Witches, wizards all things magical!

This week year 2 have been cooking! We made 'Fab' footballs' - a recipe which the children chose from Ava's 'Big Cook, Little Cook book' which she kindly brought in for the class to use.

We used another recipe from the book on Thursday when we made 'Pizza Shields' with Bridgit, Liz and Bev. We used the dough left over from when we made bread last term.

In literacy we have been focusing on 'Instructions'. We made jam sandwiches on Wednesday and got to eat them! Then, we wrote insructions to tell someone else how to do it.

Friday was Children in Need. It was a truly magical day! The school was turned into Hogwarts School of witchcraft and wizardry. We had a visit from Professor Snape! Well done Ravenclaw for scoring the most amount of points out of all the houses.

Adventurous tasters!

This week year 2 have been learning all about how to maintain a healthy lifetsyle. We have discussed exercise, healthy eating and hygiene.
On Thursday we tasted lots of different fruits which feature in the story 'Oliver's fruit salad'. We tried plum, apple, banana, grapes, strawberries, blackberries, pineapple and blueberries. We were all very adventurous and tried fruits we hadn't had before. The blackberries were a bit sour!




We also had an opportunity to browse the books in the book fair on Friday. We absolutely loved doing this. Nina pointed out 'There are just so many lovely books I just don't know which one to choose'!

Alien invasion!

Today (Friday) there was a bit of an alien theme for year 2! We had such an exciting visitor in celebration assembly - 'Cosmo' the Playspace alien came to present a year 1 child with a prize from the Play 4 Life challenge, which we took part in last term.
After that the explore team visited us again and we did some literacy based on an alien adventure. We also played word BINGO and impressed them with our reading skills!


We danced our socks off at the KS 1 disco and made lots of noise with our whistles!!!





We earned all of our marbles for excellent behaviour and so we had a cinema in the classroom. We watched 'Alvin and the Chipmunks' and ate popcorn out of our own popcorn cones!

Another interesting visitor!

Today (Tuesday) we had Kathryn from Brace's bakery visit us for our 'Wow' event. Our topic this Term is 'Big Cook, Little Cook' and we are going to be learning lots about food and doing a lot of cooking!

Kathryn began by telling us about Brace's bakery and then she and her 'mini - baker' (Milo) made some dough. Kathryn talked us through all of the ingredients very carefully.

Then we watched a video about how some bread is made in a BIG factory. It was very interesting!

Kathryn then gave us a talk about healthy eating. She finished with a quiz. We got all of the answers right!

Fitness and fire engines!

Year 2 have had a busy and exciting week with some fun visitors. On Tuesday we had a 'Fun fitness workout' which was purchased using the sainsburys school vouchers. So, thanks to everyone who collected those for the school. The workout was very energetic and we all felt very fit and healthy after it!>

On Thursday we had a visit from the Bedminster fire service. It was so exciting to see a fire engine in the playground! The firemen and woman showed us all of their equipment and we all had a go at using the hose which was very powerful! We impressed the firemen with how much we knew about the Great Fire of London.

Pour on water, Pour on water!

Year 2 travelled back in time to help the firefighters during the Great Fire of London. They had run out of buckets and needed to find a really good material to make some more. We tested plastic, foil, paper, kitchen roll, cotton, plasticine and card.



We discovered that the best material would be either plastic or foil as neither of these leaked.

Year 2 had a fantastic time at Playspace on Wednesday. Their behaviour was SO good that they were ALL stars of the week! Here are their favourite bits from the trip.

"When we played football". Joshkun

"When me, Tom and Oscar played with a big cannon thing". Ollie


"I enjoyed playing on the blue slide". Gracie

"My favourite bit was the ball that slid (zip slide)". Ava




" I liked climbing the rope". Luke

"I liked the really colourful slide". Jacob


"I liked the blue slide best because it was really slippy and I went down really fast". (Cody)



"My favourite part was when I found out I had got a medal!" Oscar




"My favourite bit was when I got my prize". Olivia