Waingroves Primary School

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.

Spring 2

Our Topic 'WOW' task.

We were really excited to start learning about 'The Titanic'. We loved making our own binoculars so that we would have been a brilliant 'look out' on 'The Titanic'.

Our fabulous trip to 'The Titanic Exhibition' in Leeds.

We had a great trip to the 'Titanic Exhibition' in Leeds yesterday. We were able to look at lots of different artefacts that had been discovered on the ship itself. We even got to sit in a lifeboat and talk to 'Captain Smith'. Please have a look at some of the photos that we took on the day, it was an amazing place to visit. 

Art in Spring 2

We had an excellent couple of days learning about painting. We learnt how to create 'tints' and 'shades' of colours.

We loved sketching and painting fruit and vegetables. We tried hard to use shades of different colours.

We also looked at 'Watermelons by Frida Kahlo' and tried to use this technique to paint a small section of her art work. It was brilliant, we really enjoyed our painting work. Please have a look at some of our own excellent paintings using 'tints and shades' of colours. Well done everyone in Year 2, you worked so hard. :)

World Book Day

We had an excellent day in Year 2 when it was 'World Book Day'.

We tried hard to make our own book marks. We enjoyed reading our books with our good friends.

It was also really interesting to learn about how an illustrator 'Rob Biddulph' draws his characters for authors books and films. We had a great time.

Spring 1

Learning about our feelings with 'Compass Changing lives'.

We had a fabulous afternoon working with 'Compass Changing lives'. We really enjoyed listening  to 'The colour monster' book.   We talked about the big feelings we all have sometimes and what can make us feel happy, sad, scared or loved. We worked with our learning partners and tried to explain how we felt.  We worked together to  draw what made us feel one of those emotions on our versions of the colour monster.

Please pop in and look at what we shared.

We all enjoyed making our own small 'Yi' dinosaurs at the start of our topic. We tried really hard to make it stand up on its own too.

DT days in Spring 1

Sewing

We worked incredibly hard in our DT topic this half term. First, we investigated how to fasten materials together securely. Then afterwards, we tried hard to design, make and evaluate objects that we thought the 'Royal Family' would love.

Please have a look at our excellent finished products. We are very proud of our hard work.

Autumn 2

Our topic for Autumn 1

Our Topic Wow!

We really enjoyed making rainbows!

Autumn 2

Our Topic WOW.

We enjoyed talking about what made a person famous. We tried hard to draw our favourite famous person. We then explained to our 'class mates' why our chosen person was famous. Can you guess who we have drawn?

Personal Study

We have been working really hard on our 'Personal Study' topics this week. We have enjoyed discovering  why people were brave and how they have changed the world for the better.

Please have a look at some of the models we have created so far.

Our Christmas Party

We had a fabulous time at our Christmas Party today! We even had a very special guest ! 

We all enjoyed our special party food too, it was delicious.

Christmas Cards 2024

We had an excellent time making our Christmas cards this year. We always enjoy painting and tried very hard to print our own designs this year. We hope you enjoyed them.

2025 Calendars

We enjoyed learning about 'Vincent Van Gogh' and his style of painting. We tried to use watercolours to create a landscape that showed our favourite place. We were really pleased with our finished paintings.

RE 

We really enjoyed making a 'Hanukkah Wreath' in our RE lesson with Mrs Davies and Mrs Smith. We worked really hard to cut and arrange the handprints so that they looked like a wreath.

DT days in Autumn 2

We worked really hard to create our own 'Slider cards'. We carefully followed the instructions to make a 'Penguin Slider'. We then used some of the excellent ideas we learnt to plan, make and evaluate our own 'Christmas Slider cards'.

OUR TIMETABLE

Autumn 2

Forest Schools Week 1

We had a great morning out today taking part in 'Forest Schools'. We learnt about how to 'lash' two small pieces of wood to make a 'sword' like Hector in our book 'Hector and the big bad Knight'. We tried hard to work as part of a team. 

We enjoyed making a bird feeder using an apple, an apple corer and sesame seeds. We tried hard to follow the instructions and listened really carefully. Please look at our photos from our excellent morning outside.

Week 2

We had a fantastic morning outside in the snow today. Take a look at some of the amazing things we enjoyed doing.

Week 3

We had a fabulous morning outside at 'Forest Schools' this week. We enjoyed learning how to toast slices of apple on the fire. Some of us really enjoyed dipping the delicious apple slices in cinnamon sugar. It was lovely.

We also enjoyed learning how to make our own bracelets, some of us were even able to create sparks using fire strikes! We had an amazing time.

Week 4

We had an excellent time today at Forest Schools. We listened carefully and really enjoyed learning how to use a large saw. We concentrated really carefully and loved making a 'Father Christmas'. We also had the chance to make a 'Clay Reindeer'  using natural materials.  We kept super warm with a yummy drink of hot chocolate. It was an amazing morning. :) 

Forest Schools Week 5

We had an excellent time at Forest Schools this week. We made a fantastic 'Fir Cone Christmas Tree' and even followed the clues left by a 'Christmas Elf' to find the Christmas treats. 

We worked together as a team to build and explore our surroundings, we made shelters and constructed lots of different things together. Please have a look at what we got up to today.

Autumn 1

Our Art 'Drawing' days have been amazing!

We have really enjoyed our ART lessons. We have learnt lots of different 'drawing techniques.  It was really interesting to draw using pen. Have a look at our fantastic portraits of our friends.

We enjoyed learning about how to create hard and soft lines. We even learnt how to draw using pen. Here are some examples of our work. 

We had an excellent time on Friday. Thank you  to our grown ups at home for helping us carve faces into our  pumpkins. A big thank you to our school councillors too, we had a brilliant time :)