We have had a very busy start to the year in Year 2 and I’m sure there have been a lot of tired children (and adults). Our timetable for this term can be seen below but please be aware that we are always having to adapt to different circumstances in school and so we may … Read more
Cedar class have enjoyed a fun afternoon recreating the buildings from the Katie Morag stories. They worked in pairs to design the buildings using the map from the story as inspiration. They then used a variety of boxes to make the houses, Post Office, lighthouse and castle.
We have been working through our measuring unit in Maths this week. The children have looked at mass and compared grams and kilograms. They have also had a go at weighing different objects and recording their mass. We have also started looking at volume and capacity. Today the children had a lot of fun experimenting … Read more
Year 2 had an amazing day last week. We visited Mountfitchet Castle and the Toy museum. We saw some very interesting items and learnt a lot about castle life. We also got to try out some medieval weaponry.
We are looking at how plants grow in Science at the moment in Year 2. We have been talking about all the things they need and we are conducting an experiment to find out. We have all planted a runner bean seed and we are going to watch how they grow. We have also planted … Read more
As the whole school prepares its regal displays. Year 2 have been busy with a lot of college work. In Pine we are creating the Crown Jewels and in Cedar we are replicating flags of the Commonwealth. Hopefully you will be able to come in and see them very soon!
We have started learning some skills for rounders this half term, which we hope will help us build up to playing a full match! We are learning to bowl, bat and field so we are doing lots of throwing and catching!
We have recently moved onto learning about position and direction in Maths. We have learnt our lefts and rights, clockwise and anti-clockwise and quarter, half and full turns. We have a lot of fun practical work to help us with this. One activity was directing our partners to a set destinations on the playground!
We have a big performance coming up very soon! Year 2 will be performing a dance to represent the decade of 2000-2010 as part of our whole school plan to cover each decade the Queen has been on the thrown. Here are some photos of one of our first practises!
As part of our ongoing Jubilee celebrations, we designed and painted plates this week. We had great sessions with the artist, who came in to help us. These plates will be excellent to look back on in the future as a great reminder of the Queen’s Jubilee and a very fun day in school.
