Nov 05
This week in year 2 we have been learning and celebrating Diwali. We really enjoyed a special Diwali assembly and have then learnt even more about Diwali in class. In particular, we loved learning about the vibrant Rangoli artwork that are often drawn as a celebration of Diwali. We tried our best at designing and drawing …
Oct 21
This week we have continued our Mindful Monday pottery! Now that our pots are dry and ready to go, we have been painting our pots in the style of Clarice Cliff. We have been using lots of bright colours and have been inspired by the images of the artist’s work to create our own. We …
Oct 14
During our Mindful Monday lessons we are continuing our learning about the artist Clarice Cliff. We found out that Clarice was famous for the designs she painted on to pottery. So we decided we should design and make some pottery using her ideas. Over the last few weeks we have experimented with clay and how …
Sep 30
Every Monday at Merry Hill we begin our week with a Mindful Monday art lesson. The aim for the children is to begin the week in a positive and creative way. This week in Year 2 we have been looking at the artist Clarice Cliff and her colourful art work. We have studied the artist …
Sep 30
At Merry Hill we are always on the look out for children using good manners. This month we have spotted children in all the classes being polite. Alice was chosen to sit on the manners table because she is always helpful around the classroom and often helps her friends when they are in need. Sean …
Sep 24
This week in English we have been learning to retell the Pumpkin Soup story. We are now able to retell the full story using last week’s story map actions to help. We are now very good at remembering this and have enjoyed acting out making some pumpkin soup. We also have used our previous learning …
Sep 23
This week in science we have been recapping some of our learning from Year 1. We recapped the 5 senses and luckily we could still remember them all. Our favourite part of the lesson was using our senses when cooking and eating popcorn. First we listened to the popcorn being poured in to the pot, …
Sep 17
We have had a fun learning journey this week in Year 2. In English, we have been learning to retell a story called Pumpkin Soup. It has been exciting to read the adventures of the bag-piping Cat, the banjo playing Squirrel and the small singing Duck who all love to stir the pumpkin soup. We …
Sep 16
This week in Jigsaw we spent some time thinking about what it is like to be in Year 2. We started off with a game, we all got given a number and we had to find the others with the same number. We weren’t allowed to use our voices which made it quite tricky! Then …