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February
We had a whole school art day and each class looked at this painting of A Muse (Calliope). We explored the picture from top to bottom. We used our inference skills to infer what the lady is thinking and feeling and used clues like her facial expression and body language. We also considered what the different colours suggested about the lady.
After, we examined the chair closely and explored the different patterns and markings we could see. We noticed how symmetrical it was and that it was a chair for an important person!
We also took cuttings from magazines to add to make our final collage. Below is what we created!
Inspired by the picture, we created our own thrones by using printing and rubbing techniques.
January
In PE, we have been working on our gymnastics skills and have been developing our balances, jumps and rolls. We have begun linking these to make group sequences and have been very excited to incorporate apparatus into our sequences too!
December
December has been a busy month full of Nativity productions, Christmas dinner, reindeer visits, Christmas card making and lots of other hard work. As the term draws to a close, we can look back at the hard work Year 2 has produced so far this year and hope they are rested to come back in January.
We truly were like stars on the stage for our Nativity!
We weaved paper strips to create a paper bauble.
We enjoyed a very yummy Christmas dinner!
Thanks to the PTA, we had a wonderful visit from two very beautiful reindeers. We learnt lots of interesting facts about reindeers and got to feel real reindeer antlers.
November
In computing, the children were excited to use the Chromebooks to explore music using Chrome Music Lab. We investigated pulse and rhythm and experimented with how the different instruments sounded. Have a look at it at home!
Week beginning 14th October
This week has been our DT week. The children started the week by designing a fire engine in their groups and then making their own chassis with wheels and an axle. Wednesday saw them making all of the accessories to go on their fire engine and Thursday saw them building their fire engine and adding the pre-made accessories. It was lovely to see them working well as part of a team and listening to the ideas of others whilst giving their own ideas. Thank you to everyone who donated cardboard boxes for us to use.
October
In Religion and Worldviews (RWV), Year 2 have been learning about kindness and have related this to stories in the bible. We summarised the stories of 'Jesus and the Paralysed Man', 'the Good Samaritan' and 'Five Loaves and a Fish' and explored how Jesus showed kindness in these stories. To relate this to ourselves, we thought about how we can show kindness in our lives.
Billericay Dance Workshop - 30th September
Year 2 were very lucky today. We were joined by year 9, 10 and 11 students from Billericay School who are studying dance as part of their GCSE learning. They warmed up our year 2 pupils by making different poses to dance music and then showed us their dance routine. They then took smaller groups of children and taught them the dance routine and worked on making some dance moves of their own. We performed our dance routines to the class and all had a great time. Thank you to the girls from Billericay School for making a fun afternoon.
The Great Fire of London workshop
We started Year 2 off with an immersive workshop all about our history topic, The Great Fire of London. Both classes had history brought to life as they watched and reenacted significant parts of this epic tale. They loved acting and taking on roles of historical people from the past.
Welcome to the year 2 page! We will post monthly updates here which will include pictures of the children working and some of their work as an insight into what they are learning about in school. We're really looking forward to working with your children and watching them grow. We will have our meet the teacher session on Tuesday 9th September after school in the hall - we really hope you can make it!
Miss Aston and Mrs Pye
Reading is a key part of learning and through a range of texts, we hope children become immersed and enjoy reading for pleasure.
Here is a list of recommended reads for Year 2 to help inspire and excite children.
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