Hello everyone!

The children have worked extremely hard producing their own story creating a different monster/creature centred on ‘The bear under the stairs’. They created sentences in their neatest handwriting and included adjectives, exclamation and question marks.

In maths, the children re visited coins and pound notes, we looked at how many different ways using different coins there could be to make the same amount along with solving problem calculations incorporating change.

Next week

English – the children will distinguish between fact and fiction relating to bears and research and create notes on bears on- What do they look like? Where do they live? What do they eat?

Maths – we are starting our new topic on multiplication and division. We will start with recognising equal groups, making and adding equal groups and later on in the week looking at multiplication sentences.

Home learning

To learn or discuss the 2, 5 and 10 times tables up to 10. We will also be revising these times tables in class throughout this term and next term.

Science – to discuss what they would take on a trip to Mars to survive.

Art – to use paint to explore texture and pattern.

RE – to continue to discuss and think about why religious places are special to people and how they help them to feel close to God.

Computing – to predict and follow the outcome of a sequence.

Spellings for next Friday are:

Group 1 - who, a, they, went, and

Group 2 – copying, crying, replying, marrying, carrying, flying, trying, drying, skiing.

Have a great weekend

From the Year 2 team.

Good afternoon to all,

We had a fantastic and informative workshop on the Great Fire of London on Thursday. The workshop leader commented on how well behaved the children were, well done Year 2! The children thoroughly enjoyed the activities and remained actively engaged throughout. They were able to recap prior knowledge while also learning many new facts.

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 history, the children learnt the events of the Great Fire and why the fire spread so quickly and stayed alight for so long.

Next week

Science – to notice that animals, including humans have offspring which grow into adults.

Art – to know how texture can be created with paint.

PSHE – to discuss how to keep trying even when it is difficult.

Computing – to learn how to give instructions.

Spellings for Friday are:

Group 1 – chair, hair, fair, pair, stair.

Group 2 – copier, copied, happier, happiest, cried, replied, tried, dried, driest, funnier.

Wishing you a great weekend

From the Year 2 team.

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, when and how the Great Fire of London started.

Art - the topic is painting and mixed media. The children will develop their knowledge of colour mixing, use paint to explore texture and pattern and compose a collage.

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 Thursday, we will have our workshop 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. Please see previous blog for ideas of clothing if your child would like to dress in period style clothing.

Spellings for next Friday are:

Group 1 – to, two, one, won, see, sea.

Group 2 – knock, know, knee, knitting, knife, gnat, gnaw, gnash, gnome.

Have a great weekend.

From the Year 2 team.

 Hello to all,

Please see below: 

Reminder: The Great Fire of London workshop will take place on Tuesday, 15th February. We kindly ask that the children come dressed in period-style clothing. Here are some suggestions:

Boys: A plain t-shirt (with or without a collar), a belt or cord tied around the waist, a plain waistcoat (if available), and a flat cap (if you have one). School trousers should be tucked into their socks.

Girls: A plain white collared shirt, a long plain skirt or dress in black, brown, or dark blue, and a plain waistcoat (if available). An apron or a white pillowcase can be used, and a piece of white fabric tied around the head to cover the hair.

Please let me know if you are available to help either during the morning or afternoon sessions or both to help support the children at the work stations.

Thank you

Mrs Beadle

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 Bethlehem’s Buzzin 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 6th January.

Thank you very much again for our gifts.

From the Year 2 team

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 and in the afternoon, the children will perform their Christmas performance to the school. 

Tuesday morning is our Christmas performance to the parents on ‘Bethlehem’s Buzzin’.

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 ‘Bethlehem’s Buzzin’ 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.

 

Good afternoon, everyone!

The children had a wonderful week! They thoroughly enjoyed designing and making their own hand puppets. They pushed themselves, showed great determination and even completed the sewing on their own—fantastic effort!

The children also worked very hard on their recounts of Goldilocks and the Three Bears, successfully using expanded noun phrases in their writing. Well done, Year 2!

Learning Next Week

English – The children will plan a sequence of events for their own version of Goldilocks and the Three Bears.

Maths – We will revisit and consolidate the key topics covered throughout the Autumn term.

Geography – We will explore local weather patterns and discuss whether we would prefer to live in a hot or cold climate.

RE – We will continue thinking about the question “Why does Christmas matter to Christians?” and sequence the Christmas story.

We will also continue rehearsing for our performance of Bethlehem’s Buzzin’ throughout the week.

Reminder

Friday will be Christmas dinner day and Christmas jumper day. In the afternoon, the children will enjoy a movie.

Spellings for next Friday

Group 1: they, one, who, was
Group 2: flies, tries, replies, copies, babies, carries, cries, dries, marries, families

Wishing you all a lovely weekend!
The Year 2 Team