Image of Year 2 - Jackson Pollock and Frank Stella inspired art!
20 April 2022

Year 2 - Jackson Pollock and Frank Stella inspired art!

Year 2 had an excellent arty day learning all about bow texture can enhance artwork! We explored textures of all sorts of materials and used them in our own work! 

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Image of Year 2 - PCSO visit!
28 March 2022

Year 2 - PCSO visit!

We had an excellent afternoon on Friday as we were visited by two PCSOs from our local area! We talked about keeping safe this Summer and even got to try on a few things and check out the car!

 

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Image of Year 2 - Hygiene
23 March 2022

Year 2 - Hygiene

Year 2 had a great time carrying out quite the geeky science experiment! As we consider the importance of hygiene in animals and humans, we thought about how sneezes can spread infection. In this experiment we used a ruler to ‘sneeze’ on a piece of paper from various distances and recorded how…

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Image of Year 2 - Mixed Up Fairytales
20 March 2022

Year 2 - Mixed Up Fairytales

Year 2 have really enjoyed getting immersed in our English unit all about Little Red Reading Hood! In the story, our main character mixes up traditional tales to come up with her own story, and this week we did the same! In pairs we created brand new stories using elements of different tales, with…

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Image of Year 2 - Interviewing Dr Mae Jemison!
16 March 2022

Year 2 - Interviewing Dr Mae Jemison!

To continue our Explorers topic in History, this week we have been learning about the life and achievements of Dr Mae Jemison - the first black woman in space! We listened to her talk about her amazing career and life, then put ourselves into the interviewers seat as we came up with 3 questions we…

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Image of Year 2 - Healthy Me!
2 March 2022

Year 2 - Healthy Me!

Our topic in Jigsaw this term is Healthy Me - staying healthy in mind and body! These guys have done an excellent job of discussing the feelings of stress and frustration, and how we can respond to it! 

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Image of Year 2 - Sharing Information Online
10 February 2022

Year 2 - Sharing Information Online

Year 2 have been fantastic during our discussions about safely using the Internet this week! Safer Internet Day saw us reading a wonderful story about purchasing things online within apps, and we consolidated our knowledge of information that we should and shouldn’t share online! 

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Image of Year 2 - Keith Haring inspired figures
2 February 2022

Year 2 - Keith Haring inspired figures

Year 2 have been studying the work of Keith Haring in art this term, and today have used malleable materials to create figures inspired by his art! We loved trying to recreate the shapes he uses to make his art so dynamic!

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Image of Year 2 - Keith Haring Inspired Art
20 January 2022

Year 2 - Keith Haring Inspired Art

Year 2 absolutely loved looking at the work of Keith Haring! His colourful graffiti inspired pieces enabled us to have a go at creating our own colourful figures in dynamic shapes! 

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Image of Year 2 - Putting out the Great Fire of London!
18 January 2022

Year 2 - Putting out the Great Fire of London!

Year 2 have been fully immersing themselves into the life of 17th Century Londoners this morning, as we worked as a human chain to put out the 'fire' that famously started on Pudding Lane!

We have loved working on our diaries and are really enjoying writing our amazing Sentence…

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Image of Year 2 - First school day of 2022!
5 January 2022

Year 2 - First school day of 2022!

Such a fantastic start to the year! Year 2 had a fantastic day exploring line in Art and Music! We experimented with lots of different types of lines in our sketchbooks, before using 3D materials to transform our lines into sculptures! 

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Image of Year 2 - Local Area Walk!
30 November 2021

Year 2 - Local Area Walk!

Year 2 had a fantastic afternoon walking around our local area, spotting different features in our surroundings! We saw houses, shops, paths, roads, bridges, the River Tawd and the very aptly naked Dog Bone Island! Fantastic fieldwork year 2!

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