As part of Jeans for Genes day, Year 2 drew their eye, coloured it in and stuck it onto our class jean template. The children then compared the different colours within our class, finding out the most popular and least popular colour. Year 2 then went to visit Nursery and Reception and collected dat...

This afternoon, the eco-team visited the new site for the Gateshead West Uniform Scheme. They helped organise and sort bags of clothes and shoes into the correct sizes and grouped them into schools so that when people visit the shop they’ll be able to pick what they need with ease. We will...

In history, we have been learning all about the Great Fire of London. We made a list of the facts we have learned about the fire and then went on a hunt around our classroom to find pieces of evidence to prove that our facts were correct about the fire. We discovered some pieces of evidence could pr...

During maths last week, the children in Year 2 were using tens frames to help them to make ten first when they were adding two one digit numbers together. They then moved onto applying this skill mentally to help them solve single digit addition calculations efficiently.

In our history lessons this half term, we have been learning all about Florence Nightingale. We have ordered the key events in Florence’s life on a time line and talked about how long ago Florence was alive. We have also completed a fact hunt to find out lots of information about Florence...