Year 2 have had a great morning continuing with their food and nutrition week! Today’s focus was all about ‘reading recipes’. We used our knowledge of instructions to support us in reading the ingredients and method to make a delicious Eton mess!
Year 2 took their DT topic outside this week for their Forest School session! Focusing on our chopping and peeling skills, we looked at root vegetables and what we needed to do to prepare them and thought about how these could be cooked. We then used all of our prepared vegetables and cooked a winter soup around the campfire. Our favourite part was getting to taste test our soup at the end…which was so yummy!
Great work all of you little chefs!
Year 2 have been continuing their topic of ‘tennis’ in PE and focused on underarm throwing. We thought about our throws and evaluated them, thinking about whether we were throwing ‘too hard or too fast’. We then moved onto thinking about our catching and how we need to have our hands out and ready to catch the ball!
This week, Year 2 combined RHSE and English and focused on Anti-Bullying Week.
We used our oracy skills to support us during discussions around respect and bullying and then switched to focusing on our handwriting when creating informative posters all about this year’s anti-bullying theme ‘choose respect.’
Yesterday, Year 2 completed a workshop with NatWest all about how to use money. We spoke about where money comes from and how we can use it (save or spend). We then completed some activities to help us differentiate between our wants and needs!
Year 2 had a great Forest School session this afternoon. As part of our new science topic, Habitats, we explored our nature garden to see if we could identify some features of habitats. We explored living and non living things, and what makes a good habitat.
Year 2 completed their cool task around their new PE topic, tennis. We talked about what tennis was and what rules we knew. Then we explored techniques with the ball and racket, and practised our ball control.
This morning, Y2 completed their favourite worship of the week… Picture News!
We learned all about having hopes and dreams and that sometimes we have to make sacrifices in order to achieve them.
We used our new focus on oracy to practice speaking and listening with our partners by using the knees to knees and eyes to eyes approach!
Yesterday, Year 2 learned all about our Science mover and shaker Marie Curie. We learned all about her life, why she was significant and how important her discoveries were. Did you know that she created the X-ray?!
Yesterday, St. Oswald’s were introduced to our new focus on Oracy across the year.
Mrs Smith and Mrs Sharrock taught us all about good listening and we used this in our learning back in the classroom.
We focused on speaking with our partners and what makes good listening… knees to knees and eyes to eyes. Year 2 were brilliant at their first time trialling this!
