Year 2 – Mrs D Gilbert
Welcome to Year 2
Autumn Term
Art – Pointillism
Year 2 have enjoyed their Art topic – Pointillism. We studied the artist George Seurat and looked at work where he used pointillism which is lots of dots close together. Our next lesson focused on exploring different tools used for this technique; from cotton buds to finger tips and sponges. After this, we planned our own print for our final piece and drew it out in our Art books. Lots of us drew a scene from The Great Fire of London that we have been studying in History. We then used the pointillism technique to produce our final pieces thinking carefully about our colour choices. We are very proud of them!
English – Instruction writing
In English, Year 2 have been working on instructions through the book, The Disgusting Sandwich by Gareth Edwards. We developed our skills and understanding of the features of instructional texts. This included following our own instructions to make a jam sandwich. It was great fun and we really enjoyed eating them at the end!
Science – Survival Needs of animals – Fish
In Science, Year 2 have been looking at the survival needs of different animals from mammals to amphibians and fish. We have classified animals according to their groups and used our observational skills to look closely at some real fish. We saw the scales, gills and fins of the fish that we had labelled in our books. We found it very interesting and lots of us felt the fish and held it.
Year 2 2023/24
Welcome to Year 2
Art – Photography, Sketching and digital Artwork
Year 2 were very lucky to have an artist from the local area visit our class. Mr Neil Patterson is a ‘digital artist’ and creates wonderful pieces of art. He talked to the children about the whole process from taking the initial photographs to the finishing piece and selling them too. He also brought along some of his completed work for us to look at. Finally, we used iPads to have a go at creating our own digital art. We had a fabulous morning and have learnt so much to support our understanding and skills for our Art topic, ‘Photography, Sketching and digital Artwork’.
Maths – Length and Height
In our Maths lessons we have been learning about Length and Height. We have enjoyed working practically to support our understanding and have measured lots of objects in our classroom. We even went to our school hall to see how many metres it measured. We all had a lot of fun!
World Book Day
We had a wonderful day in Year 2 celebrating World Book Day. There were some super costumes and some of us wore our comfy pyjamas and onesies. We looked at one of our favourite authors, ‘Julia Donaldson’ and read some of her books. We focused on her book ‘Zog’ and completed work around this book thinking about what our mythical creatures could learn in their school in each year group. Everyone came up with some very creative ideas. We shared books with friends during the day too. We all love reading in Year 2! : )
Art – Tie Dye
This term Year 2 have been looking at ‘tie-dye’ in our Art lessons. We studied the work of Antoni Pineda and then explored folding, twisting and shaping material to create a pattern. Using the dye, we looked at the effect when applied to the material and, finally, created our own tie-dye t-shirts. We are very proud of them!
Spennymoor Library Visit
Year 2 had a very enjoyable time at our local library in Spennymoor Leisure Centre. We had the opportunity to explore and read lots of books. We then got to choose one to take back to school and we even stamped our own books. We are looking forward to visiting again to change our books.
Science – Plants
In Science this term we have been learning about plants and the different parts. We have been investigating the different parts using our observational skills and had lots of discussion around our findings.
History – Great Explorers
For our first History lesson Year 2 went on an ‘expedition’ around our school grounds following a map and looking for the key landmarks. Back in class we then discussed our findings and talked about what an explorer is. We then talked about three famous explorers, Captain James Cook, Amelia Earhart and Neil Armstrong. After this the children used atlases to put on the oceans of the world then used a map of their travels to help plot them on our World map. We had a good discussion about why we could not place Neil Armstrong on the World Map.
Super Scientists!
In Science, Year 2 have been looking at how we categorise animals into different groups such as mammals and fish. We used magnifying glasses to look at scales and gills on fish to help us understand how they breathe differently to humans.
Year 2 2022-2023
Welcome to Year 2
Christingles
Year 2 have been learning about the symbol of light and what this means to Christians. We made our own Christingles and discussed what each of the elements of the Christingle represent.
Discovery Museum Trip
Year 2 recently went to visit the Discovery Museum in Newcastle. We made comparisons between the Great Fire of London and the Great Fire of Newcastle and Gateshead. We studied lots of different objects from the past and even performed our own puppet show demonstrating how the fire spread.
Times Tables Rockstars Day
We have loved dressing up as rockstars to celebrate our achievements on Times Tables Rockstars. We’ve been learning about repeated addition and practising our 2,5 and 10 times tables.
History – National Archives Virtual Visit
Year 2 were lucky enough to have a virtual visit with the National Archives to support our learning around The Great Fire of London. We acted as historians for the day and investigated the different sources of evidence that tell us about life in 1666 and the causes of the fire.
