In cheerleading this week, Year 2 have been learning about the importance of our PE values, working together as a team, being responsible and trusting each other when starting to explore lifts and balances. They are looking fantastic with their Two Waters pom-poms and are thoroughly enjoying their new sport. In computing, the children explored timers by animating a magic show, hiding and revealing a rabbit in a hat. This is a challenging area of code which highlights the importance of sequencing carefully. The children will continue to explore this concept next week. In music, ...
This week seems to have flown by. The children continue to impress us with their focus and hard work and have produced some super writing in the form of a persuasive poster this week. Our current computing unit is ‘coding’ and the children have been exploring ‘collision events’ and programing animations to showcase their understanding of this code (for example, programing a short fairytale scene where a princess turns a frog into a prince). Year 2 participated in their first cheerleading lesson and learnt core cheerleading actions such as ‘high V’, ‘low V’, ‘set’, ‘bow and arrow’, ...
Dear Parents and Carers,It was an absolute pleasure to welcome the children back to school this week. We have been so impressed with how well they have settled into Year 2 and how positively they are approaching their learning. Our Monday started with a maths investigation and the children demonstrated fantastic team skills as they worked together to spot patterns and create related number sentences. We spent the afternoon outside, practising directional language in geography before creating treasure maps back in the classroom. Tuesday saw the introduction of our beautiful new book ‘Africa – Amazing Africa’. ...
This week, the children have worked really hard to describe position and direction using language such as clockwise, anti-clockwise, quarter turn, half turn etc. They have navigated around maps and rooms to practise these skills, making links with their knowledge of telling the time and fractions. In RE, we have been thinking about responsibility and learning about one of the Islamic ‘Five Pillars’ – Zakat (giving to charity). Our unit in Science is currently plants. The children have been thinking about seed dispersal and why it is important. They made paper ‘helicopter seeds’ to ...
The children worked incredibly hard today as they learned all about typesetting in our history lesson. They discovered the art of setting letters and words from right to left so that when they were printed, they created a sentence in the correct order. They used role play to imagine how people might have felt when William Caxton first brought the printing press to England and then considered the impact of this new invention on society (a few photos are below). In PE, the children have been preparing for Sports Day and had great fun practising the egg ...
