Blog Author: Mrs Sothern

Year 2 enjoyed practising their jumps, rolls and balances in gymnastics today.

Today we were visited by Margaret and Michael from Lancashire Hawks and Owls. They brought some of their amazing birds with them to show us. We learnt lots of facts about the birds and we we able to stroke some of them.

Year 2 joined a Children’s University masterclass where we heard from an illustrator called Laura who does animations for CBeebies. She demonstrated how to draw a range of amazing monsters and then the children all had a go.

This afternoon the children were comparing the lives and works of Florence Nightingale and Kitty Wilkinson. They worked as a group to sort facts into a Venn diagram.

The children worked in small groups to complete a role on the wall activity describing the appearance and personality of the wolf in the story.

The children worked in table groups to do a range of fine motor skills activities. The focus activity was sewing a felt door onto a felt house wall. 

The children played some jumping warm up games before practising individual skipping techniques.

The children practised their jumping and team work skills when using french skipping ropes.

The children used a cardboard template and a tangle of wrapping paper to create their own version of a patchwork quilt.

Y2 took part in a Children’s University master class all about Space.

The children looked at the illustration ‘Waves’ by American artist Beth Krommes and listened to Fingal’s Cave by Mendelssohn. They then responded to these stimuli by choosing their own materials to make a range of marks to create their own version of…

The children experimented with ripping different types of paper and explored making marks with black paint.