Year 2 are currently enjoying weekly music sessions with Mr Olatungi.
So far they’ve concentrated on the timing of beats, challenging themselves with beats and rest and have now moved on to rhythm.
We’ve also practice these skills in our PE theme, dancing like water.
Each team showed outstanding communication and teamwork in creating water-like moves to perform in unison then in cannon.
This week Year 2 have started their new Learning Means the World theme, Paddington’s Passport. So far this geography based theme has lead us to discover the country of Peru in South America. Take a look at the collaborative displays we have created to showcase facts about Paddington’s home country.
In our Learning Means the World theme, ‘Zero to Hero’, 2 Red were introduced to the artist Christy Brown.
Due to his cerebral palsy, Christy Brown had to overcome challenges, persevere and use his determination to find a way to produce his artwork.
2 Red spent their art lessons using their non-dominant hand – persevering and using their determination to create their own versions of his art. They even tried painting using their feet, just like Christy Brown, to write their name.
Year 2 were very lucky to have a visit from Year 2 parent, Mark, from Media Partnership. We found out all about his job within a media production company. This experience really helped us gain a better understanding of how film and television is made. After asking our questions to find out what happens behind the camera and the equipment used for recording, we all got to try out the green screen. We particularly enjoyed trying out our acting skills to float around space, relax on a desert island, present the news, swim underwater, support Hebburn Town at their football club and even visit the Eiffel Tower!
After reading the story Amazing Grace we’ve talked a lot about our aspirations this week. 2 Red showed the importance of teamwork while producing a collaboration of their ideas of what people need to do to achieve their dreams.
In Year 2’s Going Wild theme we have been focusing our art skills on animal prints.
We used things like pencil, oil pastel, chalk pastel and paint, along with some more unusual media such as shaving foam, netting, sponges and cutlery to recreate different animal patterns. We took inspiration from these patterns to create our very own, unique animal print.
2 Red developed their music skills this week. After learning the song Shiver Me Timbers we chose instruments to represent each of the actions happening in the lyrics.
After deciding that the song sets a scene in our minds we shared out the parts of the song and each drew what was happening.
Take a look at our final Sound Picture videos in action!
2 Red had a fantastic day celebrating World Book Day!
Using ‘There’s An Alien In Your Book!’ by Tom Fletcher we completed very creative tasks such as…
Our day ended with some out of this world science!
This week 2 Red have ben working as designers to invent a remote control for a pirate.
They followed the design brief, planned, edited and created their design all to fit the needs of their pirate.
In our new theme, ‘Land Ahoy’, 2 Red have used their scientific knowledge to help them to design and make a boat. We had great fun testing them out!
