Year 2 had a brilliant time on WBD reading the text “Six Dots” about Louis Braille. Children had great fun learning to read and write braille and were fascinated by Louis Braille’s moving story. Huge thank you to our amazing parents for the amazing costumes too!
This week in PE, Year 2 were thinking about how to combine some basic cheerleading moves together to create their own routines. They had to count in beats of four and decide whether to stick with one move for four beats then change or to do different ones on each beat. Great discussions took place and they are definitely understanding the need for teamwork in order to perfect their dances. We can’t wait to continue next week and think about how we can improve them even further. Great job Year 2!
Even though yesterday’s weather might not have been very ‘Spring’ like, Year 2 still managed to observe signs of Spring from photographs Mrs Wells took in advance around our school grounds. Thanks to her forward planning , we used identification sheets to spot examples of plants that are starting to grow in our local area. We then went on to discuss the factors that have helped them start to grow in spring time and also what will happen to them over the coming seasons, depending on the weather.
This half term Year 2 have absolutely loved their Art unit “Flower Head”. Over the last few weeks we have built up our skills in modelling and using clay. We have looked at shape, form and texture and have even studied colour mixing and pattern. On Thursday 16th February we pulled all of this learning together in our gold task, where the children created their own flower sculpture out of clay. There has been a huge amount of learning in this unit and we are so impressed!
Year 2 are really getting to grips with their Multiplication and Division unit through lots of practical activities. On Thursday 16th February some of the children started to explore the meaning of multiplication and linked this to repeated addition. The children really enjoyed this activity and lots of minds were blown when they realised that multiplication is really repeated addition of the same amount. Well done Year 2 – this is such a tricky concept!
In Thursday morning worship, Year 2 did some mindfulness colouring and spent a lovely period of quiet reflection time, thinking about the people they love, in line with Valentine’s Day. The children were very calm and peaceful and we all found this a nice activity which left us focused and ready for our learning.
In Year 2, we have been thinking about how we can use our devices safely at home. We wrote some rules that we could put in place to promote our well being and mental health whilst using our devices. We then discussed these ideas with our grown ups during our COOL Afternoon and enjoyed a quiz together. Well done Year 2!
Year 2 have had an amazing afternoon learning all about coastal erosion in Geography. Mrs Wells demonstrated the process to the children using sand, water and rocks. Seeing the process in action really engaged the children and the vocabulary that they learnt and used throughout the demonstration, blew Mrs Wells and Mrs Wood’s minds. They are loving this topic and can’t wait for their next lesson!
Yesterday Year 2 had a delightful afternoon working on our new Art topic, “Flower Head”. First of all we completed our cold assessment task, making a flower head sculpture from modelling clay. Then we sketched observational drawings of real flowers, thinking about their shape, colour and form. The children were so engaged and excited to work with real cut flowers and this was reflected in the quality of their work. Mrs B and Mrs Wood were absolutely blown away! Well done Year 2!!
