Parents, children and grandparents joined together with the Year 2 staff team for an hour of model boat building and designing for our latest Curiosity Cafe. The children have been working on the Oliver Jeffer’s story ‘Lost and Found’ and great fun was had creating the little boat in which the penguin and the boy voyaged to The South Pole. Boats were created complete with sails, lifebelts, suitcases, comfortable seats, a little boy and a penguin. The classroom buzzed with an excited and slightly competitive atmosphere! Later in the day boats were tested in a tray of water in the classroom and after school in the large puddle on the playground!

This morning whilst the choir went to see Annie, Year 2 combined with Year 4 and some Year 5s, including the digital leaders, to create interactive pictures linked to ‘The Gigantic Turnip’. The Year 2s proved themselves very capable of listening to their new teachers who were eager to share their skills.

Welcome to Year 2. Mrs Grogutt and Mrs Rivett have been delighted to welcome thirty lovely young people and also Mrs Milligan and Mrs Bugdale to our team. The children have made a fantastic start to their year. They arrive at school smiling and eager to learn each day, are working incredibly hard and being kind and respectful to each other.

The children have been thoroughly enjoying playing on our new wonderful pirate ship and the additions to the trim trail. They have also been choosing books from our new library. We do hope that they will bring their books home to share with you as well as looking at them in school.

Enjoying the Pirate ship!

Some of Year 2 with one of their favourite books.

Another busy and exciting week in Year 2 as our milk bottle igloo continues to grow and near completion. We have run out of milk bottles so please keep supplying us with clean 4 pint bottles with their lids! This time next week I anticipate it to be finished!

Thank you to everyone who came to our Literacy Café on Wednesday morning where we had great fun creating igloos from frosting and mini-marshmallows! Who would have thought that igloos could be created in so many ways? We also talked about the plans for our Book corner. If you have any great creative ideas or things which you would like to donate then please let us know.

In maths this week the children have been learning to weigh objects using balance scales and thinking about making sensible estimates and comparisons. They enjoyed putting their learning in to action on Friday morning as they weighed and measured cake ingredients with Mrs Rivett and Mrs Milligan. Each child was able to take home a bag of chocolate chip buns which I am sure they enjoyed.

Photos of the igloo, reading café and cake making to be posted soon!