Year Two
Welcome to Year 2!
Our teachers are Miss Quinn and Miss Dunn.
We hope you will visit our page regularly to see what we have been up to.
Year Two Blog Posts
We are geographers!
This week in Geography, we used atlases and globes to find the seven continents of the world, as well as different countries. The children were fantastic at identifying where each place was.
Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens
This week, we went on our first trip in Year 2 and we visited Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens. In the morning, we took part in an Art workshop and created some wonderful sketches of plants. We then used these sketches to create a piece of artwork using oil...
Pearl of Africa Children’s Choir
What a treat we had at St Aidan’s this week. We were fortunate enough to have a visit from The Pearl of Africa Children’s Choir all the way from Uganda. The choir, consisting of 9 young people aged 10-18 along with 3 teachers, spent the day with us and it is certainly...
Sports days
Last week, we had a fantastic sports day and intrahouse sports day events. We all felt the buzz of excitement competing in the sports day afternoon from years Rec-6. Once again the 400m race seemed like a real positive event with many parents getting behind our...
Year 2 – Great North Museum
As part of our Science topic ‘Women in Science’, we have been learning about Mary Anning who was a female palaeontologist where she studied about fossils. Year 2 had a lovely day at the Great North Museum. We first split up into groups to explore the Fossils section...
Fun at the Seaside
In Art, we have been looking at the work of the local artist, Zoe Emma Scott who paints colourful beach scenes using water colours. We have used her artwork as an inspiration to design our own artwork of ‘Fun at the Seaside’. We looked at how to draw and sketch and we...