Olympic Fever

On Wednesday Year 2 took part in a mini-Olympics at Ashton Park.

We enjoyed trying out new and exciting sports and activities.

We are all doing really well at working towards the Olympic Values.

As part of our Olympics topic we have been reading and writing Greek myths.

Here is a picture of the whole school Olympic torch pageant!

Dean Heritage Centre Trip

What an exciting last week of term in Year 2 !After a long term and lots of hard work it was time for a treat.  

 For our 'hook' we went on a trip to the Dean Heritage Centre in the Forest of Dean.

 We learned all about different trees and how to survive in the forest.

 We built a chimney for cooking charcoal.

Look at the tree spirits we created from mud and natural ingredients.

 

 We had a very active day but saved some energy for the disco!

On Friday we enjoyed May dancing and Jubilee Celebrations.

Happy holidays everyone!

Landscapes and soundscapes

Year 2 have been getting ready for the Arts Trail.

 We have created some amazing collage paintings of the fire from start to finish.  We also painted sillouette pictures of London in flames.

 We used watercolours to create hot and fiery backgrounds for our work.

In music we composed soundscapes to represent the progress of the fire.  Here is a video of one of these.

Smoothie sensation

Last week in year 2 we learned all about staying healthy.

We found out why and how to look after our teeth.

We talked about healthy eating and wrote some amazing recipes for fruit smoothies.

 On Thursday afternoon we made our smoothies using the blender.  They were delicious!

We used the experience to feed into a recount in literacy.

Lots of photos to share with you this week! On Tuesday, for our topic 'Hook' Mrs Fricker took us to Mark's bread. We learned how to make bread.

We enjoyed rolling out the dough and kneading it.
We found out lots about the health benefits of bread and enjoyed tasting the finished product.
On Thursday we had a lesson on the 'life bus'. It was great fun and we found out about how to keep our minds and bodies healthy and happy!
Enjoy the Easter holidays everyone!

Materials walk and science week

We are all budding scientists in Year 2.

As part of our topic we went on a 'materials walk' and discovered why certain materials suit their purpose.
We have been exploring man made and natural materials.

Last week was science week and we enjoyed doing lots of exciting experiments.

Here we are learning about 'lift' using a hairdryer and a ball. Amazing!

RE week

Another busy week in Year 2. On Tuesday we went on a materials walk around the local area and used our detective skills to find out what different objects are made of and why.

On Wednesday we performed our Olympics dance to our parents who were delighted.

In RE this week we have been learning about places of worship. We researched the features of a mosque and visited St Aldhelm's church. Michael the Vicar let us explore and told us lots about his church and Christian worship.

We have been doing lots of drama in Literacy and learning about money and measures in numeracy.

Dancing our socks off!

Well done to Year 2 and Mrs Fricker for a fantastic performance at the Ashton Park Olympics Dance festival last week.

Our performance stood out as colourful, exciting and professional!

Well done to our friends in years 3,4 and 5 who performed with their dance groups. They were fabulous too!


We are looking forward to sharing our performance with parents this week.

Adios amigos!

We have so enjoyed our Mexico topic. Here are some pictures of our 'hook'.

We dressed up in traditional Mexican dress and shared a sumptuous feast of Mexican delights, many of which we had made ourselves with the help of our Parent helpers - Thank you!

Some of the costumes were pretty scary!

We also had lots of fun learning some Spanish last week.

In Numeracy this week we have been investigating fractions - whole, halves and quarters.

Week 3

In Literacy this week we have been creating rhythmic poems on the theme of the seasons. We wrote a fantastic class poem about Spring and each wrote individual winter poems. They were great! All this work helped us create a Spanish dance in PE where we used 'hot' words to inspire our movements.
In Maths we have been practicing partitioning numbers in to tens and units to add two digit numbers together.
We have learned lots more about Mexico, comparing life in Mexico City and the countryside to our own loves in Bristol. On Friday we had a visit from Alejandro, a Mexican man who lives in England. He told us all about his childhood in Mexico and traditional Mexican food and games. He also told us how to say all our names in Spanish. We really enjoyed his visit. Thanks Alex!

Ola Mexico!

What an exciting start to our new topic, Mexico! We created 3D maps of Mexico and included different elements of the landscape such as the desert, forests, rivers and the sea.

We have enjoyed sharing the presentations prepared during the holidays and learning lots of facts about Mexico from each other.

in ICT we used the Internet to search for more information and found out that Mexico is a large country in Central America. The people there speak Spanish and wear Sombreros! It is a very popular holiday destination.


On Friday we sampled some Mexican guacamole and salsa. The unanimous verdict was 'yummy!'

Our Literacy this week has been poetry and we have loved learning and performing funny poems to each other. In Maths we have been creating pictograms and learning to count in groups.