London Fields Primary School

Today we looked at the artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo, then created our own portraits using fruit and vegetables. The children enjoyed making unique and expressive portraits. Make sure you ask them about their work and see if they can remember Arcimboldo’s name!

Year 2 have been lucky to look after some chicks as part of their Science learning about life cycles! It was amazing to witness them hatch and grow into the fascinating creatures that they are. The children took on the responsibility of caring for, cleaning, and feeding them! The children were sad to see them go, so they wrote some lovely cards which have been sent to the chicks’ new home.

We are very excited to be learning all about money in Year 2! We started the topic today exploring the difference between copper and silver coins. We discovered we can use our skip-counting skills to find the total value of a number of coins. We had to pay special attention to each coin to make sure we knew how much each was worth. 

We can't wait to learn about pound coins and notes in the lessons to come this week! 

Year 2 have thoroughly enjoyed this term's Dance lessons in PE. The children have loved making different shapes with their bodies and travelling at different speeds and heights. They choreographed different motifs for a circus-themed routine and learnt a rainforest routine which they performed in unison.  

This half term, our big question in PSHE was 'What is bullying?' The children learnt what bullying is - a deliberately hurtful behaviour which is repeated more than once - and how it can take be verbal, physical and/ or online. The children were given scenarios to sort which involved either bullying or behaviours that were unkind. They remembered that bullying happens again and again whereas unkind behaviours happen once. They also thought about how to help someone who is being bullied and were reminded that adults are there to help. 

This week Year 2 learnt that 2D shapes can be joined together to make 3D shapes! We identified that a cuboid is made up of rectangular and square faces. We particularly enjoyed folding our own 3D shapes out of paper. We predicted beforehand what shape we were going to construct based on the faces our net had.