Y2 LONDON BOROUGHS 2019/20
Welcome to the 2019-20 Reading Gladiators™ challenges. Let the reading begin!
There are schools in this group:
- Cherry Lane Primary School
- Keir Hardie Primary School
- Hallsville Primary School
- St Matthias School
- Scott Wilkie Primary School
- Whitchurch Primary School & Nursery, Stanmore
- Rosetta Primary School
- Altmore Infant School
- Grove Primary School
- Muswell Hill Primary School
- Northumberland Heath Primary School
- Peareswood Primary School
- The Willows Primary School
- Knockhall Primary School
- Just Imagine
- Avonmore Primary School
- Brampton Primary School – East Ham
- Willow Bank Primary School
Updates
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The Girl with the Broken Wing
This year 2 RG has a really decent grasp of what Chapter one is all about and can make predictions about what might happen next.
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Submission by St Matthias School
Your library needs you!
After reading the poem, we thought about all the reasons we love libraries! Then we made our poster using our ideas and took inspiration from the poem. We have put up our poster in our classroom library! We hope you like it.
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Submission by Northumberland Heath Primary School
Your Book Barn Needs You!
We had so much fun making our poster. Our school library is called ‘The Book Barn’ and it is the beating heart of the school. We made our book very colourful and vibrant, to reflect how much fun we have reading and to encourage other children to come and use the book barn too.
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17th Mar 2020, 3:36pm
How lovely, Northumberland Heath! We love your use of colour and how you emphasise the importance of reading. We would be making a beeline for your Book Barn! -
Performance Poetry
We really threw ourselves into our performances today. Here is one of our RG showing that his stick is a sword!
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13th Mar 2020, 9:23am
I love the expression on your face! You're really getting into the performance. I wish we could hear your performance. -
Submission by St Matthias School
Marvellous Moon Ice Cream
After reading Mr Tiger, Betsy and the Blue Moon, we designed ice cream flavours for the different characters in the story. This was our favourite, we hope you like it too! We decided that the moon deserved it's own ice cream after saving the day and turning blue!
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27th Feb 2020, 10:19am This look delicious, St Matthias! Thank you for sharing it with us! -
Submission by Northumberland Heath Primary School
Perpetual Perfection
Our ice cream is called Perpetual Perfection, because it tastes perfect and the taste never goes away (at least not until your next birthday!). We were inspired to give our ice cream that name, because we came across the word 'perpetual' for the first time in the book and wanted to use this word in our alliterative title. We picked one ingredient each, so that it was fair and put them all together. We decided it would be great to put a surprise toy in the ice cream and we used the wishing element of the story to inspire us in deciding that the toy would magically be whatever you wished for. We hope you like our ice cream!
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27th Feb 2020, 10:15am We really enjoyed your entry, especially seeing how influenced it was by the text! Well done Northumberland Heath! -
Mr Tiger role on the wall
We love this activity, as it really gets our ideas flowing and we come up with lots of wonderful vocabulary to describe our character. Mr Tiger looks very large and a bit fierce (because he is a tiger), but he is actually very kind to everyone he meets and tries to help them.
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30th Jan 2020, 3:42pm
A brilliant example of The Role on the Wall activity. Well done!31st Jan 2020, 10:44am How lovely! Role on the Wall is such a great way to get thinking about how characters might be different on the inside to how they are on the outside!31st Jan 2020, 3:09pmExactly! We talked about how he Mr. Tiger looks a little scary on the outside, because he is a tiger and tigers are usually fierce. However, he is a lovely tiger on the inside and acts in a very kind and helpful way to others. -
‘I Statements’
We all agreed that Mr Glory was the most anxious about Betsy going up the mountain, because he is a bit of a worrier and she is his daughter! We decided that Myrtle was more excited for Betsy than worried because she wanted her to learn about mountains and have an adventure. Surprisingly, we thought that Mr Tiger would also be a bit worried, because it is a huge responsibility for him to take Betsy up the mountain on his back. We thought he might be worried about falling back and hurting her, as it would be his fault!
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28th Jan 2020, 3:21pm Thank you for sharing your thoughtful comments with us. -
Visualisations NHP
Our year 2 RG must have had a psychic link to me yesterday, as some of their visualisations are almost spot on for the front cover of our new book! They are already hooked on the story, just from reading the first 3 chapters. We are looking forward to exploring the story further together.
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21st Jan 2020, 12:52pm I can see just how carefully they listened and focused on the different elements. We are so glad that they are hooked on the story! -
Submission by Northumberland Heath Primary School
Sumbawa Newspaper Reports
The children completed their newspaper reports in pairs after looking at some examples online.
Comments
17th Jan 2020, 2:09pm Thank you for your great reports! We really enjoyed reading them. -
Submission by St Matthias School
Maple News!
As it has been the holidays, we didn't have time to complete the challenge at school. So, I set the children the task of creating a newspaper for homework and this is Mahdiya's wonderful work! With a little bit of help from her sister, a year 6 RG, she created this newspaper article all about the moment when the reporters first saw the deadly dragon! I'm really proud of the way she worked independently to create a newspaper, as we haven't learnt this yet in class. We hope you like it too!
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17th Jan 2020, 2:08pm Thank you for your fantastic entry, how lovely that Mahdiya worked independently on this! (Well done to her sister too!) -
Visualisations
Today, our Reading Gladiators worked on visualisation. They carefully listened to details of the front cover and using their own imaginations, visualised how this would look and drew their own front cover. We were all very interested to see how everyone heard the same thing but drew totally different front covers.
Good work Reading Gladiators.
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Interviewing Sumbawa
Our year 2 RG performed some compelling interviews to each other today. We found out that his favourite foods are oranges and flies. We also discovered that he doesn’t like it when visitors to the zoo make faces at him through the glass.
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10th Jan 2020, 9:33am What fun you are having with this book, Northumberland Heath! It's so lovey to see, thank you for sharing. -
Joan’s Diary
Our year 2 RG wrote some lovely diary entries for Joan and then acted them out. Here, they are acting out Joan taking her crocodile to school.
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19th Dec 2019, 6:21am Great to see you getting into role!7th Jan 2020, 11:55am What well behaved crocodiles! I'm sure this activity helped you write your diaries and we look forward to seeing them! -
Detective Report
Detective Khan has filed her detective report 🙂
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10th Dec 2019, 9:01am Thank you so much for sharing this super report! -
Submission by St Matthias School
St Matthias’ police report by Detective Gordon
We really enjoyed The First Case! After reading the book, we thought about all of the things that Detective Gordon and Buffy did to solve the crime. We split into small groups and each planned and wrote a bit of the police report. We hope you like it!
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6th Dec 2019, 1:50pm Well done on your super report! You make top investigators! Kla-dunk! -
Submission by Northumberland Heath Primary School
Northumberland Heath Primary School First Case report
We worked so hard revisiting the book and picking out the key events and vocabulary that we could use in our police report. We also looked at some police reports online and identified the features of a police report to use in ours. We made it huge so that everybody got a chance to do something on it and decorated it around the edge, because we thought that’s what Buffy and Detective Gordon would have done! We hope you like it.
Comments
6th Dec 2019, 1:47pm Thank you so much for your wonderful entry. You had worked very hard and recalled all the major facts! We are very impressed that you investigated police reports! -
What do you see?
Mahreen visualised page 38 and included as much detail as she could! What do you see?
Comments
21st Nov 2019, 10:09am Super work! There is so much going on here! I can see some bickering! -
Summary Writing!
Well done to Mya who wrote a fantastic summary of the story ‘The First Case’ in exactly 50 words!
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21st Nov 2019, 10:11am Well done Mya! I do hope you enjoyed Detective Gordon's First Case! -
Detective Gordon Role on the Wall
Our Year 2 RG thought this was a great activity and are looking forward to adding more to it as the character progresses in the story.
Comments
12th Nov 2019, 10:59am Great work Northumberland Heath!14th Nov 2019, 9:11am There are some great word choices here, and I'm looking forward to seeing what you all decide to add later!20th Nov 2019, 3:14pmThank you for your lovely comments! -
Visualisation
Our Yr 2 RG found the visualisation activity really interesting and so did I! They loved seeing each other’s pictures and seeing how different they all were. I particularly liked the fact that one of our RG focused on the fact that the squirrel found the police station strange and drew a very strange police station!
Comments
8th Nov 2019, 2:04pm Visualisation is such a powerful skill. It's so interesting to see how differently we picture things isn't it?8th Nov 2019, 3:16pm How lovely! Visualisation helps us to see things through other's eyes, as well as helping with our own understanding. -
Submission by Grove Primary School
A New Coat For Mrs Noah
We made Mrs Noah a patchwork coat using patterns that made us think of her character. The pockets holding some of our work are in the style of hands because it reminded us how caring Mrs Noah was in saving all the ‘troublesome creatures’.
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8th Nov 2019, 10:58am Quite beautiful. I loved the contents of the pockets too, what genuine responses! -
Submission by Northumberland Heath Primary School
Mrs Noah’s hooded jacket of many colours
It’s clearly evident how much fun our Year 2 RG group have had creating a new jacket for Mrs. Noah! I was absolutely blown away by their use of pattern and colour inspired by the illustrations in the book. They collaborated amazingly well together and it was a real team effort. They filled her pockets with wanted posters, weather forecasts and pictures of their troublesome creatures. I am so proud of them all.
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14th Nov 2019, 9:21am Beautiful work! The weather forecast would certainly be very useful! -
Submission by St Matthias School
St Matthias’ Mrs Noah’s fabulous coat!
We looked at the patterns in the book and used ideas to design Mrs Noah's coat. Then we thought about what she might have in her pockets and drew troublesome creatures, boats, lists and maps. We hope you like it! By St Matthias Year 2 group.
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8th Nov 2019, 10:54am I can really see the influence of James Mayhew in your colour choices here! What a wonderful coat! -
Altmore’s Reading Gladiator 2019-2020 Team.
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6th Nov 2019, 1:56pm Great to meet you Altmore Gladiators! A big wave from us at Just Imagine :)8th Nov 2019, 3:26pm Hello there Altmore! Lovely to meet you! -
Inspiring patterns
Yr 2 RG were so inspired by the patterns and colours used in ‘Mrs Noah’s Pockets’. They have done an amazing job of recreating them in their own art work and cannot wait to get started on Mrs Noah’s new outfit for their mini challenge.
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15th Oct 2019, 8:58am These are wonderful. We are really looking forward to seeing your mini challenge entry.24th Oct 2019, 1:35pm Ooh yes, we can't wait to see your design! -
Troublesome Creatures?
Our year 2 RG used some great descriptions to try and convince Mr Noah to save their chosen ‘troublesome creature’. However, we all agreed that the minotaur was just a little too scary for us!
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11th Oct 2019, 11:27am Fantastic descriptions! Yes that is a rather scary minotaur!11th Oct 2019, 3:40pm He does look very troublesome! -
Mythico Wood
Our year 2 Gladiators had so much fun making their map of the Mythico Wood
Comments
7th Oct 2019, 10:30am Wow, what a glorious and vibrant map! It's clear that you enjoyed creating this and demonstrates such good understanding of the setting. Thank you for sharing!7th Oct 2019, 2:15pm I feel I could go exploring! -
Saving our lives from the flood!
We started RG today and year two made some fantastic pictures of places of safety we would build if a flood came. We are looking forward to reading the book next week!
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4th Oct 2019, 9:10am Thank you so much for sharing your lovely pictures of your places of safety, St Matthias! I am looking forward to hearing about what you think of the book! -
Let the Challenge Begin!
Welcome year 2 Gladiators. The 2019-20 challenge is about to begin. We can’t wait to hear what you think about your new books.
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