17
Jun
Caribbean art in Year 2
In Art, we have been looking at Caribbean art and have created our own using SketchesSchool. We love the bright colours and relaxing landscapes!...
Year 2
17
Jun
Learning about Christenings and Baptisms in Year 2
Year 2 have really enjoyed working on their R.E. floor book. We have been learning about how Christians show commitment to God and the church and this week we learnt about Christenings and Baptisms. We love working on our floor book together as it is...
10
Jun
Drama for writing in Year 2
In writing we have been reading the story ‘The day the crayons quit’ which is about crayons who wrote letters to their owner. We are going to be writing our own letters but we are going to write them to ourselves from our school glue...
10
Jun
Art inspired by the Caribbean in Year 2
In art this week, we have been creating our own versions of traditional Caribbean art as we are learning about the Caribbean islands in our geography lessons. We noticed that traditional Caribbean art is very vibrant and shows what island life is like....
27
May
Testing our partners in Reading in Year 2
In Reading this week we have been writing our own stories and then creating our own ‘test its’ to see how well our partner had read what we’d written. We wrote 5 different questions to see what our friends knew about our creative stories. We...
27
May
Writing diary entries in the perspective of the Queen in Year 2
This week in History, year 2 have been learning about Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation. In this lesson we were writing our diary entries as if we were the Queen walking wearing our coronation crown as the new monarch of the United Kingdom....
20
May
Watercolours in Year 2
In Art we have been creating a masterpiece based on the artist Georgia O’Keffe. We have been learning the skills of sketching and painting with watercolours. We used our iPads to zoom in on images of the flowers we decided to paint....
19
May
Georgia O’Keeffe in Year 2
In art, we have been taking time to work on our drawing and painting skills. We have been using watercolours to add colour to sketches of flowers. Our focus artist is Georgia O’Keeffe and we have been closely examining flowers in order to match her...
13
May
Fire Brigade visit in Year 2
We have been lucky enough to have a workshop with the London fire service all about fire safety! It linked well into our history learning about The Great Fire of London and we learnt lots of valuable information about how to keep safe....
13
May
Plant experiments in Year 2
We have been looking at one of our main science skills “observing over time”. We planted sunflower seeds 2 weeks ago and we put each pot in different conditions to test to see what conditions plants can survive in. One pot had no light, one...
