On Friday 5^th Y2 celebrated the Coronation of King Charles III by making crowns in the morning and having a "street party" in the afternoon. It was lovely to celebrate together with eating, talking and dancing. At Roebuck we are celebrating being a part of history! 

Year 2 have been enjoying their art unit this half term. They have been improving their drawing and painting skills through a range of tasks. They have done some weaving, looked at the work of Clarice Cliff and Nancy McCroskey and created their own versions of these artist's work. Currently they are in the middle of painting rollercoasters. At Roebuck we are artists! 

Year 2 have begun a new topic in Literacy called If I Were in Charge of the World. We started the week with find a shape where we had to match up the different parts of the poem to the description of it. We've also had a go at reading and comparing two different poems. We had lots of ideas of what we would do if we were in charge of the world! At Roebuck we are poets. 

In Literacy this week we started our new topic of The Magic Paintbrush, which links with our topic of China. We watched a video and looked at pictures of Chinese flowers, boats, buildings, animals of the zodiac and some Chinese writing. Next we tried to recreate these pictures in our “sand” just like Shen did in the story.

We were also able to take part in Herts College Frozen workshop. We took part in some activities which were looking at helping develop our awareness of recycling and ecology.

At Roebuck We are creative. 

This week in year two we finished editing our non-fiction writing on hibernating animals which we had spent the last couple of weeks completing. We also started looking at multiplication and division in maths, so we will be looking out for lots of practise on TTRockstars! Pine class also spent some time making their peg people in art whilst in music we were learning how to play our Christmas song HO HO HO on glockenspiels, with amazing results. The week ended in a very festive manner, making our placemats, and having a lovely Christmas party. Thanks to all parents for the lovely selection of food brought in, we had a great time!!

Year 2 have had a busy week. They had Books and Breakfast on Monday morning. Thank you so much to the adults who came to join us and share stories with the children.

Then on Thursday morning they had a visit from Stevenage fire service to talk to us about their work. We found out all about the different roles that they do, the equipment they carry, the clothes they wear and what they do when they are waiting for a call out. They also let us ask lots of questions!