Other Curriculum Areas
Other Curriculum Areas
On this page, you will find a range of activities for different subjects. These are extra ideas which could be done after English and Maths each day - maybe in the afternoons. Each week, choose one piece of learning that you are especially proud of and ask you parents to take a photo of it and email to the Year 2 email address to show Mrs Bertenshaw.
Art
Have you read the book 'The Rainbow Fish?' It's a great story. Watch a video of it below. Then make a rainbow fish to put in your window. Draw the outline of a fish. Then, collect lots of brightly coloured paper from magazines, junk mail, newspaper and packaging. Cut it into different shapes to decorate your fish. Glue them in place like scales and draw or stick on an eye (if you don’t have glue, you can make a mixture of ½ cup of flour and ½ cup water and mix together. Add more water if it is too thick).
The Rainbow Fish
Science
This term's science learning is about plants, with this week's focus being on flowering plants. For this lesson, you will need a pencil and paper.
Before you start the lesson, think about what different flowering plants you know. Go outside to your garden and look at how many plants are flowering right now.
Click here to watch a short video called 'What are the parts of a plant?' and complete the quiz.
Activity: Go outside in your garden and find a flowering plant. Make an accurate observational drawing of the flowering plant and label the key parts- roots, stem, leaves and petals. Then write a sentence to explain the job that each part of the plant does.
Extra for fun: Why don't you have a go at pressing flowers? You can do this the traditional way by pressing flowers folded in newspaper inside a heavy book, however it can take a long while for the flowers to dry. To fasten up the process, you could follow this tutorial here.
Want to find out more? Follow the link to find out more details about each part by clicking on the labels.
History
The Clifton Suspension Bridge
This term we are going to look at a significant person from the Victorian era called Isambard Kingdom Brunel and his influence on our local area, Bristol. Last week you watched a video to find out more about Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
This week, we are looking at the first of Brunel's Bristol inventions, the iconic 'Clifton Suspension Bridge.'
The following video tells a little about the history and construction of the bridge. Click here to view.
Activity: Design your own bridge. Become an engineer like Isambard Kingdom Brunel and design your own bridge to cross the Avon Gorge in Bristol on the template provided. For an added challenge, you could try to build your own bridge to span a space such as the gap between two chairs. You may wish to do this using old packaging or newspaper. You could even test how much it can hold.
Geography
In this lesson, we are going to be virtually flying all across Europe and learning more about this wonderful continent. We will be learning all about how many people live in Europe, what food you can eat if you visit and what places you would see. You will need a piece of paper and a pencil for this lesson. Click the link below to get started.
PE
Try to do some physical activity each day. You could join the teachers who (mostly) do a Joe Wicks workout every morning at 9am!
Jo Wicks Daily PE Lesson
Click on the links below for some other fun ways to keep active!
DT
This week, the LSP have set a cookery challenge! They want children from across the MAT to get cooking. Choose your favourite recipe and cook it together as a family. Don't forget to take some photos! Copy the recipe out in your best, neatest handwriting.
Then, email your recipe along with some photos, to the office with your name and age. Please put 'LSP Cooking Challenge' as the email subject.
LSP Cooking Challenge
