The Year 2 children should be very proud of their singing today. They sang beautifully in our whole school assembly to celebrate their friendships, with people at school and also their family members. There were a huge amount of words to learn and they did themselves proud. Well done, Year 2!
The children have also brought home a smashing Father’s Day card, which they designed and made for themselves. They love artwork and were keen to impress their dads. Have a wonderful Father’s Day, everyone.
As part of our learning in Art and Design, we have been exploring butterflies in art. We explored the artwork of milliner, Philip Treacy who created a tremendous headpiece filled with butterflies made out of painted turkey feathers.
We were inspired by Philip Treacy’s artwork and had a go for ourselves. Just look at our wonderful class creation!
Our mannequin is ready to go!
We enjoyed building up our headpiece with butterflies we had created.
This week, the Year Two children returned to school for their last half term in the infants. They were very proud of the Bee and Butterfly garden that they have been caring for and watering over the last few weeks as it is filled with flowers that are being visited by many insects.
Hidden amongst all those flowering plants, there were also lots of ripening strawberries. Through the week, we have been harvesting the strawberries and freezing them. On Friday, we finally had enough to make our own strawberry and banana milkshake. It was delicious and now the children know how make a milkshake as well as a wrap. Here are the instructions if you would like to make one too!
You will need cups, milk, strawberries, a blender and bananas
Add strawberries …
and banana to the blender.
Finally, add milk to your fruit.
Blend all the ingredients together and you will be able to drink your delicious milkshake!
This term, we have been learning about the Eatwell plate and what foods go in each food group. We have learned that it is really important to have foods from a variety of food groups in order to eat healthily. We taste tested combinations of ingredients to see what went well together and then designed a wrap that would be tasty and healthy.
Taste testing selection of foods
Sorting our ingredients into the food groups
Sorting our food into the food groups
We had great fun preparing ingredients for our wraps and learned how to chop foods up with a knife by making a bridge with our hands. Once we had made our wraps, we reviewed them against our success criteria to see just how tasty and healthy they were. We tried to include ingredients from at least three food groups in our wrap and we have found that there are new foods that we will try.
Putting an apron on was trickier than we thought …
We learned that teamwork is the key to putting an apron on.
Next, we learned how to prepare all the different ingredients..
First of all, we worked in pairs to grate the cheese.
One person grated, while their partner made sure we didn’t grate our fingers!
We learned how to do a bridge cut.
Can you spot us using the bridge cut to cut up the ham …
the chicken …
and the pepper?
More experts!
Tearing up the lettuce to the right size was great fun.
Finally, the ingredients were all ready.
We tried to choose ingredients from different food groups.
Next, we reviewed our designs and it was time to start making a wrap.
We had to make sure that we didn’t overfill the wraps.This wrap is looking very tasty.
Some wraps contained more ingredients …
than others!
Another tricky skill we learned was how to fold up the wrap.
Finally, it was time to eat them!
When reviewing the wraps, many of the children said that they were wonderful, tasty, fantastic, delicious and brilliant. Lucy said ‘I loved it so much’ and Tadhg wrote ‘I’ve never had a wrap that good!’ Well done to the Year 2 chefs who have learned a great skill that they will be able to do at home too.
We launched May by thinking about Mary, Mother of Jesus. The children prepared a lovely display ‘Mary, Queen of Peace’ and enjoyed singing many hymns in our Celebration of the Word dedicated to Mary.
The Year 2 children wrote a song to sing to their mums during the Mother’s Day assembly and they sang it beautifully. They have also created a fantastic card to show just how much they love their mums. It’s been a wonderful week!
This week has been Science Week and we have been exploring Change through our science topic ‘Humans and other animals’. Our favourite activity was finding out about the life cycles of different animals and then creating our own. Here are some examples:
This week, Year Two celebrated World Book Day by coming into school dressed as their favourite book characters. What an imaginative group of children they are and they look amazing in their outfits. Can you work out the book title that goes with each outfit?
The children loved reading a favourite book with a Year Six buddy and this was a wonderful way to share their passion for reading!
If you would like some ideas for books to read, some very inspiring books to choose from can be found here: Great books for Year 2 or on the link below.
To celebrate their birthdays, children are encouraged to donate a book to our class library. The reward for doing this is to come to school in a favourite outfit. You can view our class wish-list on Amazon: Year 2 WIshlist The children thank you in advance for any donations of books to add to our class library!
Inspired by the amazing artist, Charles McGee, we have been exploring colours, patterns and shapes to create our own artwork using pens, charcoal and sculpture. Here is a selection of the tremendous artwork that we made during our art project.
Our next challenge was to create 3D sculptures using our amazing drawings. We are very proud of the end results!
As part of our learning about how to be an active part of our community and support others, we were keen to raise money for the charity Pets as Therapy that helps children in many schools. Here we are showing off our amazing animal outfits and imaginative artwork!
