In Art, we have been thinking about what we see on the way to school. We have then used different media including coloured pencils to draw a map of our route to school. We then used different materials to show Fairlands lake, houses and fields. The materials included string, fabric, foil and cardboard. 

In Maths this week, we have been learning about numbers to 20. We have learnt how to partition the numbers into tens and ones. We know that 17 has one ten and seven ones. We also regrouped the 2-digit numbers in different ways. We used dienes to help us do this! 

We are very lucky in Year 2 because our playground has some beautiful, tall sunflowers growing in our flower beds. We have really enjoyed watering them and watching them grow. They make us smile when we see them outside our classroom windows. 

Fir class said ''the sunflowers remind me of the sun'' and ''we enjoy watching the insects fly to them to collect nectar''. 

We have had an amazing week in Elder Class. We have enjoyed making new friends, learning new routines and finding our way around the Year2/3 building.

We've had a brilliant day visiting the allotment this morning, where we got stuck in planting radishes and learning about how food grows.

In the afternoon, we welcomed parents and carers into the classroom for a creative afternoon making cardboard flower pots and planting a sunflower seed! We had a great mix of outdoor learning and hands on- fun! 

To finish off our amazing Wow day, our parents came into school and helped up plant Sunflower seeds and make a flower pot from cardboard, using flowers we had picked earlier.

We have had the best day!

Today, year 2 visited the Grey Dells Allotments next to our school. We have been learning about plants during our science lessons and were excited to see where plants, vegetables and flowers can grow. During our visit, we saw slugs, frogs, snails, butterflies, bees and ladybirds. We also saw pumpkins, broccoli, beetroot, carrots, rhubarb, and apple trees! We had lots of fun and we are excited for the rest of our Gardening WOW Day.  Parents can come and complete some science activities with year 2 from 2.30pm today!

These are some of the Monsters we made!

In Design and Technology we designed and made moving monsters. We made linkages using card for levers and split pins for pivots. We used peer feedback to modify our final designs.

Year 2 visited Year 3 and shared their writing. Year 2 had worked hard when creating their own stories. We made sure that we included a beginning, middle and end. In the beginning, we had to include something which the character felt excited about. In the middle, we had to include a problem and made the character worry. At the end of our stories, we wanted our characters to felt proud. We tried our best when making sure we used the present tense throughout our stories.