Autumn 2

The Great Fire of London was our topic this half term and we have enjoyed writing about it and creating some colourful art collages and designing buildings to show how styles of houses have changed over time.

In music, we learnt all about a piece of music called 'Carnival of the Animals by the composer Saint-Saens. You may recognise a clip below entitled 'Aquarium'.

‘A Holly Jolly Christmas’ was enjoyed by parents and children alike. We learnt some new songs and acted out our KS1 Christmas performance.

In English, we wrote acrostic poems about Winter or Christmas.

Here is one by Hafsa in 2 Rowan.

Cookies fresh from the oven,

Having fun decorating the tree,

Rapping the gifts for your loved ones to open (sp.)

Ice outside, be careful on the roads.

Santa's milk and carrots for the reindeer left on the plate,

Time to spend with family and friends,

Making a gingerbread house to enjoy with everyone,

And don't forget to hang the stocking...

Santa is coming down the chimney tonight!

Finally, we enjoyed ‘Deco Day’, making a calendar, Christmas card, party hat (for the Christmas lunch that day) and a tree decoration.

Autumn 1

Year 2 enjoyed their first half term. As the photos below show, we experimented with colour in Art when replicating artists such as Constable, Bowling and Kandinsky. Computing was fun as we got to create a sequence of instructions using Scratch programming which saw us become astronauts, guiding a rocket from planet to planet. We learnt about life cycles of animals and humans in Science. In PE, we had a local cricket coach come in from Rising Stars to help us with our throwing, catching and fielding skills. We explored the differences between towns and countryside in Geography.

We are looking forward to our trip to the Barbican on the first week back to see the London Symphony Orchestra. It should be an amazing experience.