What a fantastic last few weeks for Year 2! We ended our Great Fire of London topic of with a bang. Thank you to all adults who attended our fantastic finish. The children loved sharing their learning with you and loved burning down the houses and recreating the great fire! 

We have been celebrating Black History Month and we have been learning about significant people in history, including Kathryn Johnson and Leland Melvin. 

In Science, we have enjoyed conducting experiments to explore the properties of materials. We investigated which ball would bounce the highest and worked in teams to find out! 

Year 2 have been very busy! We have had lots of experience days to inspire our writing, including a campfire, roasting marshmallows and bread baking! In Science, we have been exploring the properties of different materials and conducting experiments. In DT we have been exploring structures, we have explored the stability of different shapes and have worked together to create our own structures. We have continued to develop our understanding of number in maths and continue to use different equipment to build numbers to help us solve problems. In history, we have enjoyed learning more about the Great Fire of London and created a breaking news story on why we think it happened! 

It has been a lovely few weeks back from the half-term break.  Year 2 have enjoyed exploring fractions in Maths. We have been working together to find half's, quarters and thirds. In writing we are reading The Crows Tale and will be writing our own ending of the narrative. We started by exploring the front cover first and making predictions about the text. In Art, we have been developing our colour mixing skills. We used primary colours to mix and used our sketch books to practise this. 

Year 2 have had a fantastic two weeks learning about knights and writing instructions on how to be one. We used our trip to Mountfitchet as inspiration and learned about knights and how they lived. Next week we will start to write another set of instructions on how to fence. We took part in a fencing lesson to learn all the different steps! 

We have also been exploring 2d shapes in Maths and have especially enjoyed finding lines of symmetry! 

A fantastic end of the Spring term for Year 2. We have enjoyed meeting the Chicks and learning about the Life Cycle in Science, celebrating Science Week and exploring bubbles, planting seeds with North Herts College and learning about Money in Maths! We would also like to thank all the parents who have attended our reading  mornings and afternoons, we hope to see you at them
next term!

Year 2 have had a fantastic term and we have thoroughly enjoyed learning about China! To celebrate the Lunar New Year we were visited by a Chinese New Year dance shop and learned a traditional dance. We enjoyed learning all the new steps and celebrated the Year of the dragon by performing our dance together at the end!