2 Blue loved careers day!

27th June 2025L Chisholm

We took part in the whole school careers day.  Lots of businesses and people with interesting careers came and joined us for the day.  We have been learning about civil engineers and their role in building bridges, I’m sure you’ll agree our bridges were much better than any you see on your travels! We looked at the world of advertising through the use of media videos and green screen.  The children enjoyed watching Mrs Chisholm discover her new career, she is obviously wasted as a Teacher and needs to be on the big screen!! We also looked at Halfords and their cars and what they do everyday.  We found today very interesting and we now have lots of fun ideas and goals for our future – watch this space!

Magnificent map readers!

16th June 2025L Chisholm

Some of year 2 were lucky enough to be invited to take part in an orienteering session at Marine Park.  They received a map and had to look for different numbered stations around the park.  Each of these stations had a letter, number and a picture.  The children had to collect the data from each station to fill in their quiz sheet at the end.  The children were all amazing and we have had a brilliant afternoon.

Super Sewing!

10th June 2025L Chisholm

Year 2 have been making our own birds as part of our Going Wild’ theme.  We have loved learning about the elephant bird so we decided to try and make one.  We used our Design and Technology skills to sew around our shape.  We then added stuffing, closed our bird with more stitches then added on eyes and wings.  I think you’ll agree we are SEW great!

 

Futsal Fun!

3rd June 2025L Chisholm

Year 2 have really enjoyed taking part in our Futsal session.  We tried lots of new tricks like The Ronaldo step over, The Neymar Rocket and the side step pass.  It was so much fun!

Year 2 can sort animals

22nd May 2025L Chisholm

Year 2 have been using their science skills and have been looking at naming and identifying common animals that are birds, fish, mammals, reptiles and amphibians.  We used our research skills to find out what each group of animals had in common.  We are sorting superstars!

Print like an animal

16th May 2025L Chisholm

In our ‘Going Wild’ theme we have been looking at animal prints and the different textures, colours and combinations our wild animals have. In art we have tried to copy these prints using a range of materials and techniques.  We then designed our own print for our imaginary animal.

Victorian school work

1st April 2025L Chisholm

As part of our ‘Children’s Champion’ theme we have been looking at how schools used to be during Thomas Barnardo’s time and why he decided to step in to help the most poverty stricken children.  He created ‘Ragged Schools’ in which all children who were without a home or were poor could access eductaion.  They had 3 lessons, the 3 R’s (riting, reading and rithmatic). We have decided we don not want to be in a Victorian school as the chalk made our hands mucky and we couldn’t talk!

Marvelous Measuring!

21st March 2025L Chisholm

In 2 Blue this week we have been looking at measuring in centimetres and metres.  We have measured long and short items around our classroom and in the wider school.  We looked at all of the different ways in which measuring can be done, our favourite was the Trundle wheel! We know that to get an accurate measurement we must make sure we line our ruler or tape measure up nice and straight and that we start at zero.

2 Blue had a Pirates life!

17th March 2025L Chisholm

We went on our class trip to Hartlepool Marina where we visited the HMS Trincomalee, a Royal Navy vessel which is more than 200 yrs old! We looked at different artefacts that would be used on voyages and explored the ship from the gun deck to the captains quarters.  We looked around the Hartlepool navy museum and found out lots of interesting facts such as: Each sailor had a number on their hammock and when they died their number was up and they were wrapped in their hammock.  They were even sewn into the hammock with the last stitch going through their nose! This was done in case any of the sneaky sailors pretended they were dead to escape the life at sea.  Despite the weather being terrible the children had a great time!