woodland to hang our feeder from a branch.

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We completed another Year 2 50 things challenge today by making our own Mud Pies! We extended this creatively by turning them into Mud Castles using decorative sandcastles as inspiration.

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In Science, we have been exploring the scientist Charles Macintosh and how he invented waterproof coats. As part of our own experiment, we explored different materials that we could use to create our own waterproof coats. We tested fabric, fabric with wax and foil to see which materials were waterproof and would be appropriate for our own coat.

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Today our Woodland session was inspired by Bird watch week. We went out with clipboards and recorded which type of birds we could see in our School environment. We then worked in teams to build ground nests for birds and practiced our weaving skills to make a nest flag. We even saw a fabulous rainbow whilst outside!

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This week after reading the Julia Donaldson's Stick Man, we began to gather things in a bag from the woodland area. We then used these to make our very own Stick Man. After our nature scavenger hunt and crafting, we sat down to enjoy some hot chocolate and biscuits.

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Thursday afternoon was spent having a feast of vegetables with the chance to taste three different dips. We had to chop, peel and cut up the vegetables before we could use them as a dipping stick.

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We were incredibly excited yesterday as we FINALLY could burn our houses after all the horrible weather we had. We loved watching the fire spread as each house burnt down. We even started to sing London's Burning as the houses started to fall! 🔥

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We have had the most fabulous day watching 'Robin Hood and his Merry Men' at Cheltenham Everyman. The show was filled with singing, dancing and laughter! A wonderful time was had by everyone! 🌟

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Today, we have had a very special treat where we had a story in the reading cabin with Father Christmas! The children loved listening to 'The Dinosaur that Pooped Christmas!'. We all found it incredibly funny! Father Christmas has given the children reindeer food to sprinkle outside on Christmas Eve, to help the reindeer find their way🦌🎅🏻

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The children in Year 2 have been working incredibly hard to create Christmas gift tags and bags to sell at this year's Christmas Enterprise! We can't wait to sell them after school on Thursday! 🎁🎄

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Year 2 have had a wonderful time playing games and completing activities all around Multiplication. We had a focus on our 2,5 10 x tables as these are the table facts we need to know by the end of Year 2.

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in Autumn term, one of Year 2 things to do as a child is to learn to play a card game. We did this today by learning the rules of Snap then playing the game in small groups. Lots of fun was had and we cant wait to be able to play again.

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In our reading lessons, we have been looking at the non-fiction text 'Above and Below'. The children have enjoyed looking at different habitats and their inhabitance. As part of our follow on task, the children explored key vocabulary related to rivers and created their own glossaries.

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This week we started to explore Van Gogh's love of Sunflowers by producing our own sketches of a still life vase of Sunflowers in pencil only.

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How did Emmeline Pankhurst shape politics in the UK?

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How did Emmeline Pankhurst shape politics in the UK?

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Last week, the children took part in a Whole School History Day all about a significant individual. The children explored who Emmeline Pankhurst was and how her suffragettes helped women achieve the right to vote. The children loved exploring someone different from history and how our nation changed because of their efforts.

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At the start of the half term, Year 2 took part in their WOW Day all about the Great Fire of London. The children loved learning about the timeline of events and creating pieces of artwork about the fire. Due to the wind, we couldn't burn our houses but we can't wait to do so when the weather is better.

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We used the inspiring artwork of Heather Galler to reproduce a dog picture using the Sketch app on the ipads.

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We made Cats by folding paper - the Japanese art of Origami.

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We wrote some Japanese phrases

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Today in Year 2 we have celebrated and explored the culture of Japan from their art work to the Geography of the land. We have had a great day , painting, making an origami cat and producing a fact file all about the country.

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Today in our English lesson we considered the hidden meanings in texts using our story The Scarecrows Wedding to spot the clues. We discovered that 'reading between the lines' is using our inference skills and were able to answer deeper questions within the reading comprehension session.

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During our Art lessons the last two weeks we have explored two artists use of colours and shapes, Joan Miro and Andy Warhol. We have considered what we liked about them and the techniques used in order to begin our own versions in a similar style next week.