Tuesday, 31 October 2017

Happy Halloween from Year 2


Yesterday,  the children designed a spooky pumpkin each. After much deliberation, the winning designs were chosen. This afternoon we worked in our groups to carve and paint the winning design on a pumpkin. The children worked really well together, organising and sharing the tasks. The finished products looked fantastic! Well done Year 2. 





 









Happy Halloween, Miss Honeybun, Miss Kerry & Mrs Elliot :-). 

Mini Models Diwali

Before the holidays in Mini Models we celebrated Diwali. We did lots of work on colour; finding different coloured objects, sorting objects by colour and looking for different colours as we play indoors and outdoors. We made some colourful Diwali biscuits.









We also made some colourful lanterns.






Here are a few more photographs from the last week.








As the weather is getting colder can I please ask you to provide your child with appropriate clothing, a coat, hat, gloves and wellies.

Thank you

Thursday, 26 October 2017

Year 2 News


Our certificate for the final week of term goes to Tyler Fritchley. He puts so much effort and engages with every aspect of his education. He has a great 'love for learning!' Well done Tyler, keep it up!


Many thanks to Tyler's family, who joined us at the last assembly of this half term to celebrate his success! :)  

In Maths last week we were learning about properties of 2D shapes. The children can talk about their properties much more confidently now. We learnt that there are different types of triangles and their names. Many children can recognise right angles in 2D shapes and can explore to see if a shape tessellates.

Tyler and Bugsy below challenged themselves to see if they could tessellate two shapes practically after completing their individual work. Well done boys, keep working hard!




We have also been working extremely hard in English creating our very own Autumnal Poem. Throughout the unit of work we went on an Autumnal walk around school and read and chanted many Autumn poems to think about the language used. Also we magpie'd some of our favourite words and phrases as well as thinking deeper about some of the features different poems used. The children each then decided which features they would like to attempt using within their poems. Some children used: repeating words and phrases, alliteration, adverbs, colour/ black or white and decided how to lay out their own Shape poem effectively. The children really enjoyed drafting and publishing their poems independently. Here are some of the children's lovely pieces of work. We hope you like them...














Enjoy the rest of October Half Term, keep safe and see you all back in school on Monday 30th October.
Miss Kerry, Mrs Elliott and Miss Honeybun :)