Blog by Nicola Hazzard

We loved celebrating world book day in year 2.  Sharing stories together is our favourite time of the day! 
 

In Year 2 we have been looking at the artist Andy Goldsworthy. We have sketched/designed and created sculptures using his style. The children used clay and other materials to recreate their designs. Well done Year 2! 
 

Year 2 are enjoying a new science topic - everyday materials. On Thursday afternoons we turn our classroom into a laboratory and get to work! Today we planned and carried out an investigation to see which material would be best to make a raincoat. The children all made their predictions and then…

The children loved building their own fire and discussing their new science topic 

In our PSHE lessons the children learned more about our schools vision “As a caring community, we learn and grow”. We link our PSHE lessons to our value each half term. This half term our value is ‘Caring’. The children discussed different ways we can care for ourselves and each other. We then…

We enjoyed a taster session on Tuesday with Gary an outside coach. We practised lots of throwing and catching skills and developed our hand eye coordination. We all had a turn at using the racket and striking the ball! Well done to our Tennis champions who managed to hit the ball over the net and…

Our new computing topic is digital photography. The children were very keen to start the topic by taking photographs of themselves inside and outside. The children were able to flip the camera and take selfies and take short videos of themselves. We are excited to start editing our pictures next…

Year 2 enjoyed their yoga session with Liane from yokids. The children all demonstrated fantastic balancing and core strength ability. They were able to  hold themselves in the different poses and made me very proud with their wonderful listening skills. 
 

The children took turns in our PE session to  lead the warm up session and decide which muscles we were stretching. The hot favourite had to be Ronaldo’s (footballers) trademark celebration which apparently was stretching all the muscles! 
 

In our English lessons this week we have been looking at ‘The Twits’ by Roald Dahl. The children have really enjoyed exploring the characters and using adjectives and similes in their writing. In today’s lesson we acted out one of the pranks that Mrs Twit plays on Mr Twit and then used a ‘freeze…

We have enjoyed using our body language and facial expressions to show different feelings outside today in PSHE.