Newsletter Update

This has been an absolutely fabulous Spring Term! With so much happening and so much fabulous learning!

We have been truly inspired by our fantastic story of the term ‘The True Story of the Three Little Pigs'. We have been planning how to write a per-suasive letter to the Chief of Police explaining all the reasons we believe are why he should be released.

The children were able to use perfect persuasive language, conjunctions and even included three different sentence types: statements, commands and exclamations. Over the last couple of days, the children have put together everything they have learned and written some truly persuasive letters!

We have started to explore measurement, understanding standard and non-standard units of measure. We have explored centimeters, meters and how to measure using rulers, tape measures and meter sticks. We went measuring mad and measured almost everything we could in the classroom!

It’s been plant mad in Year 2, learning everything there is to know about plants! Understanding the life cycle of a plant, of which we reenacted the stages. Planting cress seeds to see how they grow, setting up an experiment to see the impacts of water and light on the growth of a plant. We have also been germinating bean seeds to help us understand what is in a seed. 

The children have absolutely loved exploring the Stone Age in History, they have learnt all about our human ancestors from the Stone Age; how they made tools, how they got their food through hunting and gathering, how they lived, and we have started to look at Stonehenge.

We created fantastic cave paintings to show how people lived during the Stone Age, we understand that our ancestors who drew cave paintings did this in pre-historic times.

We’ve been exploring all the different ways to create digital art, using Paint and Paint 3D. The children explored how we can create 3D drawings which then can be developed into certain things, such as crea-tion of toys or equipment. They had themes like: magical, underwater, dinosaur and space where they created fantastic art pieces using Paint 3D.

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