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Year 2: Gallery

Cereal Domino Foodbank Collection

Date: 16th Oct 2026 @ 2:38pm

We held our annual Foodbank collection again this year and set up our cereal domino train in the hall. This year everyone joined in together and we managed to collect 155 cereal boxes to donate!

 

Thank you to everyone who brought some boxes in the last few weeks. 

Y2 Celebration of the Word - Mary

Date: 9th Oct 2026 @ 3:34pm

Year 2 planned and delivered our end of week Celebration of the Word this week. Our focus was the celebration of Mary and the rosary in October. We prayed the Hail Mary together and sang Ave Maria

TM. I really wanted to read and share the Gospel and I was glad I got to do this. 

CG. Next time I would like to have some quiet music for people to think to themselves. 

Y2 Art - Sketching Portraits

Date: 6th Oct 2026 @ 3:28pm

We have been working on our drawing and sketching skills to work on Portraits. 

Y2 Active Maths - Counting in 2s

Date: 6th Oct 2026 @ 12:38pm

To secure our knowledge of counting in twos and identifying numbers in the two times table we completed a scavenger hunt. Under each of the 100 cones was a number. We had to find the number that matched each symbol on our sheet by identifying if it was in the twos or not. 

Book Bus Visit!

Date: 5th Oct 2026 @ 2:50pm

Some of the children from St Basil's enjoyed a visit from the Book Bus today! They took back books we had borrowed in the past and exchanged them for new books they wanted to read! Thank you to ELS Cheshire for visiting us!

Y2 RE - Visit to Church: Baptism

Date: 30th Sep 2026 @ 3:05pm

As part of our learning about God's covenant we have focused on the Sacrament of Baptism. We focused on the 4 key symbols; the white garment, the Holy water, Holy oil and the candle. When we visited church we saw the Pascal candle, the font and we ordered the key stages of the Baptism. 

Y2 Science - Microhabitat Observations

Date: 30th Sep 2026 @ 11:19am

We have learnt about habitats in our science topic. For this week's lesson we observed mini beasts that we found in micro habitats around school. 

Y2 Music - Chime Bar Tunes

Date: 30th Sep 2026 @ 11:17am

We have had a few lessons with Mrs O for music now and have explored beat and rhythm. Today we tried to compose simple beats on the chime bars as a group 

Y2 Tennis

Date: 25th Sep 2026 @ 1:51pm

We have started to work on our Tennis control skills this half term with Mr Ward during Friday P.E.  We have balanced equipment and begun to get a rally of keep ups on the racket. 

Y2 Doodle Maths

Date: 25th Sep 2026 @ 1:45pm

We have been getting to grips with using DoodleMaths on our brand new set of iPads. We have learnt how to complete assignments and our 5 a day questions. 

Y2 Troll Swap Descriptions

Date: 25th Sep 2026 @ 1:44pm

We have met Timothy Limpet in our Writing text 'Troll Swap'. Today we designed our own troll and described them using adjectives and noun phrases. 

Y2 Light of God’s Creation candle holders

Date: 24th Sep 2026 @ 2:56pm

We worked collaboratively to design a stained glass style candle holder using hot glue and lolly sticks. We stuck 4 pieces together to make a candle holder representing our care for Creation

Y2 Computing Painting Pictures.

Date: 24th Sep 2026 @ 2:53pm

So far we have learnt to use 2Paint to focus on impressionist art and pointillism. Today we looked at the work or Piet Mondrian and created our own style of Mondrian painting. 

PD Assembly Yom Kippur

Date: 23rd Sep 2026 @ 3:11pm

Today, we learnt about the Jewish festival of Yom Kippur in our whole school assembly. We learnt that during Yom Kippur Jewish people wear white and think about asking God for forgiveness. They also pray five special prayers during that special day. 

Y2 Guided Reading: The Troll

Date: 18th Sep 2026 @ 3:45pm

This week we started our new Guided Read text 'The Troll' by Julia Donaldson. 
We enjoyed reading out loud in expressive voices and predicting about the characters. 

Y2/3 Teeth workshop

Date: 16th Sep 2026 @ 12:16pm

Years 2 and 3 had a wonderful morning learning all about teeth. Visitors from the Catalyst Museum came in to give an educational talk and deliver various activities. The children also had the exciting opportunity to make their own toothpaste. 

Y2 Active Maths

Date: 11th Sep 2026 @ 3:47pm

To cement our learning of Tens and Ones in place value grids we relay raced in the hall to make numbers with a partner 

Y2 Noah’s Ark

Date: 11th Sep 2026 @ 3:46pm

As our first focus in our RE branch Creation and Covenant we have heard the story of Noah's Ark and God's promise to the world. We represented this with two different Art craft activities 

Imagine That!

Date: 24th Apr 2026 @ 1:09pm

KS1 visited Imagine That! 
We explored the role play village, made magnets and snow in the art area, visited a science show all about bath bombs and made our own slime!

KS1 CAFOD Club

Date: 17th Mar 2026 @ 3:59pm

The children discussed the great work CAFOD do and how they can contribute.

Creation to Covenant

Date: 17th Mar 2026 @ 3:56pm

The children created Noah's Ark to support them in retelling the scripture.

Year 2 Celebration of the word September

Date: 17th Mar 2026 @ 3:37pm

Children led the Phase worship celebrating the birth of Mary.

World Book Day

Date: 6th Mar 2026 @ 9:09am

Our World Book Day celebrations and reading hour with parents

Number Day

Date: 6th Feb 2026 @ 9:26am

We have celebrated Number Day with our parents in class 

Road Safety Week Assembly

Date: 17th Nov 2025 @ 3:36pm

We learnt about road safety in today's assembly and the importance of keeping safe on and around roads. 

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