This week, Year Two have been celebrating Love Where You Live Week, and what a wonderful time we’ve had exploring our local environment and getting creative!

We began our week in the nature reserve, where we enjoyed the fresh air and beautiful surroundings. The children worked together to create bread twists, which were baked and enjoyed as a special treat. While we were there, we also took inspiration from nature to create some lovely leaf pattern paintings.

Back in the classroom, our creativity continued. We explored fossils by creating oil pastel ammonites. We also painted beautiful seaside scenes using watercolours, producing some fantastic seagull artwork.

Linking to our English work, the children wrote a postcard from a crayon, inspired by the story The Day the Crayons Quit!

We have also made elegant paper plate swans, and finished the week by building junk model lighthouses inspired by Portland Bill. The children showed great creativity as they designed and constructed their models.

Although our planned walk had to be cancelled, it certainly didn’t stop us from having a fantastic week. We have loved spending our breaktimes in the cool nature reserve, making the most of the space and enjoying being outdoors together.

It’s been a brilliant week full of creativity, teamwork and appreciation for the place we live. Well done, Year Two!