Today in forest school Yr 2 Elm learnt about different habitats around the world and what animals live in them. They got into pairs and went hunting around to match the animals with their correct habitat. Some of the children wanted to make worm habitats and make mud pictures of Read more…
We have been practising using clay this half term and have made a clay pinch pot and this week a clay tile. We used our Science theme to create a space tile. We created three different designs then picked our favourite to make using clay. We used different techniques like Read more…
This week we have been learning about keeping safe online. We discussed how using Purple Mash we can complete ‘safe’ searches and what this means – all the content in Purple Mash is created for children, there are no links outside of Purple Mash and details of your work are Read more…
We had a fantastic time at forest school today. We celebrated the big garden bird watch and made some bird feeders and hung them from the trees. We toasted marshmallows on the fire and made s’mores. We also built dens and explored the trees and nature.
We have been learning all about space this half term in science in Year 2. This week we looked at what planets are in our solar system and learnt all of their names. We then used inflatable planets and put them in order from the sun.
We made our own Christingles in class together. We thought about what each part means and what it represents. We then wrote some prayers and coloured in some Christingle pictures.
We have had a lots of fun this week learning about 2D and 3D shapes. To help learn the different properties we drew around 2D shapes using different colours. We then looked at how many vertices 2D shapes have by using string to make each shape and how many fingers Read more…
Year 2 had been invited to the Cherwell Centre today and had such an amazing time. They were treated to a hot chocolate and gingerbread man while surrounded by lots of elves (some naughty ones too). Afterwards they met Santa then went on to have a snowball fight with Elsa Read more…
We have introduced our new story MeerKat Christmas. We have looked at the shapes so we know how to set out a postcard. We looked at the journey of a postcode from being posted in the post box, going through the post office and finally getting to its destination. We Read more…
Last week for Design and Technology we discussed our favourite food then we drew our favourite meal. Afterwards we swapped our meals with a partner and they had to use the checklist to identify the food groups they included in their meal and any that they didn’t include. We then Read more…