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Year 2 2025-2026 Blog

World Book Day Events

This week we celebrate World Book day on Thursday. During the week, we have lots of fun reading and book events taking place. Each class will have story time swaps where a different adult from the school will come to read them a story. Each class will make books to be displayed in their library making every child an author!. On Thursday Years 4-6 will take part in a football themed reading quiz. All children may bring in their favourite books, comics or magazines to read on Thursday. On Friday you may choose to dress up as your favourite character- I can't wait to see who you come as.

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Fantastic Awards

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Well done to this weeks Head-Teacher, Good to be Green and our vocabulary Ninja child(ren), you have really stood out this week for your excellent behaviour and outstanding learning! We have lot's of children getting super awards at their outside of school sports clubs including swimming, golf and football. Well done everyone, keep up the hard work!

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International day of women and girls in science

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Today Year 6 presented an assembly about different women and girls who have made a great impact in the world of science. We discussed how primatologist Dr Jane Goodall has worked tirelessy to rehome chimpanzees who have lost their habitats for various reasons. We explored how Nobel Prize winner Marie Curie discovered new elements called radium and radioactivity.

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Why is exercise important?

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This week in Science, the children have been exploring ‘Why exercise is important and what the effects of exercise are on our health / lives?’ The children were asked to explore different ways to stay healthy. The children decided that you can be healthy by: eating a balanced diet, getting lots of sleep, drinking lots of water, doing activities that you enjoy (e.g. swimming etc) and exercising. The children discussed how/why exercise is important for our bodies.

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E-Safety / Competition Winners

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Our pupil leaders have chosen 6 brilliant winners of our E-Safety Competition. They looked at how social media affects mental health and what we can do to improve this. We had many entries from across school and it was very difficult to decide. Well done everyone. 

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Let’s spread the love

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Broadbent Fold's Valentine disco was a massive success. The turn out was phenomenal and the children thoroughly enjoyed themselves. Thank you to everyone who turned up. Happy Valentine's Day!

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Handwriting Winners Spring 1 2023

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Well done to our Spring 1 handwriting winners! You have been awarded with your handwritng pencil and certificate for your amazing, neat presentation or for great effort and improvement in your handwriting.

Our winners are: Nursery- Nevaeh, Reception- Mykyta, Y1- George S, Y2- Luke, Y3- Matilda, Y4- Suzie, Y5- Theo, Y6- Sam G

All of their wonderful handwriting has been proudly displayed outside Mrs Parker's room. 

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Accurate instructions

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This afternoon, the children used the Bee-bots to create simple programmes on a treasure island mat. The children have been learning the importance of sequences of accurate instructions and today they used the Bee-bots to test their sequences out by programming the Bee-bot to navigate it to a specific co-ordinate. The children have been learning the terminology forwards, backwards, left, right, up down, north, south, east west, landscape, horizontal, portrait and vertical in Geography, Math and Computing. OO ARGH!

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Treasure Hunt

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This afternoon, the children took part in a treasure hunt around the school grounds. The children have been using google maps in their Geography lessons this half term to explore the question ‘where do we live?’ They have been zooming in and out from a bird’s eye view, zooming in to see street views and identify places they have visited. The child had a bird’s eye view map of the school with different letters plotted around. The children had to use their maps to locate the different letters which were identifiable on flags and write down the number that was attached to the letter.

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