Year 2 – Hedgehogs

Welcome back to Year 2! I hope you have all had a lovely summer holiday and are looking forward to a brand new year at school. We have got so many exciting things planned for the year.

Please could all children bring in a Forest School kit every Wednesday during the first half term. This should consist of wellies and old, warm clothes that you do not mind getting muddy!

Titanic

To kick start our new topic on the Titanic, Year 2 had a WOW day where we all came in dressed up as passengers of the ‘unsinkable ship’. We had a fantastic day, finding out all about the ship, making boarding passes for real life passengers and building and testing lifeboats.

Cookery

Year 2 have been busy refining their cookery skills by making a whole range of salads, including potato salad, carrot and sultana salad and coleslaw. The children have leant such a lot about how to prepare seasonal, local vegetables and have loved testing the food out as part of a healthy balanced diet.

Dens

At the end of last term, Year 2 worked as teams to build their own dens in the Forest School area. This took a tremendous amount of hard work, cooperation and resilience when things went wrong. But above all, it was such good fun!

In Year 2 this term, our learning has been linked to the fantastic film ‘Gnomeo and Juliet’. The children have been inspired to do so much lovely, creative writing. We have also been learning about plants within Science, as we help the gnomes to rebuild their gardens!