Author: Alice Wood

This afternoon, Year 2 were given the task of creating a stable tower. They had to investigate which materials were appropriate and had to ensure that their towers were strong, stiff and stable. Some children were able to create a tower that was over 1metre tall! The children decided that their towers were ore stable when they included layers, such

This week, we are writing our own ‘Tunnel’ inspired stories. Here we are creating our story map using play dough.

Year 2 enjoyed taking part in the assault course. We got a little bit muddy!

This afternoon, Year 2 created a castle wall and launched a range of projectiles at it. We predicted which projectile would knock the most bricks down and created a pictogram using our results.

This week, Year 2 have been learning to create and analyse data. Yesterday we created our own human pictogram.

Year 2 began to read ‘The Tunnel’ this morning by Anthony Browne. We talked about whether the girl should go through the tunnel after her brother and created a conscience alley of thoughts. We also took a vote about whether she should go and collected and analysed this data.

In our phonics lessons we have been learning how to read and spell contracted words. We have investigated which letters were omitted within each word.

Last week, Year 2 learnt to tell the time to the nearest 5 minutes. They enjoyed playing time games against their friends.

Year 2 enjoyed using the book, ‘The Journey’ to inspire our learning.