MENTAL HEALTH WEEK 2025
Y2 have been focusing on their emotions in different situations. They have discussed a range of strategies to help them cope with emotions such as anger, jealousy and worry.
BALL SKILLS – FEET
Year 2 Kahlo have been developing their dribbling skills in order to keep possession of the ball.
Ball skills- feet- dribbling to score a point
Year 2 Goodall learnt how to develop their dribbling using their feet in order to keep possession and score a point
Making music
Year 2 Goodall have been making their own music to express how they're feeling today as part of their making music unit. They can add special effects, change the volume of each instrument and increase the...
Gymnastics – pathways – creation of pathway sequences
Biography headings
In preparation for writing our Florence Nightingale biographies, Year 2 Goodall have been looking at how headings help the reader find out key information. Can we put each fascinating fact under the correct heading? [gallery type="rectangular"...
THIRD PERSON …
Y2 Kahlo focused on changing sentences from first person to third person in readiness for writing a biography next week about Florence Nightingale.
We know birds must have beaks, feathers and wings!
Year 2 have worked on developing their observational skills and sketching techniques whilst working on their final composition based on Henri Rousseau.
BIOGRAPHY WORK
Today, we worked in pairs to place information about Florence Nightingale under the correct headers on our biography. We had to read the text and pick out key information.
GYMNASTICS – CURVED PATHWAYS
Year 2 Kahlo focused on exploring different curved pathways. They worked hard creating movements that linked together.
FEELINGS AND EMOTIONS
This week, in PSHE, the children focused on anger. They discussed healthy and unhealthy actions in response to feeling angry.
BALL SKILLS
This week, we focused on dribbling using our feet and keeping possession of the ball.
Ball skills- Feet 1- combine dribbling, passing and receiving
Year 2 Goodall have today combined passing, dribbling and receiving using our feet in order to keep possession of the ball.
Gymnastics- Pathways- Exploring curved pathways
ZIG-ZAG PATHWAYS ON APPARATUS
This week Y2 Kahlo have applied champion gymnastics to develop different pathways. The children have worked hard to create movements that link together on apparatus.
Water colour mixing
As part of Y2 Goodall's focus on Henry Rousseau, we have been perfecting blending and accurately painting using watercolours. This will help us with our final piece 'Tiger in a Tropical Storm'
Amazing arrays
Year 2 Goodall have been busy using arrays to support their understanding of multiplication, we've even made new arrays for our partner to calculate!