Butterflies

Year 2 have been learning about life cycles and have had some caterpillars to look after. After a few weeks they turned into butterflies and today we were able to release Julie, Julia, Juliette, Julian and Julius Caesar into the wild.

Year 2 Fire Service Visit

Today, Year 2 were lucky enough to have a visit from Hampshire and Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service. We learned about what you do if you ever have to phone 999 and how to test a smoke alarm. We also learned about what Firefighters wear to keep them safe.  Have a look at how we got on!

Year 2 Geography Day!

Yesterday, Year 2 spent the day learning about two locations. The first was the city of Southampton. We found out all about the city and we even conducted a traffic survey outside of school. We found that there were more vehicles during school drop off times than during the school day.

We also looked at Jinja in Uganda. We learned that it is the source of the River Nile. Jinja has many similarities to Southampton, including that they are both ports and have rivers running through them.

In the afternoon we had a very special visitor on the computer! We had a video call with a man called Baker who lives in Jinja, Uganda. He answered all of our questions and told us all about what it is like to live there.

We had a great day!

Year 2 Nurses Home Learning Projects

We have been learning about Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole. We have also be comparing hospitals today with hospitals from the past (Crimean War). We asked children to produce a piece of work about our topic and present it to the class.

Year 2 Art - The Human Form

Year 2 have come to the end of their Human Form art topic where we have learned lots of new skills and techniques. We strated with digital art and creating letter body shapes, then we designed skulls like Damien Hirst, then we moved onto collaging faces. After that we looked at Julian Opie and Edwina Bridgeman's creations and recreated their work. Take a look and see which human form creation you like the best!

Year 2 Royal Victoria Country Park Trip

Year 2 had a fantastic day on Friday at Royal Victoria Country Park. 

During the day we learnt to:

• Describe conditions at the barrack hospital in Scutari before Florence Nightingale.

• Name different jobs carried out by the staff at the hospital.

• Suggest how people’s feelings about the hospital changed as a result.

• Know that the Royal Victoria Hospital was built to treat sick and wounded soldiers.

• Understand some of Florence Nightingale’s reasons for criticising the hospital design.

• Know some of the ways Florence Nightingale changed how soldiers were cared for.

Take a look and see how we got on!

Year 2 DT DAY

Today Year 2 had a really fun DT day. We were given the job to design and make a model of a ferris wheel. First we had to learn all about wheels and axles in order to get our model to work. We really enjoyed thinking about the design criteria, creating our designs and then working as a team to build a model of what our wheel might look like. Do you like our designs and models? All of our wheels worked in the end.

PSHE in Year 2

In Year 2 we have been learning about keeping healthy. First we looked at exercise and being active and then we moved on to thinking about a healthy diet. We learned a healthy diet is a balanced diet. We explored food packaging and the traffic lights on different items and then we helped design a balanced meal for Lola after reading the story 'I Will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato'.

Year 2 DT - Making Baby Bear's Chair

Our DT this half term has been making a chair for Baby Bear. We have learned about stability, strength and stiffness. We have tested strength and stability in various ways before going ahead a making our chairs. We then tested and evaluated our models based on the design criteria.

Year 2 Learning How to Divide

Year 2 have been learning what division means. We have worked in teams to practise 2 different strategies, grouping and sharing. Can you work out from our photos which is which?

Year 2 Question of Faith Day

Yesterday in Year 2, we had our Question of Faith Day with Southampton City Mission. The theme of the day was authority. Take a look at what we did!

Year 2 Learning Multiplication

We have been learning how to multiply using arrays. This week we worked in teams to match arrays to their answers. We then wrote both of the mulitplication number sentences that would match that array and answer.

Year 2 Fire, Fire Home Learning

Year 2 have been learning all about Fire. We have learned about The Great Fire of London and Guy Fawkes in History. In English we have been writing Diaries and Fire Poems. In RE we have learned how a Candle is used as a symbol. The children were asked to do a Home Learning Project about Fire and they have produced some amazing work!

Clarice Cliff Plates in Year 2

Year 2 focused on design in Art this week. We looked at the work of Clarice Cliff, in particular her 'Circle Tree' design. We've recreated our own on paper plates.

Fiery Silhouettes in Year 2

Year 2 focused on their painting skills this week. We thought about how to comfortably hold our paintbrush, loading the brush with the right amount of paint and painting long flowing strokes across the page. By doing all of this the children created a fiery background which they then added a silhouette of buildings to represent the Great Fire of London.

Year 2 Myths and Legends Day!

 Year 2 have had a great day today celebrating all of their learning about Myths and Legends! 

The children were asked to bring in a home project all about a mythical creature or legend. They did a brilliant job and were very brave standing in front of the class for their presentations. 

We are so proud of everything Year 2 have achieved this half term and for having such a brilliant topic day!

Strength and Pride

In Art today Year 2 were drawing for pleasure! We decided as our topid is Myths and Legends, that we would have a go at drawing dragons. Lots of us thought this was going to be really tricky and took a look of stregth to have a go and keep at it. By the end you can see on our faces, how proud we are of our final drawings.

Teamwork

Year 2 Artists

Year 2 have been learning that everybody is an artist and no art is ever wrong! We have started the year by creating our own sketchbooks that we will be adding to over the coming weeks.

Elm Class at Testwood Lakes

Year 2 went to Testwood Lakes for their trip. We focused on our map reading skills by helping Speckle the Spider find his belongings that he'd lost in the woods and around the site. We then needed to find as many of Speckle's friends as we could by sweeping the long grass and log turning in the woods. It was a very fun day, evenif it was a bit hot!