Waingroves Primary School

Spring 2

We really enjoyed making our own pair of binoculars. We all felt that we could have spotted the ice in time!

Spring 1

YEAR 2

We have all made a brilliant start in our new class.

Here are some photographs of us taken on our  first few days in Year Two.

Well done to everyone.

Autumn 1

Our TOPIC WOW!

We enjoyed our first topic 'WOW'. We had to try to create our own rainbow using felt tips, paper towel and water. Have a look at our fantastic results!

Paper testing

We tried hard to investigate which paper would be the best one to clean up after a messy pet. Please have a look at what we found out!

Our TOPIC 'WOW'

We really enjoyed thinking about what being famous actually means. We enjoyed making our own 'Pebble People' using acrylic paints. Can you guess who we have drawn?

Rosa Parks Bus Ride

We have been learning about why Rosa Parks refused to move when she was asked. We all took part in acting out the story and tried to imagine how other people would have felt as they travelled on the bus in Alabama in America.

Nelson Mandela

We have enjoyed learning about why Nelson Mandela was famous. We have investigated what he did to improve the lives of people in South Africa and around the world.

We enjoyed working as a team to create a picture of him.

Our 'Starry Night' inspired calendars

We really enjoyed studying the painting 'Starry Night'. We drew our own version of a part of the painting using a variety of lines. We thought about how we could create different tones and shades using the lines we had learnt about in our Art lessons.

OUR TIMETABLE

WORLD BOOK DAY

We had a brilliant time on Friday, reading our own favourite books, sharing with partners and our friends in school. We loved dressing in costumes or in 'dress easy'clothes  to  share books with others. We also made our favourite book characters. Thank you for your help with all of the costumes and books, it was a great day.

Forest Schools

Spring 2

We really enjoyed our first week at 'Forest Schools'. We loved working together in small groups to make our own shelters. Mrs Mannion taught us about the best knots to secure the materials.

Mrs English taught us about how to identify different mini beasts in the pond area. We also had the chance to enjoy investigating the wood' . We loved exploring.

Week 2

We had an excellent time this morning exploring the outside. We made a necklace creating beads from the alder wood. We also enjoyed creating animals out of clay today. Some of us decided to hide our creatures out amongst the trees and plants. We hope we can manage to find them.

DT:Sewing

We tried incredibly hard to design, make and then evaluate a puppet during our DT lessons. We tried very hard to learn how to thread a needle and then tried really hard to sew around the edge of our chosen puppets. We worked incredibly hard to follow our designs and make sure our hands or fingers could fit inside our puppets. Please have a look at some of our excellent examples. Great job year 2.

D.T. Slider cards

We enjoyed investigating how to make  slider cards as part of our D.T. work this term. We experimented how to make a character slide in our Christmas scenes. We wanted to try to hide the slider so that it couldn't be seen from the front of the card. Please have a look at our final versions. 

Our Christmas Party

We had a great time with both Year 1 and Reception celebrating Christmas. We enjoyed playing a game of 'Corners' and even enjoyed a visit with Santa. Please have a look at some of our photos.

Autumn 2 

FOREST Schools

We had an amazing time at our first session of 'Forest Schools'. We were all really excited and looking forward to learning outside this morning. We made some special swords that 'Hector' would have loved to use to fight against the knights.

Please have a look  through some of the photographs that explain the different things that we have enjoyed today. We even went fishing in our school pond too!

Week 2

We really enjoyed 'Forest Schools' this week. We had a fantastic time exploring our school grounds and splashing in the muddy area.

We tried very hard to carefully wrap wool around a stick to make our own Christmas elf. We even use special peelers to peel the bark off the top of the stick and create our own 'Christmas Elf'.

We enjoyed twisting and weaving wool to make our own bracelets. It was brilliant!

Week 3

We had a great time outside this week even though it was super cold. We enjoyed listening carefully and creating our own 'pinecone' animals. 

We even worked hard to use the large saws to carefully cut our own 'wood cookies'. It was brilliant! We also did some excellent work on the gardening  patch outside the classroom. It was a brilliant morning.

Week 4

We had an excellent time at 'Forest Schools' this week as it  was a very cold, bright and sunny morning. We really enjoyed making  reindeer faces out of clay. We used natural materials to make its nose, eyes and antlers. They were brilliant!

We enjoyed learning how to toast bread on the fire. Mrs Mannion showed us how to toast the bread safely using special utensils and we even used jam and butter to make it taste delicious!

We enjoyed improving our dens by using some of the large branches and donated Christmas trees. We were  also able to play a game out on the school field, it was a lovely morning.

Week 5

We had an excellent time at our last session of 'Forest School' this week. It was brilliant, we got to go on a 'Christmas Treasure Hunt. We really enjoyed hunting for decorations that an elf had left for us. :)

We even managed to make a great decoration ready for Christmas. We enjoyed mastering our wrapping techniques and also we managed to tie our own knots too.

Have a look at our 'Christmas Dens'. We tried hard to work in teams and it was great fun. We look forward to our next sessions in the spring.