As part of our transition project ‘Aspiration and Insiration’ we met paralympic swimmer Kate Grey who told us the story of how she lost her arm in farm machinery when she was just 2 years old.
Kate talked to us about determination, resilience and finding solutions! We had lots of questions for Kate and we were excited by the stories she shared with us. We enjoyed some games and activities and Kate even showed us some of her medals that she has won.
Year 2 were thrilled to be involved in a fund raising activity this afternoon. Following an assembly by NSPCC representatives, the children took part in half an hours worth of different physical activities, including skipping, dribbling a football, running and more!
Our thanks go out to all friends and family members who have kindly sponsored the children and helped to raise money for this fantastic charity. If you haven’t done so already, please return your forms and sponsor money so we can count all your money and announce the grand total of money raised!
This afternoon we had another exciting visit from Mr Smith. We have started making and decorating a wooden dinosaur for outside our classrooms!
Come and look at the interesting patterns we have created.
This week we went on an exciting visit to the Safety Centre. Here we learnt all about staying safe when we’re out and about, at home and on the internet.
“It was great fun. My favourite part was making the 999 call.”
“We learnt that we shouldn’t go down dark alleys. There was a creepy spider that made us all jump when it came down!”
We all enjoyed finding out how to keep younger children safe. We know now to make sure we hold their hand near a road and cross carefully, looking both ways. In Year 2 we know we have to show calm and this will help us be role models to younger children.
Here are some photos from our trip.
In Year 2 our current project is Master Chef. This project looks at how food is made and where the ingredients come from. First we look at plants and what they need to grow. Today we got to do our learning outside as we set up our class experiments to test whether plants actually need water, soil and light. After that, we got to plant our own sunflowers! Here are some pictures of our outdoor learning…
We all got to take our sunflowers home today. Let’s see who grows the tallest sunflower!
This week, we have worked hard to write our own reports on owls which has matched perfectly with our nocturnal animals project. The children have grown their knowledge of using connectives, super sentence starters and embedded clauses to make our writing more interesting!
In Maths, we have learnt about the value of different numbers and have used this knowledge to order numbers. We continued growing this knowledge to compare numbers and linked this to the wingspan of an owl.
Thank you for all your hard work this week! Keep it up!
Wow! What an amazing effort with the holiday homework we have had in Class 2c!
Here are the habitat homework examples we have had… what animals might live here?
Today we had a very special visit from Sarah and her owls. We were able to use our knowledge of owls to answer questions and we found out many more interesting facts. Did you know that not all owls are nocturnal? Sarah told us this is a myth as only a quarter of owls are nocturnal, the rest are diurnal!
Ask us when we get home about the other interesting facts we learnt!
It was great to see so many parents come in on Tuesday afternoon. We all had a great time making decorations with you!
Have a fantastic 2 weeks off!
Here are some photos from the afternoon…
To ignite the whole school tree project, year 2 went on a fact hunt around the playground to find out about the baobab tree. They worked hard in teams to find their facts the fastest and crack the code. Well done Year 2!
