10/10/24
Year 2 News
- 04/09/24
Welcome to Year 2
Year 2 have had a good start back at school. We have begun reading the story, The Lonely Beast, and have been acting out parts of the story, making inferences about the characters' feelings. Take a look at some of our brilliant acting skills.Read Full Story - 17/05/24
Year 2 Visit to Newcastle Castle
Earlier this term, Year 2 visited Newcastle Castle as part of their history learning linked to their topic, ‘Medieval Castles of England‘. We travelled there by coach and spent the day finding out about the history of the castle and exploring the castle keep. We visited The Royal Chap...Read Full Story - 26/01/24
Year 2 3D Sculptures
In art lessons this term, Year 2 have been designing and creating 3D sculptures. In their first lesson, the class explored a range of ‘superhero’ poses to inspire their 3D sculptures. Then the children used wire and plasticine to turn their ideas into a three dimensional model. Year 2 en...Read Full Story - 26/01/24
Understanding Religion in Year 2
This half term our enquiry question for RE is: ‘Does praying at regular intervals help a Muslim in his/ her everyday life? We have had many discussions about what a ‘commitment’ is and what it means and thought about our own commitments both at home and in school. In order to u...Read Full Story - 23/12/23
Theatre Visit
The visit to Northern Stage to see Cinderella with Y2 to Y6 on Tuesday was a delight! It was a magical show and a great early experience of the theatre for the children. They found it very funny when the characters clambered among them and enjoyed the interactive elements too. The children’s...Read Full Story - 20/12/23
Key Stage 1 Christmas Party
Today Year 1 and 2 enjoyed their Christmas party. We danced, sang, played games and even had a visit from the Big Man himself!Read Full Story - 20/12/23
Key Stage 1 Nativity
Last week Year 1 and 2 performed ‘It’s A Party’ for their friends and family. Key Stage One children blew the audience away with their fantastic acting and singing. They performed so well and we are incredibly proud of all of them. We hope you all enjoyed the show...Read Full Story - 28/11/23
Anti-Bullying Week – Make Some Noise!
The theme of this year’s Anti-Bullying Week was Make Some Noise and during the week we encouraged the children to make some noise by discussing what bullying is, what we can do to make sure bullying doesn’t happen at our school and what the children’s should do if they experience b...Read Full Story - 06/10/23
National Poetry Day
We celebrated National Poetry Day on Thursday 5th October. Each class was given their own poem to read and perform in our National Poetry Day Assembly. The children had great fun learning a wide range of poems: nursery rhymes, limericks, tongue twisters, rhyming couplets, classic poetry and narrativ...Read Full Story - 04/10/23
Year 2 Visit to the Discovery Museum
On Tuesday, Year 2 enjoyed a fantastic trip to the Discovery Museum where we learnt all about the Great Fire of Gateshead and Newcastle. Read on to find out more! We began the day by learning about life in the Victorian times and the story of how the great fire started in Gateshead. We hea...Read Full Story - 28/09/23
Year 1 and 2 Mile Challenge
Yesterday, Year 1 and 2 took part in a 1 mile challenge as part of our annual cross country event. Children could run 9 laps of the yard which is equivalent to a half a mile or challenge themselves to run 18 for a full mile! All children ran the half mile and some managed the full mile! Both clas...Read Full Story