Today, all of KS1 have been lucky enough to go on a trip to Wombwell Cricket Club to take part in an All Star Cricket event.

​We were split into teams to take part in a circuit of cricket skills. We practised throwing at wickets, running between wickets, batting, catching and we even did some superhero catching!

​Another school were also there to take part in the games. We all had to compete against each other. 

​Our school did really well and a team from year 2 won! Hudson's Hornets (from 2EH) came in 1st place with 752 points and Team Lightning (from 2NS) came in 2nd place with 670 points.

Today we received some really exciting news! Year 2 have sponsored a dog from the Dog's Trust. His name is Seamus and he has sent us a  letter telling us all about himself.

This is Seamus. He is a  Shih Tzu. We were really lucky to get a letter from him which told us everything he likes, dislikes and what he spends his days doing. 
We found out that he loves to be bathed and brushed. What a pampered pooch! 

We decided to send a letter back to him so that he could find out all about us. We included interesting facts about ourselves and also some questions to find out even more about him.

We hope to hear from him again soon!

Today we celebrated World Book Day. In Year 2, we all came to school dressed as favourite characters from books we love. 

Through the day we did lots of fun activities and talked about why we enjoyed reading and why it is so important. We spent some time drawing ourselves in our costumes, reading with a partner from a different class and some of our parents even came in to read with us!

This week we had our Class Assembly for parents to come and see the great things we have learnt about the Great Fire of London.

We have worked hard to find out lots of information about the Great Fire.  We have shown this through our writing, art work, singing, prayer writing and even dancing.  We think our parents were very proud of our efforts because they all put their thumbs up. 

Everyone in Year 2 loved the Great Fire of London topic and we will now be able to tell our own children all about it.  We have a much better understanding of the ways we can find out about the past including looking at very old newspapers and paintings completed just after the fire.  We also found out that there are records kept of everyone who lived in each house including how many fire places the house had! 

If you would like to find out more about the Great Fire of London or if you want to remind yourself about what you have learnt, try this website there is lots of information and some fun activities.

http://www.fireoflondond.org.uk/the-game/

We hope you find it as interesting as we did!

Today we spent some time learning about 'Safer Internet Day', which was is all about keeping ourselves safe when we use the internet.

​We talked about all the different ways we use the internet - on games consoles, computers, phones etc. As a class we discussed how important it is to make sure our parents know what we're doing, that way they can help to keep us safe!

​We watched a video about playing games online and it showed us that we can't always trust the people we are talking to as they are strangers and we need to be careful! We learnt not to tell anyone our personal information and to tell somebody straight away is we ever feel worried or scared about anything on the internet.

This week we have performed our Christmas concert for the school and for our parents.

It has been hard work learning our lines and lots of Christmas songs but we all enjoyed ourselves and now know the Christmas story really well.

We all understand that Christmas is not just about presents and that giving is just as nice as receiving. 

We hope our parents enjoyed watching the concert as much as we enjoyed performing it for them!

Merry Christmas everyone!

As part of our learning in RE, we walked to different places of worship in Wombwell to find out more about them.

​We visited St Mary's Church, the Methodist Church and we also visited Wombwell Cemetery.   We met some very interesting people whilst we were there.    Some people work at the church or the cemetery and others volunteer.  They do lots of very good and important work there. 

We talked about the importance of being respectful by making sure we do not let dogs run free in the cemetery or drop any rubbish on the floor.  We also talked about how we can help to look after the wildlife for example, feeding the squirrels in the trees or trying not to walk on the plants.    We found out that although it is a very peaceful, interesting place to visit, it is not somewhere we should be playing.  

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Ellie, a lady who works at the Methodist Church, told us all about the different services that are held there. We even had a pretend wedding and christening!   Ellie went on to explain what everything in the church was for and when it is used.  She introduced us to the organist who is called Les.  He played a few tunes on the organ and some of us sang along.  Les then explained how the organ works and how much care it needs. 

There was a lot to find out about and our teachers said we asked excellent questions to find out more.

After Lunch we walked to St Mary's Church where we compared what we had seen in the Methodist Church with what they have in St Mary's.  There were lots of things that looked different but were used for the same thing.  St Mary's Church is much bigger and older but they have the same services and also have many people who volunteer there. Some people even bring flowers and arrange them before a service.  Other people come to the church to ring the bell in the bell tower.   While we were there we visited the cenotaph which we had been talking about during remembrance.  There were lots of poppy wreaths which people in the local community had left on Remembrance Sunday.  We tried to spot names that we recognise from the soldiers names included on the cenotaph.

We found out a lot of new information about churches, volunteers and the cemetery and it helped us to understand that people enjoy being part of a community. 

This week it has been Anti-Bullying Week and we have spent some time discussing what this is and what it means to us.

​We have talked about what bullying is and what to do if we feel like we are being bullied such as telling a friend or asking a teacher for help. We had a circle time talking about what makes a 'good friend'. We made bricks with sentences about a 'good friend' to build a friendship wall.

​The main theme we looked at was being unique. We shared ideas about things that make us special and unique - we learnt that it is OK to be different because we all are!

​To celebrate our individuality we all made a link that would become part of a paper chain. We designed it so it was special to us, including different things we like and enjoy. After we made our own, we teamed up with a partner and found out more about what made them special - we then made a link just for them! After all our links were made, we put them together to show that although we are all different and unique we all make one big team!

Today we walked to Wombwell Cemetery to take part in a minutes silence for Remembrance Day.  We walked to the cemetery with Year 5.  We tried to find a partner who we didn't know very well which meant most of us made a new friend on the journey because we had lots of time to chat and get to know each other.

​Earlier in the week we had made poppy wreaths at school which we wrote messages on. We took them with us to place at the war memorial to show our respect. We all then participated in the one minute silence and listened carefully to the readings and the music afterwards. 

We knew all about the sacrifice the soldiers made and are still making for us because we have been finding out about why we have Remembrance Day at school.  We all agree that it is a very special time and we should never forget what these people have done and are still doing for our country and the people in it. 

It was exciting to see the British Legion Members and a few soldiers in their uniform and to find out about their medals which they had on their jackets.  Everyone was very friendly and although it can be sad to remember those who have died or been injured it was also very interesting to find out more about their work.

Today our parents were invited  to take part in a fun workshop with us.

​Art
We had been asked to collect autumn things from outside such as twigs, leaves and conkers. During the workshop we used these to create autumn pictures that would help to tell a story.   This helped us to develop our art  skills in ...

​ICT
As we are very good at using ipads we used the opportunity to teach the adults how to take great photographs of our pictures.   Later the teachers printed these for us to take home so that our parents could help us to write the story using the pictures to help sequence our ideas.

Our teachers told us that we did an amazing job!  The stories were fun and interesting.