Year 2 News

Last week Year 2 enjoyed ‘maths is fun’. We have been recapping what we know about 2d shapes and enjoyed a carousel of shape activities.

Year 2 have been learning all about recycling and why it is important to recycle. We watched a short video all about ‘The Salvation Army’ and talked about ‘Recycle with Michael’’. Lots of the children have brought in their old clothes and shoes to donate to The Salvation Army as part of the Recycle with Michael scheme. They enjoyed a …

Year 2 enjoyed celebrating Roald Dahl’s birthday. We looked fantastic dressed as our favourite Roald Dahl characters. We learnt all about capacity and enjoyed measuring out our own marvellous medicines just like George. We also enjoyed comparing the traditional tale of Little Red Riding Hood to Roald Dahl’s version, Little Red Riding Hood and the wolf from his revolting rhymes.

In our art and history topics this term we are going to be looking buildings and monuments in our local area. We visited ur local cenotaph and we enjoyed sketching parts of the cenotaph. On our way back to school we had a visit to the park as a special treat. We all had such a lovely afternoon.

Gail from skipping school came in as part of our active week this week. She worked with all classes and trained some of our KS2 children to be playground leaders. Our skills are absolutely amazing!

This week Year 2 were looking at their Sunflower painting by Vincent Van Gogh. They enjoyed doing their own Sunflower Art.

We have successfully achieved the second stage of the Rights Respecting Schools Award. We are now Silver: Rights Aware.