--- title: "Year 2" url: "https://darwen-st-james-c-of-e-primary-academy.schudio.com/blog/category/year-2" school: "Darwen St James’ C of E Primary Academy" --- # Year 2 15 Dec #### [Green Jumpers](https://darwen-st-james-c-of-e-primary-academy.schudio.com/blog/2020-12-15-14-19-00-green-jumpers) Green jumpers are given out every Friday at our celebration assembly. If you get a green jumper you must have had an exceptionally great week at school. A green jumper is not just for working hard, but for showing our school values such as friendship, love, hope, courage and perseverance. Maybe… 15 Dec #### [Christmas Jumpers!](https://darwen-st-james-c-of-e-primary-academy.schudio.com/blog/2020-12-15-10-42-00-christmas-jumpers) [![](https://files.schudio.com/darwen-st-james-c-of-e-primary-academy/imagecache/1440x880c/blog/Screenshot-2020-11-23-at-17.06.51.png)](https://darwen-st-james-c-of-e-primary-academy.schudio.com/blog/2020-11-23-15-27-00-history-the-great-fire-of-london) 23 Nov #### [History - The Great Fire of London](https://darwen-st-james-c-of-e-primary-academy.schudio.com/blog/2020-11-23-15-27-00-history-the-great-fire-of-london) In 1666 a huge fire spread through London! Why did it spread so quickly? [**Click here to see if you were right!**](https://darwen-st-james-c-of-e-primary-academy.schudio.com/images/images/Screenshot-2020-11-23-at-17.11.33.png) 13 Nov #### [Children in Need](https://darwen-st-james-c-of-e-primary-academy.schudio.com/blog/2020-11-13-14-32-00-children-in-need) Today we used our chromebooks to make a Children in Need Poster. Have a look… 5 Nov #### [Design and Technology - Making Fire Engines](https://darwen-st-james-c-of-e-primary-academy.schudio.com/blog/2020-11-05-15-15-00-design-and-technology-making-fire-engines) This week we have started Design and Technology. We will be making our own fire engines! Take a look at our lessons! ![](https://darwen-st-james-c-of-e-primary-academy.schudio.com/images/images/Makinf-Fire-Engines.png) ### Lesson 2 - investingating wheels, axles, and chassis ### We have been very busy designing and making our fire engines! 5 Nov #### [We Love Maths!](https://darwen-st-james-c-of-e-primary-academy.schudio.com/blog/2020-11-05-15-12-00-we-love-maths) We all love maths in Year 2! We are learning about numbers to 100. We can partition numbers, we can show a number in different ways, we can compare numbers and we can order numbers!. 5 Nov #### [Parliament day and Bonfire Night!](https://darwen-st-james-c-of-e-primary-academy.schudio.com/blog/2020-11-05-14-36-00-parliament-day-and-bonfire-night) Today we learnt a little bit about the Houses of Parliament. We also learnt about Guy Fawkes and how he tried to blow up the Houses of Parliament with gunpowder! 1 Nov #### [Computers - Coding](https://darwen-st-james-c-of-e-primary-academy.schudio.com/blog/2020-11-01-15-23-00-computers-coding) We have been learning how to code! We have made our fish and crabs move in all directions in the fish tank! ### Computers - Creating a background for a game 1 Nov #### [English](https://darwen-st-james-c-of-e-primary-academy.schudio.com/blog/2020-11-01-14-53-00-english) ### English - Reading In our English lessons, we have been reading a fantastic book called ‘The Way Home For Wolf’. It is about a brave wolf cub called Wilf who loses his pack. He finds himself lost and alone, wondering what to do… ### English - Drama When polar bears moved into WIlf’s cave,… 15 Oct #### [RE - Good News](https://darwen-st-james-c-of-e-primary-academy.schudio.com/blog/2020-10-15-15-30-00-re-good-news) ### RE - Good News ### RE- A visit from Rob to talk about the Bible Rob from our church came to talk to us about the Bible. We learnt that the Bible is in two parts – The Old Testament and The New Testament. The Bible is not just one book but a library of lots of different books. The… 15 Oct #### [Geography - Oceans and Continents](https://darwen-st-james-c-of-e-primary-academy.schudio.com/blog/2020-10-15-15-28-00-geography-oceans-and-continents) In geography we have enjoyed learning about oceans and continents. Do you know how many oceans there are? What is the biggest continent? What is the biggest ocean? Do you know how many continents there are? Ask a Year 2 if you’re not sure! We also enjoyed learning about food and… [![](https://files.schudio.com/darwen-st-james-c-of-e-primary-academy/imagecache/1440x880c/blog/Screenshot-2020-11-20-at-17.09.24.png)](https://darwen-st-james-c-of-e-primary-academy.schudio.com/blog/2020-10-03-14-28-00-growth-mindset-in-year-2) 3 Oct #### [Growth Mindset in Year 2](https://darwen-st-james-c-of-e-primary-academy.schudio.com/blog/2020-10-03-14-28-00-growth-mindset-in-year-2) In year 2 we all have a growth mindset. This means that we try and try and we never give up! We embrace challenges, persevere and take risks. We use the word ‘yet’ a lot when we don’t know something. 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