library

By Mrs K SMITH10th February 2023

Miss Stathers’ class were very excited to end the half term with a trip to the school library. 

We had the opportunity to spend time looking at the amazing books and we even had chance to read some.

Some of us read books to ourselves, some of us read books to each other and some of us shared books and read them together.

There is so many books to choose from we had to choose carefully.

We looked at the illustrations on the front of the book and read the blurb on the back to help us decide which ones we wanted to read.

At the end of the afternoon Mrs Smith read us a story. She read ‘Stick Man’ because it was one of her girls favourite books when they were little. We were all really happy when Stick man finally got home.

There were so many books to choose from we can’t wait to go back!

Orchestra song

By Mrs K SMITH10th February 2023

This week in music Year 2 have discovered lots of different instruments through our new song.

Our new song this week is called ‘Orchestra Song’

We began by appraising our new song. Orchestra Song made us feel very relaxed, the rhythm was much slower than our last songs and this made us feel calm.

Listening to the song we heard lots of different instruments names so we had a look at these and talked about the sounds they made. We really liked the oboes and bassoons. These were new instruments to us.

We got to perform our new song to each other at the end of the lesson. We found this a little harder this week as there were so many new names of instruments that we were trying to sing. We really enjoyed finding out about them all though and can’t wait to play some of them when we are older.

Programming in Year 2

By Amy JEFFREY10th February 2023

In our final lessons on Robot algorithms, we designed, created, and tested a mat for a floor robot. This was to introduce the idea that design in programming not only includes code and algorithms, but also artefacts related to the project, such as artwork.

Once our mats were finalised we created algorithms to get our robot from a start point to an end point. When we were able to do this confidently, we introduced obstacles to see if we could still successfully get our floor robot to our chosen end points. Then we recorded our algorithm in written form.

Year 2 PE – gymnastics

By Amy JEFFREY10th February 2023

Over this half term, Year 2 have enjoyed their gymnastics lessons in PE. We have learnt how to construct a controlled roll, balance and jump. Once we were confident with these, we began linking the movements together and ensuring our sequences flowed well. To progress our gymnastics abilities even further, we went on to carry out these elements on apparatus. We observed each other’s sequences and gave constructive ways forward to one another.

Letter Writing in Year 2

By Miss P STATHERS10th February 2023

Year 2’s non-narrative unit this half term has been letters. They looked at different letters and identified the features of a letter. Then we learned about statement sentences and wrote our own questions and statements. As an end outcome, we thought of questions to ask King Charles III and wrote a letter to him. We then walked to the post box to post our letters! We hope that we get a reply!

sculptors

By Mrs K SMITH9th February 2023

Year 2 have been sculptors this week.
During our art lesson Year 2 have been using the artist Julian Opie as an inspiration to create our own piece of art.
We have used clay to create self-portraits in the style of Julian Opie.
We thought about the lines Opie uses and incorporated these in our sculptures to create our features.
We began by recreating the shape of our faces with our clay. We needed to carve the shape before cutting the excess clay off to leave us with a face to add our features to.
We needed to mould and manipulate the clay to create our features. We rolled clay for our eyes before rolling and cutting pieces of clay to create other features such as eyebrows and lips. Our nose took much more moulding and shaping with our hands to ensure the correct size and look.
We are very proud of our finished self-portraits and are excited for them to dry.

Which materials are waterproof?

By Amy JEFFREY9th February 2023

Year 2 are really enjoying our current topic in Science, Uses of Everyday Materials. So far we have identified different materials and found objects in and around that school that are made of them. This week we carried out an experiment to identify which materials are waterproof.

First we predicted which materials we thought would be waterproof. Then we gathered our equipment to carry out the test. We discussed how we needed to keep the test fair, by ensuring we used the same amount of water on each item.  Then we got to the fun part – testing.

We used pipettes and 20 droplets of water on each item. We were surprised to see that kitchen roll was the least waterproof! The experiment confirmed many of our predictions that plastic is a waterproof material

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Safer Internet Day

By Miss P STATHERS7th February 2023

Year 2 have been celebrating Safer Internet Day today. This morning, we had a special assembly with Mr Morgan to talk about being safe on the internet. This afternoon, we discussed different reasons people use the internet. Then we found friends in our class who use the internet for different purposes and discussed these. After discussing why we use the internet, we then thought about strategies to keep us save and shared these as a class.

For story time, we read the story of Smartie the Penguin and used what we have learned to help him to learn how to be safe on the internet.

 

Mental Health Week

By Miss A STOCKTON7th February 2023

In Year 2, children coloured in a paper person to represent themselves and their individuality..

Children then sat with a person who they don’t usually sit with in the classroom.

Their challenge was to find out what similarities and differences they had with that person.

They listened carefully to each other and were fantastic at taking turns to speak.

Children then fed back to the rest of the class.

Why do objects have certain properties?

By Sophie Dale6th February 2023

Year 1 had a fantastic science lesson exploring the properties of materials. We had some meaningful discussions on when objects were designed what materials did the designers use and why? We explored objects in and outside the classroom, here were some of our findings:

“A pillow is made out of fabric and is soft. This is because if it was hard you wouldn’t get a very good sleep”. -Oliver F

“A ball is made out of rubber and is bouncy and flexible. This means we can play with it.”-Harlow P

“A bench is made from wood which is hard. If it wasn’t hard we would fall off and hurt our bottoms!”- Leo W

“A window is made of glass, it is transparent so we can look out of it to see if we need to wear a coat if it’s raining”- Lacie P

“A bucket is made of plastic which is waterproof. If not the water would fall out the bottom”.- Rellie T

“A whiteboard rubber is made of sponge which is absorbent. It can soak up the water… see!”- Georgie B