Category: Year 2
New addition to the playground!
During the lockdown, Jack F made a bench out of recycled material as part of his Ecoproject which he submitted to Blue Peter. He used the oak which originated from Copthorne as it was from one of the trees his father removed for the Astroturf… he then filled empty plastic bottles with clean non recyclable…
Forest School Fun & Science Experiments
Fleur’s Forest school activity this week was ‘wonderful weaving’. Here she is hard at work! Rian is shown here conducting a Science investigation; he was lowering the air pressure in a jar to get the balloon to go into the jar and then raising the air pressure using the straw to get the balloon out.
Year 2
This week Sandro did a great job of experimenting. The tasks involved lighting a match in a bottle. He then got a balloon and an egg to drop into the bottle. We learnt how this happens because of the change in air pressure that occurs when the small fire is using up oxygen. On National…
Year 2
The Year 2’s have made us very proud this week, working so hard and producing such good work! Our home-learning afternoon reflected the great interest they have had in the ‘Fire, Fire’ topic. Once again, thank you to the parents for assisting their children in producing their own project according to their individual interests. The…
Year 2
Another busy week in Year 2. We have been spending time preparing for the Mother’s Day service which is now sadly cancelled, so later next week we shall try to share with you what we were doing. Some of the art work we have been doing is ‘Secret Squirrel’ so watch this space!In Literacy we…
Chocolate Fingers in Maths!
Year 2 have been acting out the play scripts they wrote during Literacy and Language in English. They also have been halving odd numbers using chocolate fingers in Maths.
Year 2
We have had a busy week as we begin our new topic. We have begun to find out why the Great Fire of London was so devasting, and why the fire was able to spread as quickly as it did. In our literacy lesson we used adjectives, nouns, adverbs and verbs to write a short…
Year 2 Experiments
Year 2 were doing an experiment to see how blubber keeps polar animals warm.
Igloo Making!
Zara made an igloo cake to share with the Year 2’s to complement our geography work about polar regions.
Year 2
Year 2’s have been hard at work learning to tell the time. This is normally very challenging so we encourage ongoing practice at home using both analogue and digital time. This week the children have started compiling their own non-fiction booklets on a polar animal of their choice. This has involved doing research and identifying…