Year 2 Blog
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
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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.
