Welcome to Year 2!

The Teachers in Year 2 2020-21 are:

Balderton site - Mrs Good and Mrs Atkinson with Miss Bentley

Mrs Page with Mrs Redgate.

Fernwood site - Mrs Pennick and Mrs Briggs-Price with Mrs Watson, Mrs Johnson and Mrs Robson. 

Our learning challenge question for Autumn term was...

What's for tea under the sea?

Our work included:

* ...exploring food chains.

* ...making a variety of beautiful art work including painting and printing inspired by Eric Carle

* … learning about the life and inventions of Jacques Cousteau.

* ...finding out about all kinds of creatures that live in the seas and oceans- exploring this as a habitat.

* ... locating the oceans and seas around the world.

* ...comparing habitats.

* ...reading a mixture of fiction and non-fiction texts set in the oceans.

Our Spring 1 learning challenge question is...

'Which dinosaur would you like as a pet?'

Our work will include:

* ... exploring the time periods of the dinosaurs

*… learning all about different dinosaurs

*...learning to draw dinosaurs

*...identifying and classifying dinosaurs.

*… exploring exciting writing inspired by these fabulous texts...

Our Spring 2 learning challenge question will be...

 'What do Tim Peake, Neil Armstrong and Peggy Whitson have in common?

Our work will include ...

*... exploring how to keep an astronaut healthy- what do humans need to survive?

* ...learning about the lives of significant people from history.

*… finding out about significant events in history

*… planting, growing and observing bulbs and seeds.

* … lots of measuring and work on time.

*… learning space-themed songs and creating music to go with them.

*… portrait drawing.

*… writing inspired by these amazing texts...

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