multicultural week!

Year 2 have been busy celebrating Multicultural Week, diving into the sights, sounds and stories of Nigeria! The children explored the country’s climate, wildlife and cities before completing their own information text, showing real curiosity and care in their work. In Art, they created stunning batik-style patterns on fabric using glue resist, inspired by traditional Nigerian designs. Everyone also had the chance to become chefs, making Chin Chin, a delicious sweet Nigerian snack that filled The Nest with wonderful smells!

To bring Nigerian culture to life even further, the children learnt about Nigerian tradition and listened to and retold The Tale of the Tortoise and the Birds, creating beautiful storyboards to show the story in pictures. Finally, they learned some traditional Nigerian dance, showing brilliant rhythm, teamwork and enthusiasm.

It’s been a joyful and creative week — well done, Year 2!

Ally Pally!

Year 2 visited Alexandra Palace and Park last week as part of their geography fieldwork, where they sketched a view of the London skyline, attempting to identify the famous landmarks on a misty autumnal London day!
See some pictures from our visit below:

 

Upcoming trip to ally pally

On Tuesday 14th October, Year 2 will be visiting Alexandra Park and Palace to sketch the London skyline and complete their Geography fieldwork, comparing physical and human features of our city. 
Click the Google Form to give permission and volunteer support for this trip: 
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Bombs away!

In Science this week, Year 2 tested the suitability of different materials to help protect a water balloon! We put our water balloons in zip-lock bags and then surrounded them in cardboard, sponge, plastic cubes, cotton wool and fabric before dropping them out of a Maple Building window. Let's just say there were mixed results! Scan the QR code to see how we got on.

Year 2 visit the mosque!

On Thursday, the Year 2 children, with the help of many willing parents, visited Palmers Green Mosque to learn all about Islam. The children sat and listened, showing our values of respect, resilience (they were sat for a while!) and appreciation and understanding, displaying their enthusiasm through asking many questions! See below for some photos of our trip!

Year 2 back in action!

Year 2 have had a fantastic start back at school and have completed so much absolutely fabulous learning already! In English, the children have read the book, The Secret Sky Garden, which is about a girl who decides that there is too much grey in her local community and takes it upon herself to transform a derelict car park into a beautiful garden high in the sky, which can even be seen by planes! The children are enjoying the story and are developing their understanding of the features of a setting description, which they’ll be writing next week. In Maths, the children have been developing their understanding of place value and applying their understanding of partitioning, what it is and how it works, with some of the children using manipulatives to aid their understanding. Elsewhere, in Science, the children have begun to learn about different properties of materials. They have learnt the difference between an object and a material and categorised different objects based on what they were made of, as well as why we may make different objects out of different materials. In Geography, the children have looked at London boroughs and the neighbouring boroughs of Enfield, as well as furthering their knowledge of human and physical features in our city, identifying that Alexandra Park is a physical feature, whilst Alexandra Palace is a human feature. Finally, the children have begun their learning of the Victorian period in History, studying the difference between upper class, middle class and working class women through ‘day in the life’ stories, as well as the things they had in common.

Reminder: Our trip to the Palmers Green Mosque is this coming Thursday. 
Please click here Google Form to give permission for your child to attend and/or to volunteer your support.