What an exciting half term it has been!  

In maths the children have been working hard to consolidate their place value knowledge. They have used this knowledge to compare numbers, add and subtract, and have been showing their thinking in different ways!

The Y2 children have had the opportunity to write for a range of purposes this half term. After reading the stories ‘The Rainbow Fish’ and ‘One Day on our Blue Planet: In the Antarctic’, they wrote their own story about a Rainbow Penguin.  The children felt proud reading their stories to their Y1 teachers. They wrote instructions for making Bird Pudding (to feed the birds during winter around our school site) and also wrote a poem called Animal Voices. We are very pleased to see the children’s sentence construction improving and their handwriting becoming neater! 

Following our trip to the Wetland Centre the Y2 classes designed their own Bug Hotels using materials that would attract minibeasts. The children took part in sawing and hammering activities to help them to create the Bug Hotels.  The children evaluated their work and thought about how they could make them even better next time.

In art the children have been developing their skill of colour mixing, tinting and shading.  The children created fantastic habitat silhouette paintings and explored how colour changes when adding white and black. The children learned about the artist Alma Thomas and enjoyed discussing her work.

The children have been learning about computer systems and networks, and using IT safely. We used our ‘Staying Safe Online’ agreement to help us. The children have been practising logging on and off the chromebooks and using j2e to make a presentation.

Mrs Williamson, our fantastic music teacher, has helped each Y2 class to create a composition about sounds that we hear in the home, after they had listened to ‘’No place like it’ by Kerry Andrews.  The children had to think about the steady beat throughout the composition and used texture (layering of sounds) in their class composition.

Thank you to all the parents for their continued support.  We hope everyone has a relaxing holiday!