November 2025
Year 2 have had a fantastic start to the Autumn term.
We have been enjoying our art unit of work, learning all about portraits. We had lots of fub studying the features of our faces. We cut up photographs of ourselves and put our features in different places. We were amazed that we could still identify the person in each picture! Can you recognise the artists behind these self-portraits?
In English, we have been reading he text ' The Lonely Beast' written by Chris Judge. We have acted out a scene, thinking about characters feelings. We have also written a character description of the beast and a diary entry based on his long journey to the city to try and find a friend. We had fun writing some poems about the jellyfish he met along the way. We used expanded noun phrases, similes and alliteration to make our poems fun to read.
April 2025
This term our Geography topic has been about the journey of food from farm to fork. We have been learning about the different plants and animals you would find on the farm and what a farmer has to do to look after them. We had a great day out at Bolton's Park Farm working with the RVC students to learn how they help the farmers look after the chickens, sheep and cows. Here are some photographs of our day:
Year 2 had lots of fun making their own tasty salads linked to our 'Journey of Food' topic. We tasted some different salad ingredients (pomegranate seeds, olives, spring onion, radish, beetroot, celery, sweetcorn, carrot and cherry tomatoes) and picked which ones we wanted to include in our salads. The children then had to make their salad by peeling, grating, slicing, dicing and chopping the ingredients:
February 2025
We have learning about the artist Vincent Van Gogh this half term. We practised drawing sunflowers from still life, then we drew our own vase of sunflowers in the same style as his artwork:
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We also drew some Starry Night pictures:
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December 2024
What a busy half term it has been! In English, we have been reading the text 'The Lonely Beast'. First we did some drama activities to help us understand the characters and what it feels like to be lonely. We then created some jellyfish poems to describe the jellyfish he met on his adventure.
Lastly, we wrote a non-chrological report about the Beast so we can inform everyone else what a kind and friendly creature he really is. We displayed our work alongside Year 1's reports on Beegu:
In art we have been learning about colour. We had fun mixing primary colours to make secondary colours:
We mixed colours to paint a hot air balloon. We then experimented with adding white to a colour to make tints - we used this technique to created a sky background for our hot air balloon to be floating in. Next we had a go at weaving paper and used this to make a basket of the hot air balloon. Finally, we used collage to put our picture together: Here are our final pieces of work:
Year 1 and 2 have worked very hard rehearsing for our Christmas show called 'Lights, Camel, Action.' We enjoyed performing it to the school and our families. Here are a few pictures of our performance:
We had lots of fun leading up to Christmas. We made beautiful Christmas cards for our families. We created them by sewing and we all learnt how to do a running stitch without getting ourselves into knots!
Lastly, we had fun at our Christmas party playing lots of fun party games:
