Blackfell Primary School

Art-Giuseppe Arcimboldo

This term we are finding out about the work of the famous artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo. First we looked at his self portrait and discussed the questions... How does his choice of colour make you feel?  What might it tell you about him? We found out lots of information about him and answered questions to create a fact file.  Next we created our own self portrait in the style of Giuseppe Arcimboldo using lines and shading. We chose one colour to represent our mood and used it to add shade to the background of our self portraits.

Take a look at our self portraits!

Excellent art work Year 2!

Art- Elements

We worked in pairs to recreate one of Arcimboldo’s four paintings of the elements: fire, water, air and earth. We selected and cut out images for our chosen element and carefully considered which images would best represent facial features. Finally we explained our choices. Look at our fantastic representation of our chosen element!

Sports Day

What a fantastic afternoon we had at Sports Day! Well done to all of Year 2, they gave everything their best and earned lots of points for their house teams. Well done to the overall winners- Oak!

Riddle Poems

In Literacy, we have moved on to learning about Riddles and identifying their features. We will be writing our own at the end of the unit. In this first lesson, we worked as a group to learn and perform a riddle for the class to guess!

Solider Visit

As part of our aspirations week, we were visited by a solider who helps to train and ensure other soldiers are physically fit and healthy. He spoke to us about how he worked in the army for 25 years and the places he had been and visited.

People Who Care For us 

In PSHE, we discussed what type of jobs people do to help care for others in the community we had lots of different ideas! We then picked one in pairs and got creative to design their uniform and any equipment they might need. Can you guess which jobs we chose?

Families!

In P.S.H.E we looked at different types of families. Each group were given a family to discuss. We then wrote about similarities and differences in comparison to our families. Finally we created a photo frame using lolly sticks and decorated them using craft materials. We drew a picture of our family and wrote a message inside the card. Some lovely messages to your families Year 2! 

Coronation Celebrations!

In preparation for the King’s coronation on Saturday 6^th May, we discussed what a Coronation is and what would happen to King Charles and Queen Camellia during the ceremony. We then carried out a range of activities, we wrote down what we would want if we King or Queen for the day, made our own crowns and Union Jack flags to take to any celebrations we may attend. We also wore blue, red and white for the day and enjoyed a delicious Coronation lunch!

Healthy Lifestyles

Year 2 were joined by Anthony from the healthy life style team. We found out lots of interesting facts about sugar content, fat content and about how important it is to exercise. We also enjoyed meditating to help us relax!

Art- Flora

We worked together as a whole class to recreate another one of Arcimboldo’s famous portraits ‘Flora’ We selected and cut out images of flowers and leaves then arranged them to create our own version of ‘Flora’. We carefully considered which colours would best represent facial features. Finally we explained our choices. Look at our fantastic representation of Arcimboldo's Flora! Well done Year 2!

Maths- Smarties Investigation

To end our Maths unit on Statistics, we enjoyed investigating the colour of smarties you can find in a tube. We found out that no two tubes were the same! We tallied our data and produced a bar chart. We then answered some questions about our data. 

Aspirations Week

Care in the Community

Fire Fighter Visit

We have been visited by a fire fighter. We told us all about his fire engine and let us try out the hose and sit inside. He told us how hard his job can be but how rewarding it is to help people!

Visiting Holly House Care Home

Year 1 and 2 thoroughly enjoyed their visit to Holly House Care Home where we sang and gave the residents paintings we had made for them. The residents loved our songs and even joined in at parts! Thank you for our juice and biscuits too!

Mini Beast Hunt

In Science, we are learning about Living Things and Habitats. We went on a minibeast hunt around different areas in school. We will be using this to write a recount in Literacy too. We talked about different verbs (what we did) and what we saw (nouns). We found caterpillars, butterflies, worms and lots of ants! We had lots of fun!

Archery and Curling

We absolutely loved trying out some new sports as part of our Healthy and Fitness week in school. Stacey showed us how to curl and use the bow in archery. 

Learn To Ride

Year 2 had a fantastic time learning to ride their bikes with Ross and Marcus. We first had to make sure our bikes were safe and we then moved on to finding our balance. Once we were able to balance and pedal we had some different challenges to complete likes weaving in and out of the cones. We had a great time, thank  you Ross and Marcus. 

Keep Washington Tidy

Today we were joined by Keep Washington Tidy. We found out about the work they do and how important it is to keep our local area tidy. We then got stuck in and helped to litter pick in the area.

DT- Perfect Pizzas

Today we were so excited to finally make our pizzas based on our designs. Before making our pizzas we looked at our designs so we could create our pizzas exactly as we planned them. We followed the rules of hygiene and made sure we were working safely within our setting. We cleaned our work surfaces, tied back long hair, washed our hands and made sure we did not walk around with cutting implements. First, we used the back of a spoon to spread the tomato base over our pizza base. Next we selected our ingredients and chopped, sliced and shred them onto our pizza base closely following our plans. Finally we added some cheese. We then went to the breakfast room with Miss Brooks in groups to cook our pizzas. We then took our delicious looking pizzas back to the classroom. We enjoyed eating them whilst watching a film. Everyone created their pizza to their personal taste. They all looked delicious! We thoroughly enjoyed the whole process of designing, creating and especially the eating part of making our own pizzas. We will evaluate our pizzas and answer questions like… Did they taste nice? Did we follow our designs? What would we change next time?

Well done Year 2! What great little pizza chefs you are! Look at our perfect pizzas!