Category : 23/24 Year 2 Blog
Messy maps!
2P have been learning about the difference between aerial views and aerial plans. We used this knowledge to make ‘messy maps’ of our classroom using different resources. It was really tricky trying to remember to look down from the ceiling but after much grappling, we began to create the shapes we needed. Great geography work 2P!
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KS1 – How will what I do today impact tomorrow?
Last expeditions POL, enjoy…
Pride of Plover!
A HUGE well done to our Pride of Plover winners this week. We absolutely love coming together to celebrate all of your amazing achievements both in school and out of school.
Well done to Summer, Almina, Tommy, Sergei and Mason, our fabulous Pride of Plover winners. Well done to Henry and John for the achievements at Gymnastics and at Beavers. Well done to all of our fabulous readers from Phonics and Reading Plus, you are incredible.
Keep up the good work everyone, we can’t wait to see who is up on the benches next week!
Messy Maps!
This afternoon we have been looking at our classroom and the key features we have in it. We began by looking at important vocabulary such as aerial view/Birds Eye view and discussed why that is important to this lesson. We wrote about what we already know and features we thought were really important. We played a game of “I Spy” with our friends to identify what we already had in our classroom. We then looked at different aerial view maps of different classrooms and compared them to ours. We then created a messy map, using different resources to create an aerial view map of our own classroom. The children could explain what they had used for tables, chairs, the desk, where the doors are in the classroom, etc.
We had lots of fun creating our maps!
Diverse Doncaster – Where do I belong?
Last Friday 2P went to the Danum Gallery, Library and Museum and had a wonderful time finding out about Doncaster in the past. The children enjoyed handling artefacts and finding out more about Doncaster through the ages.
The children were a real credit to Plover and we were so proud of them. A great big thank you to all the adults who came with us.
Where do we belong?
2L had a fabulous visit to Doncaster Museum where we learnt more about the place that we call our home. We explored many different parts of Doncaster’s history and learnt about why Doncaster is famous all over the world. We handled and explored artefacts during our workshop and then looked around the museum to see how Doncaster fitted into the world. We were amazed to see that people from all over the world lived in Doncaster nearly 2000 years ago!
We were so excited by what we had learnt that we all want to go back again! Our brains are now full of knowledge to use in our Expedition!
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Listening Walk
Today in 2L , the children made themselves an extra pair of listening ears and we went on a listening walk to find out what we could hear in school. We crept around and heard all sorts of sounds including cutlery clattering in the hall, birds tweeting outside, doors banging and the jazzy music coming from Y6. The children were really quiet and were shocked by what they could hear when they really tried to concentrate.
We are going to turn these noises into expanded noun phrases and write our very our sound poem. We’ll make sure to blog our final work.
Back to the Past!
The children really enjoyed their first day back at school and looked amazing in their outfits from the past. We used this to explore vocabulary about the past, present and future and compared sources of information to spot similarities and differences.
We also used our expert visitor who used a drone to show us parts of Doncaster as seen from the air! It was really exciting to get a new perspective on our community.
We are all ready to get stuck into our new expedition!
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Plover’s Past Hook Day
It was marvellous seeing the children dressed in such smart and old fashioned clothes. We enjoyed a crew challenge. Geoff the expert showed us some aerial view photos of Intake and Doncaster. We learnt about some history of Doncaster and explored a time capsule and artefacts found within Plover! #LovePlover
