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Friday 19th December 2025

Friday 17th October 2025

This week, our creative Year 2 Lobster Class took their learning outside for an exciting art session! 🎨 Embracing the beauty of our school grounds, the children became nature detectives, hunting for and gathering a wonderful array of natural resources.

Friday 10th October 2025

Young gymnasts from Year 2 Lobster Class have been honing their skills in a lively gymnastics session. This week, the setup included an array of blue mats laid out for floor exercises and a low balance beam, providing a safe and encouraging environment for them to develop their balance, coordination, and strength, enthusiastically practising their new abilities.

Friday 26th September 2025

What an energetic week for Lobster Class! They have embraced every free moment to get active in the fresh air, enthusiastically participating in the Daily Mile. We've also been using dynamic stretching for our brain breaks, which is a fantastic way to help us reset and refocus for learning. Well done, Lobsters!

Friday 19th September 2025

This week, Loster Class transformed into a bustling hub of young engineers as they embarked on a thrilling bridge-building challenge in their science lessons! The classroom was abuzz with creativity and critical thinking as students explored the principles of structural engineering using a variety of materials.

Armed with Lego bricks, the children constructed sturdy beam and arch bridges, discovering the incredible strength of interlocking blocks. They then moved on to the classic challenge of using lolly sticks, carefully glueing them together to create robust truss structures, learning firsthand how triangles provide exceptional stability. The creative exploration didn't stop there, with other resources being employed to test different design theories.

Friday 12th September 2025

This week, our creative Lobsters class has been exploring the wonderful world of lines in art! 🎨

Taking inspiration from the legendary artist Vincent van Gogh, the children marvelled at how he used swirling, energetic lines to show feelings and movement in his famous paintings like The Starry Night.

Building on this, we investigated all sorts of different lines. The children learned to identify and draw sharp, straight geometric lines like zig-zags and parallels, as well as soft, flowing organic lines like waves and curls. They had a fantastic time creating their own masterpieces, using their new line skills to express themselves, just like Van Gogh!

Friday 11th July 2025

Lobster Class have concluded our PE unit on invasion games. We brought all of our skills together during our PE lesson this week as we practiced passing and controlling the ball. We also continued to develop our understanding of the roles of attackers and defenders. We explored the tactics involved in a game for a team to be successful.  

Next week, we'll be doing some exciting team building activities in PE to mark our final PE lesson of Year 2.  

Friday 4th July 2025

Lobster Class have continued our learning about plants this week. We've been exploring the conditions a plant needs to grow best alongside the features of a plant. We constructed and labelled our own plants. 

Friday 13th June 2025

Lobster Class enjoyed visiting Year 6 at their Enterprise Week and exploring all of the exciting games and items for sale. Well done Year 6s for coordinating a really fun experience for us.

Friday 6th June 2025

Lobster Class curiously explored the features of seeds and bulbs in Science this week to introduce our new topic all about plants and growth.   

Friday 23rd May 2025

Lobster class had a great time at their Sports Day this week. We ran, jumped, balanced and threw our way through the morning's activities. It was wonderful having our families there to enjoy the occasion with us. 

Friday 16th May 2025

Lobster Class made the most of the lovely weather this week and took our Phonics learning outside. We played board games to work on our spellings of Year 2 Common Exception words. 

Friday 9th May 2025

Lobster Class enjoyed celebrating VE day together at our picnic. There were yummy treats aplenty and music from the fourties to dance along to.    

Friday 2nd May 2025

In PSHE, Lobster Class have been exploring different families and what makes our families special and unique. We created our own 'Happy Home' recipe. 

Friday 25th April 2025

The excitement was palpable when Lobster Class got to make their own magical potions as part of our learning about measure in Maths. Children accurately measured liquids like dragon's blood, dolphin tears and troll juice to create their magical mixtures. If you see any dragons flying over Leigh, you know why.  

Friday 4th April 2025

Lobster Class have brought the spring term to a close with a spring in our step. In Maths, we have been exploring measuring mass. We used balancing scales to compare the mass of a range of objects and couldn't believe just how many cubes were required for our filled water bottles. In Science, we had lots of fun developing our understanding of personal hygiene and the importance of using soap during our pepper investigation.  

What a super week it has been! We hope that you enjoy the Easter break and we look forward to welcoming the children back to start their summer term.  

Friday 28th March 2025

Lobster Class had a fantastic DT day making our vehicles this week! After planning our vehicle design, we then constructed our vehicles using masking tape and covered them ready for painting. Next, we painted and enjoyed getting a little messy along the way. Finally, we got to add the extra details to our vehicles and, importantly, our axels and wheels so they could move. It was a great day and we had lots of interesting designs, including double-decker buses, tractors, lambourghinis, Tottenham football coaches and cat taxis, to name a few. 

Friday 21st March 2025

As part of our learning about Shabbat in RE, we worked together to create our own Shabbat tables including Kiddush cups, Shabbat candles and challah bread. We had lots of fun and enjoyed the idea of a day of rest, though it was hard to imagine not using our devices on this day.  

Friday 14th March 2025

What an exciting Great Fire of London themed day we had on Thursday. We totally immersed ourselves into our history learning. After using our time machine to travel back in time to 1666 we enjoyed creating fire-inspired art work, visiting Pudding Lane and watching it burn, helping put out 'fires', and learning more about what the fire service was like in 1666. We all ended the day a little soggy from our firefighting endeavours but very content and curious to learn even more about this significant event. 

Friday 7th March 2025

Ahead of Pancake Day, Lobster class loved practising our 'flipping' skills as we enjoyed some pancake inspired races.  

Friday 28th February 2025

In PE, Lobster Class have started our learning about Net and Wall games. We explored the ready position and worked as a team to score points against our opponents across the net.

Friday 14th February 2025

In Maths this week, we've been exploring multiplication as grouping. We used practical resources to secure our understanding of this concept. 

Friday 7th February 2025

Lobster Class have created collages in Art this week that were inspired by our Penguin topic. We worked together selecting the materials we wanted to use and layering them to create our final pieces. We are thrilled with our icy creations!   

Friday 31st January 2025

Lobster Class have been investigating why penguins huddle in Science and learning about heat transfer. 

Friday 24th January 2025

In PE, Lobster Class have been focusing on Gymnastics. We've been learning about shapes and balances and we have developed our awareness of good body tension and how we can show this in our movements. We've loved creating sequences together and getting to use the apparatus.   

Friday 17th January 2025

Lobster Class have been learning about shape in Maths. We challenged ourselves to make our own 3D shapes using playdough (for the vertices) and straws (for the edges). 

Friday 10th January 2025

What an exciting return to school we've had in Lobster Class. We were eager to dive straight into our new Geography topic all about Penguins as part of our Learning to Learn days. We developed our team work skills when creating igloos, learnt more about what explorers need to survive in the freezing Antarctic conditions and enjoyed creating penguin art.   

Friday 13th December 2024

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas in Year 2. The children put on an absolutely sensational Nativity performance this week. They dazzled on all fronts - the singing, acting, dancing and speaking. WOW! Well done to you all. We are so proud of you.  

Friday 6th December 2024

In RE, we've been learning about Judaism. We created our own pairs game linked to the key symbols of Judaism, including the story of Hannukah. We had fun making it and especially enjoyed getting to play our games!

Friday 29th November 2024

We've been challenging ourselves in Maths this week as we've explored adding and subtracting two-two digit numbers crossing the tens barrier. 

Friday 22nd November 2024

We enjoyed stepping back in time to meet Florence Nightingale this week. We were interested to learn more about her brilliant and brave work as a nurse in Scutari and even showed off our own nursing skills. What an exciting and inspiring day!

Friday 15th November 2024

During our PSHE lesson this week, we read the story 'The Crayon Box that talked'. We explored how we all bring our own wonderful and unique qualities and when we come together, we make the picture complete. We worked as a team to bring individual colours from the book together and create a colourful masterpiece.  

Friday 8th November 2024

As we return to school with the excitement of Bonfire night surrounding us, Lobster Class have had lots of fun learning about the story of Guy Fawkes. We enjoyed dressing up as the key characters and acting out the main events. We even met Guy Fawkes (who'd travelled in a time machine to us) and asked questions of him before creating Wanted Posters to ensure his swift return to the Tower of London.   

Friday 25th October 2024

Lobster Class enjoyed putting our observational skills to the test this week as we went on our walk around Leigh. Mrs Brown challenged us to find missing pieces to her Leigh on Sea jigsaw and we loved discovering new and familiar places along the way.  

Friday 18th October 2024

Lobster class loved visiting the Book Fair this week and getting inspired by new authors. 

Friday 11th October 2024

Lobster Class have enjoyed their PE lessons where they've been developing their ball skills. Over the past few weeks they've been practising rolling, controlling their ball with their feet, defending and scoring.  

Friday 4th October 2024

What a fantastic and hands-on week of learning we've had in Lobster Class. We enjoyed testing the waterproofing qualities of a range of materials in Science as we begin to learn more about Charles Macintosh and his important discoveries. In Geography, we've been learning about famous UK landmarks and had a go at constructing these, including the Clifton Suspension Bridge, Stone Henge and the Angel of the North.   

Friday 27th September 2024

Lobster Class have had another exciting week of learning. In Geography, we have been learning about the countries of the United Kingdom and went on an adventure with Now Press Play to discover more (and save the King!). In English, we've started reading the story 'The Queen's Handbag' and enjoyed dressing up as the main characters during our Hot Seating activity.   

Friday 20th September 2024

Lobster Class enjoyed our Science lesson this week where we compared the strength of different materials. We learnt that some materials are stronger than others and considered how changing the structure of a material could strengthen it. 

Friday 13th September 2024

Lobster Class are settling in incredibly to Year 2. They have taken on new learning challenges and are forging wonderful friendships. What better way then, to celebrate the start of a new year than with a trip to the beach! The children enjoyed hunting for intriguing objects as part of our Scavenger Hunt and creating their own artistic masterpieces. The sun even shone too for us - a magical day!