Author Archives: Tash Hosking

This week in Grayling 2, we’ve started our new literacy book Here We Are by Oliver Jeffers, celebrating the diversity of our planet. The children enjoyed thinking about our planet and learning about the solar system. They generated some lovely questions which we will be answering over the next half term! In maths, we’ve continued […]

This past half term seems to have flown by but it has been thoroughly enjoyable getting to know and teach all of the lovely children in Grayling 2! Thank you to everyone who joined us for our parent / teacher evenings – it is lovely to hear how settled your children are and how much […]

It is the end of another busy week in Year 2! On Wednesday in Grayling 2, we enjoyed discussing different religions and we found out some special features about Christianity. We recognised lots of words and symbols, such as the cross, and shared the story of The Good Samaritan. We linked this to the theme […]

It’s the end of another week and somehow the end of September already!  We have been thinking about traditional tales in literacy and continued using base 10 materials to help show different number bonds. Some of our challenges looked like this:  The children are bringing their purple homework books home this weekend – as it’s […]

Over the past week we have been looking at the book ‘The Story Machine’ by Tom McLaughlin. We have really enjoyed exploring the book: If you would like to listen and share the story at home, you can listen to the author, Tom, read it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXVqCCeCPAU (adults, please check the video first as there […]

A warm welcome to Year 2! We hope you’ve had an enjoyable, restful and happy summer break. We’re very excited to be welcoming the children into their new Year 2 classes.  In our first week, we were thinking about bubbles! We described them, wrote poems about them and imagined we had a magic bubble that […]