30 April 2025

OPAL - Music and Karaoke

In the next step of our OPAL journey we have introduced music and karaoke. As part of our school vision of nurturing children's dreams, pursing passions and interests and our school value of self-belief, we have created two stage areas with music and karaoke machines. 

Today children (and even…

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25 April 2025

OPAL Den Building

 

As part of our OPAL Play journey, school has invested heavily in den building materials. This week KS2 children were given the opportunity to try out the equipment, working in teams to try and build a standing den in just 10 mins!

 

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7 April 2025

OPAL Play Trial

Today we had an ‘OPAL Play lunchtime’, meaning that children from all year groups could use both playgrounds and the school grounds. This will be the norm after half term and it was great to have a trial run, all children had a fantastic lunch and behaviour was exceptional. Here are a few…

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4 July 2019

Visit to the Science and Industy Museum Manchester

We had a wonderful day at the Science and Industry Museum. 

 

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7 December 2018

Visit to Living Waters

Year 2 visited Living Waters Foodbank to donate some Christmas chocolate.

 

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30 November 2018

Habitats

In Science this week we have been investigating different habitats in the school grounds. Have a read of what we learned on our class blog: https://gillibrandblogs.net/holly2018/2018/11/28/habitats/

 

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23 November 2018

Nativity Invites

Year 2 have written their invites for the local community. They will be delivered next week! 

 

 

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16 November 2018

Year 2 Gymnastics

Year 2 have been using the new gymnastics equipment to showcase their travels, balances and jumps. 

 

 

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9 November 2018

Great Fire of London Houses

Year 2 have been making houses in the style of the Tudor houses that were destroyed during The Great Fire of London. 

Have a look at their amazing work!

 

 

 

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1 November 2018

Making Remembrance Art

We have been creating Remembrance art using bottle lids to stamp the poppies. We created the landscapes using pencil crayon. Some of our art will be displayed at The Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints and some will be displayed in our…

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12 October 2018

The Pea and the Princess

This week in Year 2 we have started a new book called ‘The Pea and the Princess’, a twist on the traditional tale ‘The Princess and the Pea’. We started by making predictions on what we think will happen in the story by looking at objects from the book; a crown, a pea pod, a pea and a…

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5 October 2018

Holly Class Outdoor Learning

Over the past two weeks, Year 2 have loved learning outdoors. We have covered lots of areas of the curriculum by learning outside, from role playing Little Red Riding Hood using the outdoor classroom, investigating outdoor materials and producing some fantastic outdoor art. We also learned and…

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