Class of 2029 (Y2)

Miss Bairaktari has been teaching us about capacity (how much a container is capable of holding) and volume (how much a container actually contains).

We measured water outside and sand inside and had to estimate first then check our answers.

We had great fun but it took a while to tidy up…

We have a student teacher joining us til the beginning of July. Miss Bairaktari, is on her final placement before she qualifies as a teacher in July. She'll be teaching Maths, DT, RE and Computing before half term and English, Art and History after half term. If you see her in the playground -say…

Last night we performed at Ashton Hall in Lancaster with other schools from the Lancaster district. We sang 13 songs about our beautiful world and the need to take care of it. Some of our favourites were 'Plastic Soup', 'Big, Bay View' and 'Love Shine a Light'.

Some of us sang so impressively…

Peter Knutsford came into school to talk to us today about living and working in Africa. Peter has lived there for over 14 years and came to tell us more about the culture and particularly about African animals. We saw photos of the animals that walk across his garden each day such as giraffes,…

Do you know how to make jam tarts? Well Y2 do, and on world book day when the Queen of Hearts came to visit she taught us! Look how fabulous they are!

Now we are going to learn about features of instruction writing and write a set of 'how to make' instructions.

Happy World Book Day 2025!

We had a wonderful time today doing book related activities and dressing up as characters from our favourite stories. Can you guess who we are?

It will soon be time for us to perform at the Lancaster District Schools' Singing Festival at the Town Hall so today, Mrs Pilkington came to see how we have been getting on with our rehearsals. She was very impressed with our singing and taught us some actions to accompany some of the songs. We…

Today Diana from NISCU came into school to tell us stories from the bible. Today we heard about the story of The Paralysed Man. She read the story then we re-enacted it and discussed it in groups. We really look forward to Diana's visits as she really helps to bring the bible stories alive!

Pope Francis has declared 2025 a Jubilee Year. The year began on 24th December and will close on 6th January 2026. As a school we have all taken part in the Diocesan art competition, creating pictures that reflect the current Jubilee theme of HOPE. Here are some of Y2's fabulous pictures.

In Year 2 this half term, we have been tasting some different fruits to decide which ones to put onto our fruit kebabs. Some of them were slightly sour! We had a great afternoon trying lots fruits we haven't tried before.

This year our Rec, Y1 and Y2 children put on the nativity 'Snuggle Up Stable' in the Cathedral for our parish and families to come and watch. We did two performances, one in the afternoon and one in the evening and did ourselves proud retelling the Christmas story for all to hear.

Y2 have been learning about planting and growing with Miss McShane and over this half term have grown cress. Today we used the cress that we grew and mixed it with boiled eggs and made delicious egg and cress sandwiches which we al got to eat! Mmmmm...