Where has the time gone? The children have done lots of amazing, fun activities in year 2 (including sports day). There are lots of memories which they will hopefully share at home. We said goodbye to Ella and Amayra and hope they both settle well. into their new schools. We have welcomed Daniel to the ACE community and hope he will be happy at the school.The children will be missed by me and Mrs Reehal. We wish them success and happiness as they prepare to move on to year 3.

The children have been busy over the last couple of weeks. The focus has been on collaboration and seeing if they can work well in a team. They had a challenge to work in groups and create a tall tower. They also worked in teams to make their own boats (building on their previous experience in year 1) using junk modelling. They had to think about what materials would be waterproof and which materials would float using their knowledge from science lessons on materials.

This week, the class were extremely excited when they heard they were going to create their own cupcake! We discussed the ingredients needed: butter, sugar, eggs and flour. The children had the choice of decorating their cupcakes with either icing, strawberries or both. They worked together in groups and took turns. Some children cracked the eggs, others read the weighing scales to ensure the right amount of sugar and flour was added to the mixture while others spent time mixing the ingredients altogether. Once the buns came out of the oven and had cooled, the children decorated them with icing or strawberries. They all said their cupcake was delicious and they enjoyed the experience. Well done 2H!

To consolidate our recent Maths learning all about position and direction, we used the Beebot programme on the Ipads in our computing lesson today. We used the forwards, backwards, left and right buttons to move the Beebot to different places.

We decided to find out the most popular ice cream flavour in Year 2. First of all, we needed to collect our data. After deciding on some possible flavours, we asked each other which their favourite is. We recorded our findings in the form of a tally chart, remembering the golden rule of putting a diagonal line through for number five.

After collecting the data, we then used it to create a bar chart. Using this, we were able to identify the most popular and least popular ice cream flavours.

We enjoyed our computing lessons this half term where we used the program J2Data. We created our own pictograms and bar charts after collecting the data and recording it in the form of a tally chart.

This week, we found out who had won a prize from the Red Nose Day name raffle. Here are photographs of the winners from 2H. The rest of the class were wonderful in supporting the winners and gave them a huge applause. However, the best is yet to come…the whole class won a prize for donating the most money in key stage 1. They have been granted a movie afternoon! Oh wow! A huge thank you for your kindness and generosity. I’m so proud of 2H and their parents.

This week was Science Week. The children had a fingerprint task to do at home. Several children brought the results of their investigation to school and presented in front of the class. Those children received a small gift for being brave enough to present their findings. All the children had an opportunity to create fingerprints and examine the different patterns while at school. Great science work! We ended the week making Mother’s Day cards as well as participating in Red Nose Day fun! Fantastic hairstyles alongside great jokes made the day entertaining. Thank you for all the generous donations to a worthy cause.

On Wednesday 8th March, lots of children participated in the colour run and raised generous amounts of money. Year 2 children ran with their adults or a friend. A huge thank you to all those who participated.