Wildlife News!

Wildlife at school!

Yesterday, the children at school were lucky enough to catch a brilliant view of a fabulous Red Kite over the KS1 playground while we were having break time!  It was soaring in the sunshine, looking for food.  They mainly eat carrion (animals that are already dead) but will also feed on  chicks, small mammals and invertebrates such as beetles and earthworms.  Mrs Smith has seen one three days in a row, at home, at school and out for a walk, so when out looking for wildlife, don't forget to look up too!   When they are flying low, they are easy to identify because they have a forked tail.  Can you spot it in this photo?

Red Kites are large birds of prey with a wing span of nearly 2 metres!

In Mrs Smith's Garden

Mr Smith helped with the search for all things wild in the garden and took some photos.  Over the past few days we have found a green shield bug, a scary looking spider and lots of worms and woodlice!

Mrs Smith's Wildlife Walk

Mrs Smith kept looking for wildlife when out for a walk in the sunshine.  There is so much to see but here are a few of the highlights!

A hedgehog snuffling about in the leaves - this was late afternoon so we weren't too worried about seeing a hedgehog in the daytime.  It looked pretty strong and healthy too. 

                                        Bumble bee                             Zoom in to spot all the ants!

A comma butterfly

Spot the difference!  The track on the left was by a Fallow deer and is actually a lot bigger than the one on the right which is by a Muntjack deer.

A beautiful primrose!

Last but not least a Tawny owl feather!!  This was really exciting to find because it means they are in the area and might breed here too!

Dissecting daffodils in Year 2

In Science, we have been continuing our topic about plants. 

We carefully dissected a daffodil and used magnifying glasses to observe the different parts of the flower. 

We were ‘Agent Inquirers’ and asked lots of questions and discussed our findings. We used our scientific knowledge to label each part of the plant and discovered why each part was important. 

We discovered that plants have male and female parts and started to understand how plants reproduce.

Year 2 Newsletter

At the start of the week, the children came into school to discover that our classroom had been invaded by some sort of creature! We used our skills as detectives to work out from the clues left behind (footprints, shiny scales and bright pink, sparkly poo) that it was a dragon! A very careless one at that! 

We then found out that this pesky dragon had left the classroom in such a state because it had been chasing - and had captured - a princess! We had to save her! 

We decided that the best way to do this was to ask everyone in the school to help us search for the dragon so that we could ask him to give her back to our castle. 

We have started to plan "wanted" posters to put up around the school so that everyone knows what they're looking for and we're very excited to begin writing them next week. 

Let's catch this dragon!

In Science, we were learning how important it was for scientists to ask questions. We came up with our own questions and discussed how we could find out the answers. 

To help us research the answers to some of our questions, we decided to plant our own beans. 

We'll look forward to watching them grow over the next few weeks. 

 

Year 2 Science - sorting seeds

To kick-start Year 2's 'Plants' topic, the children were investigating where plants came from. 

The children used magnifying glasses to sort and group a variety of different seeds. 






They had lots of interesting ideas about how the seeds could be sorted: by colour, size, texture or type.








The children worked together to read clues and match the seed to the correct plant.







They used their observational skills to carefully draw and describe the seeds.
Fantastic teamwork, enthusiasm and vocabulary from all our young scientists!