We’ve been asking lots of questions about the objects that arrived in our class ?

We’ve been asking lots of questions about the objects that arrived in our class ?

Mindfulness movement in PE today

Starting our day with some relaxing mindfulness movement #StFinbarsPE

Maths fun today

My little learners have been working so hard to partition numbers to 100 ?  #StFinbarsMaths #mathsisfun

We’ve had a fabulous afternoon learning about our native wildlife ????️

We’ve had a fabulous afternoon learning about our native wildlife ????️ @chesterzoo #wildlifeconnections we can’t wait to learn more tomorrow ?

Today we voted for our school councillors ?

Today we voted for our school councillors ? congratulations to our new school councillors,we know you will be fabulous in representing the children of Year 2  #StFinbarsSchoolCouncil

What a busy morning…

What a busy morning, we have been practising spelling words using our new resources

Look at our amazing partitioning ?

Look at our amazing partitioning ? #StFinbarsMaths

Another fabulous day with @LearnatCZ @chesterzoo…

Another fabulous day with @LearnatCZ @chesterzoo we have been clearing up our school environment making sure there is no litter around to harm our local wildlife

On Friday we visited @chesterzoo, we had an amazing day ?

On Friday we visited @chesterzoo , we had an amazing day ? learning about how to look after our native animals, protect our bees and observe all the fantastic wildlife around the zoo.

What a fantastic morning spent with Tony Peek

What a fantastic morning spent with @tonypeek #StFinbarsReaders #StFinbarsWriters

What a busy morning we have had practising using conjunctions.

What a busy morning we have had practising using conjunctions to create different sentences @LiteracyCounts1 @StFinbarsSch #StFinbarsWriters

Woohoo ?100% attendance

Woohoo ? we have 100% attendance, that means it’s time for our happy dance ??

Year 1&2 curriculum meeting ?

Thank you to all the Parents/Carers from Year 2 and @StFinbars_Year1 for attending our curriculum meeting ?

St Finbar’s day

Today we gathered as a class to celebrate St Finbar’s day

P.E. Information

Don’t forget that children need to wear their P.E. Kit every Wednesday

Learning skills in PE today

Today we developed our balancing skills @StFinbarsSch #StFinbarsPE

Today in geography we have studied an ordnance survey map to find different locations within our city

Today in geography we have studied an ordnance survey map to find different locations within our city, looked at the different symbols and began to plan a route from our school into the city centre.

This morning we celebrated @PoetryDayUK

This morning we celebrated @PoetryDayUK by reading a variety of different poems

Today we continued to develop our vocabulary…

Today we continued to develop our vocabulary by using a thesaurus to find synonyms

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We’re working so hard to develop our vocabulary knowledge ?

We’re working so hard to develop our vocabulary knowledge ? today we have used dictionaries to discover the meaning of words

We love a maths challenge…

We love a maths challenge, I wonder if anyone will be able to solve this ?

100% attendance ?

It’s been a while but we finally have 100% attendance ? I wonder how my little learners would like to celebrate today ?

Another day with 100% attendance ?

Another day with 100% attendance today?

What a fabulous morning…

What a fabulous morning, we have joined in with schools across the world to listen to @AuthorsAloudUK share the book Bad Hair Day by John Phillips and Jennifer Jamieson ?

Don’t you just love it when a little learner independently writes a beautiful sentence with an expanded noun and a simile ?

Don’t you just love it when a little learner independently writes a beautiful sentence with an expanded noun and a simile ? ‘The colourful leaves are bright and dark like burnt potatoes’.

Woohoo we have 100% attendance today?

Woohoo we have 100% attendance today? I wonder what todays happy dance will be ?

Poppy class has a great PE class today.

Year 2 were learning to listen to instructions

Easter activities

Today, we had an Easter assembly, an Easter Bonnet parade and an Easter Concert! Wow, what a busy day, but we had lots of fun!

No Pen Day

This week we had a ‘no pen’ day, we still completed all our lessons and had some fun along the way! We learned about telling the time, about the Stone Age and we planted some pea seeds.

VE Day celebration

Today we had a fantastic street party at lunch time. We made some VE Day crowns and we flew our paper Spitfires.

12.09.25 English – Using drama to depict a story

Today, we used drama to retell the story of The Night Gardener. Some of us were trees, another person was William and some of us were people from Grimlock Lane. This will help us write lovely story setting descriptions.

16.09.25 – Maths – Place Value

Today, we were making two digit numbers and discovering how many tens and how many ones were in each number. We were able to make these using base ten.

19.09.25 – RE – Acting out a baptism.

Today, we used drama to act out the various stages of Baptism. We had godParents/Carers, water, a priest and a congregation.

The children were able to retell the various aspects of a baptism ceremony.

08.10.25 – RE – The awe and wonder of creation

Today, we had a lovely time in our school garden, looking at the vibrant features of God’s creation and His beautiful creatures which he made. We looked at the fish and their stripes, we looked at the delicate features on leaves and we talked about how each plant is so unique.

13.10.25 – RE – Knowing that we are fearfully and wonderfully made.

Today, we created a collage showing how each one of us is unique and that God loves us all. We learned how God made us all different and we each have varied personalities.

16.10.25 – English – Having some fun as the Night Gardener

Someone in our class decided to dress up as the Night Gardener. I wonder who it is? He did a great job sneaking around without anyone seeing him cutting the trees!

04.11.25 – Maths – Adding 2 two digit numbers

Today, we were demonstrating how we can add 2 two digit numbers using various methods, like column and using pictorial representation. Everyone really enjoyed doing this today and absolutely smashed it!

10.11.25 -RSHE- Odd Sock day

Today we launched Anti-bullying week by participating in odd sock day. We attended an assembly and Miss Summers introduced our theme for this year’s anti-bullying week, which is ‘Power for good’. Then we had fun learning the Andy and the Odd socks song called ‘Power for good’.

12.11.25 -RSHE- NSPCC visit

Today, we had a lovely visit from Buddy and a lady from NSPCC. We discussed how we can speak up if something is wrong and who are the safe adults to talk to.

13.11.25 – RSHE – Anti-bullying

Today, we discussed about how to be an upstander -someone who does not tolerate bullying. We then designed an Anti-bullying superhero! Look at their lovely designs.

19.11.25 -History – Impact of Christopher Columbus’ journeys

Year 2 have a loved learning about Christopher Columbus this half term. Today, we looked at the impact that Columbus made on the spread of religion, the improvements of shipping and the trading of foods. We were able to work in pairs to recall our facts.

20.11.25 – RSHE – Road safety

Today, we talked about how to be safe while crossing the road. We discussed about Stop, Look and Listen.