The children worked brilliantly in teams to create a box frame out of balsa wood and card corners. They measured and cut the wood to the correct length and then used wood glue to attach it together.
Author: Sarah Crust
Using clay, the children investigated making spiky and sharp textures. They stretched the clay and added rolled sections of clay to the base. They look fabulous!
In Art and Design, we used string to make the shape of a leaf and then covered it in tissue paper to create soft, bumpy and wrinkly textures.
The beach hut project is well underway in Year 2, with the children learning how to measure, cut and join wood together in preparation for making their beach hut frames next week.
The children have practised their skills using chime bars to accompany songs and the first few chords on the ukulele.
What a privilege it was to take these children to Resorts World Arena to perform as part of a choir of over 5000 other primary school children! We sang our hearts out all afternoon during the rehearsal and then performed it all in the evening to a sell out audience. It was such a memorable day!
We have started our new Design and Technology topic called Beach Hut. We have spent two afternoons working on making our structures stronger, stiffer and more stable. We used newspaper, card, masking tape and paper. Now we are ready to make the real things out of wood!
Year 2 have been making the same amount of money in three different ways using a range of coins. We also discussed how we made the amounts using the smallest number of coins.
New Year! New Table Top Games Group! Snakes and Ladders fun and more games ,games, games to play and enjoy with Ms Rowe!