Cool Cricketers

Year 2 have absolutely loved our cricket sessions with Warwickshire cricket board. 

We have learnt so many new skills and we will really miss Charlie and Danny next term.

Each week we looked at a different skill and then combined them all in the final week.

We started off being cool catchers and we used "big hands" and hand-eye coordination. We then moved on to being "brilliant bowlers" and had to use listening and safety skills to hit targets.

After these sessions, we moved on to fielding

where we had to throw accurately whilst listening to become "ferocious fielders".  We also loved our session being "brilliant batters"

The next sessions enabled us to become "skillful scorers" where we were able to combine all the skills we had learnt to play mini games. 

Finally, we put our skills into practise to play team games. We can't wait to apply these skills outside when we have warmer weather. 

Pirate Portraits

During our Art and DT sessions, we have been working towards creating our very own Pirate portraits. 

Firstly, we used different sized strips of card to create a pirate themed background. We used colours that were popular in Pirate books we have read. We had to create a repeated pattern of our choice to create the desired effect.

After this, we were ready to draw our self-portraits. We used mirrors to look carefully at our facial features and followed tutorials on how to draw with added detail.

Once this stage was complete, we added different media to our portraits to add colour, texture and a 3D element. We used materials such as: wool, cotton, string and card to enhance our features. 

Our final part was to add a slide mechanism but we had not seen many before, so we looked at a range of early slide mechanisms in the library. There were some books that had different slide mechanisms so we decided to use a simple lever to create a moving tongue.

We were so pleased with the final product and we are all so proud of how our work turned out.