We went to Sherwood Forest last week but a few days later we received a terrible, devastating letter that said that Sherwood forest is going to be demolished. How sad we are that this could happen!
What would happen to the sweet, homeless animals? Where would they live? What about the Major Oak that some people think it is the oldest tree in the UK?
What about if the mud soaks into the metal rides? The builders will have to move the rides and it will take a lot of time and money.
The stinky, dirty rubbish would make us feel down in the dumps. How overwhelming the pollution would be! The noise will scare the animals. Why should the animals have to suffer just because the builders want to build a theme park?
We urgently need you to help save the adventurous, ancient, amazing Sherwood Forest with it's very old trees.
Written by Emilija and Millie
On Tuesday we all had to go on a very exciting trip to Sherwood Forest. First we went on a blue, shiny coach with all of year two. It took a very long time to get there, some of us played I spy, some of us went to sleep and the rest of us talked to our friends. Once we arrived, Robert of Wentworth took us to a little classroom where we learnt about his life in the forest and the clothes that he wore in the olden days.
Afterwards we went with Maid Becky to build habitats for the animals that she gave us. Each group had a different animal, including foxes, hedgehogs, squirrels, badgers, birds and moles. We had to work like Active Ants, building our habitats together. We thought carefully how to make the habitats safe in case another creature came hunting.
We also pretended to be badgers and searched an area for things to see if a badger might like to live there. Then it was lunchtime and we had our class photo taken on a huge, fallen log.
In the afternoon we had another fun story about Robin Hood in the spooky, dark forest with actors and actresses acting the parts. We went on a long, muddy walk to get to the Major Oak. Some people believe that the Major Oak is the most famous tree in the world. It is between 800 and 1000 years old. This was also Robin Hood's meeting place.
After our walk it was time to get back on the coach and head home. We were so exhausted that lots of us slept the whole way back. We couldn't wait to share our adventures with our grown-ups.
We had a fantastic school trip it was!
This half term we're learning about forests. So far we have learned the layers of a forest: the forest floor, the herb layer, the shrub layer, the understory, the canopy and the emergent layer. This is very tricky indeed! Did you know a forest is different to a wood because a forest has more trees and they are closer together than in a wood?
In science we are learning about living and non-living things and today we drew and labelled plants and trees. We even got to look closely at pansies to see their different parts. Next week we will be planting bean seeds in different areas to see if they will grow or not. We predict that the soil will be the best because you always plant seeds in soil. We also think that sand might be good because there is water beneath sand and some plants grow in deserts.
We are very excited to go on our adventure to Sherwood Forest tomorrow. What an amazing time we will have! Amelia really wants to ask Robin Hood some questions. For example, how do you help the animals in the forest? Emma is hoping we get to meet Robin Hood and his friends, maybe Little John.
After the trip we will be writing an interesting recount of what we did, what we saw and what we heard. Please come back and check later in the week to read all about what we got up to!
By Emma and Amelia
Next half term we will have a new topic in Year 2, Fantastic Forests! We have started to think about what we might do and learn in our new topic as we have had to decorate leaves with any green things we like ready for a secret display. We have taken one leaf home to decorate but have also done one in school too. 'I used pom poms, tissue paper and sequins to make it look exciting' - Sabeel. 'I think we are going to create a giant tree on our display filled with different leaves' - Kiean.
Next term we are lucky enough to be going on an exciting adventure to Sherwood Forest. We are over the moon and filled with joy to learn more about our topic by going on a trip. At Sherwood Forest we are going to learn about Robin Hood and his merry men!
By Kiean and Sabeel
This half term our topic has been 'Imagine India'. We have been learning about Indian people and how they build their houses. We have also learnt about special places in India like the Golden Temple, Taj Mahal and the Himalayas.
At the start of this term we did lots of research about India, then we created beautiful Indian sunset pictures.
First we tried 4 different medias (oil pastels, chalk, wax crayons and powder paint) to practice our techniques. Then we chose our favourite media to make our final picture for the display. 'We chose wax crayons because they weren't messy and you can mix the colours together without it smudging' - Layla and Amelia. Finally we put a silhouette of an animal or the Taj Mahal on top of our sunsets using black paint or black sugar paper.
We had a special visitor from a local Indian restaurant that brought in lots of spices for us to smell and taste. He told us about each spice and what foods you can use them in. 'My favourite was the coconut because the flavour wasn't too strong' - Layla.
Finally we had a very important job to do for Mrs Dale our deputy headteacher. We had to make persuasive posters for her husband, Mr Dale, to convince him to go on holiday to India. We learnt the best ways to persuade someone are to use WOW words to add lots of description and to use fancy features like rhetorical questions and exclamations. We created bright, colourful posters with great information about the landmarks in India, the weather they might experience and finally the animals they might see. We hope we persuaded him!
By Layla and Amelia
