Wow what a short but jam-packed half term we have had in Year 2. We thoroughly enjoyed learning about dinosaurs and fossils through our topic ‘THE LAND BEFORE TIME!’. We have painted dinosaurs, made dinosaur models and learned about different types of dinosaurs, how they lived, what they ate and what they looked like.

We began our topic with a rather strange discovery…a GIANT dinosaur footprint on our playground. We couldn’t believe the size of the footprint so we decided to measure it and then estimate how many of our shoes we would be able to fit inside. One class even managed to fit 39 shoes into it. Let’s just say…we hope we don’t run into a T-Rex anytime soon! 

There are so many fantastic things we have loved learning about during this topic. We worked hard finding out about the different species of dinosaurs, comparing their sizes and even became palaeontologists to carry out our own fossil dig with a chocolate chip cookie. It was so much fun!!

DINOMANIA came to visit us and showed us so many amazing dinosaurs, including a HUGE T-Rex! Some of us were terrified, especially the teachers!! This made us want to see even more life-size dinosaurs so we decided to visit Fonmon Castle to see some more dinosaurs. The weather was glorious on the day and we thoroughly enjoyed going on a dinosaur trail, learning more about the Welsh dinosaur ‘Dracoraptor’, visiting the outdoor classroom, watching an interactive dinosaur show and we even got to dig for some fossils ourselves!! We really enjoyed our interactive workshop ‘Curious about dinosaurs’ with Cardiff museum and saw some of the amazing fossils that they have there.

We have been so lucky with the sunny weather this half term especially for our Year 2 Sports Day. We loved every minute of it and tried our best in all our races. We are hoping for another sunny half term after our week off.