Year 2: Delaunay Class
Sonia Delaunay was a Russian-born French artist, who spent most of her working life in Paris and cofounded the Orphism art movement, noted for its use of strong colours and geometric shapes. Her work extends to painting, textile design and stage set design. She was the first living female artist to have a retrospective exhibition at the Louvre in 1964.
Her work in modern design included the concepts of geometric abstraction, the integration of furniture, fabrics, wall coverings, and clothing.
In Year 2 children have the opportunity to write in many different formats, have guided reading and phonics lessons daily, visit the school library to get a book to take home as well as consolidating and progressing their learning in maths through number, shape, data handling and problem solving.
Reading books go home every afternoon and are brought to school every morning. We encourage the children to read with an adult every night.
Homework is given out once a week on a Friday and will be due in the following Friday. If children are finding it difficult, discuss this with the teacher.
Year 2 will perform an assembly about the things they have been learning. Parents are welcome to attend these.
Reminders:
- P.E. lessons are on Mondays and Fridays.
- Please return books every morning in book bags.
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PE, cricket and our own stories
by Christopher, Sophia and Umar Today we did cricket in PE and we had to learn different skills. We practised catching and batting, and we made our catching skills better by doing a move before we caught the ball. To warm up for PE, we played stuck-in-the-mud so we...
An afternoon with the Royal Ballet & Opera
In our recent music lesson, Delaunay logged into an online session hosted by the Royal Ballet and Opera for a discovery of rhythm, sound and collaboration as we excitedly dived into the world of opera. From the start, the children found the session very special, and...
Our thoughts . . . .
Hello, we are the P4C ambassadors at our school. In the philosophy lessons in our classes, we have been helping other children join discussions, and we have enjoyed getting them to think deeply about the big questions that we all come up with. It is nearly the end of...
Ahoy there!
Delaunay set sail on a special trip to the Cutty Sark on Monday. From the moment we arrived, the children's excitement and anticipation filled the air as we waited for the doors to open by taking a stroll around the old ship to see what we could notice. Once on board,...
Being Creative in Art and DT
In Year 2, we have been very creative in our learning this week! In Art, we explored nature and used the recently-celebrated Attenborough Day as our inspiration to look closely at the wonder of plants before using clay to sculpt our own creations. The children...