Year 2 had a fantastic day out at the Natural History Museum in London. We explored the dinosaur exhibitions and learnt many great facts ready to continue our project learning at school.
Thank you to all adults and parents who helped our day run so smoothly!
Next term Year 2 will be visiting the Natural History Museum in London. A letter has gone out on ParentMail, please return your permission slip before the end of this term.
Thank you,
Year 2 Teachers
We are having a great time making lanterns and looking forward to showing you our hard work on Friday.
Today we ignited our chocolate project with a trip to Cadbury’s World! The children learnt about the history and origin of the cocoa bean and how it is used today to make delicious chocolate treats! We will be continuing this learning in class, but thanks to the trip the children are well and truly inspired and excited to get this learning journey started!
Huge thanks to Mrs Ashington, Mrs Mentha, Mr Morrison and Mr Pugh for helping with this trip. I hope you all had a great day?!
Thank you to all parents who volunteered to help with this trip.
Here are a few photos of today’s adventure.
This week Year 2 had the opportunity to visit the Volkswagen dealership in Kingston to find out what it takes to be a successful car sales person. We walked all the way there and back!
We were allowed to sit in the brand news cars, speak to staff and even walk through the workshop and see the master technicans at work!
We found out what questions we need to ask customers when they come into a dealership to buy a car and even practised on a VW salesman! Isaac even did a deal on a shiny new Beetle!
After all the viewing and the selling, we were taken upstairs to enjoy some juice in the conference room. Many thanks to all the staff at the dealership for making us feel so welcome and to the parents who came along to help.
This morning the children enjoyed a fantastic lesson led by Joseph Cooper from the VW group. Joseph is a Sales Planning and Reporting Analyst and taught us all about his job. We thought it sounded like good fun so we spent some time allocating a selection of new cars to different dealerships. We had to choose from affluent Chelsea, busy Birmingham and the Scottish highlands and had to justify why particular cars would be more likely to sell in those areas. The children were fantastic at explaining their reasons. Well done everybody and a huge thank you to Joseph for such a fun and interesting lesson!
Here are a couple of snaps from today’s lesson.
On wednesday afternoon, Year 2 had some special visitors from the Volkwagen group and our very own showroom was offically opened for training purposes!
We were taught what questions to ask a potential customer and how to identify the correct model of car for them!
The children had lots of time to practise with their friends and the experts from the VW group. Some children even stood up in front of the rest of the group to show off their new sales skills. It was great to hear the children using such grown up vocabulary such as ‘recommend’!
Finally, the VW employees were on the look out for the best sales people who were then awarded Audi merchandise as prizes! Congratulations to you!
Again, many thanks to everybody from the VW group who is making this project such a success. We couldn’t do this without you! There is such a learning buzz in Year 2 and around school and lots of children achieving high learning zones.
Today, Class 2a visited the VW Commercial Vehicles Centre where they learnt how to sell a vehicle. The staff in the VCommercial Vehicles Centre were kind enough to show the children around the showroom, giving us tips on how to be the best salesperson. We learnt that they start by doing a ‘Meet and Greet’ with a customer. Then they find out what type of vehicle they want. This depends on what the customer needs the van for.
Watch this space for more photos of the children being salespeople in our very own showroom!
What an amazing day we have had! Our Volkswagen project began this morning with a whole school assembly and special visitors from Volkswagen. Our playground was then taken oven by a huge selection of shiny new cars which we were later allowed to explore! In the meantime we were learning about the five brands in the VW group and the purpose of advertisement.
Here are a few photos from today’s adventures!
Look out for more photos tomorrow as we Ignite our project further with trips to local car garages to find out what it takes to be a sales person!
Years 2-6 are currently sitting in an assembly presented by Laura and Lara, from VW.
A range of cars are currently arriving in the car park as I type.
The atmosphere in school is amazing! We are all looking forward to working together on our exciting whole school project.
All of the children are especially looking forward to working with the VW staff and welcome them to our school.
