Year 2

What do plants need to survive?

What do plants need to survive?

We are carrying out an experiment to see what happens if plants do not get the things they need to survive. Each group will deprive the plants of one key thing and then we will record our findings.

Bluebottle by Judith Nicholls

Bluebottle by Judith Nicholls

We have started exploring our poem of the half term. We read the poem, talked about the vocabulary in the poem and used expression in our voices to share the poem with our partners.

Missing numbers!

Missing numbers!

We have used our rekenreks to help us find missing numbers in part-part-whole models. We know that if we need to find a missing whole, we use addition and that if we need to find a missing part, we use...

Timers in Coding

Timers in Coding

We explored the different uses of the timer in coding. We used the timers to make the rabbit appear and hide and to make the magician move at set times from the start of the program.

Q5 – Islam

Q5 – Islam

We have continued to learn about the lives of significant people of faith. This week we learnt about Prophet Muhammad from the Islamic faith. We learnt that he encourages Muslims to carry out acts of kindness to support others. We then thought about and designed our...

Tudor Houses

Tudor Houses

We have explored the design and structure of Tudor houses. We then used chalks and charcoal to create pictures of Tudor houses in our sketch books.

Traditional Tales

Traditional Tales

We have explored good and evil characters and settings. We used the suggested character and setting types to help us choose who we would like to see in our own stories.

Character voices!

Character voices!

We are really enjoying our text 'George's Marvellous Medicine' by Roald Dahl. We are working hard to use our voices in different ways for different characters to bring the text to life.

Y2BC Gymnastics Linking L2

Y2BC Gymnastics Linking L2

We have applied our knowledge of being champion gymnasts to our movement sequences. We have explored different ways of creating rolls in pieces of apparatus. Then we looked at adding other movements and balances to our rolls. We tried to remember to stretch our arms...

YR2FN History.

YR2FN History.

We had a fabulous morning taking part in an outdoor workshop all about the Great Fire of London!

Shades of colours

Shades of colours

We continued our learning on Jan Griffier. We looked at the colours we would use for fire. Then we looked at how to create lighter and darker shades of each colour by using more or less paint.

Subtracting two 2-digit numbers 

Subtracting two 2-digit numbers 

We have explored different methods for subtracting two 2-digit numbers. We looked at partitioning the second number so that we can subtract the tens and then the ones.

How did The Great Fire of London start and spread?

How did The Great Fire of London start and spread?

We have learnt all about Thomas Farriner and his bakery on Pudding Lane. We know that the Great Fire started because a spark escaped from his oven! We made a timeline to show the four key events from the start of the fire. [gallery type="rectangular"...

Parts of a Plant

Parts of a Plant

We have recapped the names of the different plant parts. We also talked about the special job each part of a plant does. We watched a video which shows how a plant grows from a seed and were amazed by how far the roots spread. [gallery type="rectangular"...