Art & Design
Volcanoes
This week we have been having lots of fun and creating lots of mess making volcanoes ready for us to carry out explosion experiments next week.
Science
Solar sizes
In science, we have been learning about the colassal sizes of the solar system. We scaled down the solar system sizes to recreate the solar system. Dividing by 1,000,000,000 is trickier than it looks.
Science
Queen’s Park
In our science lessons we are looking at seed dispersal. We took a trip to Queen’s Park to see what seeds we could find. We had lots of fun doing so!
Art & Design
Bird Feeders
Gardening Club have made some brilliant bird feeders. We will be hanging them up around school. I wonder if you can make a bird feeder for your garden at home? All you need is: a plastic bottle scissors a lolly stick string bird seed
English
First week back
We have had a busy, fun first week back. We have been using adverbs to describe different verbs, improving boring sentences, completing a science experiment and using different equipment to represent a number. The children have all really settled in well to Year 2 and have been working really hard Read more
Geography
A fab day at the zoo
We have had a fab day today in our school trip to Knowsley safari park. We saw lots of amazing animals and had the chance to stroke a giant African snail and a snake. The children were all really brave as well and went into the bat cave. Read more
Art & Design
Boat Building at it’s finest.
Today, children experimented with different objects to see if they floated. We found out that the objects that were filled with air floated on the water and the objects that were solid with no air in them sank to the bottom. See our boats below! Don’t forget to comment Read more
Science
String telephones
In science we’ve been looking at how sound travels. We used string telephones and we could hear our partners through the string telephone.
Mathematics
Where did that racket come from?
This half term our new science topic is Sound & hearing. To start our topic we completed an experiment on how far we can hear different sounds.
