Welcome to Year 2!

The Teachers in Year 2 2019-20 are:

Balderton site - Mrs Good and Mrs Palethorpe with Rachel, Emma and Mrs Watson

Mrs Page with Mrs Redgate.

Fernwood site - Mrs Pennick and Mrs Briggs-Price with Miss Bakin, Mrs Sparks and Mrs Munton.

Our learning challenge question for Autumn term is...

What's for tea under the sea?

Our work will include:

* ...exploring food chains.

* ...making a variety of beautiful art work including painting and printing.

* … sewing a sea-creature finger puppet.

* … 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.

* ...visiting the deep.

* ...comparing habitats.

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

Our Learning challenge question for Spring 1  is  'Which dinosaur would you like as a pet?'

Our work will include:

* ... exploring food chains.

*… making a page for a moving/pop-up information book.

*...identifying and classifying dinosaurs.

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

Our learning challenge question for Spring 2 is 'What do 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.

*… a STEM project inspired by space, exploring air pressure.

* … 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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