As part of our science topic, year 2 investigated the different habitats that are in our forest school area. We found a range of mini beasts along with several plants. It was a fantastic closure to our topic and the sun even shone for us!

Today year 2 did some orienteering on our yard. We have been learning about position and direction in our maths lessons. We used the language of direction during our orienteering task! It was so much fun!

The children planted some fast germinating cress seeds. Can you spot a few shoots appearing?

Our site manager, Gary, brought us some visitors he found hiding in our school. The children were very excited learning all the facts Gary had for them. Did you know some newts have speckled bellies?

This afternoon year 2 have been making fruit and salad kebabs in our design and technology lesson. We designed our kebab last week which included which skills we would need to use to prepare the food. We made sure that our hands and the surfaces were clean before we started. We grated, peeled and cut the food. The best part was eating them at the end. They were delicious!

This morning year 2 have had a fabulous time at forest school.On our walk down we looked for signs of Spring. The blossom is starting to bud on the trees and the daffodils are in full bloom. We were so lucky that the sun was shining for us too. We have climbed a tree, swung in hammocks, played in the mud kitchen and lit the campfire where we toasted marshmallows!

World Book Day

Today we have celebrated world book day in school. We have had a fun day dressing up as our favourite book characters, reading stories and taking part in some World book day activities. We love stories in year 2!

As part of our China topic, in art, we created a Chinese dragon using the colour wheel.

We had an amazing afternoon at the Sports Festival. We practised lots of different skills and had a lot of fun. 

We have been learning about wheels and axles. We designed and created a sleigh ready to test and see if it will carry the elves toys. 

We have been looking at continents and writing information about each continent. We were looking at Europe and we built different landmarks using our construction.

We have been learning our new song, Hands, Feet and Heart and learning to play the Xylophone in time with the music. We have split into two groups, one singing the main part and the other echoing the song. We have worked so hard and had a lot of fun. 

We had an excellent trip to Thorp for our Sports Festival. We developed our skills in throwing, catching and balancing, as well as working as a team. We had a fabulous time and cannot wait for the Summer Festival!

We have been looking at materials in science this week. We sorted each object into the correct material group and began to discuss the different properties materials have. We remembered a lot about materials from Year 1. Miss Wink was very impressed! 

We have been looking at place value and counting within 100 by making tens. We grouped each of our objects and used our stem sentence to help us. There are ______ tens and ______ ones. The number is _______. 
We have really enjoyed getting practical in maths and representing our numbers using different resources.