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. 

Just before half term, the children in Year 2 worked really hard to de-weed our planters ready for some new plants to grow.

Since coming back, we have been busy planting some tomato and pumpkin plants in our planters. We still have so much more to add and can't wait to watch them grow! 

Year 2 have been weeding and preparing our planters so that we can plant some new sunflowers and watch them grow.

It was a lot of hard work to pull up all the old weeds that had over grown. 

Everyday in Year 2, we practise our PE skills during PE break. We love using a variety of equipment. We have used the hoops, bat and balls, skipping, obstacle course and we have also focused on our balancing when climbing the tyres. We even think of our own games when using the resources. 

In Year 2 we have been learning about fractions. We learnt that a fraction is a way to show equal parts of a whole and looked at how to split shapes/amounts fairly. We know that two quarters make one half and that fractions are everywhere - in food, shapes and even in time!

Fir class really enjoyed learning about fractions in our maths lessons this week.