Year 2

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Year 2 Chatter

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Y2 Quidditch Day

20-06-2025

We had so much fun playing Quidditch in our teams today.

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Y2 Quidditch!

20-06-2025

2D loved taking part in quidditch today; we practised our team games skills, working together and communicating to catch the Golden Snitch.

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Y2 Aspirations Week

20-06-2025

Thank you to Becky the blood technician who visited us in school today. She told us all about her job, what she wears and the equipment she uses. Some of us now definitely want to be scientists when we are bigger!

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Y2 music

19-06-2025

Year 2 had a lovely time at the Philharmonic Hall… they sang, danced and watched the artist paint to the music!

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Y2 PE

17-06-2025

Today 2D participated in a range of circuit activities with the sports coach in PE- using balancing, dribbling, hand eye coordination and cardio fitness to improve their skills.

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Y2 Aspirations Week

16-06-2025

2D started Aspirations Week on a high, dressing up as the career they aspire to have when they’re older.

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Y2 Aspirations Week

16-06-2025

Today, as part of aspirations week, Year 2 met with Kate and Josh who are paramedics… they told us all about their job and let us look at the equipment they use.

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Aspirations Week

16-06-2025

Year 1, 2 and 3 are off to a great start to our Aspirations week today. We all got together to talk about what we wanted to be when we grow up.

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Y2 PE

16-06-2025

We enjoyed working with the sports coach to play invasion team games.

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Year 2 P.E

13-06-2025

This week we started our topic of athletics. To start this we learnt the correct form to sprint, trying to do big strides and pumping our arms as we go. We found this helped us go faster.

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Year 2 Science

13-06-2025

This week we have been looking at the life cycles of butterflies. To show this we have got our very own caterpillars to study. At the moment they are very small but soon they will enter their pupa stage and become butterflies.

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Year 2 Music

13-06-2025

Year 2 learnt the song ‘sunshine’ before improvising with our instruments. Here we are warming up for our music lesson.

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Y2 computing

12-06-2025

2D combined text and pictures to show what they know about Mary Seacole and Florence Nightingale.

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Wraparound After School Club

12-06-2025
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Author Visit

09-06-2025

Such a lovely time today with our visiting Author Luke Temple. We listened carefully to different extracts from three of his books and asked a range of questions. Which book would you like to read in full?

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Year 2 P.E

06-06-2025

This week we practiced batting and fielding skills, we had to work on batting the ball into a space no one was guarding. Our other friends had to work on finding space and being ready to catch at any time.

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Scarf/PSHE

06-06-2025

This week we looked at the functions of our human body, we learnt about what our brains, lungs, and intestines do to keep our bodies working. We did this by playing a fun game of matching with dice.

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Y2 computing

06-06-2025

We combined text and graphics today to share information about our History learning. We enjoyed retrieving facts about Mary Seacole and Florence Nightingale.

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Y2 PSHE

06-06-2025

We played a game using dice to find the functions of different parts of our bodies. We completed our end of unit assessment showing what we know.

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Sports Day

23-05-2025

Thank you once again to all who supported our children this sports day.

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Sports Day

23-05-2025

Here are some more highlights from our sports day this year.

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Sports Day

23-05-2025

Thank you for all who attended sports day to make it a special day for our children.

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Year 2 DT

23-05-2025

Finally we evaluated our lovely wheeled cars, they look amazing!

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Year 2 DT

23-05-2025

Next we safely sawed our axles to ensure they were the right size.

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Year 2 DT

23-05-2025

After designing the cars we then got to create our toy. We painted and added design elements to make it stand out.

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DT Week

23-05-2025

Last week was DT week, we were tasked with making an eco friendly wheeled toy. We looked at real toys as part of our research.

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Y2 computing

22-05-2025

Today 2D spent time creating PowerPoints of emotions words; using skills of changing font style, size, colour and formatting backgrounds of the slides.

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Y2 DT Week… our finished products!

22-05-2025

We have worked so hard during DT week to create our own vehicles with moving axles and wheels.

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Y2 Well-being Week

22-05-2025

What a wonderful time we had completing activities for Wellbeing Week!

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Y2 Science

22-05-2025

Congratulations to the amazing members of 2D who have earned certificates as part of the “If you were an engineer what would you do?” engineering project.

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Y2 DT Week- wheels and axles

16-05-2025

DT week in Y2 has been so much fun! We have researched and designed vehicles to collect rubbish on the beach- we have painted, used a saw and attached our axles and wheels to our vehicles using different methods to make our vehicles.

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Y2 DT Week- wheels and axles

13-05-2025

Year 2 have been exploring wheeled toys and how their wheels and axles work, they have also been explaining what makes a good wheeled toy vehicle.

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Y2 PE

13-05-2025

Today we worked with Mr Moran, our sports coach, to practise our underarm throwing skills outside this morning in the beautiful weather!

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Y2 spellings

13-05-2025

2D practised their spelling by writing the letters on each others backs! Suffix ly and ness this week. They love their Friday spelling quiz!

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Y2 Science

13-05-2025

2D enjoyed planting seeds for their science experiment to find out if plants grow better in warmer or colder places.

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Year 2 Music

09-05-2025

This week in music we learnt a new song ‘I wanna play in a band.’ we played our glockenspiels along with the song. We are getting better and better at this.

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Year 2 Computing

09-05-2025

This week we learnt how to properly type using a keyboard playing the games on Typing Club, this is a free resource you can play with at home.

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Year 2 PE

09-05-2025

This week we practiced our underarm throws for control and precision. First we slowly bowled the ball on the floor and then we threw it accurately.

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Y2 PE

06-05-2025
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Y2 English

06-05-2025

2D used role play to come up with ideas about why the dark shouldn’t be banned- the King didn’t always agree with his advisors!

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Y2 PE

29-04-2025

2D loved their PE session with Mr Moran today- they have participated in team games using underarm ball skills.

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Y2 History

29-04-2025

To start our new history topic, we learned about Mary Seacole and even made remedies using ingredients to role play helping the sick and injured soldiers.

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Year 2 Scarf/PSHE

28-04-2025

This week we looked at the ‘learning line’ which shows that when you try something new you may not be good at first, the important thing is to not give up. We tried a new skill and encouraged our friends to not give up

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Y2 English

28-04-2025

Using our ideas for and against banning the dark, we completed a conscience alley activity.

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Year 2 English

25-04-2025

This week we started reading The King Who Banned the Dark. We used drama to persuade the king that banning the dark world not be good.

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Year 2 History

25-04-2025

This week we started learning about the famous nurse Mary Seacole! We learnt that she made remedies for the soldiers fighting in the war, so we made our own remedies.

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Year 2 Stay and Learn

25-04-2025

Thank you to all of the parents who attended our stay and learn. This time we learnt about food chains and created some food chains of our own.

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Y2 Easter Fun!

04-04-2025

Y2 have made Easter baskets and been on an Easter egg hunt today! We hope you all have a lovely Easter break.

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Y2 Stay and Learn

02-04-2025

Thank you so much to all the parents and carers who joined us this afternoon for our stay and learn session on food chains.

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Year 2 Scarf

28-03-2025

This week we talked about our safe spaces. We made a list of our my special places where we go to be calm and happy. We acted out being in a safe and unsafe place.

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Year 2 Science

28-03-2025

This week we studied micro habitats. We went in the hunt for some mini beasts in our school grounds.

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Y2 Science

24-03-2025

Today 2D went on a mini beast hunt during their science lesson on microhabitats.

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Y2 Reading

24-03-2025

2D loved their visit to the library after a long week!

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Y2 DT

24-03-2025

2D made some fantastic bird sculptures during DT week!

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Y2 Matball competition

24-03-2025

Wow! Our Y2 superstars blew away the opposition with an amazing performance in the matball competition!

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Year 2 PE

21-03-2025

This week in our net and ball work we used tennis racquets! We learnt how to hold the racquet and how to stop a moving ball with it. Some of us can now also balance the ball on it too.

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Year 2 Computing

21-03-2025

This week in our data work we created fact files about ourselves using our typing skills and drawing skills to add to each field.

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Year 2 Maths

21-03-2025

This week we looked at capacity, here we are comparing the capacity of different containers.

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Year 2 Music

21-03-2025

This week we learnt how to play the glockenspiels for the ‘Music Man’ song and performed the song for the final time.

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Year 2 Art

21-03-2025

This week was art week, we created sculptures using paper folding and cutting techniques. We learnt what a sculpture is and thought of ways to improve our creations.

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Neurodiversity Week

21-03-2025

To celebrate Neurodiversity Week we have been learning about how we all have different brains with different needs. Some people find things like sitting still and taking turns hard but we know that we need to be extra kind and patient to everyone’s needs.

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Y2 Computing

19-03-2025

Today 2D worked with Mr Moffatt to create fact files including text, drawings and stickers.

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Neurodiversity Celebration Week

19-03-2025

A huge thank you to Mr Boyd for hanging our neurodiversity umbrellas! Neurodiversity is an umbrella term used to refer to all of the different ways of thinking. This week the children are learning about Autism, Dyslexia, ADHD and Dyspraxia. Ask your child if they know any famous people who are neurodivergant!

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Year 2 P.E

14-03-2025

Carrying on with our net and ball skills, this week we practiced serving the ball to our friends. We realised that to do it accurately we need to use less power and point our arm in a straight line.

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Science week

14-03-2025

We had a real life rocket engineer speak to us this week, he answered our questions about rockets and what it takes to be an engineer. We will keep practicing our science and maths!

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Year 2 Music

14-03-2025

This week 2D and 2S combined together to learn yet song: The Music Man. We loved adding actions to the music and moving to the beat.

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Year 2 Computing and Science

14-03-2025

Another element of science week is computing. This week we looked at robots. We programmed the robots to move based on the colours they register.

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Science Week

14-03-2025

We looked at how birds have adapted to pick things up with their beaks by picking up objects with various things. We decided that the spoons were the best.

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Parents Get Involved in Neurodiversity Week.

13-03-2025

Below is a list of workshops available to parents during Neurodiversity Celebration Week. Simply click on the workshop your would like to attend to register. You will be able to access the workshops via your mobile phone, tablet or computer. If you need help speak to Mrs Kent (SENCo)

https://www.neurodiversityweek.com/_files/ugd/46eb70_e3ce426f85ca411ebf75ef1d9ce61b10.pdf

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Y2 Science Week

12-03-2025

Today we worked with Mr Moffatt to explore Indi robots and how they move- we worked out how to use the base boards to make it move in different directions.

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Y2 Science Week

12-03-2025

”When you touched the coloured milk with the cotton bud, it looked like little clouds.” 2D carried out a magic milk experiment to explore how things changed when they are mixed.

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Y2 Science Week

12-03-2025

”Different birds need different shaped beaks to pick up different types of food.”

Super discussion during the first day of Science Week- during Beak Buffet 2D tested out different “beaks” for picking up food and discussed which were the best.

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Y2 RE

10-03-2025

2D made puppets to tell the story of “The Lost Sheep”. Christian people believe that Jesus told this parable to give a message that people should care for others.

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World Book Day Y2

10-03-2025

We loved sharing stories with our reading buddies during World Book Day!

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Year 2 World Book Day

07-03-2025

We had fun reading with our reading buddies to celebrate world book day.

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year 2 PE

07-03-2025

Thanks to Lancashire cricket for coming and showing us some amazing cricket skills today, we had so much fun.

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07-03-2025
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6B World Book Day- Reading Buddies

06-03-2025

6B enjoyed our World Book Day Reading session with 2D this afternoon. Lots of lovely stories were shared in the school library!

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6MR and 2S Reading Buddies- World Book Day

06-03-2025

6MR have enjoyed reading with the children from 2S during our session today. Lots of stories were shared!

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Year 2 English

03-03-2025

We have received another top secret book! We made predictions on what we think the book will be about.

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Year 2 PE

03-03-2025

This half term we are learning Net and Wall games skills like tennis and volleyball. We learnt that even when the ball is not in our possession we need to be ready to receive it and need to protect our space.

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Year 2 Music

03-03-2025

This week in music we learnt a new song and played the Glockenspiel’s to the music. Eventually we will be able to play along to the song as others sing it.

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Year 2 Computing

03-03-2025

This half term we are working with Mr Moffat to show how computers show data and information. This week we made pictograms of the classes favourite fruits.

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Year 2 Scarf/PSHE

03-03-2025

In scarf we discussed secrets and how some secrets are nice to keep like birthday surprises. Secrets that make us sad or worried should always be shared with a trusted adult. We used drama skills to bring this learning to life.

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DT Week

03-03-2025

We also then used our sewing skills to create and design our own puppets.

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DT week

03-03-2025

2S made puppets in DT week, first we tested out puppets as part of our research phase

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Year 2 Partnership week

03-03-2025

We have partnered with a school from Doha and will continue to link up with them. This time we read stories to each other’s class and will review them for one another.

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Y2 trip to the Library

03-03-2025

Year 2 had a lovely time at Liverpool central library

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Y2 Stay and Learn

27-02-2025

2D enjoyed sharing their learning with their parents and carers practising their multiplication facts.

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Year 2 collaboration

27-02-2025

Wow! We had a fantastic collaborative story session with our new friends in Qatar!

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Y2 English

27-02-2025

2D were fabulous actors after investigating the clues and predicting what our new text was about.

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School Council meeting

11-02-2025

Our school council were busy this morning, thinking of ideas for special rewards for reading at home and also for charities to donate to as part of our Social Impact Schools Award.

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Y2 Design Technology

04-02-2025

2D started sewing their puppets today!

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Y2 Design Technology

04-02-2025

We researched puppets and designed our own on the first day of DT week.

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Y2 Spellings

03-02-2025

2D have been learning the “dge” and “ge” spelling patterns by spelling them on each other’s backs and hands

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Y2 music

03-02-2025

We enjoyed our musical Monday listening to Brazilian music in the Resonate concert!

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Y2 Maths

31-01-2025

We used concrete resources to divide numbers into groups

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Y2 Computing

31-01-2025

This week we explored using the microphone button to make our characters talk.

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Year 2 Ready Steady Comprehension

31-01-2025

What a lot of fun we had performing our poems in our session this morning. Lots of confident performances with lots of expression! I was very proud of all of the children- Mrs Kent 🙂

#reading

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Y2 Maths

31-01-2025

Today we used base ten and counters to divide into equal groups.

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Y2 PE

30-01-2025

Wow! Year 2 had a fantastic time at New Age Kurling competition at Banks Road.

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Year 2 Reading

24-01-2025

Another fun time exploring books in our library, we even found books about the victorians which ties into our History topic all about Kitty Wilkinson.

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Year 2 Music

24-01-2025

2S love their weekly music session. Here we are warming up our faces and our voices ready to learn our new song ‘Music is in me.’ This songs requires a choral response which was tricky to learn.

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Year 2 Computing

24-01-2025

This week year 2 used scratch to programme two characters to talk to each other. We had to input what we wanted them to say, and also make the other character wait and then reply.

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Y2 Maths

24-01-2025

2D have been working out groups of to write multiplication sentences today.

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Y2 computing

22-01-2025

Today 2D have worked with Mr. Moffatt to use Scratch Jr to make our characters talk, and even tell jokes!

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