2 Blue and the 2025 Book Week

17th March 2025L Chisholm

For our book week this year we have chosen Cinderella as our feature book.  We wrote a fractured fairytale about Cinderella where we changed an important part of the story, she may have lost her purse instead of a glass slipper or she may have gone swimming instead of to the ball.  The children had lots of fun coming up with their own version.  We the invited our parents in to read with us which we thought was amazing.  We ended book week with a day of dressing up and all things fairytale.  We created bridges, castles and beanstalks in the hall, read stories in the witches cottage, performed our own stories in the performance area, went on scavenger hunts to find letters to make words and hunting down 46 different fairytale creature around the school.  We have had an amazing week and can’t wait to see what next years theme is!

Technology for a Pirate

21st February 2025L Chisholm

We are really enjoying our Land Ahoy theme but we encountered a problem! Our pirate only has one hand and there are lots of jobs to do on a ship. We designed a remote control to help him with his daily tasks and we added a variety of buttons for weather reports, kidstube, loud speaker (to shout at the crew).  We also made it water proof because as you know pirates spend most of their time voyaging around the seas.

Setting sail in year 2

5th February 2025L Chisholm

As part of our Land Ahoy theme we have been looking at different types of boats and how they move.  We looked at pushing and pulling and decided that we would design and build a transport for our boat which would then be used to launch our boat successfully into the water.  We used a range of materials and had great fun designing and redesigning our prototypes. We realised that some ideas may sound good but when we tried them they did not work so we had to work as a team to problem solve and complete our mission.

Marvelous Monet!

4th February 2025L Chisholm

We have been looking at the impressionist painter Claude Monet.  We loved his use of colour and shades in ‘The Waves’.  We made a graduated colour chart to show the different blues we could make and then we tried our best to recreate the famous picture. 

Dancing our way out of the jungle!

31st January 2025L Chisholm

As part of our PE this half term we have been looking at different ways our bodies move during dance.  We have imagined ourselves as explorers and we have travelled through different terrains.  This week we were imagining we were pirates seeking treasure however, when we found the treasure it was too big to move.  Using dance we had to create a movement that would help us transport our treasure.  We had so much fun as you can see!

Amazing Authors!

22nd January 2025L Chisholm

Year 2 were invited to take part in a poetry writing competition with Young Writers. This competition was open to many schools across the country and some of our amazing writers were chosen to have their work published. We are so proud our our amazing authors!

Christmas Celebrations have started in 2 Blue!

10th December 2024L Chisholm

Our R.E. day this term looked at how light is used as a symbol in all religions. Diwali with the lamps,  Hanukkah with the Menorah, and Christianity with advent.  We found that Christianity uses light as a representation of hope and joy.  We made a Christingle and talked about what each part represented.  The orange = the world, the ribbon = Gods love, the candle = Jesus, the sticks = the four seasons and the sweet treats = all of Gods creations.  We enjoyed creating our Christingle and were excited to bring them home to talk about them with our grown ups.

Journalists of the future!

9th December 2024L Chisholm

In 2 blue this week we have been using computers and texts to research our favourite hero from our theme ‘Zero To Hero’. We wrote down all of the information we thought was important.  We then went to the computer suite where we were shown how to use ‘Word’ to produce our writing.  We were then taught how to change the size, type and colour of the font and how to search for, and insert a picture of our hero.  We really enjoyed using these skills to make our work more interesting.

Arty feet

18th November 2024L Chisholm

We have been looking at the artist Christy Brown.  We found out that he had Cerebral Palsy and that his only working limb was his left leg.  He created his fantastic drawings with his left foot.  We were so inspired that we decided to have a go ourselves and we soon found out that it was harder than we thought it was going to be.  Christy Brown is certainly a hero!

Engineers of the future

18th November 2024L Chisholm

Over the last week we have been looking at all the different components of a circuit, bulbs, batteries, wires and switches.  Today we used our knowledge to create a working circuit.  We used the crocodile clips to attach our components and watched what happened when the circuit was broken.  We created a simple circuit and then drew a technically correct drawing using the correct symbols for each component.