In Year 2, we enjoyed adding some forward rolls, pencil rolls and cartwheels into our cheerleading routine in PE today. We are looking forward to completing our performance next week and sharing the video with our families on See-Saw.
Year 2 were set a worship challenge this week by Mr Richardson and were asked to make Christingles for our church service. We discussed what each part of the Christingle represents. Don’t they look amazing? 
Y2 planned to go to West Park in Jarrow yesterday to observe the local area and think how we can design a map and key for the park. However, due to icy weather and freezing temperatures, we kept the learning rolling in the classroom and used Google Earth to help us design our maps.
The children used a birds eye view of the park, creating a key and map symbols to help plan their maps on whiteboards. The children then transferred their final product onto A3 paper.
We had an amazing, creative morning and we are incredibly proud of their work!
Year 2 are feeling festive after working together on their class Christmas tree. 
Y2 had a fantastic time exploring and reflecting on each classes’ prayer space activity. We reflected on areas such as anti-bullying, recycling and animal abuse.
Year 2 took part in an interactive road safety workshop this afternoon. We enjoyed learning how to cross the road safely, how to use the green man and how to use a lollipop person to help us.
Year 2 enjoyed their tennis festival this morning at Temple Park! They practiced skills such as serving, forehand, backhand and volleying in lots of different fun games!
What a fantastic COOL afternoon Year 2 had showing our parents and carers our Forest School session linked to our DT topic. In preparation for making our very own vegetable stew, we looked at different ingredients and the difference between raw ingredients and what happens when we cook them.
Then we looked at the different utensils we need to use to prepare our ingredients, and got stuck in perfecting our chopping, peeling and grating skills.
It was brilliant to change our outdoor learning, and Mrs O’Doherty was sooooo impressed with Year 2’s fantastic learning attitude and amazing listening skills, not to mention their brilliant food preparation skills!
In Year 2, we had a visit from Type 1 Kids as part of our World Diabetes Day afternoon. We listened to a story about ‘Daisy Donald’ and discussed what qualities a person with diabetes needs to have. We then designed capes to show the superpowers that people with diabetes have.
Year 2 have started a new topic in P.E. today, Cheerleading! We started to learn some poses today which we will then put into routines in the upcoming weeks.
