The Home Guard
Year 2 have really #embraced our learning this week about the war effort at home on the Home Font. They have examined different sources to help them learn about the role that the Home Guard play. Watch the video of the Delph Side Home Guard 2020.
Year 2 visit the Victory Garden
Year 2 visited our Victory Garden today to place their poppy stones round our Cenotaph and remember the people who had fought in the wars. They also left some of their messages - "Lest we Forget" "We will remember them"
Year 2 - Remembrance Art
Year 2 have been learning about Remembrance and why we wear poppies. They enjoyed experimenting with drawing poppies before then painting their design onto a pebble to place in our Victory Garden. They wrote some lovely thoughtful messages to go alongside them.
Year 2 - World War 2 PE lesson
Year 2 really enjoyed their World War 2 themed PE lesson to celebrate the start of World War 2 week.
Maps, Maps, Maps
Year 2 enjoyed their first Geography lesson as they looked at different maps and what they wer for. We then talked about why we have a compass and listened to a song to help us learn our directions - North, South East and West. We then had to help the pirate move around the map by giving him…
Black History Month in Year 2
Year 2 have really enjoyed our work during Black History month. This week we listened to reggae music by Bob Marley. We also looked at Lilian Bader and Trevor McDonald. We found out about their lives and why they were famous.
Science - Absorbency experiments
We had to carry out an experiment to investigate which materials were the most absorbent. We learnt that absorbent means soaks up water easily and had to make our predictions before testing different materials.
There was then great excitement in class as we found out that white powder…
Year 2 Onesie Run for Cancer Research UK
Year 2 had a blast this afternoon as they enjoyed running our Mile a Day track as part of our fundraising to raise money for Cancer Research UK. Well done Year 2! Great effort
Investigating properties of materials
Year 2 are enjoying exploring different materials in Science and learning about their properties. Today we learnt about rubber, cardboard, glass and brick.
Working hard in Maths
We have been working really hard this week looking at number patterns to learn how to answer 1 more/less, 2 more/less, 5 more/less and 10 more/less. Great teamwork.
More and Less in Maths
Year 2 are working on answering more and less questions using Place Value to help them. We learnt how to answer 1,2 and 10 more questions and 1,2 and 10 less than questions.
Year 2 - How materials can be changed
Year 2 have been busy in Science this week exploring how materials can be changed. We learnt the different techniques that we can use to change the playdough and were then challenged to follow Mr Fyne's instructions to see if we could make an animal by pinching, twisting, bending, stretching. In…