Y2 - Reading for Pleasure (Library Visit)
Y2's trip to the local library. Here's Nancy developing a Passion for Reading with a Horrid Henry story.
Y2 - Science
This week, pupils have been observing their plants' growth and recording their data as well as take photographs of each prepared bag. Pupils can accurately assign the data to the condition in which the plants are placed.
Knowledge: to investigate the best conditions for germinating cress…
Y2 - Music
In Music, pupils have been reading and playing 1/2, 1 and paired beats.
Knowledge:
To use a rhythm in different ways to demonstrate structure.
Skills:
- I can read, clap and play rhythms using one beat and paired half beats.
- I can read and play rhythms that use a one beat rest.
- I…
Y2 - Maths and Measure
Year 2 are exploring non standard measures by using their own hand spans
Knowledge: to use non standard measures
Skills: to use my hand span to measure objects around the classroom
Vocab: non standard measures, hand span
Year 2 - Science (Plants)
Year 2 are exploring the best conditions for plants to grow. They have set up an experiment to test for this using cress seeds.
Knowledge: to investigate what a plant needs to grow,
Skills: to predict what conditions are best for growth.
Vocab: growth, conditions, sunlight, energy
Y2 - Writing (noun phrases)
Year 2 are learning how to use noun phrases to describe a dragon's bird's eye view of the world below from the story "The Dragon Machine".
Knowledge: to know that an adjective is a describing word and a noun is the name of a person, place or object
Skills: to use noun phrases in our…
Y2 - Computing
Year 2 are learning to debug a Bee bot programme in a pretend toy shop!
Knowledge:: I can debug programs of increasing complexity
Skills: to use the commands of "forwards, backwards, left and right" to enable the Bee bot to move and to "debug" an incorrect action
Vocab: forwards,…
Y2 - trip to the Lady Lever Art Gallery
Year 2 visited the Lady Lever Art Gallery and explored both landscape and portrait painting by famous artists such as John Constable and Edward Coley Burne-Jones
Knowledge: I can talk about art I have seen using some appropriate subject vocabulary.
Skills: I can tell the difference between a…
Y2 - Art and Design
Year 2 are learning about painting and mixed media. They have been "texture detectives", exploring the outdoors for suitable materials to use.
Knowledge: to know how texture can be made with paint.
Skills: to describe colours and textures
Vocab: texture, colour
Y2 - Computing
Year 2 have been programming a Beebot in order to travel around the world as aviators!
Knowledge: to program a programmable toy
Skills: to use the directional buttons to move the Beebot
Vocab: forwards, backwards, left, right, clear
Y2 - Rights and Responsibilites
Behaviour focus - each week, all classes consider what their rights and responsibilities are. In Y2, we have discussed as a whole class our Class Behaviour Agreement and how rules can help them learn, stay safe and respect others.
Knowledge: I know that some rules are made to be followed by…