In Science this week we have been looking at microhabitats. We have worked together to make a wormery, we discussed a worms habitat and then went outside to search for worms. We were looking for three different types of worms – Earthworms (endogeic worms), Deep borrowers ( anecic worms) and Read more…
We have celebrated world book day this year, focusing on careers. We have come to school dressed up as something we aspire to be when we grow up. We have read the books ‘Mog and the Vet’ and ‘Moon Landing’ and discussed the careers mentioned in the books. We also Read more…
As part of careers week, we were lucky to have a special visit in our class from Nurse Jade. She brought her bag of equipment and spoke to the children about her role as a nurse. She then discussed with the children her journey to becoming a nurse, going to Read more…
This half term for Science we are learning about habitats. For our first lesson we looked at the seven different life processes. We had lots of fun acting out these processes to help us to remember the correct names. We used MRS NERG – Movement, respiration, sensitivity, nutrition, excretion, reproduction Read more…
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.