[gallery ids="8818,8819,8820,8821,8822,8823,8824,8826,8828,8829"] The Year 2 term started off with musical exploration!! Our first topic is 'Beat, Band Boogie,' which is all about exploring instruments, learning the names of the instruments, how they are played, what sounds they make and which orchestral family they belong to. The...
Year 2 were delighted to visit Hever Castle as part of their new topic Towers, Tunnels and Turrets. We learned about all the different parts of a castle. To enter the castle we had to walk across the drawbridge, which went over the moat. We...
The children in Year 2 have been excited to visit the Nursery and read with the children in Nursery. Each pair of children chose a book they would like to share. The Year 2 children then read to their Nursery partner. The grown-ups in the...
The children in Year 2 have created dinosaur skeletons using sticks they collected from the outside area. First they used a projector to display an image of a dinosaur skeleton on the wall, then they carefully traced over it. Next they measured a bone in cm...
The children in Year 2 were really excited to welcome John Poh, a STEM Ambassador, who works as a Senior Research Scientist for the UK Health Security Agency to Beddington Infants' School. John shared lots of interesting pictures of science laboratories and talked about they...
Year 2 are already enjoying their topic for this half term; Muck, Mess and Mixtures! They have used their observational skills to explore how a range of substances look, smell and feel. They explored substances such as baby oil, shaving foam, rice, bubble bath, toothpaste, jelly,...
[gallery ids="8210,8226,8211,8213,8218,8219,8222,8223,8220,8224,8227,8229"] Every day the children in Year 2 decide when in the day they would like to go and complete independent learning challenges outside. Each week there are different learning opportunities available, helping them to develop a range of skills across all areas of the...
[gallery ids="8179,8180,8181,8182,8183,8184,8185,8186,8187,8188,8189,8190,8191,8192,8193,8195"] As part of our topic, Moon Zoom the children have been learning about star constellations. They explored the shape and name of each constellation using an app on an iPad. Then they looked at photos of the star constellations and used counters and stars...
[gallery ids="8124,8126,8127,8128,8129,8130,8131,8132,8133,8134,8135,8136,8137"] Having explored how the planets orbit the sun, the children in Year 2 co-operated as a year group, using the technique of papier mache to create their own Solar System. They carefully laid layers of paper over the balloons, covered them with glue and waited...
[gallery ids="8114,8113,8112,8111,8121,8120,8119,8118,8117,8116"] Year 2 have enjoyed learning about the Solar System as part of their Moon Zoom topic. They have learned lots of facts about each planet and where it is placed in the Solar System. The children used inflatable planets to explore how the distance from...