March 2024
On Friday 9th February, Year 2 went on a trip to Boltons Park Farm.
The children got to find out about the cows that they have on the farm and even had a go at milking a model cow! The cows were very friendly, and we learnt lots of interesting facts about them. We even got to meet some of the baby calves.
We got to see sheep at the farm. Most of them were pregnant and were due to give birth to lambs that weekend. We learnt that sheep also have udders like cows to feed their young milk and that you can tell the age of a sheep by looking at its teeth.
Lots of us really enjoyed meeting the chickens. We were able to hold them and search for their eggs.
The vets on the farm talked to us about how the animals are looked after. We got to look at some animal x-rays and bones and we were taught how to bandage some toy animals.
We had a great day and would like to thank the farm for an amazing trip and the parents who helped us on the day.
December 2023
The children have settled well into Year 2 and we have been very busy this term. Here are some of the things we have done:
In Science we have been learning about what animals need to survive. We had lots of fun preparing bird feeders – they were very sticky and messy to make! We sequenced and wrote the instructions as part of English work.
We have been learning how humans should keep healthy. We had an interesting online visit from 'Dentist Dan', who showed us around his dental surgery and told us why it is important to look after our teeth. We have also been doing lots of fun investigations about the impact of exercise on our bodies and how easily germs spread - we did this using glitter and it spread everywhere!
In Art, we have been drawing self-portraits. Firstly, we cut up photographs of ourselves to put our facial features in the wrong places:
Then we learnt that our faces have a vertical line of symmetry:
We researched the artist Paul Klee looked at some of his artwork. As part of our DT unit of work, we made fabric faces based on a picture called ‘Senecio’. We used templates to cut out our facial features and used different ways to fasten the fabric together.
In Computing, we have been learning how to take and edit pictures. We had lots of fun editing pictures with our friends:
In PSHE, we have been learning about building positive friendships. We really enjoyed creating friendships flowers for each other. Every flower has compliments on the petals about our classmates.
We thought about ways we can help our friends and make out classroom a happy place to be. In English we wrote a set of instructions for creating a happy classroom:
We have also enjoyed getting ready for our Christmas show called ‘Christmas with the Aliens’. The children worked hard to learn their lines and they sang all the songs beautifully. Here are some pictures of us performing our show to the school:
July 3rd 2023
Year 2 have just got back from a lovely day exploring habitats and making rockets at the Royal Gunpowder Mills. Take a look at some of our photos. Can you see yourself? Do you remember what you were doing in this picture?
Old Macdonald had a farm...
...And on that farm he seems to have a lot of fun rides as well as animals. Year 2 had a wonderful time on their first trip as a class. We went to Old Macdonalds' farm in Essex.
Take a look at our pictures. Who can you see?
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World Book Day
Year 2s busy time has continued. Today we celebrated World Book Day. Lots of us dressed up in costumes and we all brought a favourite book to school to share with our friends. We had lots of favourites including two 'Daisy' books, 2 'Wimpy Kids' books, and a book about a greedy shark who got tricked by a squid. Perhaps the funniest sounding book was 'I need a new bum'!
In the afternoon we did a science investigation testing the strength of different magnets to help with a puppet show based on the lovely story 'The three billy goats Gruff' and finally we chose a story to listen to read to us by different teachers.
Great Fire of London Day
Our topic this term is Eye on London. The children have been learning all about London and have particularly enjoyed learning about ‘The Great Fire of London’. Today Year 1 & 2 had a Great Fire of London workshop. The hall was set out as Pudding Lane, where the fire had started. There were different activities the children could take part in which included:
Barber Surgeons, Apothecaries, Leather Workers, Chandlers, and Weavers.
While the children were taking part in their activities some children were chosen to act out different parts of the event such as putting out the fire, or collecting and killing the rats. All the children were completely engaged and took on their responsibilities very seriously. They had to be responsible for putting out the fire and pass a bucket to each other quickly before the fire got worse. This was an experience the children will never forget and it helped enhance what they already knew about the fire and also taught them many more facts that they didn't know.
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Friday 25th February
Today was Year 2s class assembly. It was so great to see many of our parents in the school building for the first time in ages. The theme of our assembly was bridges and we were able to explain lots of things about bridges in London, read our fantastic stories called 'The Bridge' and show how you can make paper bridges stronger simply by folding up the edges of the paper!
December 2021 - Year 2 have worked really hard with Year 1 to present a super Christmas show called Lights, camel action. Look out for the link to the video we made. We'll email it to you.
July 21 - What a very unusual school year this has been!
Well done Year 2. You have had a fabulous year and you have all made so much progress. I'm so pleased that you didn't let 'lockdown' stop you. You kept on learning all year!
I will put some photos of some things we have done this year. Some are from right at the very start and some are from this week. See if you can spot photos of the following things;
Who am Eye?
Investigating our eye sight
P.E. on the apparatus
Making skeletons
The alien invasion...some very funny looking creatures there!
Making moving pictures
Making fruit kebabs
Forest school
January 2021
Year 2 have written some great versions of a funny story that they we watched on a video. I will attach some of the finished stories here. There will be more to follow. It's taking me a while to type them all up!
I have made a few changes to some of the spellings, but other than that this is what they children have written and sent me from home. Happy reading!
Bridge stories
Batch 1 There are lots of stories here from 7 people at the start of the register
Batch 2 There are lots of stories here from people further down on the register
Some of the stories are on their own below.
Anya's story Luna's story Alfie's story Darcy's story
Year 1 & 2 - End of term poetry performance
Since we were not able to do our normal amazing Christmas show this year, we've put a small presentation together to showcase our performance skills.
Please click on the link below:
Year 2
