Our History Topic this term in Year 2 is all about Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole. Both such inspiring individuals! The children wrote some amazing fact files and drew great portraits too. Take a look...
Year 2 created Christmas hand puppets for their STEAM project. [gallery ids="16098,16099,16100,16101,16102,16103"]...
This week was STEAM week. We were tasked with creating Christmas themed hand puppets. We created our own templates and designs and we used many different skills such as cutting, threading and decorating. [gallery ids="16015,16016,16017,16018"]...
This week in Maths we were working on organising 2D shapes. We used a Venn Diagram to organise them into 2 (potentially 3) groups. Children were tasked with creating their own groups. Some groups chose to organise them into sections of “lines of symmetry” while...
Year 2 have been looking at the cress seeds they planted last week. They observed how the seeds have survived in each condition. Each day, they discussed what changes they could see and how what they could conclude from this. Year 2 love to be...
Year 2 having been looking at plants for their science unit this term. They looked at what a plant needs to grow this week and planted cress seeds and pleaded them in different conditions such as, too wet, dry, normal, cold and dark. They will...
Year 2 visited the Hackney museum this week for their Black History Month workshop which was all about using their words. They focused on the influence of Hackney’s Eastern and Central African heritage communities. [gallery ids="15519,15520,15521"]...
Year 2 have been using compass points and maps to locate Haiti and other countries in the world. They used their knowledge of North, South, East and West to locate Haiti in comparison to other countries. [gallery ids="15400,15401,15402,15403"]...
Year 2 have been weaving for their Black History Month art topic this term. They were inspired by the Kente clothes from Ghana. They discussed the colours, shapes, patterns and weaving techniques used to create these traditional clothes. They all used colours they thought represented...
Year 2 used their number bonds to ten knowledge to add across 10. They partitioned the ones to add to the nearest 10 first then they added the amount they had left. They discussed the links they found and showed the different maths sentences. [gallery ids="15194,15195,15196"]...