What an exciting first 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!
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The Y2 children have had the opportunity to write for a range of purposes. 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 the Y1 children. 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 Mini Bug Hotels using materials that would attract minibeasts. 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 tinting and shading. The children learned about the artist Alma Thomas and enjoyed discussing and recreating her work.
The children have been learning about computer systems and networks, and using IT safely. The children have been practising logging on and off the chromebooks and developing their typing skills.
Mrs Williamson, our fantastic music teacher, has helped each Y2 class to create a composition about sounds that we hear in the home, inspired by the piece ‘’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 and safe holiday!