Year 2: Blog items
Date: 17th Dec 2024 @ 4:14pm
Today, we celebrated our Christmas party. We came in our fancy party clothes, enjoyed a drink of juice in the classroom, did lots of dancing, played some party games such as pin the nose on Rudolph and pass the parcel and EVEN got a very special visit from Father Christmas himself! We had a great time celebrating together and wish everyone a fantastic Christmas!
Date: 17th Dec 2024 @ 4:12pm
Today, we have created art based around Nativity. The children used watercolours to create a stained glass window effect. After, we reflected on the Nativity story and the true meaning behind Christmas for Christians.
Date: 17th Dec 2024 @ 1:02pm
This half term we have been looking at architecture. We began our Art journey by exploring what architecture is and we looked at the work of Hunderwasser. We learnt that he liked bright, colourful buildings and would often use topsy turvy designs. We then designedour own buildings and chose a colour palette for our building. Over the last couple of days, we have been building, painting and decorating our houses ready to evaluate.
Year 2- Christmas Jumpers, Elf Run and festive lunch
Date: 9th Dec 2024 @ 9:48pm
Today, Year Two celebrated all things Christmas. We wore our Christmas jumpers for our annual Christmas lunch and completed the Elf Run to raise some money for charity. We enjoyed the festive activities and loved our delicious lunch!
Year 2- Writing a Christmas Story
Date: 5th Dec 2024 @ 11:02am
Year Two are beginning to write a christmas story based on the John Lewis advert Excitable Edgar. So far, we have immersed ourselves in different stories that have been told through a variety of Christmas adverts including the Christmas truce, Monty the penguin and the man on the moon. Throughout, we have discussed the problem and solutions for a story, main characters and the different settings. We noticed, good stories have lots of descriptive language so through our GPS sessions we have explored using adjectives to describe characters and settings as well as adverbs to describe actions. We are looking forward to planning and drafting our final stories.
Date: 5th Dec 2024 @ 10:54am
This half term, Year Two have been exploring Opera and used it to retell the story of Hansel and Gretel. Throguhout the unit, we have listened and appraised a variety of different songs before learning them and practicing singing together in unison. Also, we explored body percussion and used it to add into pauses and instrumental sections of songs in time to the beat.
Date: 27th Nov 2024 @ 3:47pm
Today, we celebrated no pen morning by completing activities without picking up any writing devices. In Reading into Writing, we began our Christmas story unit by immersing ourselves in a variety of christmas adverts that tell a story. We enjoyed watching the adverts before discussing who the main characters were, what the problem and solution were in the story as well as generating adjectives to describe characters and settings. In Maths, we explored adding two 2-digit numbers using base 10 and place value counters to help us; we learnt we need to add the ones first to help us in the future when it crosses a ten.
Date: 25th Nov 2024 @ 9:11pm
Last week, we had a visit from the Fire Service who came and talked to us about all the ways they help in the community. They taught us what to do if we accidentally caught on fire and what to do if there was a fire in the house including how to get out safely. We were tasked with testing our smoke alarms and checking they all work to help keep us safe. We really enjoyed learning about how to keep safe.
Date: 25th Nov 2024 @ 9:07pm
Today, we were joined by some parents for our Maths lesson. We completed a problem solving activity using our knowledge of number bonds to 10 to form a big triangle. We were then challenged to create our own puzzle using number bonds to 20 for a friend to complete. Thank you to the parents who joined us, it was lovely showcasing our learning with you.
Date: 20th Nov 2024 @ 4:49pm
Year 2- Investigating the trenches from WWI
Date: 20th Nov 2024 @ 4:46pm
Today, we used the Chromebooks to improve our digital literacy skills to label what life was like in the trenches. We used our previous knowledge and new learning to think about items in a trench, how soldiers spent their time and what the conditions were like.
Year 2- Conducting a cracking experiment!
Date: 19th Nov 2024 @ 3:49pm
Today, we conducted an experiment to test the investigation to find out 'which material best protects an egg?' We wrapped a small egg in different materials of the same size and dropped it from a 1m height. We made sure we used the same amount of materials, dropped the egg from the same height and dropped it onto the same surface. We found the plastic tub best protected the egg from a fall as nothing happened to the egg where as the other materials cracked or completely smashed the egg.
Date: 14th Nov 2024 @ 10:25pm
Today, we showed our support for Children in Need by changing one part of our uniform for something spotty or stripy. During always time, we did some activities related to Pudsey and children in need including colouring, Pudsey problem solving and word searches. In assembly, we thought about why we support Children in need as well as how the money we raise helps children around the UK.
Date: 11th Nov 2024 @ 4:37pm
Today, Year Two celebrated Remembrance Day by participating in our whole school service thinking about why we conduct a minutes silence and why we remember those who have/are fighting in battles around the world. We also drew and painted our own poppies and planted some poppies in our Remembrance Garden- each poppy had a soldiers name on it to remember those who lost their lives in WW1.
Date: 6th Nov 2024 @ 11:10am
This week, Year 2 celebrated anti-bullying week alongside the whole school. After a whole school assembly, in class we looked at what respecting others look likes, feels like and sounds like. We also explored the difference between friendly joking, teasing and bullying and identified these from a range of scenarios discussing what the differences are. Today, we all wore odd socks to celebrate that everyone is different and this is a great thing!
Date: 6th Nov 2024 @ 11:02am
As we continue our Maths journey through addition and subtraction, today we used counters to help us understand adding by making 10 and using it to help us make calculating numbers easier. We made two one-digit numbers with counters using two different colours before we moved some counters up using our number bonds to create a 10 and an easier calculation to work with. Tomorrow we will use this to help us do it abstractly as we will have a good understanding of how it works.
Date: 5th Nov 2024 @ 9:37pm
This week across school we have been celebrating Anti-Bullying week. We started the week off with the a whole school assembly based around this year's theme ‘Choose Respect’. Throughout the week the children have been learning about being respectful and why this is such an important skill for life. Alongside this they have also been exploring the theme of bullying including what it means, different types of bullying, what to do if you are being bullied, the difference of a bystander and upstander, how to solve conflicts and what discrimination means. We finished of the week by inviting everyone to wear odd socks to celebrate everyone’s differences and promote kindness. What a fantastic week we have had!
Date: 31st Oct 2024 @ 7:37am
Today we immersed ourselves into different examples of letters. We recapped some of the key features and tried to identify them in a range of letters including: the sender, the receiver, the reason for writing and any questions the sender asked. We also found the senders address on each letter.
Date: 31st Oct 2024 @ 7:36am
Today we conducted a test to see if we can change different materials. We came up with the actions for the following motions: twist, bend, stretch, squash, snap and tear before we tested whether different materials would change when we did these things to them.
Year 2- Does how we treat the world matter?
Date: 17th Oct 2024 @ 8:00am
This half term in R.E, the children have been learning all about Christianity and how Christians believe that God created the world. We have looked at the Creation Story of how God created the world in 7 days. We then went on to learn all about Harvest and why this is an important celebration for Christians, as this is the time where they thank God for food that He has provided. At the end of the topic, we reflected on how we can make a difference to our world, as it is our responsibility to look after it.
Date: 16th Oct 2024 @ 4:47pm
This half term, we have enjoyed listening and appraising lots of different songs, trying to use the key musical vocabulary that we know from Year 1 and introducing some new vocabulary for Year 2. Throughout the unit, we have practised singing a range of songs and the glokenspiels.
Year 2- Final Forest School Fun
Date: 11th Oct 2024 @ 3:44pm
This week, we enjoyed our last forest school session. As it was a chilly day, we did some fun exercises to warm up before making our own journey sticks using loppers to make twigs smaller and collecting items from the garden, wrapping them onto the stick using threads. Some of us created fishing rods and tried to catch fish in the muddy puddles. Finally, we made a fire and toasted a selection of breads before enjoying them with butter and jam! We have loved our first three sessions and cannot wait until our final three sessions later next year!
Date: 8th Oct 2024 @ 3:55pm
Today we held our first Spelling Bee of the year. Each house was represented by the best spellers from Year 2 - Year 6 and the children were tested on spellings they have been learning in Autumn 1. We are very proud of all the children for being their house representative and spelling some very tricky words in front of the whole school. The over all winners were Bathurst, who managed to spell 14/15 spellings across all 5 years groups.
Date: 8th Oct 2024 @ 3:01pm
Today, Year Two participated in our house competiton of the spelling bee. The children represented their houses with pride and tried really hard to spell some of the words aloud that we have learnt so far. Well done to our four representatives, you did great!
Year 2- Forest School Fun Part 2
Date: 3rd Oct 2024 @ 10:43pm
This week in forest school we had another fantastic session and managed to enjoy some sunshine! We started by discussing who can help us in case of an emergency on a mountain side and made ourself an emergency shelter before exploring the areas. We said we wanted to focus on frogs so we discussed a frogs habitat, life cycle and food chain before going pond dipping to see what wildlife we could find. We found: water beetles, worms and even a dragonfly nymph that was wrapped up, keeping warm in the pond weed.
