YEAR 2 BLOG
Spring chicks in Normans
Norman Class - Wild Worship
Science week - Norman class dissecting beans.
Science week - learning about bees.
Science Week - The Dome
Science Week - Meet the orangatan, sloth and parrot.
Norman class science week
Science Week - Vikings
Crazy Hair Day 2025
Exploring mark making with charcoal - Vikings
Mama Panya's Pancake Recipe - Vikings
Viking Class World Book Day
Norman Class World Book Day
Vikings Wild Worship - building a wall
Testing stability of shapes and strength of structures - Vikings
Space Pastel Art
Norman Astronauts
Norman class preparing for their SPACE assembly.
Music - using colour and shape to represent the contrasting dynamics in music from The Planet Suite - Mars and Venus.
This week Norman class have been exploring the stability and strengths of structures. We have used this knowledge to make Fudge a chair. Some of our prototypes worked and some needed alterations. Next week we will make Fudge a chair with the knowledge we have gained from making our prototypes!
Science - which offspring look like/don't look like their adults?
Golden ticket prize - class tea party!
Thank you Kaelan for bringing in your telescope. We enjoyed looking at Chloe's planets on the other side of the room.
Design and Technology
Norman class have been learning about the stability and strength of structures. Ask your child what they have learnt so far!
Inspired by the DT lesson, a few children constructed a platform made of cylinders in their golden time. It even held the weight of Mrs Redvers!
We are learning about the planets
Happy Christmas!
Vikings visit the stable
Singing in the Stable
Merry Christmas from Vikings
Fire of London art work in Normans class.
Norman class display their DT mechancial monsters and Christmas scenes.
Great Fire of London Workshop
We had a fantastic day travelling back to 1666. We visited the shops and businesses along the street and learned how to make candles, how to weave, how to make soap and scent parcels, how to make clay plaques, how to make ink and we even wrote to the King to ask him to do something about this raging fire. We worked as a team to look for clues in the rubble to identify the shops after the fire. It was so much fun!
Year 2 Nativity - The Fleece Force
Norman class and the Great Fire of London.
Pudding Lane is taken outside.
Vikings had fun in Wild Worship
Fireworks Poetry
Investigating suitable materials to make a tent for our desk pets.
Goodbye lovely Vikings. Good luck in Year 3!
Painting our clay tiles
School Council Netball challenge - Vikings
Normans science lesson in the allotment looking for minibeasts in their microhabitats and watering our sunflowers - the tallest measuring 40cm today.
Sports day 2024 - Vikings
Year 2 trip to the farm! - Vikings
Painting inspired by Van Gogh in Vikings
Normans at Buckleberry Farm
Normans assembly
Congratulations to all pupils in Normans for their superb assembly! You should all be very PROUD of yourselves.
Life Cycles
We have been learning about the life cycles of animals, humans and plants. Today we had fluffy visitors. Nine chicks hatched in the reception class last Wednesday and it was wonderful to have them in Normans class for the afternoon.
7 day old chicks come to visit.
Happy Mothering Sunday to all the lovely people in our lives!
Dissecting seeds.
Learning about potatoes! Taste testing recipes and planting our class potatoes.
Live story and illustration demonstration by Axel Scheffler for World book day.
Sharing books with year 4 on world book day.
Celebrating world book day in Normans class.
World Book Day in Vikings
Traditional Africa from Mrs Redvers travels.
Alien day in Norman Class
Postcards from space.
The aliens (Vikings) have landed,
Exploring making textures and colour matching
Fun in the snow!
Art - cartoon expressions.
Can you tell how our dragon is feeling?
The Great Fire of London Workshop
We had such a wonderful day roleplaying life in 1666. We visited some of the different shops to make candles, plague clay badges, leather work, our own ink to write with, soap with nice smelling herbs and some smelling bags. We caught some diseased rats, looked for French soldiers, formed water lines and tried to put out the fire. Eventually we left London for safety. Once the fire had died down we spent time looking at artefacts found in different places to help us work out what type of shop had been burnt down, we had to look for lots of clues to help us make our decisions.
Baking Bread in Viking Class
Art - observational drawings, adding textures
Poetry
DT - Exploring stability in Vikings
Wild Worship - Vikings October 2023
Multi sports at WGS
Music
Science in Normans
Making maps - Viking Class
Year 2 2022-23
Under the Sea in Viking Class
Our School Trip to the Farm
We had such a fun day at Bucklebury Farm.
History - Hospitals Day
We have been learning about nurses Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole who were nurses during the Crimean War. We have been learning about what hospitals were like at the time and how they have changed because of these nurses. We had a fun day enriching our topic learning this term!
Norman Class Hospital Day
Viking Class Hospital Day
Storytelling
In Vikings, we have been writing stories based on the wonderful film clips by Maia Walczak. We have worked hard to use beautiful language to tell the story. Here are our completed pieces. We hope you enjoy them.
The silent red book.MOV
Celebrating the coronation of King Charles III - look at our fancy crowns!
Wild Worship with Revd. Rosie
We built dens and talked about the lessons we can take from Daniel and the Lion's Den
EASTER EGG HUNT
We braved the rain in the search of hidden eggs in the playground.
We made some tasty pancake using the recipe from Mama Panya!
SCIENCE WEEK
We have had a fantastic week! We have been visited by a lovely lady from Newbury Agricultural Society who brought her goat for us to learn about and milk. We even tasted some delicious goat's cheese. We met some scientists from Pfizer and found out that medicines take about 12 years to be made and cost over a billion pounds to make. We went into the planetarium and took a special trip under the sea learning about some interesting life below the water. In our classes we have been busy too. In Viking Class we made some balloon powered cars and had fun making gas from vinegar and bicarbonate of soda to inflate balloons.
WORLD BOOK DAY 2023
What a wonderful day we had all dressed up as our favourite story characters! Can you spot which books we are from?
ART
In Viking Class we have been making textures using paint. We used a whole range of textures to create our space collaged. Look at our wonderful work!
FRED
We had a visit from FRED and the professor to remind us to look after our mental health. We need to eat healthy food, rest, exercise and use devices sensibly to help us have a healthy body and mind
Wild Worship with Revd. Rosie
ART
In Vikings we have been mixing primary colours to make colours to match to real life objects. We were great at this!
Wishing you a Merry Christmas from Viking Class!
London is burning!
We have been writing poetry about fireworks.
WOODLAND DAY!
We had a wonderful day dressed as Woodland life! We found notes from some fairies and planned some safe route home for them. We created beautiful woodland art and used natural objects to decorate homes and make sculptures.
Wild Worship with Revd. Rosie
Our art this term is inspired by maps. This week we created an imaginary map and used different medium to add colour.
Year 2 2021-2022
UNDER THE SEA FUN!
An Amazing Day At Bucklebury Farm
We had such a fantastic day in the beautiful sunshine. It was our first ‘proper’ school trip and we had the best time. We loved seeing the deers in the tractor ride, petting the small animals and playing with our friends.
