Pluto and Jupiter Class Blog

Week 4 What a lovely week! This week as historians we discussed all the fantastic things that we learnt and saw at the SS Great Britain. We then learnt about other differences that Brunel made to our local area. This included the design and build of the Great

Week 2 What a lovely week! This week as historians we continued to learn about Florence Nightingale’s life and the differences she made to hospitals and nurses. We then wrote a biography of Florence’s life for our English this week. We used Talk for Writing strategies to make

Week 1 Welcome back to term 4! We kickstarted this term with reading week and have done so many wonderful activities! It was lovely to see lots of you on Tuesday for our bedtime story. We have also done some ‘drawing with Rob’, a teacher swap and listened

Week 7 What a lovely week in Year 2! We continued reading Oliver Twist this week and explored Oliver’s feelings at different parts of the story. We have been writing a letter to  as to Mr Brownlow explaining why we (Oliver) did not come back to him. We

Week 6 What a busy week! We continued reading Oliver Twist this week and explored Oliver’s feelings at different parts of the story. We have started planning a letter to write in role as Oliver to Mr Brownlow explaining how we feel, what had happened and persuading him

Week 5 We have had a lovely week in Year 2 this week. This week as historians we moved to our next loop ‘How do our lives compare to the Victorians?’.  We looked at toys and sch0ol now and then and sorted them in a Venn diagram. We

Week 4 What a fun week in Year 2! This week as historians we moved to our next loop ‘What was life like for Victorian children?’. We had our WOW day and did lots of activities as historians. We got to explore Victorian artefacts from Weston Museum and

Week 3 A busy and lovely week in year 2. This week as historians we moved to our next loop ‘Who were the Victorians?’. We discussed who they were and then looked at the hierachy of different social classes in the Victorian times. We sorted facts about them

Week 2 What an amazing week in Pluto and Jupiter class! This week in our history enquiry  ‘Who has made the greatest difference?’ we moved to our next loop ‘Who was Queen Victoria?’. We used different sources (videos, articles and websites) to learn about who she was and

Week 1   Welcome back! We have had a lovely few days in Year 2. We started our new enquiry this week ‘Who has made the greatest difference?’ and as it is a history enquiry, we discussed what it means to be a historian. Ask us how we