Whatever the Weather!

A soggy week at Copthill however our spirits were not dampened in Year 2! 

Forest School was scientifically influenced by our investigations on categorising of animals we made a great paper teller game to support our learning.

In art we have learned about an artist who won the Turner Prize during the noughties. We have produced work influenced by Tomma Abts -  wonderfully striped abstract work.

We've been back to the yurt for maths puzzles and money,

In English we have written some fantastic poetry using kennings.

Hope you can keep warm and dry this weekend - enjoy!

Sign of the times

During Forest School this week, we have been busy finding items that are organic or inorganic. Using observation pots we looked closer at some of the live beetles and spiders that we sourced. We found and studied fossils and Mr Campbell revealed that a long long time ago this land that our school is built on was once very near to the Equator. This sort of information is given in a stone. Unbelievable that they can tell us so much history!

We are learning about poetry in English and have been learning new poetical terminology and their key features. 

We have been looking at bar graphs and pictograms in Maths and have been looking at missing numbers within a maths story. We have really enjoyed our starter part of the lesson taking place in the yurt.

Our topic work is coming on a treat - learning about the noughties is really interesting and Year 2 and developing great skills for our scrapbooks.

Have a lovely Bank Holiday weekend.

All these amazing animals!

Wow - is it really the Summer Term already?!

Welcome back - we hope you all had a wonderful Easter. The children have been eagerly sharing their news and exciting events that they have been busy doing over the holidays.

This week, we have visited the newly erected Yurt where we were busy solving maths problems. It felt very airy and cosy in there! We have shared our fantastic animal research. They are now proudly displayed in the corridor. We saw videos, powerpoints, factfiles and posters - oh and even habitat boxes. We even held and smelt elephant poo that Tilly brought all the way from Kenya much to Mr Campbell's delight! A wonderful selection of media and animals. Great job!

We are learning about the noughties (00s) this term - 2000-2009 - this is in line with our 50th Anniversary. We have been learning about the World Leaders during this period. We proved that not only are we great teachers and learners but we helped each other to complete the task showing that we are excellent Team Players!

Have a wonderful weekend everybody!