Year 2 (Class 5) - PSHE - Friendship Problems

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Today the children reflected about what happens when we have problems with their friendships. They said that when they fall out with friends it makes them feel sad and worried.

We looked at different places we could get help when we are worried.

They made a worry cloud and designed a rainbow…

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Year 2 (Class 6) - Maths - 3D Shapes

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Class 6 learnt some new vocabulary in maths when learning about 3D shape. They learnt, faces, vertices and edges.

They then explored different shapes and discovered how many faces, edges and vertices each shape had and if there were any patterns. 

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Year 2 (Class 6) - Art - Leonid Afremov

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Class 6 have been creating art work inspired by Leonid Afremov, they painted a background, tested different media, learnt how to draw a castle, learnt how to add texture to wood and brick, before applying it all in a final piece.

Class 6 have worked extremely hard and are very proud of what…

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Year 2 (Class 6) - English - The Paper Bag Princess

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Class 6 have been reading The Paper Bag Princess by Robert Munsch, and we finally read the ending of the story.

It turns out one of the main characters isn’t very nice and the children explained why using a stem sentence for support and explained using ‘because’.

They have loved the story…

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English

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Year 2 (Class 6) - History / Oracy - Castles and Voting

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Class 6 have been learning about castles in history. In this oracy lesson the children were voting for the most effective defence using their talk tokens.

Then explaining why, using the stem sentence for support, applying all they have learnt about castles through the term.

The children…

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History Oracy

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Year 2 (Class 6) - Maths - 2D Shape Vocabulary

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Class 6 learnt some new 2D shape vocabulary. They learnt the words sides and vertices.

They learnt that the sticks were the sides and the play dough was the vertices and were challenged to make some 2D shapes. After making a square together pupils easily made triangles and rectangles counting…

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Maths

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Year 2 (Class 5) - Music - Percussion Instruments

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Class 5 have been learning about the different percussion instruments in music.

They really enjoyed performing the song ‘Music In My Soul’ using the instruments the keep with the beat and tempo of the song.

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Music

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Year 2 (Class 6) - Computing - Microsoft Word Typing Skills

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In Class 6 we have been practising our typing skills in our information technology topic. 

We have been typing with 2 hands, learning to use capital letters with the shift key and highlighting, trying to use shift, space and enter correctly. Copy typing as well as finishing and forming our own…

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Computing

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Year 2 (Class 5) - History - Kirkstall Abbey

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Class 5 worked in groups today to create posters all about Kirkstall Abbey.

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History

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Year 2 (Class 5) - PSHE - What Makes a Good Friend?

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In class 5 we have been thinking about what makes a good friend. 

The children thought of times when they have been kind to others and made badges to celebrate their friendships. 

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Year 2 (Class 6) - Maths - Partitioning 2 Digit Numbers

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Class 6 have been partitioning 2 digit numbers in class, they have worked hard to carrying on counting on from tens and applying their knowledge of number.

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Maths

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Year 2 (Class 5) - Maths - Problem Solving

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Children in class 5 enjoyed their maths lesson today. They were able to identify and match different ways numbers can be represented.

They had lots of fun problem solving together and sharing their ideas.

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Maths

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