Yesterday, we combined our artistic and mathematical skills by using ratios to turn primary colours into secondary colours. We discovered that different ratios of blue to red created different purples; different ratios of red to yellow created different oranges; and different ratios of yellow to blue, of course, created different greens. Farai decided that, to make a ‘good’ orange, you needed more yellow than red.
Here we are in action…
…and our end product…
Great work, Y2.
This week’s homework is Practice makes perfect and is due on Wednesday 01 October.
I can use a number line for addition.
Your child has been practising addition in class for the last two weeks. They have work that is suited to their learning in their homework books which will allow them to practise the skills they have developed and offers the suggestion of learning that will challenge them.
Practice Makes Perfect
This is similar to what you might consider traditional homework: it may be a worksheet or a writing task (such as Y5’s current homework: I can write instructions). Practice Makes Perfect is useful homework when something has been taught in school but needs consolidation. The work should be fairly straightforward for the child as there should be no need for new learning, so just some encouragement from you is needed. However, it would be a great time to get your child to teach you – they should be able to explain the key points or processes! We use this type of homework less often because usually the best practice is where a teacher can keep feeding back and presenting new challenges when they see it as appropriate. Teachers mark these activities in line with our marking policy.
As always, please ask if you’ve any questions or concerns.
Friday was filled with drama and costume making as Years 1 and 2 set to work to create a performance in just one day! While half of the class worked on creating a scene, the other half were hard at work cutting, colouring and combing masks and props for the final performance. Then…we swapped.
The show took our audience through a number of paintings just like Katie (the main character of our class novels) and watched her lose a girl’s hoop, argue with monkeys, run from a tiger and dance with shapes – not to mention hiding from the gallery guard!
If you couldn’t make it, here are a few pictures from our main performance.
Over the summer holiday, Mrs Janice Rush stood down from her role as Chair of our Governing Body.
Over the summer holiday, Mrs Janice Rush stood down from her role as Chair of our Governing Body.
Mrs Rush became Chair at the same time as I started at Moortown: in the autumn term of 2007-2008 school year. Having put in seven years as Chair (and some time on our governing body before that), we will miss her a great deal and are extremely grateful for all her efforts. She has worked tirelessley and tenaciously to help the school move from ‘good’ to the outstanding school we are today. She provided the right balance of support and challenge to me and to a governing body which has become even more integral to our school and the processes we have in place. In recent months, she was especially proactive in attempting to secure the best possible outcome for the field, and for this we are also grateful.
Mrs Becky Lawrence, our former Vice-Chair, has been voted in as the new Chair to replace Mrs Rush. Currently on maternity leave, Mrs Lawrence works for Children’s Services and brings a wealth of experience and skills, especially statistical expertise.
Mrs Rachel Greenhalgh, mother of Y3 and Y1 children, is our new Vice-Chair. Like Mrs Lawrence, Mrs Greenhalgh has a great deal of useful skills, with a particular passion around the teaching and learning of Maths.
We’ve got art fever in Year 2 with the start of Big Topic. We’re looking at a series of books based around a little girl called Katie. She visits the Art Gallery with her Grandma but always manages to get into mischief by journey right into the paintings!
Katie knocked over Van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’ in this weeks story but don’t panic – we’ve created our own (that’s just as good, if not better) to replace them.
Here’s how we created this whole class piece of art…
Martha even had a go at doing her own coloured version at home.
Year 2 went on a journey through the rainforest on Wednesday but nobody left their yoga mat! We had great fun doing a rain dance as we got used to the rainforest’s humid climate and then climbed trees and met many animals before sailing down the Amazon and back home. Take a look at our fantastic poses.
What a great yoga class. Well done, Year 2!
This week’s homework is Talk Time and is due on Wednesday 24 September 2014.
I can talk about a painting.
Have a discussion at home (maybe over dinner) about ‘Sunflowers’ by Vincent Van Gogh. Here are some questions that might help your discussion.
From this year, your child is expected to make some notes about they they’ve discussed. Also, please could you (the adult) sign the page or possibly write a comment to show that this homework has been discussed and how your child engaged in the discussion.
This week’s homework is creative and is due on Wednesday 17 September.
I can show what I have learnt about the world.
Remember, creative homework involves a creative piece of open-ended work based around the ‘I can …’ statement above. The only rule is not to use more than one page of A4.
You could
Now that we’ve all settled into Year 2, it’s time to say welcome back to everybody and well done for such a great start to the year.
Already, we’ve been exploring our use of adjectives by working together to make sentences more interesting…
A dog walked down the street.
An angry dog scurried hurriedly down the narrow street so he could get back home.
We’ve also got lots of facts to remember for our Where in the world? topic. Here are some things we need to know. Maybe you could test us at home…
Keep up the hard work, Year 2.
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