Category: Year 2 Blog

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.

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!

In maths this week, we learnt how to sort 2D shapes into different categories such as; 4 sides or less than 4 sides, yellow shapes or red shapes and vertices or no vertices.

Mr Taylor and Chester enjoyed sharing some of their favourite stories.

2C were challenged to paint a composition using a given template where they had to first mix three secondary colours and then paint using both primary and secondary colours to complete their work. They tried hard to place colours next to each other which looked pleasing to the eye.

We have had the BEST time rehearsing for the Christmas play and we thought you would like to see these photographs of the children in their costumes.

In 2C’s Art project called Mix It, the children have been learning about primary and secondary colours. In this lesson we made a printing block out of clay, which we added texture and pattern to, before printing. We printed using only primary colours and then looked at the secondary colours we had created as they overlapped.

2C are learning why washing their hands is a very important job to remember. We carried out an investigation with glitter and vegetable oil to show how germs can be spread from person to person and object to object. We hope that this has helped them to understand why we nag them to wash their hands!

As part of our learning, children have been learning how to program using lessons and activities from Code.org. To extend their learning, pupils are now using Scratch Jr, the iPad app, to put into practice what they have learnt.

We have been exploring 2D and 3D shapes and recognising their features.