Class of 2020

Today we learnt all about the upcoming Coronation events.  Here we are designing our own mosaics inspired by the floor of Westminster Abbey.

We were very proud of our finished vehicles.

At last our vehicles are finished.  They took a lot of hard work, resilience and perseverance.

Before designing our own vehicles, we had to learn how an axle works.  We learnt about two different types - axles with fixed wheels and those with moving wheels.  We made both before choosing which to use in our designs.

Today, we started to create our final animations within our groups. We worked hard to use the skills we had learned to create a more seamless and organised animation, with a steady background and small movements between photographing the scenes. We each had our own roles to ensure that filming ran…

Today we spent some time in the playground looking for signs of spring.  We found lots of shoots starting to appear and even saw some flowering plants too.

Year 2 did a fantastic job of sequencing the Easter story, starting with Palm Sunday all the way through to Easter Sunday!

Across school today, each year group has enjoyed exploring their learning through Drew Daywalt's wonderful story: The Day the Crayons Quit!

In Year 2, we explored synonyms for the names of the colours, and created colour thesauruses on the computer using the application 'Paint'. We started off…

Today we have been designing our characters, writing the plot, and practising our stop-motion animation skills in groups. Within our groups, we each had an important job- controlling Noah, controlling the raindrops, controlling the animals, and camera-person!

We found what we did well within…

We have been learning about division for the first time in class today.  Here we are using the counters to make equal groups.  It was great fun and it really helped us to see the link with multiplication.  

Year 2 started their new unit in Computing: Animation!

We learned how animations are made using a series of still images (pictures) and created our own flipbooks using post-it notes, tracing over the images from the page before, changing one detail a small amount each time.

After that, we…

In art have been looking at graffiti artists and how they often have a distinctive "tag" or autograph.  We designed out own and then created stencils from our designs.  Graffiti artists, such as Banksy, often use spray paints with stencils but we used sponging instead.  We then used a black…