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Year 2: Autumn 2024

Updated: Jan 27

Year 2 created linocut prints using carbon copy paper, rollers, cutters and ink. They look great!



Year 1 and 2 love sharing the amazing story of Christmas with our friends and families!


Friends

Year 2 have loved getting back into school and spending time with their friends after the Summer holidays!









Ocarinas

Year 2 have been learning the Ocarinas, a wind instrument. We learned to play High D, Low D, A, B, G, C#, E and F#. We used 'OcPics' to read the music.



Watercolours

We've been experimenting with different techniques to create art using watercolour paints. We tried splatter, wax resist, dabbing techniques and experimented using salt to create different effects.



Wizard of Oz Roleplay

Our topic this term is The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum. Today we've been exploring the different characters, focusing on the Lion. We particularly analyzed how his character changed from ferocious to cowardly when Dorothy stood up to him. We acted out the scene and used hot-seating and freeze frame techniques to really get inside the character's head.



Paul Klee

To round off our watercolour unit in Art, we created art work inspired by Swiss artist, Paul Klee. We studied a variety of his art and discussed how we felt about it and what we noticed. We focused particularly on 'Castle and Sun' (1928) and used our new wax-resist skills to create lines and watercolours to paint over - noticing how watery paint settled on the paper and not on the wax.


In our music unit, Year 2 learned to play Twinkle Twinkle using the ocarinas. We used 'OcPics' to read the notes we needed to play




Year 2 took part in a Celebration of the Word about our unit in RE. We focused on thankfulness and love.




Year 2 created artwork inspired by French artist, Henri Matisse. Later in his career, Matisse switched from painting to creating work by cutting and sticking colourful shapes



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