Today we started our new maths journey for the week. The children have begun to look at division by sharing between people and dividing into equal groups. We made a fantastic start and I can’t wait to see how the children continue to grow their understanding.
We worked as a team to solve problems and use our success criteria.
Here we are working independently.
Here we are about to green & gold our fantastic learning from today’s lesson.
Today we made a start to our new topic… Chocolate! We wrote down all the questions we wanted to answer during our topic and displayed them in the classroom. We hope to answer them all through our learning this term.
Some of our questions included:
Do cocoa beans grow in England?
How much chocolate is sold every day?
Who grows cocoa beans?
How is chocolate transported around the world?
Today, Class 2c visited the luxurious Audi garage where they learnt how to sell a car. The staff in the Audi garage were kind enough to show the children around the showroom, even allowing them to sit in the much sought-after Audi R8! They also gave us some tips on how to be a good salesperson. We learnt that they start by doing a ‘Meet and Greet’ with a customer. Then they find out what type of car they want.
Watch this space for more photos of the children being salespeople in our very own showroom!
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.
In Year 2 we are learning about the heroic historical figure, Grace Darling, who rescued survivors from the shipwrecked Forfarshire in 1838. In order to understand how modern water safety has improved, we had a visitor from RNLI (Royal National Lifeboat Institution). We learnt all about the lifeboats and the special clothing that these voluntary lifesavers have to wear. We even got to try on some life jackets ourselves!
This week we had an exciting visit from the RNLI. The children enjoyed talking to the volunteer about lifeboats and how to be safe around water. They even made their own lifeboats at play time and acted out being saved by the RNLI! We then went on to learning about a very special woman called Grace Darling who lived in a lighthouse and rescued a ship that had crashed. We became Grace Darling experts by ordering the story and quizzing each other on Grace Darling facts. Next week we look forward to linking our science to how we could have helped Grace Darling with her rescue.
Here we are wearing life jackets.
Here we are with the lifeboat we built.
We have ordered the story of Grace Darling and explained what is happening in each picture.
At the end of last week Year 2 had an indoor beach set up as part of our Lighthouses project! We used it as inspiration for our writing as we designed new settings for the ‘Lighthouse Keepers Lunch’ story. The children produced some fabulous drawings with very imaginative ideas. As we continue our learning, over the coming week we will be writing the beginning of our story and including descriptions of the characters and our settings.
In Year 2 we are learning about the heroic historical figure, Grace Darling, who rescued survivors from the shipwrecked Forfarshire in 1838. In order to understand how modern water safety has improved, we had a visitor from RNLI. We learnt all about the lifeboats and the special clothing that these voluntary lifesavers have to wear. We even got to try on some life jackets ourselves!
Photos to follow…
This week in maths we have been learning our number bonds to 10 and 20. The children have been practicing their mathematical reasoning using these three key questions to help them:
What do you notice?
What is the same?
What is different?
Here is a picture of the numicon number bonds we created for our working wall.
We used bead strings to find our number bonds to 20. We looked for number patterns and found a logical way of finding all the possibilities.
We matched up addition and subtraction sentences and found our own groups of number sentences.
