Welcome to Hedgehogs – Year 2
Class Teachers are:
Mrs Tubb
Teaching Assistants:
Mrs Wesley and Mrs Poutney
Summer Term 2023
Designing our own games in PE. Super group discussions!
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We used 2Paint a Picture on Purple Mash to create our own patterns. We based our work on the artist William Morris.
2/28
Great flower patterns!
3/28
Dressed in red, white and blue to celebrate the coronation of King Charles III
6/28
We recently looked at pointillism and used this style of art to design a stamp of King Charles III
7/28
In PE we have been designing our own games.
12/28
We created simple collaged landscapes in art.
16/28
We chose colours to show depth.
17/28
We loved our educational visit to Lincoln Castle. The walls were very high.
18/28
We learnt so much about the history of Lincoln Castle from our guide.
19/28
Sitting in the bailey with a motte behind us.
21/28
We learnt how to shoot arrows like the knights at the castle.
22/28
Learning about banquets.
23/28
Serving the king, queen, lord and lady.
24/28
Great shield making!
25/28
We learnt about knights armour and even got to wear the items!
26/28
Spring Term 2023
PE- kicking a ball.
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PE- passing a ball with accuracy.
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PE. - dribbling to your partner.
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Spring Walk under a tree which is starting to blossom.
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Buds appearing on the tree in the KS2 playground.
5/73
Our bean seeds are growing and have been potted up in soil.
6/73
Spring walk - daffodils have bloomed.
7/73
Working with partners to think of ways to perform our poem - I Opened a Book by Julia Donaldson
8/73
Our been seeds have grown their first leaves.
9/73
Computing - Learning how to execute code.
10/73
Coding - creating a scene, changing backgrounds and adding objects.
11/73
Coding - creating a scene, changing backgrounds and adding objects.
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Coding - exploring the different backgrounds available.
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PE - Learning to roll a ball from different body parts in a seated position.
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PE - bouncing a ball to a partner.
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PE - passing a ball in different ways.
16/73
Music - clapping a rhythm using a metronome to go slow or fast.
17/73
Music - Learning to clap reading music.
18/73
Working together to practice different joining techniques in DT.
20/73
Great joins!
23/73
Ready for our last Forest School session this term.
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Off we go!
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It was a very windy day.
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Watching the clouds float by.
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Running against the strong wind!
29/73
Team work carrying the equipment back to school.
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We really enjoyed Roots to Food with Darren.
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Listening to instructions on how to make the Italian dish Pesto Pasta Chicken.
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Great mixing.
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Listening to Darren.
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Tearing the basil.
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Great slicing!
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Yummy!
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All gone!
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We are really enjoying our new play areas.
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Constructing a greenhouse for our bean plants.
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Planting beans so we can see the seed germinate.
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Using the tools to chop.
59/73
Forest School- using tools safety demonstration.
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Pilates - can we sit up like a zombie?
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Pilates - using a search light.
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Pilates- creating a tucked shape.
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Making a hexagon using 6 lollipop sticks.
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Exploring 2D shapes - which shapes have 3 sides?
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Using our hands to make music.
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Our first session at Forest School - searching for creatures in micro habitats.
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Adding more detail to our drawings.
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Working hard to make the same amount of money in different ways.
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Autumn Term 2022
A lovely chilly walk to the local church for EYFS & KS1 nativity performance.
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Children told the story and Christmas and how it is celebrated around the world.
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Super singing Hedgehog class!
5/55
Paper weaving in DT. First we made our warp.
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After that we made our weft, and weaved over, under, over, under.
7/55
We chose the materials we wanted for our Christmas card and then weaved them on our warp.
8/55
Great weaving techniques!
9/55
Lovely choice of colours and materials!
10/55
Some of our finished Christmas cards! The colours and fabrics were chosen by each child based upon whom their card was for.
11/55
Autumn walk to look for seasonal changes.
14/55
We had great fun throwing Autumn leaves in the air!
15/55
We spotted some fantastic mushrooms hidden in the leaves.
17/55
Making our balloon stamp
19/55
Team work to print our balloons
20/55
A great print! Well done.
21/55
Our finished art display.
22/55
Great dodging skills in our PE lessons.
23/55
We really enjoyed learning to play the Boom Whackers with Karl from Act II Theatre Company.
25/55
Making rhyming lists in English lessons.
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Super teamwork sorting rhyming words.
31/55
We loved learning how to cook Indonesian Thai Red Curry and noodles with Darren from 'Roots to Food'.
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Super chopping skills!
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Great slicing!
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All the ingredients in the wok!
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Mmmm! Smells wonderful!
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Ready to eat.
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Tasting time!
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Yum, yum! All gone!
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In Science we loved sorting common animals into groups of carnivores, herbivores and omnivores.
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We went on a walk around our village to spot evidence about Matthew Flinders. First we saw Flinders Founders Teen Park
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Matthew Flinders Park.
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Images of the UK and Australia. There are also map making tools and a compass because Matthew Flinders was a cartographer.
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Lots of images on the playground floor.
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The UK, Matthew Flinders' ship and Australia.
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Information telling us about the display in our local church.
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The Donington Trail told us information about Matthew Flinders.
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The children listening to lots of facts about Matthew Flinders.
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Image of Australia by the statue.
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Captain Matthew Flinders
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First day in Hedgehogs
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PE Days:
Tuesday with Mrs Wesley
Friday with Mrs Tubb
Homework:
Emailed each Friday and will consist of activities the children have recently covered in class. This should be returned by the following Thursday.
Class Email:
If you have any questions, please email Mrs Tubb at hedgehogs.class@cowley.lincs.sch.uk