St John the Baptist CE VA Primary School Year Two

Year 2 went with Year 1 to Tate Britain art gallery in London. We looks at lots of amazing artworks but some of them made us laugh because they were a little bit rude. We had lunch straight away sitting outside on the steps. Darcy like sitting like one of the sculptures. Rosies favourite was a painting that look like a portal to another world. Henry liked a sculpture of a man fighting a snake. Molly and Noah thought the painting called Ophelia was cool and had really brilliant colours. Florence, Erin, Mars and Bobby loved an artwork that was made out of lots of fabric, beads and string. Aurelia loved an artwork that had a big pyramid shape sticked out of it. WE all loved laying in the gallery and drawing in our sketch books. We even walked sown a staircase that had all the walled painted like a rainbow on fire. We had such an amazing trip to the museum, we did not want to leave.

Two artists and graphic designers came to school and ran a printing workshop with Reception, Year 1 and Year 2. We learnt how to draw fruits and vegetables onto polystyrene tiles before adding paint and printing them onto a big piece of fabric. Later in the week we added fabric pen marks to highlight our designs even further. We are making a healthy eating banner for our school lunch hall with our printed designs.

Two artists and graphic designers came to school and ran a printing workshop with Reception, Year 1 and Year 2. We learnt how to draw fruits and vegetables onto polystyrene tiles before adding paint and printing them onto a big piece of fabric. Later in the week we added fabric pen marks to highlight our designs even further. We are making a healthy eating banner for our school lunch hall with our printed designs.

On Wednesday, we went to Allenburys in Ware for a gymnastics competition. We started with a warm up session, then we began our floor routines in front of the judges. It felt exciting, scary and a bit embarrassing because everyone was watching us. Then we did our body management routines. We had to hold each position for five seconds. After this we split our group in half. Daisy did the beam, and the rest of the group did the vault. At the end of the competition, the judges announced that we had won the team competition. We also had some individual awards. Florence came first on floor and second in body management. Bobby came 6^th on floor and Grace came 6^th on body management. We were shocked that we had won it.

Year 2 have settled in well to our new school year. Over the week we have been trying to remember all our learning from Year 1. This week we have written many interesting sentences, some of which made Miss Wales laugh. We have been focused on one more, one less, counting in ten’s and comparing numbers up to 100 in maths.

Ours science this half term is all about materials and their properties. We identified different materials in our class and school grounds. Then discussed why those materials were used for that job. The children then sorted and identifies a selection of materials, writing on whiteboards about the properties of those materials and grouping objects with the same properties.

The children had fun in computing learning how to take photographs with an Ipad. They were then tasked with taking different types of photographs. The children found action shots were the most challenging.