Welcome to the home of Hedgehogs 2021-22!

Spring Term

Below you will find photos of what we have been up to since Christmas:

• Various science experiments including testing friction of materials using toy cars, bridge building and testing materials for water absorption 
• Mental health week - planting seeds
• Purple Mash - digital art unit and other one-off tasks 
• Hedgehogs sharing their love of reading 

Autumn Term!

Below, you will see some photos of some of the exciting things that we have been up to, including:

• Using equipment in gymnastics to create sequences
• Various photos from inter-faith week - bracelet making, 5 pillars of Islam
• Sock puppets
• Numbots
• Creating seaside landscapes
• Vinegar rocket launching
• Animal hunt
• Christingle service

Welcome back to school and welcome to Hedgehog Class. Over the upcoming weeks and months, I’ll upload photos and interesting snippets of what the children in Year 2 get up to! Watch this space…

Hedgehogs 2020-2021

Autumn Term:

Here is a little more information about what we have covered during the Autumn Term this year.

English:

• Newspaper reports all about the Gunpowder Plot
• Nonsense Poetry
• Labels, lists and captions featuring 'Traction Man'
• Stories from the billabong - we wrote our own version of 'Why Frogs Can Only Croak'
• Stories from a familiar setting - 'The Tiger Who Came To Tea'
• Dear Teacher - letters about why we can't come into school

Maths:

• Number & place value - tens and ones, the value of numbers
• Addition & subtraction - concrete resources, number lines and column method
• Multiplication and division - 2, 5, 10 times tables

History:

• Who Guy Fawkes was and all about the Gunpowder Plot.
• What life was like in London in the 1600s.
• Firework safety.
• Firework art

Geography:

• Animals in Australia
• Australian weather
• What it is like to live in Australia as opposed to the UK
• Aboriginal art

Science:

• Baby animals, healthy eating, exercise, keeping clean
• Everyday materials and their uses
• Friction experiment
• Absorption experiment
• Bridge building experiment

PE:

• Ball skills
• Dance
• Running

PSHE

• Relationships
• Valuing difference