Datchet St Mary's CofE Primary Academy
Friendship, Love, Compassion, Honesty, Forgiveness, Resilience and Equality
Year 2
Welcome to Year 2.
The class teacher Monday to Wednesday is Mrs Wragg and Thursday to Friday is Miss Koza and Miss Bulstrode is the support staff.
Class Newsletters 2021-2022
Keys Stage 1 SATS information for parents 2022
Year 2's Recommended Reads
Sports Day
SCIENCE DAY!!!! We had so much fun investigating paper flowers and making our own rainbow appear before our eyes.
What do plants need to stay healthy? - Results
Plant Growth - we used our working scientifically observation skills to look at the different stages of plant growth, from a seed into a healthy plant.
Today we enjoyed looking at the features of non-chronological reports!
What's inside a seed?
Plants - we have started our new science topic about plants. We each planted our own seeds and set up our own investigation to answer the question - What do plants need to stay healthy?
Jubilee Celebrations
The Great British Datchet Bake Off - Well done year 2 for making such amazing cakes and bakes.
Retelling the story of Little Red Riding Hood
Vision afternoon: 'We are one, we are strongest working together in unity' 1: Corinthians 12 - 14. We spent the afternoon learning about the story of the paralysed man, creating our own piece of art work. We then had several team building activities where we put our school vision into practice.
The children loved practising patch and partner balances in gymnastics today!
Finishing our African batik. Doesn't our display look amazing!?
Sketching portraits of the Queen!
Year 2 loved their visit to Milestones Transport Museum to link in with their History topic!
During our Africa topic we learnt about Bag Gardens. The children loved making their own bag gardens and planted carrots, lettuce and beans. Thank you to all the parents who donated soil, pebbles and seeds.
We enjoyed learning about wheels and axles in DT.
Computing - Programming our Lego trucks
Science - sink or float. In science we carried out an investigation to see which materials sink or float
Computing - Lego WeDo - Sort to recycle. We have started our exciting computing project that links in with our science work on materials. This week we built our Lego trucks, next week we will be programming them
Shared Reading - We're having lots of great discussions on our book 'How to Hide a Lion'
Maths - inverse operations. We used a range of method to help us. Some of us then tackled our greater depth maths herald challenges that involved a lot of trial and error
Music - The Safari Call - This week we learnt a traditional African call and response song ‘Che Che Kule’
Science - Hygiene investigation. Miss Koza put 'germs' on our hands, we then investigated whether paper towels, cold water, or warm water with soap would be the most effective way of getting most of the germs off our hands
Fantastic Fred Experience. We really enjoyed learning all about how to keep our bodies and minds healthy.
Music - Rhythmic Safari
Computing - Creating media - This we we listened to 'Neptune' and drew shapes and patterns. We then used shaped and patterns to create sounds using chrome music lab.
