This week in year two we finished editing our non-fiction writing on hibernating animals which we had spent the last couple of weeks completing. We also started looking at multiplication and division in maths, so we will be looking out for lots of practise on TTRockstars! Pine class also spent some time making their peg people in art whilst in music we were learning how to play our Christmas song HO HO HO on glockenspiels, with amazing results. The week ended in a very festive manner, making our placemats, and having a lovely Christmas party. Thanks to all parents for the lovely selection of food brought in, we had a great time!!

Year 2 have had a busy week. They had Books and Breakfast on Monday morning. Thank you so much to the adults who came to join us and share stories with the children.

Then on Thursday morning they had a visit from Stevenage fire service to talk to us about their work. We found out all about the different roles that they do, the equipment they carry, the clothes they wear and what they do when they are waiting for a call out. They also let us ask lots of questions!

Year 2 were visited by Cool Blue today to teach us all about the oo grapheme.

We had to find the words around the room and create lists showing all the different graphemes that were used. We also had to find out if they real words or alien words

What an exciting time we have had at Roebuck this week, Bob from the Lego workshop came in to teach us how to use different building techniques to create roof structures on our houses. Once we had made a building, we stuck it to a lego board and added gardens, driveways and even swimming pools. Finally, we put all our creations together along a giant road and watched how it transformed into a Lego City. At Roebuck, we are Engineers!

Later, to help us with our phonics, Yellow I visited us from Monster Phonics Land to test our knowledge on the 'I' sounds. We helped her collect lots of words around the hall, and then she challenged us to a spelling game - we managed to get all our words right and win the game! At Roebuck, we are brilliant readers!

What an exciting start back to Year 2 we have had! Our classrooms have been transformed into castles, with a knight guarding the rooms to stop any dangerous dragons from creeping in. We have been describing how ferocious and fearsome they are in our new literacy topic 'Knights, Castles and Royal Blood'.

We launched our new topic for science 'The Apprentice Gardener' with a fun RE and Science lesson learning about the Zoastrian celebration of Nowruz. We learnt how Nowruz marks the beginning of spring and is celebrated with a 'Sofaray' display that contains lots of objects that represent new life, such as herbs, fruits, eggs and flowers. We then tried some middle Eastern fruits of dates and honey dew melon -we ate these in the traditional way of sitting on the floor next to a long tablecloth. Next week we will be growing our own plants so we can observe how they grow.