Children in Need

 Thank you so much to all our Parent and Carers who supported our annual Children In Need Day. It was for such a worthy cause we appreciated every penny donated. Here our a few memories from our 'Be a hero' day!

Keeping safe discussions

All of Rise Park have been discussing what it means to them to feel safe and how this happens.  All the children had some very important points to make. Here are just some we picked out...

'Our grown ups help us to keep safe when we are crossing the road.' Pierce

'We always need a grown up with us when we are on the computer.' Rebecca

'The fire alarm keeps us safe.' Rihanna

We Will Remember Them

Over the week we have been looking at the importance of Remembrance Day.  We found out that Mrs Castle was on parade at the weekend.  Can you spot her? 

The children were very interesting in finding out more about Poppy Day and many had stories to share about family members who had fought in WW2.  We have completed English, Maths, Art and SEAL activities based on this theme.  We made Poppies out of paper and pipe cleaners and then described them.  Have a look...

Art in Year 2

We have been looking at the elements of art including colour, line and shape.  We have learnt about primary and secondary colours, warm and cool colours, tints and shades as well as the types of line and shapes we can use to create images.  We have looked at a range of artist and this week focused on the illustrator and artist Bronwyn Bancroft.  She is famous for using pattern to add detail to images of nature.  The children looked very carefully at one of her pieces of art and then completed the other half of the picture.  The results were incredible and we are extremely proud of the children. 


We focused hard to copy the patterns and the colours of the image

First we drew the patterns in pencil

Year 2 Math-magicians

Here in Year 2, we like to add a little bit of magic and sparkle to our maths lessons because we are Math-magicians!

This term we have been doing a lot of work on place value. Here we are using marshmellows to help us understand the place value of hundreds tens and units.

We also use Base 10 a lot in our lessons, and this activity helped us to familiarise ourselves with the equipment. Being the creative bunch we are, we create pictures and then worked out how much their value was worth!

During Eco Week we had designed eco robots for ICT, but we also created some from 2D shapes. We then had a photo of them stuck in our books and we labelled the different shapes with their features.