Blog Author: Jonathan Fyne

Today we looked at another aspect of the war effort at home and learnt about rationing. We then followed a WW2 recipe to make rock buns using some items that were rationed during the war.

This week we are learning about The Home Front. Today we focused on the war effort at home and made our own propaganda posters. 

Year 2 enjoyed learning about why we celebrate Bonfire Night. We used picture sources to discuss the different events and wrote about what we knew about Guy Fawkes and what questions we would like to ask him. We learnt all about the plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament and wrote the…

Year 2 revisited their walk to the park by looking at the route on Google Maps. We learnt about compass directions and found out we walked south. We then drew a map of the route using some map symbols.

Year 2 children were so excited to get their hands on our Gold Award! Look at the beaming skills

Year 2 enjoyed their Geography field trip to the local park, as part of our theme ' The Place we Live'

Geography

First we learnt how to read and follow the map of our route. We stopped on the way to identify physical and human features.

Art

When we arrived at the park, we had to…

Year 2 enjoyed using different media to draw different play equipment from the playground. Using charcoal was a big hit! Next job is to turn these into mono prints.

Year 2 enjoyed learning how to spot different features on a map of the local area. They then had a go at labelling a map of the area around school. 

What an ending to Faith Week!

We enjoyed our Indian drumming session. We found out about what the drums were made of and then had a go at playing them in small groups! We also watched some Indian dancing.

We are working hard in Maths to understand Place Value and compare numbers to see which are greater or less than. We are working with our maths partners to use cubes to make numbers, which helps us to count the tens and ones.

Hinduism

As part of Faith Week, we had a workshop on Hinduism. We enjoyed learning about it means to a Hindu and how their beliefs differ to ours.

Islam

We enjoyed learning about Islam and the different artefacts, including a prayer mat and the Quaran.

Our youngest Delph Siders are settling into school so well. They are loving the activities both indoors and outdoors, especially the painting!