Friday, 17 January 2025

Good afternoon to all,


In English, the children wrote and replied to a letter in role as a character. Next week, the children will write their own story centred on our class book ‘The bear under the stairs’. They will include adjectives and exclamation marks.

In maths, we have been looking at money and the children have solved maths problems using addition and subtraction with coins and pounds this topic will continue next week.

Home learning – to play shops with real/toy money. I have mentioned to the children that they can otherwise make their own money from paper.

 In science, the children drew a picture of how an animal changes as it grows. Next week, the children will describe and draw pictures of the stages from a baby to an adult.

 In D&T, we have discussed healthy eating and next week, the children will continue to draw a detailed fruit kebab and research where their fruit is grown (trees, bushes, vines or plants).

 In history, the children learnt the events of the Great Fire and next week the children will find out why the fire spread so quickly and stayed alight for so long.

 Spellings for next Friday are-

Group 1 – won, son, come, some.

Group 2 – month, done, other, brother, mother, love

Group 3 – front, honey, monkey, glove

Have a great weekend

From Mrs Beadle, Miss Russon and Mrs Blatch

Friday, 10 January 2025

Happy New Year everyone!

The children have settled extremely well back into the daily routine. 

They have enjoyed learning the story of ‘The bear under the stairs’ which we will continue next week. The children wrote about a real life experience of something that scared them. In maths, the children have enjoyed learning money, solving calculations using different coins and notes.

Please see below the lessons for next week and an insight of the topics we will cover in this term.

English - our book is ‘The bear under the stairs’ by Helen Cooper. The children next week, will write a letter in role as a character and create a reply. We will also be looking at the different graphemes for the grapheme ‘air’.

Maths - the topic is on money. Next week, they will be counting, comparing and calculating sums using notes and coins.

Science - our topic is animals, including humans. The children will discuss and observe that animals, including humans have offspring, which grow into adults, by describing the changes to animals as they grow.

History - the topic is on the Great Fire of London. We will start the topic by introducing where and when the Great Fire of London started.

D&T - the topic is preparing fruit and vegetables. The children will discuss fruit and vegetables and investigate a variety of fruit and vegetables to understand where a range of fruit and vegetables come from.

ICT – our topic is robot algorithms. The children will give instructions and then explain what happens when we change the order of instructions and they will design and test their algorithm.

PSHE - the topic is Dreams and Goals, encouraging the children to stay motivated when doing something challenging. The children will identify their successes and know how this makes them feel proud.

RE - the children will be learning different ways of giving thanks to God. They will discuss where they like to go that is special to you. The children will discuss and draw their special place. Within the term, we hope to be able to visit Little Heath Christ Church.

On Tuesday 25th February, we will have a workshop and actors visiting us on our history topic The Great Fire of London. We do require parent helpers please either for the morning, afternoon or all day to support us with the activities. Please let me know if you available. 

Spellings for next Friday are:

Group 1 – to, two, one, won

Group 2 – here, hear quite, quiet see, sea. be, bee, blue, blew, night, knight

Extn: there/their/they’re

Have a great weekend.

Mrs Beadle, Miss Russon and Mrs Blatch

 

Friday, 20 December 2024

Happy Christmas everyone!!

Thank you everyone for your very generous gifts, it was extremely kind of you.

We have had an extremely busy week, full of fun activities and especially the children's performance of Angel Express it was absolutely amazing. They all thoroughly enjoyed singing the songs, well done everyone!

Please see below pictures taken from the weeks jollities.
















We wish you all a fantastic Christmas and we look forward to seeing the children back

on Tuesday 7th January.

Thank you again

From the Year 2 team

Friday, 13 December 2024

Happy Friday!

 

We have had a very busy week and a fun packed day today. The children enjoyed their Christmas dinner followed by a movie with the whole school. Please see photos taken below-

















Next week

Monday morning is sharing assembly followed by our Christmas performance to the school.  During the morning and afternoon the children will complete their nonfiction report on ‘Wolves’.

Tuesday morning is our Christmas performance to the parents on ‘Angel Express’. In the afternoon it is our KS1 Christmas party. Children can bring in party clothes to change into after lunch.

Wednesday, the children will be performing their Christmas show on ‘Angel Express’ in the afternoon and after the show it is open afternoon to come into class and look at your child’s work books.

Thursday the children will complete Christmas activities along with a Christmas maths challenge working in small groups.

Friday – reminder we finish at 1.15pm.

Wishing you a fun weekend

From the Year 2 team.

 

Friday, 6 December 2024

Happy Friday everyone!

The children have enjoyed learning the edges, vertices and sides of 2D shapes and drawing symmetrical pictures.

 Next week we will look at the edges, vertices and sides of 3D shapes.

In English, the children learnt the difference between fiction and non-fiction books relating to wolves and they created some very good adjectives to describe wolves.

Next week, the children will continue to research wolves and they will create detailed sentences along with planning a non-chronological report using a spider diagram.

This week the children completed their topic on materials in Science and we consolidated their knowledge learnt by discussing the properties of various objects.

Please could the children bring in their clothes for the Christmas performance on ‘Angel Express’ as we would like to do a dress rehearsal next week.

Reminder

Friday is Christmas dinner and Christmas jumper day. In the afternoon, the children will watch a movie.

Spellings for next Friday are:

Group 1 – one, two, tail, eyes, nose

Group 2 – baby, babies, try, tries, move, moves, donkey, donkeys, fox, foxes, wolf, wolves

Have a great weekend

Mrs Beadle

Monday, 2 December 2024

Good morning,

Please see below the spellings for Friday-


Group 1 - so, with, but, be.


Group 2 - because, class, cold, could, eye, fast, many, most, steak, sure.


Thank you

Mrs Beadle

Friday, 29 November 2024

Wow, it’s Friday again!

We have had a busy, fun week rehearsing for the Christmas performance, the children have been practising their lines and songs during their English lessons.

Next week, our English lessons will be centred on the story Wolves by Emma Gravett. We will start the topic identifying features from a variety of fiction and non-fiction books.

In maths, the children have been enjoying learning the properties of 2D and 3D shapes. We will continue looking at shapes next week along with making patterns and using lines of symmetry.

The children have enjoyed using the IPads to take photographs around the classroom. They have been taught how to edit, delete and change the photograph from landscape to portrait.

In geography, the children finished the topic on, where they would prefer to live in a hot or cold place. We have researched numerous countries of which the majority of the class chose a hot country!

During the afternoons next week, we will be practising for our Christmas performance on ‘Angels Express’.

Reminder

Friday will be non-uniform day, children are to bring in food for our class picnic hamper which will be raffled on the 6th December.

I will post the spellings on the blog for next Friday, once I have received them from our new spelling scheme.

Have a great weekend.

From the Year 2 team.