We are painting cityscapes at the moment and today was in the style of Vincent Van Gogh. We looked closely at Starry night and let it inspire our own paintings. When our paintings are finished, we will be cutting our card into the shape of buildings, to create silhouettes.
Year 2 had a great day last week on our trip to Mountfitchet. We got to explore the castle, learning about castle life, different jobs people did and the different features of the castle. There were also some interactive parts where we could have a go at firing catapults and slingshots. We also got to … Read more
This week as part of Design and Technology we have planned a healthy sandwich, choosing our ingredients and writing a method of how to make it. Today we have done the fun part of making and eating our sandwiches. After giving our sandwiches the taste test, we will be reviewing and evaluating tomorrow.
We were incredibly fortunate to be able to welcome Zak Simmonds-Hurn, one of the illustrators of the hugely popular series of comic books The Phoenix, into Year 2 to lead a workshop on how to successfully draw a monster. The children will now be tasked to employ these skills to draw and design their own … Read more
As part of our Art unit in Year 2, we have been looking at the work of the artist Henri Rousseau. As part of this work, we looked at how we can draw a tiger in his style while also designing a background of our own choice and style. The children first sketched their background … Read more
Today in Maths we have been learning the difference between capacity and volume. We also experimented to find the capacity of different containers. We tried to make sure we carried out a fair experiment. We used the same small container to fill our different containers, counting how many capfuls it took. This was very wet … Read more
We would like to share some photos of recent science work. We were investigating how different materials had been used to make things we could find around school. We thought about why that material had been used and made a note of everything we saw. We have also been enjoying Science week and had a … Read more
On the 5th of March 2024, Year 2 took a trip to Hamerton Zoo Park. We were so fortunate to be able to participate in a workshop led by the zoo’s education officer where we came up close with Monty the snake, Stevie the skunk and Nacho the armadillo and we learned some fascinating and … Read more
The children across Pine and Cedar classes finished their English units last week looking at instruction writing. In class, we read the book ‘Instructions’ by Neil Gaiman – a fantasy story made up of sentences that are largely command (or instruction) sentences. The children were tasked with creating maps for their own fantasy lands as … Read more
Thank you to all of the adults who came to watch our Christmas performance of Nativity the Musical. We hope you all enjoyed it. You should be able to watch the video soon but in the meantime, here are some pre-show photos!
