Year 2HR: Blog items
Date: 21st Jan 2020 @ 11:49am
Today we had a Chinese workshop and we had some special visitors to teach us about Chinese dancing and plate painting. First we did our plate painting which was really fun and exciting! We designed beautiful, colourful dragons onto ceramic plates with oil paints. After our plate painting we went into the hall and learned a Dragon Dance. We learned how dragons move and put the movements into a dance alongside the chinese music. Afterwards we wore a Chinese dragon and did a parade!
"It was an amazing day when we went into the community room and painted plates" Carlie Rose
"I really liked it when we were under the sheet doing the Dragon Dance" John
"It was really fun when we learned to do a Dragon Dance" Zendaya
Date: 16th Jan 2020 @ 5:57am
2HR have created some beautiful artwork during the art lessons themed around The Great Fire of London. The children have throughly enjoyed designing their own Tudor Houses and then collating them together to create a class display where they have then added effective, colourful printing techniques that resemble the fire.
To celebrate and share the children's work we held an art exhibition as our end of topic experience!
Thank you to all of the parents and carers who attended the event. The children love sharing their learning with you and were very excited to teach you everything that they have learned about the topic The Great Fire of London.
NEW TOPIC! Where would you rather live: Manchester or Wuhan?
Date: 16th Jan 2020 @ 5:50am
Welcome back! We hope you had a wonderful Christmas break!
When 2HR returned back to school, we had a fantastic day launching our new topic about China! The children were very enthused to share what they already know about China and shared questions about what they would look to find out and explore further.
Part of the fun day was to create an environment where we felt like we were in China so we decided to create Chinese lanterns and decorate our classroom with them!
Date: 9th Dec 2019 @ 3:46pm
Year 2HR have enjoyed programming Beebots. They programmed the Beebots to visit places in London!
Date: 8th Dec 2019 @ 7:36pm
This half term 2HR have been learning about The Great Fire of London. We have role-played the story as a class, sequenced the story and even used musical instruments to perfrom it.
Date: 3rd Jun 2019 @ 6:33pm
Spelling in Year 2
Children have five spellings to learn for each week of this half term. Please take time each week to help your child learn their spellings. The impact of learning their spellings can be seen in their reading and writing throughout the curriculum and is so important.
Children will still be tested each Monday on the spellings listed for that week by writing them in dictated sentences.
We appreciate your help with their learning.
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Week 1 Tested on 10th June |
lorries jellies replies parties copies |
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Week 2 Tested on 17th June |
careful playful hopeful hopeless careless |
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Week 3 Tested on 24th June |
station nation fiction fraction direction |
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Week 4 Tested on 1st July |
copying copied worried funniest messiest |
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Week 5 Tested on 8th July |
happiness kindness silliness enjoyment movement |
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Week 6 Tested on 15th July |
metal pedal capital hospital magical |
Date: 23rd Apr 2019 @ 8:21am
Welcome back to school!
Keep working hard on these spellings every week. Tests will be on Monday.
All your hard work at home really makes a big difference!
Date: 8th Jan 2019 @ 12:58pm
Remember to look after your Spring 1 spelling lists that came home yesterday.
Spelling tests will be every Monday with prizes for those getting 100%.
Remember....practice makes progress!
Date: 25th Nov 2018 @ 9:53pm
Spelling in Year 2
As part of our school improvement goals to improve spelling at Ravensbury we will be using a new spelling programme called No Nonsense Spelling.
Spelling lists will be sent home at the beginning of each half term. Please practice the five spellings for each week with your child at home using a range of strategies.
Children will still be tested each Monday on the spellings listed for that week.
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Week 3 Tested on 19th November |
night knight there their they’re |
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Week 4 Tested on 26th November |
some come friend school house |
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Week 5 Tested on 3rd December |
here there where our hour |
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Week 6 Tested on 10th December |
kind mind behind child climb |
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Week 7 Tested on 17th December |
Christmas children most only both |
Date: 16th Nov 2018 @ 5:00pm
Today we wore spotty socks/ odd socks and tights and donated money for children in need. 
Date: 14th Nov 2018 @ 4:31pm
FIRE! FIRE!
In 1666 there was a huge fire which destroyed most of London. We learnt it started in a bakery on pudding lane.
For our launch we made bread. It was delisious, maybe we will all be bakers when we are older.
Date: 26th Apr 2018 @ 1:51pm
We had such a good day for World Book Day, we shared our favourite books and characters with other children in school.
In our class we had a quiz to test our book knowledge. It was so much fun competing against each other. Each group did extremely well and got more than 10 answers correct. The winning team was the princesses and the hero! well done!
Date: 26th Apr 2018 @ 1:50pm
Today 2JB went to Beijing.
We all had boarding passes and travelled on a plane, we had to go through security and baggage claim. Once we arrived in China we had a guided tour around the famous landmarks of Beijing. We visited the Great Wall of China, the Forbidden City, the Summer Palace and the Birds Nest Stadium. It was so much fun! We then took a quick flight home in time for our parents to pick us up at home time.
Date: 26th Apr 2018 @ 1:45pm
On Friday 16th March, Year 2 investigated what happens when you mix milk, food colouring and washing up liquid together.
Fist we carefully poured milk onto a plate.
Then we dropped different coloured food colouring on to the milk. We used orange, blue and pink food colouring.
Next we put a cotton bud the was covered in washing-up liquid into the centre of the plate.
Our Results
We observed how the food colouring moved around the plate when we touched the milk with the cotton bud. This is because the milk contains fat, the washing-up liquid bonds with the fat in the milk and the food colouring is pushed out because the bond is so strong.
Date: 15th Mar 2018 @ 9:53am
We had such a good day for World Book Day, we shared our favourite books and characters with other children in school.
In our class we had a quiz to test our book knowledge. It was so much fun competing against each other. Each group did extremely well and got more than 10 answers correct. The winning team was the princesses and the hero! well done!
