Oldfield Primary School: Year 2: Gallery

Y2 Forest Schools with Mrs Woodington, by Miss Shaw

Date: 10th Mar 2015 @ 7:14pm

Y2 World Book Day, by Miss Shaw

Date: 6th Mar 2015 @ 5:23pm

What a fun day we had on World Book Day! The costumes you came dressed in were AMAZING! Thank you so much for going to so much effort- you all looked wonderful. We completed a book scavenger hunt in our classroom which gamve us a lovely chance to get all of our book corner books and maybe have a look at some books we hadn't seen before :) We visited the library and had some lovely stories read to us- Aliens love underpants and Billy's Bucket! We also took part in the book swap in the hall. A fantastic day was had by all :)

Y2 Chinese New Year, by Miss Shaw

Date: 27th Feb 2015 @ 4:20pm

Y2 Farm to Fork Trip to Tesco, by Miss Shaw

Date: 24th Feb 2015 @ 6:58pm

When Miss Shaw told everybody we were going to Tesco for our school trip...we were all a bit confused! But what a fantastic time we had.

We made our own bread rolls, searched the store for Fairtrade Products, we sampled the cheeses from the cheese counter and talked about how our 5 a day can keep us healthy :)

Y2 Tobias' lesson on static electricity!, by Miss Shaw

Date: 6th Feb 2015 @ 4:12pm

Y2 find a mysterious beanstalk, by Miss Shaw

Date: 6th Feb 2015 @ 4:09pm

Y2 Making African Surprise Fruit Skewers!, by Miss Shaw

Date: 5th Feb 2015 @ 6:46pm

We had great fun in the kitchen this week making African Surprise Fruit Skewers! In science we have been learning about the benefits of healthy eating and have been learning about where our fruit comes from. We used the iPads to find out which countries produced which fruits. We made our fruit skewers using some of the fruits we had researched and made a lovely African recipe dip. Thank you to Mrs Hilsden for helping us to prepare the skewers :)

Y2 Numeracy, by Miss Shaw

Date: 29th Jan 2015 @ 7:10pm

Year 2 have had such fun this week learning about symmetry. We have had chance to create some fantastic symmetrical patterns and looked for patterns in shapes.

Y2 Staying Fit and Healthy , by Miss Shaw

Date: 29th Jan 2015 @ 7:06pm

We have had a great few weeks in Year 2 learning all about staying fit and healthy! For our homework this week we had to make a poster on why exercise is good for you and I was so impressed with EVERYBODY's posters that I just had to share them on the website. Here are just a few of the fantastic examples...

Year 2 Investigating Artefacts, by Miss Shaw

Date: 19th Jan 2015 @ 5:08pm

This week we have been looking very closely at some artefacts that have been brought back from Kenya and from South Africa.

We have been learning about creating light and dark using pencils and how to use different types of pencil to create texture when drawing. We applied what we had learned by creating some detailed drawing of our artefacts. Just look how fabulous our drawings are!

Year 2 Investigating Kenya!, by Miss Shaw

Date: 15th Jan 2015 @ 5:24pm

Year 2 Christmas Time, by Miss Shaw

Date: 17th Dec 2014 @ 10:17pm

KS1 Christmas Performance Prickly Hay, by Miss Shaw

Date: 17th Dec 2014 @ 10:12pm

Y2 Candle Factory Visit, by Miss Shaw

Date: 24th Nov 2014 @ 8:49pm

Y2 Fun at the Fire Station!, by Miss Shaw

Date: 24th Nov 2014 @ 6:45pm

We had a fantastic day at the fire station meeting the fire fighters on Green Watch. We got to watch a drill, had a go of the hoses and got to sit in the fire engines. We had a fantastic time! Thank you to everybody at Chester Fire Station for having us and ensuring we had a great day with you.

Year 2 What makes our city so great?, by Miss Shaw

Date: 1st Nov 2014 @ 12:13pm

These are our fantastic charloal drawings of our wonderful city. We have been learning about the landmarks of our city that make it such a great place to live!

Y2 Worry Dolls from Guatemala, by Miss Shaw

Date: 24th Oct 2014 @ 4:14pm

This week we have been reading the wonderful book Silly Billy by Anthony Browne (our author of the month!)

In the story Billy's Grandma gives im some Guatemalan worry dolls. If you tell a worry doll your worries before bedtime they will do all your worrying for you while they are under your pillow. We thought we would have a little go at making some ourselves, so that we have someone to tell our worries to at bedtime.

Y2 Investigating 3D Shapes, by Miss Shaw

Date: 24th Oct 2014 @ 4:07pm

We have learnt so much about 3D shapes this week! We decided the best way to investigate shape was to make some shapes of out own...so we did! We used Marshmallows for our vertices and raw spaghetti for out edges to make skeleton shapes. Here are some of the shapes we managed to make!

Year 2 Baking Biscuit Bears, by Miss Shaw

Date: 7th Oct 2014 @ 8:18pm

We have been reading Biscuit Bear by Mini Grey in Guided Reading this week and so decided we would like to bake some biscuit bears of our own! We are also looking at reversible and irreversible changes to materials in Science. We are going to practise our non-fiction writing andwrite some instructions for how to make a Biscuit Bear!

Making a boat for Compare Bear!, by Miss Shaw

Date: 26th Sep 2014 @ 5:16pm

As part of our work on Materials, Year 2 investigated which material would make the best boat for Compare Bear! We had lots of fun making our boats and floating them in a washing up bowl lake!

Investigating our local area!, by Miss Shaw

Date: 16th Sep 2014 @ 4:00pm

Year 2 had a great time this week investigating our local area! Here are some photos of us.

Thank you to Mrs Rustom and Mr Owens who came to help on the walk!

Traction Man is Here!, by Miss Shaw

Date: 12th Sep 2014 @ 8:19pm

Y2 Summer Pebble Treat , by Miss Lynch

Date: 13th Jun 2014 @ 12:27pm

Year 2 thoroughly enjoyed their pebble jar treat. Special thanks to Jonny Riley for suggesting a biking afternoon. The children rode their bikes, played with their teddies and enjoyed drinks and nibbles in the forest! It was such a great afternoon.