Year 2 Blog

Today we spent the afternoon making robot characters for our stories. We drew our designs first and planned what to use. We used cardboard boxes, plastic bottles, straws, foil and lots of sticky tape! As Sadie said it was a briilliant afternoon and lots of fun! 

We have been learning the story of No-bot, about a little robot who lost his bottom. This week we are going to write our own stories about robots and make junk models of our characters! 

In science we have been finding out about the different materials that objects are made from. We have looked at materials around our school, sorted them into groups such as man made and natural and described their different properties. We have been learning new words such as opaque…

On Tuesday we had a special day in school to think about Oscar Romero and his work on fairness and justice. In Year 1/2 the children designed badges, coloured a Romero cross and learned about fair trade fruit. They listened carefully to the story of his life and were very thoughtful in their…

This morning we went out onto the playground to see the effects of the solar eclipse. The playground was murky, cold and quite spooky! Then Charlie noticed he could see the eclipse perfectly through the tinted roof of the FSU outdoor area shelter. We all went over to look and had a great view. It…

On Wednesday we had our class visit to the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool. A lady showed us some of the portraits in the gallery and we became portrait detectives, looking for clues to tell us more about the people in the portraits. Nathan was dressed up as the man in one of the portraits! Then…

We have been using our drawings of flowers to design and make printing tiles. We had lots of fun using paint and the rollers to make prints of our tiles. They look great!

By Maisie

We've come to the end of another very busy half term in Year 2/1. I'm very pleased with how hard all the children have worked. It was lovely to share their hard work and progress with so many parents on Wednesday evening. Thank you all for your support.  

This week we had a DT day when we…