Year 2 had a lovely time welcoming lots of visitors to our classrooms. We enjoyed 'connecting' with one another especially as it's mental health awareness week. We enjoyed sharing stories, our work and wellbeing activities.

The children using their colour mixing skills to make various shades and tints to make their own sea scenes.

Year 2 joined a live science lesson organised by NFU 'How are tractors connected to outer space?. They found out about the different materials they were made from and why these materials were most suitable. They acted out some of the jobs tractors do on a farm and of course found out how tractors are connected to outer space!

The children enjoying Forest School as a belated reward for recycling the most Christmas Cards.

This afternoon, the children having been learning about tone in their art lesson. They had to look carefully at the different tones used in David Hockney's 'The Big Splash' to place the puzzle pieces back together to recreate the original picture.

Today, we were judge and jury as The Big Bad Wolf stood trial for his crimes.

The children became jury members and had to listen to the evidence put before them.  

They listened to “The Wolf’s Story” (our new book by Toby Forward) and discussed his 

version of events.  The wolf said that he was grandma’s best friend! That he did jobs 

around the house for her and looked after her! Then we looked at the evidence put 

before us. A frayed red cape which looked like it had BITE marks and a basket full of fruit! 

The same basket that the wolf had sworen contained sticky toffees…..
We then had a visit from a witness at the scene, poor old grandma! She told her side of the story

and the jury found lots of holes and suspicious parts that did not marry up with the wolf’s version!
After that, the jury discussed their findings and cast their verdicts. Jury member Rubio helped 

Judge Peck to count the votes for  innocent or guilty.
With a staggering 27- vote, the jury found the Wolf….GUILTY! He awaits his sentencing after our 

lunch time, until we decide a worthy punishment.

We’ve had a GREAT morning and we will be using this experience to write a recount next week 

all about the courtroom drama of the wolf.

The children had great fun testing different materials to find out which one was most suitable for making a rain hat for teddy. Poor teddy got wet a few times!

Learning about multiplication as repeated addition and using the x sign correctly.

Today we travelled back in time to 1665 to see what life in London was like during 

The Plague! This lesson is the first in our sequence for The Great Fire of London

as it helps us to understand what life was like for people at the time of the fire. 

The children found it hysterical that people in the past did not use toilets correctly! 

They also couldn’t believe how people didn’t realise that washing hands would

 stop germs from spreading!

We created a poster all about The Plague and we even sang a well known 

song “Ring-a-ring o’ roses” and discussed the songs link to The Plague! 

Definitely one of our more disgusting lessons so naturally, everyone had a great time.

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