Blog by Nicola Hazzard

What an exciting PE session today! The children loved using the wheelchairs and showed great determination and teamwork! 
 

Year 2 enjoyed learning about a new artist in Art this week. Mrs B is introducing them to Lowry and his work. They looked at some of his famous paintings and then they mixed colours and and explored using white and black to tint and shade their colours! Great work Year 2

Year 2 enjoyed lots of lovely book day activities and all looked amazing dressed as the different characters! It was lovely to see so many Roald Dahl characters after our topic last term! Great effort everyone! 
 

We started our new scheme of learning in mathematics today- multiplication and division. Our first step was looking at making equal groups. After super listening, reasoning and problem solving during the teaching input the children went outside to practically make equal groups whilst working in…

We enjoyed a fun 2D shape starter using positional language and our knowledge of 2D shapes. Working in partners we created a shape picture and then used our mathematical language to describe our picture to our partner. Super listening skills and great teamwork everyone! Have a go at this game with…

Year 2 have enjoyed learning all about Florence Nightingale and her impact on nursing during the Crimean war. They loved learning this poem and performing it with their lamps. Well done Year 2 and Mrs B for all your creative history lessons! 
 

The children enjoyed using mirrors in todays maths session to see if there were any vertical, horizontal it diagonal lines of symmetry. Super work! 

We have been looking at homophones and their different spellings in our spelling lessons. The children were looking closely at the following in this session. - to, too, two - see, sea -here, hear - won, one - flower, flour - quiet, quite - no, know Complete the homophone challenge at home! Can you…

Year 2 have enjoyed learning about a new artist - Salvador Dali. He is a Spanish artist who creates unusual dream like creations. We have loved exploring this unusual approach and have made sketches, collages and paintings.

Year 2 had a great day today at the panto and party! Well done Year 2. We also had a special visitor with another little gift!

This half term we have been learning all about digital photography. We know how to take a good photograph, if we should take it in portrait or landscape format, to take a selfie and to edit our pictures to enhance them! Lots of budding photographers in the making!

The children enjoyed a wonderful Christmas yoga session. Looking at the word Christmas and doing yoga poses for each letter, we had lots of amazing ideas including stars, icicles, reindeers, stockings and trees. Well done Year 2!