Beautiful Bath!

We have had an exciting couple of weeks in Year 2. Last week the children were set the challenge of identifying some parts of the school from some very tricky, unusual photographs. The children worked as a team to decide what they thought their photograph was of and then marked its location on a plan of the school. They then used their plan to navigate to their location where they found a mysterious envelope. When we got back together we opened the envelopes to find out what our next ‘Newbridge 50’ is going to be. We found lots of photographs of landmarks in Bath. The children will spend the next few weeks learning all about “Beautiful Bath” and have started creating lots of art based around the buildings of Bath. We will be inviting you to come and see the finished pieces in our "Year 2 Art Gallery". More details to follow!

We have also been busy becoming programmers. The children had lots of fun following some instructions to draw a picture of a monster. They learnt that instructions have to be very clear otherwise the monster doesn’t look the same as the original. The children also practised giving their friends instructions to move from one point to another on the playground. They then had a go at writing their own code using the iPads to move robots. We used the BeeBot and ALEX apps and had lots of fun! The children have learnt some new computing vocabulary while doing this; ask them if they can tell you what an algorithm or debugging is.

Please remember to return trip letters for our walk to The Royal Crescent by this Friday (3^rd July). If you are available to help please see your child’s class teacher.

This week sees the final Forest School session of the year for 2R. Even though it is hot the children will still need to have long sleeved tops and trousers. The children (and teachers) have had an amazing time exploring nature and have learnt so much over the course of the year. I’m sure you will agree that it has been an enriching experience for the children and we want to say a huge thank you to Sarah Webb and all the volunteers who have helped make it such a great experience.