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.

Summer 2

OUR TOPIC WOW

We have made an excellent start to our new topic learning about Australia. We really enjoyed talking about where the continents are in the world. The children loved remembering the song that they had learnt with Mrs Parkin . Please have a look at the models that we have made today, We had a brilliant time attaching the different continents in the correct places. Well done everyone.

Our Marvellous Medicine.

We all worked so very hard to make our own marvellous medcines. We wanted to use the most exciting ingredients that we could find! Please have a look at our amazing finished potions.

Summer 1

Compass Changing Lives

We really enjoyed working with the people from 'Compass'. We listened to the book 'The Colour Doctor'. We also thought about what we need to use to make us feel good every day. 

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

Women's Euro Football Day

We had an exciting day in school on Thursday celebrating football. We really enjoyed dressing up in different colours to represent countries in Europe. We tried hard to learn the names of different capital cities in Europe too. 

We really enjoyed competing in mini games of football in the afternoon. We tried hard to take on different roles to help each other. Some of us enjoyed being part of a team, competing against each other, being a goalkeeper or being a special time keeper. It was a great experience for all of us in Year Two.

Summer 1

Forest Schools Week 1

We had an excellent morning at our first 'Forest Schools' of the summer term. We really enjoyed learning how to use the large saws to cut our own wood cookie. Mrs Mannion helped us to cut the cookie really carefully.

We had a brilliant time 'forest bathing' with Mrs English. It was lovely to hear all of the birds, insects and children enjoying the warm spring sunshine. We worked in pairs to investigate our school grounds  too. We found lots of signs of Spring too. 

We all enjoyed planting vegetable seeds with Mrs Smith in one of the raised beds at the back of our classroom.  Please have a look at some of the excellent dens we made, we had a brilliant time. :)

Forest Schools

Week 2

We had a really exciting morning out at 'Forest Schools' this morning. We were thinking about 'May Day' and the celebrations that we traditionally have in the UK. We enjoyed learning how to dance around the 'Maypole'. We had to work as a team to negotiate the patterns and the different colours to complete the pattern. We had a fabulous time with Mrs English.

We learnt how to make a 'May Stick' with Mrs Mannion. We collected lots of different leaves, flowers, seeds and feathers, it was interesting to see who could find the greatest variety. We listened carefully to discover how to wrap all of the 'signs of spring' together. It was brilliant!

We all loved taking part in the 'crowning' of our May day  'King and Queen'. It was lots of fun to process around our school grounds playing our percussion instruments , singing, dancing and enjoying the May sunshine. We had an excellent time and learnt lots of things about the traditions of 'May Day'.

Forest Schools week 3

We had a fantastic morning out in the beautiful sunshine at 'Forest Schools'. 

We went down to the pond and loved looking around this whole area. We thought carefully about our favourite aspects of nature that we could see around us. We really enjoyed relaxing, sketching and painting using water colours.

We also learnt how to make sparks using a 'fire strike'. It was really exciting and some of us managed to make amazing  sparks. We then toasted marshmallows over our open fire and we thoroughly enjoyed making 's'mores'. They were delicious!

It was a special birthday for one of our class today. His Mum kindly sent a special treat for all of us to share, it was lovely. We tried to sing  him a special 'Waingroves' Happy birthday song .  We had an excellent morning outside in the sunshine. 

Forest School week 4

We had a fabulous lesson this morning out in the sunshine. We made tents together and loved trying to make sure the tent pegs would fasten into the ground. Have a look at our finished tents, they were amazing!

Forest Schools Week 5

We really enjoyed our last morning out at 'Forest Schools'. We worked in teams trying to create a zip line for a 'British animal' fluffy toy. It was really good fun trying to fasten a rope from one tree to the next to create a steep zip line. We enjoyed trying to attach the 'plushie' to the zip wires.

We also went on an 'nature hunt' looking for 'juicy' leaves and flowers. We wanted  to make prints using a mallet to release all of the juice onto our fabric. This technique was called 'Happa zome'. It was hard work, but we all loved the patterns that we managed to create. 

Finally we  played  a game with Mrs English and Mrs Mannion. Thank you, we had a great time and thoroughly enjoyed  Forest Schools.

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 :)