Expression of Courage and Fear in Year 2 RE

In Year 2 our RE key question is “What is courage and why is it important?”. When exploring this we have looked at stories from the Bible and examples from our own lives of when people have shown courage. For our expression piece we have drawn what fear and courage look like in our minds. […]

Resilience Awards in Year 2

As part of our RE learning in Year 2 we have been exploring courage and resilience. For homework, Year 2 had to choose somebody from their lives and write a Resilience Award for them. We listened to each other’s inspiring stories. After that, we learnt about three people from the current news who have shown […]

Word Problem Scavenger Hunt in Year 2

In Maths this week we have been reminding ourselves of the key vocabulary for all four operations. As ever, Miss T has been astounded by Year 2’s ability to decode word problems when they went on a scavenger hunt in pairs.

The Boy Who Cried Wolf in Year 2

This week we have re written the story of The Boy Who Cried Wolf in Year 2. In Art we sketched a wolf, ensuring our proportions were correct, ready to write up our work in best. The final creations will be going home tomorrow!

Year 2 and pre-school work together for international day!

Plants in Year 2

Last week Year 2 continued their learning about plants by enjoying a Science carousel. They made observations of the plants they had left in different conditions for the past week (e.g without sunlight), discovered lots of different seeds and tried to match them to their plants and planted their very own seeds. The seeds are […]

Maths Potions in Year 2

Skeleton Maths Investigation Year 2

This week’s Maths Investigation was making skeleton shapes using match sticks and play dough. Year 2 found out how many match sticks and balls of play dough are needed for each shape. Some children even managed to make a hexagonal prism with 18 matchsticks!

Year 2 Maps

In Geography yesterday we identified different areas in the school grounds and in our local area. We used google maps to have a bird’s eye view of the school and made our very own maps of our local area using a key!

Wrapping Paper Designing in Year 2

During Art today we looked at the work of Marcos Roman- a designer for Hallmark. We then designed our own wrapping paper looking at cut up fruits. We had fun thinking about where to position our fruits on the page and which fruits to choose.