In 2 red this week we’ve had a huge focus on explaining, verbalising and reasoning our methods and processes. To help us practice this, we have been teaching our aliens to add! We’ve had to make sure we have explained every detail of the methods to help our alien learn all about addition in Year 2.
What a great start to the Summer term!
2 Red were very pleased to discover they had been awarded the very special ‘Amazing Attendance Awards’ lanyards for their excellent attendance this week.
Their smiles and cheers show how proud they are!
Another great Book Day in Hebburn Lakes!
2 Red loved spending the week looking at fractured fairytales and created their own very imaginative versions of Cinderella.
We then ended the week with a whole range of fairytale-themed activities such as a character hunt around the school, a decorated door competition, reading in the Hansel and Gretel Hobbit Hut, performing like fairytale characters in the Magical Forest performance area, challenges of building houses of sticks and bridges of paper, and many, many more fun activities!
Year 2 were lucky enough to visit the real Royal Navy ship, HMS Trincomalee in Hartlepool Marina. They braved the weather like real pirates and boarded the 200 year old ship. On board they found out all about how ships were run and the living conditions for the crew. They then visited the various museums to learn about Terry Deary’s Horrible Histories of Pirates, Diving Deep amongst shipwrecked treasures and lots more about the life of important people and ships in history.
2 Red were given a design brief to use their scientific thinking to plan and make a boat transporter for it to travel on land.
After doing some research and watching boat launches, they worked in teams to try out and problem solve their design ideas.
They considered push and pull forces, how things move, as well as using prior and wider knowledge about boats, movement and floating.
2 Red showed true perseverance and determination during Science this week.
They took a leaf out of Thomas Edison’s book and investigated how to build a complete circuit. After lots of trial and error, problem solving, and teamwork, they all managed to successfully complete the circuit and light up the bulb.
They talked like scientists throughout the lesson asking ‘what if…’ questions, making predictions and drawing conclusions.
2 Red showed just how creative they were when replicating animal patterns before creating and designing a animal print of their own.
They used a range of mixed media to try out different patterns and textures and also used some more unusual art tools. They created snake skin with paint, sponges and netting, elephant skin with paint and shaving foam, leopard spots with bubble wrap and paint and a whole range of other textures with chalk pastels, oil pastels, pens and pencils.
The end product of their own design carved into a foam board then printed onto paper was very impressive.
This week Year 2 have started their new Learning Means the World theme, Going Wild!
To start our science based theme we collected photographs of our pets. We used guidance from the RSPCA to create posters of ‘How to looks after pets’.
The children showed just how knowledgeable and caring they are, and produced brilliant, eye-catching posters, full of good advice for pet owners.
Year 2 had a fantastic day celebrating World Book Day! It was fun-filled from start to end.
Our Roald Dahl themed activities included creating The BFG’s dream jars, helping the Mugglewump Monkeys get revenge on The Twits, solving Dahl’s maths problems, drawing characters in the style of Quentin Blake, searching for book covers and, of course, hunting for Golden Tickets and more!
With the help and expertise of Williby Rocks, Year 2 were selected for the first session in transforming our school garden into a Well-being Garden.
The children had an opportunity to take part in a bug hunt and explore the mini-beasts in the garden at this time of year, as well as encourage more wildlife by creating bug hotels.
