I spy...

We have had a great week exploring our school campus discussing animal traits and antics. We learnt about omnivores, herbivores and carnivores. Mr Campbell even showed us one of the growing chicks and we discussed food chains. We had our snack in the yurt and went to the fort to make our fortune tellers. What a lovely experience!

In English we were busy thinking of different things we could do with a cloud. You would not believe some of the ideas that the children came up with! Squishing, bouncing, remodelling, surfing and travelling through one to a magical rainbow waterpark were just a few ideas!

In maths we made our own bar charts using our very own research and data! We covered favourite animals, transport, clothing, ice cream flavours, dogs and holiday destinations!

Have a wonderful weekend - looking forward to seeing you at the Golden Stampede where Mrs York-Forward and Mrs Donaldson will be on duty!

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.