Welcome to Year 2
Yellow and Saffron classes
Miss Gray and Mrs Pye
Monday 25th November
Today, we had a really good music lesson. First we responded to the music by finding the pulse and moving to the beat. We then learnt how to improvise using 3 notes firstly using C, D, E and then G, A, B. We tried very hard to think about using long and short sounds. Our singing was amazing and everyone joined in.
Monday 14th - Friday 18th October
This week was our Design Technology week. Our project was to design and make a fire engine with working wheels, an axle and chassis. The children were put into groups of 4 to share their own designs, then create a joint design of an ultimate fire engine. We then created our own axles and created washers to stop the wheels from falling off. After making a chassis and attaching it to our chassis, we created the body of our fire engine. What do you think about our creations?
Tuesday 15th October
Saffron class took part in a Dance Workshop organised by the year 10 pupils from The Billericay School. The girls showed us a dance they had been working on. Then we split into groups, and learnt some of the dance and then we added our own extra moves. All the children had a great time, thank you Billericay school for working with us.
Friday 11th October
Year 2 were investigating in science today. We had to find out which material was best to use for a bag. We tested paper, fabric and plastic. We all learnt about predicting what may happen and some children learnt how to make it a fair test. You might be interested to hear about our results!
Tuesday 8th October
In our RE lessons, we have been learning about stories from the Bible and how Jesus showed kindness. We invited our local Reverend to come in and talk to us about how Christians show kindness in our community. We had a very interesting chat and the children enjoyed asking Reverend Gary Bott, lots of questions about religion and himself. Thank you for visiting us Reverend Gary.
Welcome to Year 2!
It has been a busy two weeks for our Year 2 children. They have all settled in very well and are getting used to the new timetable. We are looking forward to an exciting year!
The Great Fire of London Experience
On Wednesday 11th September, year 2 participated in a Great Fire of London Workshop. Every single child had an important job to do when we all reenacted the events of the Plague and The Great Fire. We all had an amazing time and the actors really helped bring our learning to life. Have a look at our fantastic workshop.
13th September
Today in our Science lesson, we continued our study of different materials. Our task was to organise materials into groups according to a criteria. Here are some pictures of our different criteria.
These materials are transparent and breakable.
These materials are rigid and rough.
These materials are smooth.
You could look around your home and find different materials for the children to describe as smooth, rough, flexible, rigid, waterproof, transparent or breakable.