Our winding mechanisms

A busy end of term!

We were very busy right up until the end of term. We went on a lovely trip to Harewood House to do some exciting Christmas and winter activities. We made fantastic winding mechanisms in our Design Technology work AND we performed a super Christmas concert: the Very Hopeless Camel.

We are going to be just as busy next year with lots of fun and interesting learning.

What a fantastic end to 2010 and roll on 2011.

Happy New Year to everyone!

Multi skills festival

Well done to those children who took part in the multi skills festival today. You were fantastic Featherbankers and you did a great job!!

Poetry Week

We had an excellent poetry week last week. We read lots of poems in the classroom and some children even learned poems by heart. On Thursday we had a whole school 'poetry marathon' in the library - we made sure that there was someone reading poetry every minute of the day. It was lots of fun! On Friday we had a special assembly when each class performed its own poem and some children and adults read poems too. What a lovely week!

Welcome to our Year 2 blog

We will be using this blog to share the fantastic work we have been doing with you. Feel free to leave comments!

We have had a great start to the term. The children have worked so hard and have settled in really well.

Here is some of the work we have been doing so far.

Snails

We have been having lots of fun with snails in science.

'We had an investigation to see what the snails like to eat. They had lettuce, basil and mint. Lettuce was their favourite food'.

Florence Nightingale

We have been learning about Florence Nightingale. We have done some brilliant role-play, safely found out about her on the Internet and done some fantastic letter writing.

Maybe you could ask your child to answer these questions:

Who was Florence Nightingale?

Why do we remember her?

Why is she called 'The lady with the lamp'?