Yesterday Year 2 started their Music STEM week with the THINK stage. Our project is going to be to make our own xylophones that could be played along to Gamelan music from Indonesia. We had lots of fun investigating and researching existing xylophones to see what they could be made out of, the sound they make and how the sounds are created. Next we will be creating our plans and we can’t wait to get building.

Year 2 had a lovely morning taking part in this terms Prayer Space sessions in the nature garden. They completed the five different stations with lots of respect and took time to reflect and think about many issues such as friendship, thankfulness and people less fortunate than themselves. Great discussions were had by all and Mrs Wood and Mrs Wells were very impressed with their maturity and the empathy they showed for others.

On Friday, Year 2 had an absolutely brilliant trip to the Laing Art Gallery! In the morning children explored the gallery, looking at portraits, landscapes and other artworks and completed various self led tasks. Children were very interested and there was lots of sticky knowledge evident in their discussions. Then in the afternoon we did a super, hands on portrait workshop which linked amazingly well to our current art topic. A great time was had by all!

Today, year 2 continued with their Magnificent Monarchs work on timelines. Today we looked at different historical periods and ordered monarchs and their reigns by using dates. This was a tricky concept but we really enjoyed it!

Year 2 had an amazing time at South Marine Park this morning, taking part in an Outdoor Adventurous Activities festival! They had to use a map to find clues to complete a quiz and find materials ready to build a teddy bear’s house – we ended our morning with a picnic in the park!

Yesterday, year 2 had so much fun taking part in our Summer RE debate. We asked the question, Is God’s Plan Set in stone? Mrs Wells and Mrs Wood were so impressed with how respectful the children were whilst listening and responding to each other. As well as taking part in an actual debate we also used visual hoops to think of the arguments from all angles. Brilliant work Year 2 !

Within History, Year 2 have been using some very tricky vocabulary, linked to our History topic, Magnificent Monarchs. We spent time exploring our own definitions of words such as chronology, sovereign, century and hierarchy. Although we found it a challenge we kept going and were all really motivated. Well done Year 2!

On Thursday 25th May, Year 2 enjoyed their worship which was all about Pentecost. We talked about what the Holy Spirit might be and made links to our work in RE. The children really enjoyed working in teams to order the events in the Pentecost story.