This week in Year 2, we have been discussing what we think plants and flowers need to survive. We decided that plants need water, sunlight, food and soil. To test this we have started an experiment where we will watch bean seeds grow over time.

To test whether they need sunlight, some have been placed in the sunlight and some have been placed in the dark. We predict that the ones in the sunlight will grow much better than the one in the dark. In addition, we have also planted them in cotton wool to test whether a seed really needs soil to germinate. Year 2 will be checking up on the bean’s progress weekly.

Welcome back to Year 2!

This is a very important term for Year 2, with SATs swiftly approaching, and they have all come back to school with their learning heads on. Well done we!

We have begun learning about our new topic of plants. Not only have we been finding out about plants, how they grow and what we use them for, but we have also been finding out how to plant seeds and care for them.

We planted some sunflowers and found out they could be yellow, dark red or orange. We also learned that the tallest sunflower ever grown was over 9m tall! WOW!

Here are some pictures of Year 2’s new gardeners.

This week we have been learning about directions and patterns. We have learned that patterns have rules. Some patterns have easy rules and some patterns have hard rules. In direction we have learned that anti-clockwise is left and clockwise is right. We know how to do a half turn, quarter turn, three quarter turn and a whole turn.

Sometimes we use north, east, south and west to help us with our turns. You can have 2 or 3 of the same pattern of shape but you can change the colour of the shape. For a example you need 5 different things in one pattern. For a example you could have blue, pink, purple orange and it repeats one more time. Did you know that there is a right angle and they are a quarter turn clockwise and anti-clockwise. From Ellis and Ismael in Year 2.

KS1 have been thinking about their lovely mums and all of the amazing things that they do for us. To celebrate them this week, we had an assembly where we told our mums how much we loved them.

Year 2 sang some songs while their fantastic mums treated themselves to some tea and cake. Then we recited a special poem all about how much they mean to us.

The children were so enthusiastic and all of the mums seemed to really enjoy yourself. Make sure you take the time out to tell your mums or loved ones how much they mean to you!