The Holy Qur'an and the religion of Islam

This term in R.E we have been looking at special Holy books. We looked at the Bible from the Christian faith, the Torah from the Jewish faith and the Qur'an from the Muslim faith. We also took a look at the Muslim prayer mat and Suleim showed us a special prayer ceremony called Takbir using the prayer mat. We also learnt about the rules for using and reading the special books. We learnt that the Torah has to be read using a special pointing stick called the Yada and that the Qur'an must be closed when you are not reading it.

Please take a look at the video below of Suleiman showing us the Takbir.

Sports Week

We had great fun trying out lots of different sports and activities as part of Sport relief week organised by Mr. Merchant. Please take a look at the video below for just a small snapshot of some of the things that we have been up to.

Earthquake in Haiti

In 2m we have been learning about Haiti.We learnt about how earthquakes happen and what you should do if you are caught in one.We also practised going under our tables to pretend that there is a real earthquake.

By Joe and Patrick

Bob's best ever friend and Gymnastics!

On Tuesday, 7 children from Years 1 and 2 took part in a gymnastics competition which was held at Redbridge sports centre. We done really well and all the children who took part had a great time. (Please see photo of us above!)

In Literacy we have been looking at the follow-up book to 'The man on the moon' called 'Bob's best ever friend.' We had news that Bob's new best friend had, had to go away to Pluto for a while so we had to make up a new best friend for him. We all really enjoyed acting out being his new best friend and then writing out descriptions of him.


In Numeracy we have been looking at collecting data using a tally chart and then turning it into information using a block chart and a bar chart. We also had a go at answering some data handling problems such as how many more people liked red than yellow, how many fewer people liked red than blue and who would find this information useful.

Click here to find a link to what your child needs to know about Data handling at this stage in the year.

We worked really hard and are looking forward to having an extra day off on Monday!

Have a nice long weekend and see you Tuesday.

Mr. Merchant and 2M