ARCHIVED Year 2 Blog 2024/25

 In PSHE this week we looked at bullying. We talked about what bullying is and what it is not. We talked about it being repeatedly unkind to someone. We talked about the different types of bullying and then designed posters to explain to others what bullying is. 

 In English this week we have been working on descriptions of our own dragons that we designed. We have learnt that the purpose of description is so that our readers can get a picture in their heads of what we are writing about. Once we had written our descriptions our teacher put them into AI software to turn our descriptions into pictures! 

 Today was very exciting in Year 2 computing as we got to use the laptops for making music! We learned how to login to our own accounts and access Google Classroom in order to open and save our musical creations in Chrome Music Lab. We talked about notes and how these can be represented, and then had a go at creating our own musical scores! We finished by saving our work to access again next week. Wow Year 2!

 Today Year 2 had their first RE festival workshop. We looked at the Jewish festival of Sukkot, a celebration that is similar to the Christian Harvest Festival.  First of all we looked at what it was like to be thankful and how we show thanks for the things we have.  We then explored the festival of Sukkot and learnt during the week of Sukkot, some people build sukkah's (outside huts) in their gardens where they spend time with friends and family, eating, praying, playing games and generally being thankful all they have. We also learnt about some of the symbolism of different acts Jewish people perform during this special time, including waving 'The Four Kinds'.  We then had a go at creating a model sukkah with our friends out of food stuff. We tried to replicate the walls of a sukkah with bread and breadsticks and the roof with different salad leaves. The material of a sukkah is normally made with leaves and twigs as some Jewish people think it is important to be ab...

 Today year 2 had a visit from Jenny McLachlan, author of Fairy v’s wizard, The land of Roar and many more. The children enjoyed an afternoon of story telling, some children had the opportunity to act out parts of the story and enjoyed meeting the dragon. They had a brilliant afternoon. 

 Year 2 welcomed a visit today from Jenny McLachlan an author, as part of the Isle of Wight Literary festival. She told us all about her real life inspiration for her stories and including her book The Land of Roar. Jenny helped us to act out the start of her story but we will have to read it to find out more! We then wrote our own spells to help the dragon egg from the Land of Roar hatch and met the pet dragon as well as his grown up friend! Finally we learnt how to draw the fairy Stink from Jenny’s book about Stink fairy.