In History Year 2 have been learning about Florence Nightingale. We have been learning all about her early life and her career. Today, we have been looking at photos of Florence and comparing her to modern day nurses. We noticed that nurses have changed drastically over the years and we think Florence Nightingale would love to work in a newer hospital.
We were able to draw portraits of Florence so that we could really look at how nurses would dress during the Crimean War.
In PSHE we have been learning about our emotions and what makes us unique. We were able to speak about the things that make us happy, sad and angry and how we can manage our emotions properly. We also spoke about things that make us unique, we all compared our hair, eyes and skin colours and had a look at our fingerprints!
In Year 2, we have been looking at different types of Information Technology. We have been discussing the different features of computers and their similarities and differences. We have also been able to identify which items are classed as computers and which items are not. We looked at a variety of different photos and had to determine whether they were classed as technology or not.
On Friday 8th July, Year 2 performed the most AMAZING class assembly! They made a piece of rainforest music using their bodies, sang songs beautifully, acted out a story and shared lots of very interesting facts.
They all said their lines loudly and we couldn’t be prouder!
This week in Maths, Toucans are focusing on developing a rapid recall of their times table facts.
Today they were practising the 10 times table and everyone was an expert by the end of the lesson – all the way up to 12 x 10!
Today Toucans learned about how we can manage online information. We watched a video from the National Online Safety website and then had a class discussion.
Here are our ideas:
What can we use laptops for?
We then thought about possible dangers and what the solutions might be:
Potential danger: Evelyn – Using FaceTime or Zoom you could be bullied by an unexpected person.
Solution: Ryan – You can block them and make sure an adult is with you
Potential danger: Thomas S – Viruses
Solution: Edey – You could delete the game. Salaf – You could tell a parent.
Potential danger: Using Roblox
Solution: Olivia – You can switch off the chat or always make sure an adult is with you.
We then discussed how our safest option for searching the internet is Swiggle. This search engine has even more protection for children. We discussed some places we had been to and how we could use Swiggle to find out more about these places.
Salaf – New York
Brooke – Wales
Eason – Japan and I was born in Hong Kong
Juwayriya – New York
Evelyn – Greece
Edey – Columbia
We decided next week to use what we had learned about managing information to research these places using Swiggle.
