In Year 2 we have been reading a story called Handa’s surprise! As the story is all about fruit we decided we would make our own fruit juices. The children have been chopping, peeling and grating all sorts of fruit to help make their own juice. They looked closely at some juice labels and took inspi…
Read MoreThe children have loved wearing red and painting their noses or wearing silly ones. They helped to raise lots of money today!
Read MoreAs part of our reading week Year 2 read Goldilocks returns where she is feeling a little guilty about what she did to the bears so she returns to help them. Year 2 decided to help Goldilocks in testing lots of materials to find out which one was best to make the bears some new curtains. Take a look…
Read MoreIn maths the children are learning all about division. They began their learning by looking at sharing out different items around the classroom and specifically focusing on the new vocabulary they will be using when dividing. There was a lot of great team work going on too!
Read MoreIn Year 2 this half term we are going to be learning all about Ghana. We began our learning last half term looking at the continent of Africa during a whole school languages week. The children looked closely at the work of artist Martin Bullinya who was born in Kenya and used a range of techniques t…
Read MoreWe had a simply fantastic fairy tale day! It began with a parade around the hall with all the children and staff showcasing their amazing costumes from a wide range of fairy tales. Lots of parents came to watch and the children were very proudly parading their outfits. We then put the fairy tale…
Read MoreSpring 2
From Ghana With Love
This half term Year 2 will be learning all about Ghana. Last half term as part of a whole school Languages week we began looking at the continent of Africa. We will now be focusing in on the country of Ghana and making comparisons between the human and physical geography between there and where we live.
Spring 1
Traditional Tales with a Twist
In all of KS1 this half term we are looking at a range of fairytale stories but ones with some wicked twists. As part of our topic we have a lovely trip to the Grand Theatre to look at different ways stories can be told. We will be doing lots of Art, D and T and Science experiments too.
Autumn 2
The Great Fire of London
In Year 2 we are learning all about the Great Fire. We have looked at a timeline of where the fire started and how it grew. We have explored why the fire spread so easily and used repeated patterns in art to create the Stuart houses. The children have also written some fantastic diary entries as Samuel Pepys using some extraordinary language!
Autumn 1
Born Survivor
What a fantastic first topic of Year 2. The children have learnt all about famous explorers of the past and present. They have thought about why it is important to remember them and why explorers go on expeditions. The children had a go at exploring their local area and school grounds themselves. They then made their own maps to encourage other people to explore Barley Cop Woodland too!
