Sports day practice
Year 2 FN PE
L2 We used our jumping skills to cross the river and avoid the obstacles.
Locomotion : jumping
Linking jumping ...
The parts of a seed
We explored the parts of seed and dissected some to see the seed coat, food store and embryo. We planted our own seeds to see how they will grow too!
Fiery Backgrounds!
We continued our work on Jan Griffier's art. This week we looked at creating our own fiery backgrounds. We used red, yellow and orange paint with sponges to create our backgrounds.
Lives of Significant people of faith – The Buddha
This week we focused on the Buddhist religion. We learnt all about the life of The Buddha. We worked in pairs to act out the story!
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
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!
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...
Why did the Great Fire of London spread so easily?
We have explored the reasons why The Great Fire of London spread as far as it did. We learnt about the hot summer weather, the materials houses were built out of, the narrow streets and the strong winds.
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
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
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
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!
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
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...
Locomotion : Jumping: Applying jumping into a game
YR2FN History.
We had a fabulous morning taking part in an outdoor workshop all about the Great Fire of London!