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.
Shared Reading - We were really excited to start our new class book 'How to Hide a Lion'.
Computing - Creating Media - Making music. This week we worked with our partners to create a rhythm with a steady beat using musical instruments. We then used Chrome Music Studio to create a similar piece of music using a computer programme. We then compared the two methods for creating music and discovered Chrome Music had a lot more instruments!!
Music - African call and response - This week we used untuned percussion instruments to create a piece of music that we felt represented our chosen African animal. We showed brilliant teamwork!
Representing African animals using untuned percussion instruments
We are learning to write fact files in English and we did some amazing research about African animals!
In maths this week we have been looking at the properties of 3D shapes and finding lines of symmetry in 2D shapes and out in the playground!
Computing - Creating Media. This term we are going to use information technology to create our own piece of music. This week, we learnt how different pieces of music can make us feel different emotions and how they might be used for different purposes.
World Book Day!! Book Swap. Some of us took part in the Datchet St Mary's Book Swap :)
World Book Day!! Look at these clues. What do you think our class book was?
World Book Day!! Six Word Story Slam. We created our own stories using only 6 words. We found it very challenging getting the number of words exactly right!
World Book Day!! We had a go at editing a short story.
World Book Day!!
World Book Day!! Look at our amazing costumes
The children enjoyed practising their observation and sketching skills in art by drawing the second half of a Great Fire of London painting.
Today we made bread to finish our Great Fire of London project.
The children loved having a go on the equipment in gymnastics!
The children were set the task of working as a team to create a Dream Bird. Look at the wonderful creations they came up with!
More money - building on our new money knowledge, We had lots of fun making amounts
Adding 'er' and 'est' to adjectives
Money, Money, Money! - in our first money lesson, we practiced counting in pounds and pence.
The Great Fire of London - Putting out the fire. We experienced for ourselves just how difficult it was carrying buckets of water and imagined what it must have been like trying to put out a big fire with just buckets of water.
This week in computing we designed our own mat for our floor robots then programmed them
Algorithms - There was something wrong with the instructions we gave this floor robot!
Algorithms - Our instructions worked well to get our floor robot from its starting position to the pond on our mat
Algorithms - Finn came up with an even quicker way to get the floor robot to the pond!
Nativity - What an amazing job KS1 did performing their much anticipated Christmas Nativity. We couldn't be prouder of them all. Here are some photos of year 2 doing the dress rehearsal where we performed for the rest of the school.
We enjoyed learning how to build a fire. We watched a video from woodland classrooms then went out to the forest school area and had a go ourselves! We all had a go at preparing the tinder and adding sticks to the fire. This was all part of our Great Fire of London topic and we will use this new knowledge to help write a set of instructions.
Shared Reading - This week we finished our shared reading book 'The Tear Thief'. We have absolutely loved reading this book and were really sad it came to an end. We have had such good discussions and learnt lots of new vocabulary from this book which we are trying to include in our own writing.
More algorithms. This week in computing we wrote our own algorithms and programmed them into our floor bots. We predicted where we thought they would travel to and marked on our maps where they actually stopped
Telling the time. We made our own clocks and used them to help us tell the time.
Butterfly life cycles. We had so much fun making models of the lifecycle of a butterfly.
In computing this half term, we are learning all about algorithms. To start us off, we took it in turns pretending to be robots, where our partners had to give us very detailed instructions to carry out tasks such as moving around the classroom and drawing pictures. It was great fun, especially as the robots weren't allowed to talk!
Myths and Legends. In music we started off our topic for this half term by watching the story of George and the Dragon, then retelling it by clapping out a rhythm to go with the words.
In maths, we created our own word problems to help us when it comes to answering them. Can you solve any?
The children really enjoyed our Florence Nightingale Day!
Christmas fair!! - We had so much fun. What lovely creations all our talented pupils made to sell!
Christmas exhibition - We had lots of fun learning all about what the bible tells us about Christmas time
Using a dictionary - During our shared reading lessons, we are picking up new vocabulary to go on our magpie wall. Sometimes we don't know what a word means, so we learnt how to look these unfamiliar words up in a dictionary to find out their meaning
Maths - Position and direction. We went out into the playground and created our own grid of squares. We then used our new knowledge of grid references to explain a persons position on the grid. Remember "along the corridor and up the stairs"
Digital photography: In computing this term we are learning about digital photography. We took some pictures with our iPads. We focussed on objects up close, things in the distance, the difference between portrait and landscape and of course a few selfies :) But we also learnt how important is was to ask the person's permission before we take any photos.
Comprehension - We are doing so well with our comprehension skills. We are able to retrieve information from whatever text we're reading by underlining key information.
Researching Habitats - Following on from our work on minibeasts and microhabitats, we have carried out our own research on different habitats from around the world. We used books, media and the internet to carry out our research then recorded our findings.
Music - this term our theme in music is space. This week we imagined we discovered a brand new planet and told the story of this discovery through sound
Music - soundscape to space
Bug Hotel!! We put all our knowledge about minibeasts and microhabitats into practice by working together to create a bug hotel. We still need to add the finishing touches but we have made a great start and we think it is a fantastic way at gaining real life experiences.
This week in art Year 2 have been thinking about tone and looking at a portrait of Florence Nightingale. There are sections of Florence missing that the children had to try to complete. Everyone did remarkably well. Well done Year 2!
The children enjoyed playing tag rugby in their PE lesson today
Exploring our local habitat - We went on a walk in our local area to find microhabitats and minibeasts. We then came back and recorded our findings
Look at our lovely Art display board!
In art, we loved recreating one of Andy Goldsworthy's nature sculptures!
Harvest Festival - We are so proud of all of year 2. They did an amazing job.
Computing - We became supermarket tills! In groups of 3 we acted out the process a till (information technology) goes through. We became barcodes, scanners and price finders and soon realised how much time IT saves us in the real world.
This week in maths we have been looking at the properties of 2D shapes, including lines of symmetry.
Black History Day - We learnt all about Mary Seacole and Rosa Parks
Here we are having one of our movement breaks to help us refocus :)
Look how much fun we had at the penny run. Congratulations fire!
In science, we looked at growth in humans as part of our 'living things' topic. We did this by measuring and comparing hand spans.
We went on a nature walk for art and enjoyed having a go at leaf rubbing.
We enjoyed learning and performing the poem The Sound Collector by Roger Mcgough.
Look at this amazing green feather Millie found in the playground! What bird do you think it came from?
In maths, we explored how to represent numbers in lots of different ways. We used numerals, part-whole models, number beads, numicon, base ten and number lines.
Science - We had lots of fun exploring our outdoor learning area searching for things that are living, not living anymore and things that have never been alive. Have a go at working out what category each of these fall into
We have had a fun two days in year 2 to get us back into the school routine. We have focused on problem solving to help us work on team building and improve our resilience. Here we are working in our table groups to build a bridge for our 3 little bears to cross the river safely. Well done year 2!
Nature faces - We worked in groups to create faces using things we found in our outdoor learning area. Are there any faces you recognise?
The children loved making nature sculptures out of clay!
