Clay pots
Year 2 have enjoyed making clay tiles and pots in class. They have developed several skills including rolling to an even thickness, mark-making onto clay and joining clay pieces together. Pupils made a pinch/thumb pot and a coil pot using the skills they had practised.
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Pictograms
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Year 2 have combined their computing and maths skills to create pictograms using the iPads.
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Art - making salt dough models
We have started our new art unit and in a few weeks we will make a clay pot. To help us practise the skills needed to manipulate clay we experimented rolling, coiling and twisting salt dough.
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2S Sealife centre
What a fantastic day at the Sealife centre! We have had great fun exploring all the exhibits and the children were marvellous marine biologists! Throughout the day they asked lots of questions, made careful observations and found out lots about sea creatures.
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Secret codes and hidden treasure!
Year 2 found an intriguing message in their classroom which led them on a quest to crack a secret code. After an exciting adventure we found hidden treasure and discovered that our new History unit is titled Tutankhamun. We found out what an archaeologist does and practised excavating some…
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Once upon a time…
Year 2 started their new English unit - fairytales this week. They had great fun listening to the story of Hansel and Gretel and making a sweet house. Now we can’t wait to start writing our own fairytales.
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A walk in the local area
Year 2 have been on a walk in the local area this week to support our learning in RE and Geography. When looking for God’s creations we found trees, birds, cats and even a horse. It was nice to see signs of Spring with buds appearing on trees and bulbs beginning to grow. It wasn’t as nice to see…
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Reduce, reuse, repurpose!
On our return to school this week the children in year 2 found the cloakroom full of rubbish! They were very annoyed and wondered where it had all come from. This started the discussion for our new unit - reduce, reuse, repurpose! The children had an excellent understanding of what we should do…
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Christmas week
The children in Year 2 have been working hard on their Owl and the Pussycat poems in English and telling the time in Maths this week. They have also been writing about the Nativity and had fun making felt owls, Christmas cards and calendars. Today was Christmas dinner day and the children looked…
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Dream house competition
Huge thanks once again to Ascot Homes for allowing us to visit their construction site as part of our work in Science. Congratulations to Julia, Zoe and Zach who won their Dream House competition. They were presented with their prizes from Ascot Homes by John and Nick.
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Egyptians with Y6
Later in the year we will be learning about the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb. This week we visited Y6, who told us all about the Ancient Egyptian artefacts that they had been learning about. Y6 were very knowledgeable and made great teachers. We particularly enjoyed writing messages using…
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Year 2 Trip to D’urton Rise
Year 2 had a fantastic morning at D’Urton Rise housing development. After putting on our high-viz vests and hard hats we had the chance to look around a part-constructed house. Nick, the site manager, explained which materials they use to build different parts of the house and we discussed the…
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