Over the last week Year 2 have been covering different forms of media around the book we have been covering, called Journey. We have been writing poetry, using drama to act out scenes as well as writing our interpretations of the book.

In Maths we have been looking at numbers up to 40. We have been learning to write these in both number and word forms, exploring numbers less than (smaller), and more than (greater).

We have been busy in Art, using oil pastels to draw a feather for a school display, as well as weaving paper to make baskets for hot air balloons and making feather masks. We have also explored making tints from the colour red. All of which link back to our book we are looking at in Literacy.

In PE we have continued to develop our tennis skills. Improving our throwing and catching, as well racket skills.

We also had a visitor on Tuesday 15^th September. Falconry UK came in to show us some of his amazing birds. Some of these included different species of Owls, a Kookabura, and a Kingfisher. We learnt so much about why these animals have evolved the way they are and saw up close how amazing these birds are!

Year 2 had a great time trying to put out some fires this week to start their topic 'We're on Fire!'

They had to work as a team to put out various fires in the playground by passing buckets along a line of people. This was harder than anticipated as it was tricky keeping the water in the bucket and off people's shoes!

What made it especially tricky (particularly in Birch Class) was a torrential downpour midway through the session. We tried our best to complete the challenge without getting totally drenched.

The children showed great enthusiasm and determination despite the tricky weather conditions.

Year 2 had a very exciting fantastic finish linked to our topic Fire Fire. Birch class performed a song and Pine class performed a short play showing how the plague was spread. All children participated in different activities such as sewing, making salt dough bread, decorating vehicles, burying cheese and wine pictures in sand trays, making and writing diaries and rebuilding London with bricks. Sensory circuits were also being used. We finished by Pine and Birch competing to see which class could pass a bucket of water the quickest to put out the fire. Well done Birch who did it in the quickest time. Thank you so much to all the parents and families who were able to attend and who participated fully in all activities.

Year 2 Pine class have designed postcards from Africa. In literacy we are reading the story 'That rabbit belongs to Emily Brown' by Cressida Cowell and Neal Layton. The Queen wants Emily's rabbit called Stanley but Emily wants to keep him.  Emily and Stanley then visit Africa in Year 2's version of the story. Look at our carefully created designs in computing.  These postcards will be on display in the classroom and we will be writing our postcards tomorrow.

Year 2 have been learning how to improve their writing by adding more description. We have created a bank of noun phrases and used to improve our sentences. In class we have also been learning about using when, if, that or because to help us to write longer sentences. Mrs Elson brought in Rosie Rabbit her toy she has had since she was little to visit the class.