
Seeing spots
Today, we continued our work on Yayoi Kusama and looked at different techniques for creating dots. We used paint and different tools, pastels, felt tips and collage.

Year 2 world book day 2025
What an eventful World Book Day! We had to take part in Miss Helen’s dance lesson in our costumes, we had to stop mid maths test to do some reading when Mrs Walsh rang her bell, we did a book cover quiz with Year 5 (which we had to stop midway through for more reading!) and Milo’s mum and James’…

Animals and habitats dances with Miss Helen
We have Miss Helen this half term to help us with our dancing. We are dancing like animals in different habitats.

Measuring in metres
This week, we have been using rulers to measure. We have centimetre rulers and metre rulers. Here we are finding objects taller/longer or shorter than a metre. We have also measured the school hall and found out that it’s 15m long!

Julian Opie style portraits
This afternoon, we have been looking at the portrait work by the British artist Julian Opie (you might remember his artwork on the Best of Blur album). We used photographs to trace our faces with simple features onto plastic wallets. They are displayed on our classroom windows.

Using colour in our portraits like Picasso
This afternoon, we have been inspired by Pablo Picasso to show feeling in our portraits. We have used warm and cool colours to show happiness or sadness.

Sketching techniques
In our art lesson this week, we were trying out different sketching techniques to help when we start sketching our self portraits next week.

Making animations
This afternoon, we were learning about animations and how they still pictures played quickly. We used the app Pivot animator to make simple animations of a stick man.

Cutting skills for our DT project
This morning, we were practising our cutting skills. We are going to be designing and making a decoration so we will need to be masters with our scissors!

Fire safety
This afternoon, a fireman from Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service came in to talk to us about fire safety at home.
We learned to stop, drop and roll if our clothes were on fire (as demonstrated by Wilf in the pictures below!).
We learned about smoke alarms and escape plans if a fire were…

A walk around Scotforth
This morning, we went for a walk around Scotforth to help us with our English and geography work over the next couple of weeks.

Great Fire of London fact files and artwork
We had an incredibly busy day today as we were finishing our Great Fire of London fact files for display and creating 3D pictures of famous building that were destroyed during the Great Fire.