World Book Day 2.3.23, by Mrs Chidgey

Date: 12th Mar 2023 @ 10:00am

To celebrate World Book Day this year, we took part in a range of exciting activities relating to books, reading and vocabulary. We enjoyed welcoming our parents and carers into school to share stories with us in the morning. It was lovely to see everyone dressed as adventurous adjectives and we enjoyed exploring the meaning of our vocabulary by creating Frayer models. To link with our reading challenge set by Jen Carney, we shared our recommended reads that we brought into school with our partner and completed a book review. We used the story Lifesize Deadly Animals by Sophy Henn as inspiration for our maths lesson. We measured the size of the animals in the book and compared the measurements to the size of different parts of our bodies. To finish the day, we completed a task based on the book Rocket Rules by Nathan Bryon where the children thought of their own simple rules to follow each day to support their mental and physical health and well-being.

Children's Mental Health Week, by Mrs Chidgey

Date: 26th Feb 2023 @ 12:38pm

To celebrate Children's Mental Health Week, we all came into school wearing clothes that help us to feel connected to other people through a shared hobby, passion, interest or club. We also learned the song Lean on Me by Bill Withers and we enjoyed performing the song together on the final day of the week. Watch us perform together on these short videos.

NSPCC Number Day, by Mrs Chidgey

Date: 26th Feb 2023 @ 12:27pm

We celebrated NSPCC number day by coming to school wearing numbers, doing maths activities with our parents and carers in the morning and reading stories about numbers for our class story time.

PE with Chorley School Sports Partnership, by Mrs Chidgey

Date: 26th Feb 2023 @ 11:36am

We have been practicing doing balances on small and large body parts with our partners in our gymnastics lesson led by Chorley School Sports Partnership.

Infant Christmas Party, by Mrs Chidgey

Date: 26th Feb 2023 @ 11:09am

Christmas Pantomime, by Mrs Chidgey

Date: 26th Feb 2023 @ 11:06am

The children really enjoyed watching our Christmas pantomime of Jack and the Beanstalk performed by the company Divergent Drama.

Forest Schools, by Mrs Chidgey

Date: 26th Feb 2023 @ 11:05am

The children really enjoyed taking part in their forest school activities this afternoon despite the cold weather.

Inspirational women workshop, by Mrs Chidgey

Date: 26th Feb 2023 @ 11:00am

The children enjoyed taking part in their inspirational women workshop this afternoon. 

Poetry Festival Zoom session, by Mrs Chidgey

Date: 26th Feb 2023 @ 10:58am

We took part in a live Zoom! session with the other Year 2 classes from all four schools in our Learning Together Trust. It was lovely to share the exciting things we had been doing during the poetry festival week and perform our class poems for each other.

Poetry Festival, by Miss Hyatt

Date: 7th Nov 2022 @ 7:39pm

Year 2 enjoyed rehearsing and performing a known poem the Ning Nang Nong by Spike Milligan. We also took inspiration from Paul Cookson by writing our own bug poetry and nature Kennings. 

Book club, by Mrs Crosier

Date: 10th Oct 2022 @ 7:55pm

We have enjoyed a character workshop during Book Club today. We all chose our favourite book characters and described them using a selection of exciting adjectives.
Some of us volunteered to share the reasons why we chose them as our favourite characters.

Can you guess which books these characters are from ? 

A gift from Jen Carney, by Mrs Chidgey

Date: 28th Sep 2022 @ 4:40am

Our Patron of Reading Jen Carney brought each class a new book as a gift. Our new Literacy Ambassadors for each class were able to thank Jen in person, on behalf of their class, when she came in to meet the new team.

Patron of Reading, by Mrs Chidgey

Date: 10th Sep 2022 @ 5:35am

Jen Carney is an author who lives locally and has agreed to be our school's Patron of Reading this year to develop reading for pleasure in school. She introduced herself to the children this morning and visited each class to give them a present of a new book.

Learning Together Trust Poetry Festival, by Mrs Burger

Date: 4th Sep 2022 @ 8:24pm

During the week beginning 17th October 2022, we will be having a poetry festival involving all schools in our Trust family.  This will be a celebration of our ‘Off By Heart,’ Summer Poetry Challenge. The children can learn one poem from a choice of 5. They need to perform it and the poetry choices reflect this.

This is a link to a video by Michael Rosen with some top tips for performing poems.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvV23xoZRkI