During RE week for Autumn 1, year 2 children explored the question ‘Why is light an important symbol to Christians, Jews and Hindus?’ The children learnt key stories from each religion that explores the idea of light. They responded to the importance of light for each religion by making their own Christingle for Christianity, making a menorah for Judaism, creating rangoli and diya lamps for Hinduism.

The year 2 children were excited to explore different food items and consider which part of a plant it belongs to. The children were able to recognise which food is part of a plant’s roots, stem, leaves or flower as well as which is fruit. They then investigated the fruit further by cutting the fruit open and finding the seeds.

This half term, the children are learning all about plants within their science lessons. The children have grown their own runner beans and are measuring these weekly to see the progress. The children have also explored sunflowers to investigate the different parts of a plant. This week, they have learnt all about seed dispersal and made their own sycamore seed to explore how these travel.

Each half term, the children are introduced to a new book which their Literacy lessons will be based around. The children slowly read the book as a class and will only hear the full story at the end of the half term. Year 2 have been very excited to hear the next part of the story of ‘The last wolf’ during Literacy this week. In this part of the story, the wolf is introduced and the children have had a chance to see inside of his cosy tree-cave. The children explored adjectives to discuss the wolf’s home and got creative making their own little cosy tree-cave!