Exploring Impressionism with 2Paint A Picture!

This week in our Computing lesson, Year 2 began an exciting new unit called Creating Pictures! In Lesson 1, we explored a fantastic program called 2Paint A Picture, and our focus was on a very special style of art: Impressionism.

First, we looked at some famous impressionist paintings. We noticed how the artists used short, quick brushstrokes, soft edges and lots of light and colour to create beautiful scenes. The children were brilliant at spotting the key features of Impressionist art and could describe them confidently – well done, everyone!

Next, it was our turn to become digital artists! Using the Impressionism template on 2Paint A Picture, the children created their own masterpieces. From shimmering gardens to dreamy landscapes, each piece captured the soft and colourful feel of the Impressionist style.

🎨 Successes from the lesson:

• The children could describe the main features of Impressionist art, using great vocabulary like “light,” “brushstrokes,” and “blurry edges.”

• Everyone had a go at creating their own Impressionist-style picture using the digital tools in 2Paint A Picture – and the results were amazing!

We can’t wait to explore more styles of art over the next few weeks and continue developing our digital creativity. 

Y2: Let the Summer term commence!

Can't quite believe we are in the Summer term already! 

I hope that you have had a lovely break. Just a short blog with some key information for the week ahead. 

Mondays: PE in the afternoon (please can we have labelled PE kits in from tomorrow)

Thursdays: Swimming in the afternoon. All children will be going to the swimming pool to learn this vital skill of learning how to swim. We have had many chats about this as a class. Mr Spracklen will be taking the class swimming. Please can you make sure you have filled in the forms about their ability. Just a reminder that all girls will need a one piece swimming costume (not bikinis), all children MUST have hats and ideally goggles. There will not be time for showers. 

This Friday 17th from 3pm: Science Fair. 

You are invited to come and view all the entries. If you have any entries then please only bring these in on Friday as we have very limited storage for them. 

If you have any questions or concerns please come and see me at the door in the morning. 

🌏Mrs Thorpe and the Year 2 team 🌍

Y2: End of term learning and Easter challenge

 What a special end of the term we have had! 

Year 2 loved visiting Helios today at The Corn Exchange. We were curious, observant and relaxed looking at the movement and colours on the Sun. We all laid down and listened to Einaudi, which helped us to really look at all the colours and shades. Once we were back at school we then used out artistic skills we have learnt about mixing colours to paint our representation of Helios. 

We hope you all have a lovely Easter break. Home learning wise for the couple of weeks, we have printed of 2,5 and 10 times table sheets. Please can you practice these as much as possible. My spelling group have recently done an end of unit check on all the spellings we have learnt so far. I have sent home a copy of their results, please practice the words they did not get correct. 

Finally, I would really like to encourage you all to take part in the Science whole school task that focusses on making something for the Science Fair on the first week back. You should have had this in an email but if not then here is a reminder. 

See you in a couple of weeks! 

🍫The Year 2 team 🐣

Y2: Science trip to the Farm

What a fantastic trip to the farm we had today. Linked with our Science learning on offspring, the children learnt about lambing and got to stroke some of the lambs. We also went and saw the cows before coming back to school for a well earned hot chocolate. 

Thank you farmer Hazel for another informative trip and for all the parent helpers. 

Year 2: British Science week Newt investigation and more!

 What a brilliant start to Science week we have had! Today as well as practising for our upcoming assembly (this Friday at 9.30am), we have been curious! We spent time pond dipping and then we made a tally chart of the different species of newts we found. Using this data we then made pictograms. 

It was then Year 2's turn to join myself and the STEM ambassadors in STEM club. Today we experimented with making secret notes that change colour when we painted a special solution over them. 

This Friday is our class assembly as well as red nose day. The children can come in home clothes and wear something red. 

Understanding the Internet

Year Two pupils enjoyed an exciting Computing lesson this week as they began their new unit on Effective Searching.

During the lesson, pupils explored one of the biggest questions in modern technology: What is the Internet? Together, we discovered that the Internet is a global network made up of millions of computers and devices connected across the world. These devices communicate using a mixture of cables, fibre optics and wireless technology to share information.

The class also learned about the World Wide Web and how it is different from the Internet. While the Internet is the huge network of connected computers, the World Wide Web is the collection of webpages and documents that we see when we browse online.

Pupils were introduced to web browsers such as Chrome, Safari and Firefox, and discussed how these tools help us access websites. They also learned about web addresses (URLs) and how typing an address into the browser allows us to visit a particular webpage.

We then explored search engines, such as Google and Bing and discussed how they help us find information quickly on the Internet. Pupils discovered that search engines don’t search the whole Internet directly but instead look through an index of webpages to help us find what we need.

It was fantastic to see pupils developing their digital understanding and beginning to think carefully about how we find information online. These skills are an important part of becoming confident and responsible digital learners.

We look forward to continuing our learning next week as Year Two begin practising effective searching skills.

Year 2: End of the week

Thank you to all of the mystery readers that came and read to the children this week. The children have loved listening to parents read. 

This week the children have started to learn about our new story 'We are Water Protectors'. In Maths we have just finished our unit on Money. 

Here are a few pictures of our week:

Hope you all have a lovely weekend 

🌟The Year 2 Team 🌟