Pirates

By Mr G Mcintosh13th April 2016

Year 2 are thinking about instructions in English. We played a game called Captain’s coming  and we had to listen and follow instructions. We then gave our partner instructions thinking about verbs and adverbs. They were all really good at spotting the verbs and adverbs!

 

For our topic lesson we started off thinking about pirates and created a mind map of facts we already know. We even thought about what we would like to find out throughout the topic. We are SUPER excited to find out more about pirates!

 

Easter fun, sports relief and goodbye Paul

By Mr G Mcintosh11th April 2016

What a lovely last week Year 2 have had! We particularly enjoyed our Easter crafts and eating chocolate crispy cakes 🙂

We did say goodbye to our friend Paul Angus who we will all miss! we wish him the bet of luck for his new adventure.

 

Africa

By Mr G Mcintosh11th March 2016

Through our all around the world topic we have been learning about Africa. We found lots of African tribes wear African necklaces so we decided to make our own. We used lots of bright colours and patterns to make them look like real African necklaces. They turned out fantastic!

We also read that some African tribes may rank themselves by who can jump the highest, so the most important person in the tribe maybe the person who could jump the highest. We had to try this to see who would be the most important person in our Year 2 tribe.. it was Esme!

 

World Book Day

By Mr G Mcintosh4th March 2016

We have loved World Book Day 2016 and all the costumes looked fantastic!

We had a great afternoon of reading, each class moved around the school to listen to a new story being read by the teachers of Bede Burn.

 

 

Chinese Dragons

By Mr G Mcintosh12th February 2016

We have been exploring different countries around the world and with it being Chinese New Year we thought it would be a good idea to learn a little more about it.

We made Chinese Dragons and copied the Chinese dancers dancing with their dragons.. Strictly Come Dancing watch out!!

 

 

 

 

Pancake Tuesday

By Mr G Mcintosh10th February 2016

This afternoon we had great fun eating pancakes and tasting different toppings. We tried pancakes with chocolate, lemon, strawberry jam, sugar and syrup. Our class favourite was chocolate and a close second was strawberry jam.

We linked pancakes and maths together by practising cutting our pancakes into halves and quarters. We are also going to complete a tally chart and a pictogram to  show our findings.

Before we ate our yummy pancakes, we researched pancakes around the world. We found out some people have fancy dress pancake races, whilst flipping pancakes in the air.  We also found out the Swedish call Pancake Day ‘Fettsdagen’, which means ‘Fat Tuesday’. They eat a pastry called Semla instead of pancakes.

Fun Fact

Did you know…

…the biggest pancake in the world measured over 15 metres long!

 

Casting thumbs

By Mr G Mcintosh5th February 2016

Wow! What a great time we had at science club on Tuesday. We were learning how to cast  thumbs using dental alginate and casting powder.

First we had to mix one cap of dental alginate with water and stir with a tongue depressor.

Next we had to put the mixture into the thumb pot and wait for the mixture to turn from pink to white. Once it had set we could take our thumbs out.

We then had to mix two caps of  casting powder with water and fill the holes left by the thumbs.

We had to wait 10 mins for the mixture to set. 🙂

Adam’s was amazing!

Sing Up Day

By Mr G Mcintosh4th February 2016

Yesterday was the national ‘sing up’ day and, as you would expect, we got heavily involved at Bede Burn!

The children were visited by Charlotte and Jack from the Sing Up organisation and they spent the morning visiting the classes and singing with each year group.  The teachers stayed in their rooms and each class visited to sing a song in every room in the school.  We then gathered together to sing the ‘Sing Up Anthem’ in the hall.

The day was rounded off by our attempt at a flash mob song after school!

For those of you on twitter, check out @SingUpChar she has posted some very complimentary tweets about her day with us!

There is a gallery of photographs here.

Hopefully there will be some video clips below this post soon!

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Open Zone Coding

By Mr G Mcintosh21st January 2016

This week, children from years 5, 3 and 2 have had the opportunity to visit the OpenZone and take part in workshops about developing code for computing.

It has been a fantastic success and the staff and children have returned enthused about teaching coding back at school.

The Openzone have posted about the week on their own website, check it out here:

http://ictinschools.org/bedeburn-week-at-openzone/

Look out for more coding news and recommended resources and programmes to use at home – coming soon!

France

By Mr G Mcintosh13th January 2016

In today’s topic lesson we looked at  the continent we live in and explored France. We found out facts about France then tasted some French food. We also made our very own Eiffel Towers out of plasticine.