Welcome to Year 2

This week Class 2 have been creating art work about their history topic the Great Fire of London. The children carefully mixed the primary colours red and yellow to create a fiery background and then cut out and arranged black shapes to make a silhouette of the city’s buildings.

    As part of world book day  Class 2 and 1 enjoyed a visit  from the author Trovers Orr who read us his story ‘Murray the Milkman’. The children joined Murray and the other characters to find out where the delicious milk that we drink comes from and how it is prepared. The children also got to find out about other types of non dairy milk.

In Class 2 this week we have been reading the story ‘Bob and the Moontree Mystery’ about an astronaut who makes a surprising discovery on the moon. We decided to design and make our own moon buggies to help Bob and other astronauts explore the moon’s surface further. First we researched and compared how toy vehicles, including buggies, look and move. In our designs we thought carefully about how the buggy would move and what other features it would need. We used old cardboard and egg boxes, as well as other materials, and some wooden wheels and axles to enable…

Class 2 have been making observations about the way things move. They explored the playground environment to identify which objects they could move by applying a ‘pushing’ or ‘pulling’ force. They found some objects could be moved using both forces. Some children also moved their own bodies on the equipment using either a push or a pull.

This week Year 2 took part in a drama workshop all about the 3 Rs (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle). All the children had fun pretending to be superheros and cleaning up the environment. They had to create their own superhero character and go on a journey around the world planting seeds and picking up litter.    

For our history day on Wednesday Class 2 got turned into a strict Victorian classroom! Lots of the children dressed up as a Victorian child or famous person from that era. We had lots of Florence Nightingales and even an Isambard Kingdom Brunel. We also had a visit from Mr Jobson who wanted to inspect the children’s behaviour. The class had fun role-playing as well as making a thaumatrope (a Victorian toy) and printing our William Morris inspired floral designs.

For Religious Education this half term, Class 2 are learning about Christianity and the Story of Christmas. To help us learn more we visited St Andrew’s Church on Greyhound Road. Inside we had a mini-tour around the church and learned about some of its features including the Font where babies are baptised. We also listened to The Reverend Lesley Bilinda tell us the story of Christmas.