Year 2 - Goldfinch  

Carnival at school!  24th October 2025

We have been enjoying the end of our half term by showcasing some of our work in the school carnival. It was such a shame about the unpredictable weather but we were still able to share the fun with a few year groups!

 

Our art October 2025

The children are all very proud of the African sunsets they painted. They used the skills they had been learning through the term and they look amazing!

 

Sharing stories with year 3 - 10th October 2025

This week, Jay class were excited to share their amazing stories inspired by the short film 'Dream Giver' with Goldfinch class. Everyone listened carefully as the children read their imaginative pieces filled with magic, adventure and dreams coming to life!

Goldfinch class were a fantastic audience and gave some lovely feedback. 

 

Carymoor Visit 8th October 2025

Today we had an exciting visitor in school. Gary came from Carymoor Recycling Centre to talk to us about recycling our waste. He told us about how to recycle different materials and where to put them. He told us where they are taken and what happens next. He talked about the '3 Rs' reuse, recycle and reduce.

In class we practised and met burpy bin! Gary even had a song for us to learn.

It was great fun and we learnt a lot!

 

Science and Computing with year 4   07.10.25

The children from Year 4 helped the children from Year 2 to log on and use j2edata Branch to create branch databases to sort and group animals according to their characteristics.

 

Art Friday 3rd October 2025

The children have been investigating colour mixing in art over the last few weeks. They have changed the tint or tone of their colours by adding white or black paints.  They have experimented with mixing the varied colours of a sunset and they have now painted the backgrounds for their finished pieces.

We will now move on to sketching, then painting trees. The children will paint a tree silhouette onto their sunsets.

We are so proud of how the children spent time deciding the colours and shades they wanted to use.

 

 

Year 2 trip to Weston-Super-Mare July 2025

Today we had a lovely, hot day in Weston!  We visited the beach, had an ice-cream and walked along the pier.  We talked about our Geography and our History learning this term.

We then spent the afternoon at the museum learning about seaside holidays in the past and comparing them with what we do now. We weren't sure we liked the sound of some of the ice-cream flavours they had in Victorian times!

We were very proud of the children for their enthusiasm and great behaviour on such a hot day!

 

Street dance 30th June

What an amazing session we had with Kieran today. He is a professional Street dancer. He has met Ant and Dec, danced in front of Simon Cowell on Britain's Got Talent and he is in the film 'Wicked'. We had a great assembly where we tried out some of the moves and a session for our class later in the morning.

 

 

Sports Day

On Friday, we had lots of fun taking part in sports day. It was a hot one! We got to do different activities in our house groups to earn points for our teams. Then we all had the chance to take part in a track race. Well done to the children for joining in and trying their best in the heat!

 

Sports Festival 24th June

Today we took part in our sports festival. We had a great time doing lots of different activities. Mr Butt led parachute games and Mrs Hart taught us some skipping games and chants. We even used a long rope! We did some tennis with Mrs Edwards and playground games. We enjoyed tag rugby with Mrs Leach. We all had our favourites. We started the day with some calming yoga with Mrs Marriott.

 

Health and Sports Week - Circus skills. June 2025

The children learnt some circus skills today.

They were spinning plates, using the flower sticks, hula hooping and they even tried the pogo sticks!  We are really proud of the skills they demonstrated and the perseverance they showed when learning them.

We ended the day with a demonstration to the grown ups. 

 

Health and Sports Week - orienteering.  June 2025

We had great fun orienteering on Friday. We worked with a partner and used a map to find our way around the school grounds. We made a note of the codes on the signs we found. 

We were lucky with the weather too!

 

Easter bonnet parade - April 2025

What a wonderful display of Easter bonnets for our parade! The sun came out for us too!

 

World Book Day Activities - March 2025

As part of our World Book Day KS1 and EYFS got together to share their character description writing. Year 2 had written about the goats and troll from The Three Billy Goats Gruff story. Year 1 wrote about giants from The Smartest Giant in Town story. EYFS described dinosaurs. The children had to use the clues from the descriptions to work out the characters. Some children worked in Mrs Leach's or Mr Butt's classroom so please look for more photos on their page.

Science week - February 2025

Goldfinch had a lovely week visiting other classes and learning about science. This year's theme is 'change and adapt'.

The science work linked to space, life cycles and materials. 

 

2nd December 2024 - Our trip to Wells Cathedral

We have been learning more about the Christmas story in our R.E. lessons.  Today we were lucky enough to visit Wells Cathedral.  We learnt that it was built in the shape of a cross and lots of people go to services there now.  

We looked at the beautiful stonework inside and our guide told us lots of interesting things. The font is even older than the cathedral!

There is a clock which has an unusual face showing 24 hours instead of 12. We were so excited to watch it chime on the hour. There was a statue that made the bells sound and horses (not real ones!) that galloped around on top. 

We had a busy day with lots of activities including stained glass window making, sketching and badge making.

What a great day we had!

 

Great Fire of London - Wow day!

Today Year 2 were visited by CAD Characters. This was an introduction to our history unit on the Great Fire of London and will provide us with writing opportunities in our English lessons.

The children had a great time listening to and learning about how the fire started and continued to burn for many days. Some of them got to take part in the role play activities which was great fun to watch!