In this topic the children will be learning and exploring about our place in the world. We will be looking at aerial photographs from space of Earth and looking at the human and physical features. In Science we will be taking part in some exciting investigations such as ‘which material will make the best spacesuit?’ and a fizzy bottle rocket investigation. We will also be learning about the Lunar rover and designing and making our own.

For this half term we will be writing a losing tale influenced by the story Beegu.

The children will also be writing instructions on how to make Beegu’s spaceship.

Something very unsual happened at school after half term… we found evdience that Beegu the Alien had been to visit! She even left us her very own book to read over this half term.

In this topic the children will be learning and exploring our local area. We will be looking at the city of Derby, studying different maps of Derby and the local area around school. Through history we will be looking at the history of the city and changes within living memory. In science we will be studying plants, we will get the opportunity to grow our own cress and experiment what it needs to grow. We will also be making our own street signs and cities using recycled materials. 

The focus text for this term is Meerkat Mail by Emily Gravett. We will be studying the text and writing our own journey stories. We will then be looking at Persuasive adverts and writing our own persuasive adverts to get more people to visit Derby.

We have had a visitor come into year 2 this term. It was Sunny! He came with his suitcase and a postcard telling us that he still hadn’t found a nice place to live so through he would come and try Derby. He also asked if we could look after him while he was visiting and he would telling us about all his adventures. We decided that we wanted to write his story down.

Due to COVID we haven’t been able to have our memorable experience this term. Hopefully we can re arrange it for another time.

For this topic we will be learning about Brazil, using our geography skills to locate Brazil on a map and then comparing Brazil to the UK. Through this topic we will also be investigating colour mixing and creating our own head-dresses through the technique of weaving. Also in computing we will get the the opportunity to create digital images of jungle animals.

Our science topic this term focus’ on animals and their habitats. We will be looking at a range of habitats, food chains and if things are alive, dead or never alive.

This half term we will be looking at the fiction story ‘The Papaya that Spoke’ retold by Pie Corbett. This is a journey story. We will be focusing on Characterisation and looking how speech is used through the story.

We will then be looking at Information texts. We will be exploring a range of information texts and investigating and identifying the features. We will then use this knowledge to create our own information text about Brazil.

A strange package appeared in our classroom after lunch. It was from South Africa, we knew this because of the labels it had on it. We tried to guess what it could be but in the end we decided to open the box. Inside we found some Papaya’s!

We investigated the papayas closely and even got to have a taste!

Coming Soon

Through this Topic children will be looking at Florence Nightingale. They will be learning about her life and why she is important to remember. In Art the children will be learning about Carl Warner and will  get the opportunity to recreate some of their own work using his as inspiration. In Science we will be looking at out bodies and what our bodies need to stay healthy. Finally we will be making healthy pizzas in Design and Technology.

Our focus fiction text for this half term is ‘The Magic Paintbrush’ This is a defeating the monster story. We will also be doing an explanation text about explaining why Florence Nightingale is Famous?

Over the holiday an odd paintbrush arrived in the classroom. It was huge! Mrs Newbury and Miss Sheldon decided to try it out (and film it for the classes to see), to their surprise it was magic! Anything that Mrs Newbury drew came alive.

For our topic experience we had a messy afternoon! We got to explore different textures like, spaghetti, play dough, paint, cornflour, and jelly. We really did make a mess.

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