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My favourite parts of the holiday – by John

year2 — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 17:28:55 +0000

Last week my cousins came from Italy and I went to the airport to meet them.
I mostly palyed football with my Italian cousin RAffaelli. We beat some older teenagers 10-7 at the park. They looked embarassed and I scored the winning goal.
We were invited to a cricket match by one of my teammates dads on Friday. We packed a picnic and when we got there there was a big football match going on. Then the cricket started but I stayed playing football.
My Italian cousin stayed over and we played lots of games on my Wii. He was quite good at fifa 10. We watched Gohstbuters with Italian subtititles.
On Thursday I got up at 5.30 and went with my dad to collect my brother from Bristol. The journey was long and boring on the way but on the way back it was more amusing. It was fun having Sid here becasue he wanted to play football alot.
On Saturday I went to my unkles wedding there where other children there including raffaelli and my brother sid.
that made it much more fun. my unkle James was not very good at talking during the ceremony and he got a fit of the giggles.
After the ceremony we played football with a boy called Harvey. We then had fun in the hotel and went home very late. We stayed there for nine hours. Finbar looked exhausted when we had one more hour to go.
I am going to finish my fun holiday by going to the Socceraid match where legends and celebritiees will be playing football. I hope I am not too tired for school in the morning!!

2AT ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ SNEAK PEEK

year2 — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 18:31:54 +0000

The children in 2AT will be putting the finishing touches to their ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ video this week! It’s all very exciting. Here is a sneak peek at whats to come!
Miss Tucker

3d storyboards complete in 2JS

Mr Sloan — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:04:26 +0000

Wow! What a lot of hard work we have all done in the last few weeks. Today we finally finished and photographed our storyboards which means that we can start editing our film tomorrow in literacy. We don’t want to give too much away before our film premiere on Friday, but here’s a sneak peak at our storyboards without the characters… I am incredibly proud of the work which 2JS have been doing. Well done!

Can you see the characters perched up on out whiteboard too? It looks as though they all sorted out their differences in the end!

Jack and the Beanstalk – What are we up to in 2JS?

Mr Sloan — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:03:03 +0000

We have been VERY busy in the last couple of weeks. We have been working hard in groups of three on our big project for the half term. So how does it all work?

First we split the story of Jack and the Beanstalk into 10 parts. Each group of three children took a part of the story.
In our groups we are doing lots of drama, art and talking about the story, about the characters and about the settings. We have been thinking especially about the reasons why different characters behaved in the way that they did – why did Jack’s mum send Jack to sell the cow and not go herself? Why does the old woman live with the Giant? Who is the old man who gives Jack the magic beans?
We designed stage sets which we are now making into 3d story-boards. You can see how far we have got at the in the photos above.
We are also writing scripts in our groups. We are thinking about the section of the story that we have designed, and are trying to include lots of detail, description and interesting words. You can see some of our writing here Group 1 Group 2 Group 3 Group 5
Our next jobs are to practice reading our scripts, deciding on who will take on which roles. We will record ourselves next week.
We need to photograph our finished boxes, complete with characters that we will make.
Finally we will put it all together into a film which we will put on the blog… Keep checking!

What do you think of our work? What do you like? What could we improve on?

Snow photos – can you upload your own?

Mr Sloan — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 12:17:58 +0000

Right. School’s out. It’s -4 outside in Chorlton and there is LOTS of snow! Tell us what you have been getting up to by leaving a comment here, or why not have a go at uploading a photo or two? It’s really not that hard, but you will need an adult to help you out. You can find instructions here

I had a great snowball fight with some friends yesterday, and saw Mikey, Milan and Alfie having a great time on their sledges. I also went for a beautiful walk in Chorlton Ees where the snow was really thick and the sunshine was beautiful. Here are some pictures of my walk. Enjoy the snow everyone!

Embed a picture competition…

Mr Sloan — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:46:07 +0000

New instructions for how to add a picture to a blog post are on the Year 2 blog. Check them out here. Are you up to the challenge?

All those who manage it before the end of next week will get a special prize from Mr Sloan…

Good luck!