2022-24 Year 2 Blog

 In DT we have been learning about wheels and axles ready to build our own vehicles. Today we looked at different box shapes and sizes and thought about what boxes we will need to make our vehicles. We then drew designs of our vehicles and labelled then, writing down what we will need to create the final product. 

 Inspired by our visit from the poet Tony Peek, earlier in the week, we have started looking at some poetry in our English lessons. We thought about what poems are and listened to some performances of some famous poems including Macavity the mystery cat, Life doesn’t frighten me at all by Maya Angelou and From a railway carriage by Robert Louis Stevenson. We then had a go at practising reading and performing some of these poems before learning a little bit of Please Mrs Butler by Allan Ahlberg off by heart. 

 In year 2 today we were looking at the concept of God. We collected our own ideas about God and what we thought he might look like by drawing a picture of him.  We then thought about what Christians believe God is like by looking at some stories from the Old Testament before writing descriptions of what Christians believe God is like. Finally, we looked at Hinduism and thought about what Hindu’s believe God is like with the idea that there is one God who takes on different forms. We thought about the characteristics of some of these different versions of Hindu Gods.

 Today we are describing in simple terms our ideas about God. We are looking at the ways the concept of Godvis explored in Christianity and Hinduism.