Well this was a special moment! One child was chosen for celebration assembly for the same thing, by two adults completely separately. No-one can remember a time when this has ever happened before so this makes this a record! There can be no doubt or argument about...

One of our families respectfully informed us that they were going to attend the Friday for Future gathering in Exeter this Friday. This inspired us and gave us a great opportunity to come together as a KS 1 team to explore aspects of geography, history and citizenship...

Home Learning can be a bit hard on Mums and Dads if they feel they are constantly trying to make children do things they don't naturally enjoy so in year 2, we try and make the Home learning as fun as possible. One of the ways we try to do this is to interrogate the...

We have only been a class for 7 days and already these Yr 2s are showing exactly what learning at Haytor View is all about. I set them the challenge of understanding what a noun is by inductively investigating a number of sentences in which the nouns had been...

What a brilliant start to a new year. In the afternoon on the first day, we explored how we could make the sorts of 3D shapes we might need to make to create models in our creative project sessions in the afternoons. This learning drew on what the children already...

To celebrate and commemorate our species most fantastic achievement to date, Year 2 revisited their rocket science learning from January and used it to design and build their own rockets to take People back to the Moon (or at least the end of the field!). We looked...