Class 2         

Welcome to Class 2!

Please have a look at our photographs and videos to see some of our learning.

DT Structures: Holy Land Houses - April 2022

Our RE topic about Faith Founders (Jesus and Abraham) was the starting point for our DT project. We researched ways to strengthen and stabilise structures and then designed and built holy land houses.

Easter 2022

As a church school Easter is a very special time. We have again made Easter cards for the elderly in our community. We explored the symbolism of the Easter story and each day read out from our Easter tree a section of the the holy week story. 

Stonehenge Art - March 2022

We were inspired by our learning in history about Stonehenge to create shaded sketches of the intriguing place, using hatching and cross hatching techniques. We then created backgrounds using two different types of media- chalk pastels and paint washes. We experimented with flat, graduated and mixed washes before applying to the final piece of work.

World Book Day - March 2022

This year, World Book Day celebrated its 25th anniversary. We enjoyed our own celebrations dressing up as characters from our favourite books, taking part in book quizzes and writing book reviews. 

Money Matters - February 2022

In maths, we have been learning to recognise, count, add up money and calculate change. We have practised these skills with role shops. We have had a cake shop, art supplies and a book shop!

The Great Fossil Find - January 2022

As part of our Science topic, we worked scientifically as palaeontologists on an imaginary fossil hunt. ‘Each day’ we discovered a few fossilised bones of an unknown animal. As we uncovered the bones, we tried to reconstruct the animal that we thought that it would most likely be. However as more bones were found, we realised that we had to change our ideas as to what the animal might be.

Christingle Dance - December 2021

As part of our Christingle service which we organised and led, we created a dance to express the symbolism of the Christingle.

Christingle Service Candle Song - December 2021

During the Christingle service we sang the candle song. You can't see us, but you can listen to our beautiful voices.  

Hamantaschen Biscuits - November 2021

Our Design Technology food topic was linked to our Purim topic. We researched, designed and made traditionally eaten biscuits eaten during Purim celebrations. We all agreed they were yummy!

Purim Day - November 2021

As part of our learning about the Jewish festival of Purim we celebrated with Purim day. We found out about the characters in the story, Esther, Haman, Mordecai and the king Xerxes and made their masks. 

Them Bones! - October 2021

We worked in teams to identify and label bones in the body.

Wizard Collage - September 2021

Our reading of the 'Adventures of the Wishing Chair' inspired us to create collages of the characters the Ho-Ho wizard and the gnome doctor. 

Let the Water Games Begin! July 2021

At the end of term we invented some new water themed team games. It was great fun!

Roman Day - July 2021

Togas, laurel head pieces and Roman food were all part of the fun of Roman day!

Harry Potter Day - May 2021

During this half term we have written information texts about Hogwarts houses, in Art sketched Harry Potter to then create digital images. We finished our topic with a Harry Potter Day, in which we created our own house ties, wands, broomsticks and potions (very carefully measured out). Perhaps we enjoyed the feast in the great hall the most!?  

Easter - March 2021

We have been busy decorating our classroom to help us celebrate Easter

Mothers' Day Cards - March 2021

We have made some Mothers' Day cards for all the important females in our lives. We think they will be really pleased to receive them (Miss Varley said they look better than real bunches of flowers!). 

Christmas Bags - December 2020

Class 2 have designed and made Christmas gift bags. We practised our back stitch sewing skills to make a secret interior pocket. In addition we used decorative stitches to embellish our Christmas felt shapes.

Elves - November 2020

Our clay art topic was inspired by our class book the Magic Faraway Tree. We all created an elf figure head from a ball of clay, moulding and adding some features using clay slip.

Celebrating Harvest - October 2020

We have been busy making scarecrow cards to help us celebrate Harvest. We think they look really good. We made a few extra to deliver to members of the community and they were well received! 

World Book Day - March 2020

We enjoyed dressing up for World Book Day - can you guess who we are?

LegoWeDo - February 2020

We rose to Mrs Clayton's challenge in Computing to learn how to code. We had to follow instructions to build a Lego model and then we used the iPads to write 'code' to make our models move. We had lots of fun and managed to make all them move!

Amazing Mathematicians! - February 2020

We have been practising our subtraction skills using tens and units apparatus. We solved lots of tricky calculations!

Stonehenge - January 2020

We have been learning about Stonehenge. We undertook some research and an 'archeological' dig and then we built our own mini Stonehenges! 

Tree Measuring - Autumn 2019

As part of our 50th birthday celebrations we measured the height  and the circumference of the tree around the field. We then calculated their ages to see if any were older than the school.

Flower Delivery to Members of the Village Community Autumn 2019

Roman Shields - June 2019

Levers - May 2019

Musical Instruments - Autumn 2 2018

In Science, Mrs Clayton's challenged us to make an instrument that would produce a high pitched and a low pitched sound. We managed to complete her challenge. It was fun but noisy!

Celebrate with Wedding Cake! Autumn 2 2018

Our DT food project was to design and make a wedding cake for our school Autumn term wedding.

Our Trip to the Hands on History Museum Autumn 1 2018

How can we stop the birds eating the new pea shoots as they begin to grow?

Let's design and make a bird scarer to solve the problem!

Inspired by our museum trip we learnt to use new colour wash skills and apply them to create cave paintings.

As part of our Stone Age topic we went to the museum to find out more about life in the Stone Age. We took part in a workshop to help us learn about what people ate and how they hunted for it. We made notes about the mammoth and used them to write a fact file when we returned to school.

We shared our learning about the symbolism of Christingles by running a workshop for the whole school and in leading our Christingle service.

As part of our Jewish festivals topic we celebrated with our own Purim Day. We used our measuring skills by weighing out the Hamantashen biscuits ingredients  and scaling up the recipe for 60 people. We also measured out our masks with great care.

One of our school farming families kindly agreed to let us ramble on their farm land as part of our Children in Need Day activities. We appreciated the drink and biscuits too! Thank you very much the Byass family.

 Our skipping workshop challenges included how many skips we could do in a minute, french skipping and partner long rope skipping.

Celebrating the Passover Meal Together

Our Ancient Egypt Work

Number Work

Class 2 School Council Voting