The Owls

Communication and Interaction Inclusion Centre

Spring Term 2021

Goldilocks and the three bears

The children retold the story using the ‘talk for writing’ method. They had a porridge tasting and recorded their finding on a class chart.

It was the sweet porridge that won, not really a surprise! They acted out the story and sang songs about the bears.

Bear Hunt

The children were so engaged in learning this story and used the Michael Rosen video clip to act out the sequence of events.

They used a tuff spot play area to retell the story and used apparatus in PE to learn the positional language needed for the story.

Doug Hyde

As our spring term Art week, the children learned about Doug Hyde and looked at a large variety of his pictures.

They decided on their favourite and re-created it using items to print with or used brush strokes.

They worked hard to mix the colours needed for their pictures and they were very proud of their outcomes.

Penguins

This topic encourages the children to develop their vocabulary as they looked deeper into the cold climates and the habitats of penguins.

They looked at ice closely, observing how it melts and what causes it to melt quicker.

They created a penguin display and worked hard at learning the part of a penguin’s body.

Their faces were a picture when passing around the cold ice cubes to experience what a penguin might be feeling!

People who help us- school and emergencies

The children were focused on the people around them in their own school community, looking at what people do for their jobs and how this helps them.

They then turned their attention to the emergency services and made some emergency vehicles in order to learn the differences.

They discussed what emergencies these people help at and what their uniforms are like.

Using the telephone for calling an emergency service was practiced and often tried out in the role play area.

Traction Man

The year 2 children loved this book and used the style of the book to recreate a new adventure for him.

They illustrated their stories and acted out their new episodes. Lots of fantastic language emerged during this task.

Winter

The children observed the signs of winter around them and completed observational drawings of trees in preparation for making comparison drawing in the spring and summer.

Materials

The year 2 children have been identifying and sorting materials of all kinds around the school.

They were able to sort them by type and make suggestions as to their purpose.

They also learnt about the properties of each material and completed an experiment to find the most waterproof fabric.

Comparing countries

The children compared the City of Portsmouth and all out local amenities with the area of Portsmouth on the island of Dominica.

They loved to look on google earth and see the place in reality through satellite, and were able to discuss the similarities and differences of the two places.

Water in religious rituals

The children looked at the use of water as a part of rituals in religious events.

They looked at water as a part of the Islamic wudu ritual of washing before prayer, and the use of holy water to represent the cross in a Christian baptism.

The Great Fire Of London

This topic took the minds of the year 2 children to a past time and made them think about what it is like to be an historian and how we are able to find out about the past.

The retold the facts about the events in London back in 1666, and thought about the diary that was bale to give us so much information.

The children wrote their own diary entry to say what it might have felt like at that time.

The children made extended pictures from a small piece of a picture imagining what the rest of the picture might be like.

They also practiced drawing portraits of Samuel Pepys.