WOW! What an afternoon we have had in Year 2. We had a visit from Janine Marshall, Mr Richardson and Mrs Conway. As part of our food and nutrition week we made our own flapjacks. We planned what ingredients we wanted to use and demonstrated lots of fantastic baking skills. There was definitely a buzz in Ozzie Owls this afternoon. We cannot wait to taste and evaluate our flapjacks tomorrow.
Year 2 made a fantastic start to their Food and Nutrition Week. They started by tasting different flapjacks and dried fruit then deciding which flavours they liked the most. They started to design their own recipe for a flapjack. They are looking forward to making their flapjacks on Thursday.
Year 2 tested their boats to see if they would float or sink. We were very successful and we were able to use a compass to see which direction they travelled. We then used this to write our evaluation.
On Tuesday afternoon Year 2 created their own boats in DT. To bring together our history and geography learning we had to think about how we could create a boat which could transport objects. We had to join together materials and cut our resources to the right shape, evaluating as we went to make them sturdier and ensure they won’t sink!
This afternoon Year 2 were busy in the Nature Garden. We linked our outdoor learning to our topic Explorers. We applied our knowledge of maps skills and navigation to find different items Christopher Columbus had discovered and researched an interesting fact. In our second session we made an outfit for an explorer.
Year 2 had an amazing visit to the Winter Gardens to take part in a workshop all about plants linked to their science learning. Children learn about different plants and seeds as well as how plants grew. Children had to demonstrate how plants grew as well as go on a hunt around the Winter Gardens to answer questions about the plants. Staff were amazed with everyone’s behaviour and attitude toward their learning.
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In Science, Year 5 have been looking at Galileo Galilei’s theory of air resistance. We have designed different parachutes, changing different variables to see which parachute fell the slowest!
Year 2 have been busy in computing. We continued our learning on Computational Thinking this afternoon with programming and algorithms. We looked at giving our partner a set of directions they had to follow. We then applied this to programming Bee-Bots. We had to identify errors in the algorithms and we started to debug them. To finish off our we had a tinker with scratch junior.
This term Year 2 have been learning about Andy Warhol and printing. Linked to their topic of Monarchs, they created their own Andy Warhol inspired piece of Pop Art. Children had to think about colour, shape and repeated patterns. Children then evaluated their final piece and communicated this with parents and carers on Seesaw. We are so proud of our final pieces!
