Today Year 2 created vehicles as part of their Design and Technology unit, wheels and axles. The children used their designs from the previous lesson to create their wonderful vehicles. They used a range of tools to cut wooden axles and used washers to secure each wheel. They explored a range of materials to help make their vehicles stronger and more stable. To finish the children used lots of crafts to finish and embellish their vehicles, using bottle tops for lids and seats! Here are some pictures of the children in action and also their final products.
BCCET KS1 Maths Challenge
Four children from Year 2 were selected to take part in the BCCET KS1 Maths Challenge at The Briery in Sunderland. They spent the afternoon working their socks off with arithmetic, problem solving and reasoning activities. They played games such as tangrams, spot the shapes, target number and finished with a game of play your cards right. The four chosen children won the group challenge and are very excited to spend their gift cards.
What a wonderful afternoon we had!
Year 2’s Egg Box Dragons
After finishing our Literacy topic based on the story ‘Egg Box Dragon’, Year 2 have been designing and creating their own Egg Box Dragons. We have had so much fun and even had a little dragon puppet show!
Here are their creations:
Year 2 Norman Cornish Art Workshop
Year 2 have had the wonderful opportunity to take part in the Remaking Beamish Art project. As part of the project, we had Robert from Beamish Museum visit us to teach us all about Norman Cornish and the mining history. The children explored some of Norman’s artwork alongside having a go at sketching and shading. They then had the opportunity to handle and explore some historical objects from the museum relating to the homes and mines found in Cornish’s artwork. We will be visiting Beamish Museum later in the Spring to celebrate the opening of Norman’s replica home on Front Street Terrace. We cannot wait!
Year 2’s Puppets
For this half term, Year 2 have been looking at puppets for their textiles DT project. The children researched, designed, created, finished and evaluated their mini-beast puppets. Here are their wonderful final products!
Year 2 Christmas Party
Year 2 had a wonderful afternoon enjoying their Christmas Party. They danced, played games and enjoyed their lovely party food.
Year 2’s trip to The Rising Sun Country Park
The Year 2 children had a fantastic time on their trip today to The Rising Sun Country Park.
We began the day looking at different habitats including pond and woodland habitats. The children had the opportunity to take part in a pond dipping activity where they caught and identified lots of different living things. The children caught fish, diving beetles, nymphs, pond snails, water boatman and plenty of pond weed! We then took part in a natural art workshop where the children created pond creatures using only natural materials.
After lunch the children completed a mini beast hunt and identified and classified the mini beasts based on their number of legs. The children ended the day by creating mini beast hotels, some of which included hot tubs and cinemas. Those bugs were really living the life!
It was a pleasure to take the children out on their first school trip and their behaviour was perfect! Thank you again to all adults who came along to support us on the trip, it was very much appreciated.
Miss Langley
Year 1’s Potatoes
Today we finally pulled up our potatoes that we have been growing since April. We planted 7 potatoes and grew a whopping 36! We boiled the potatoes and everyone had a try. They were delicious!
Year 1 Sports Day
Year 1 had a fantastic morning participating in their first Sports Day! The children had the chance to take part in every race and they throughly enjoyed it. We had a wonderful morning!