Happy Friday to all! 

The children all looked amazing in their World Book Day costumes yesterday! It was wonderful to see them so full of excitement. They also enjoyed their workshop with the poet Stewart Henderson, who shared some of his amusing poems and spoke about his career and how he comes up with his ideas.

Next week

In English, the children will write their own story centred on our class book The Minpins. The children will change the main character, monster and setting.

In maths, we will continue our new topic on length and height. The children will be completing activities on measuring in grams and kilograms.

Reminder

Year 1 & 2 trip to Hertfordshire Zoo- Tuesday 10th March.

Please ensure your child wears their school uniform and trainers for comfort. Don’t forget to pack a lunch in a plastic carrier bag (no nuts, fizzy drinks, or glass bottles, please).

On Thursday, we have a science workshop in the afternoon.

Spellings for Friday are:

Group 1 – they, told, bird, climb

Group 2 – want, watch, wander, quantity, squash, quality, squabble, squad, quad, quarrel.

Have a great weekend.

From the Year 2 team.

 

Hello,

Well done everyone, you have all worked extremely hard this week.

The children, thoroughly enjoyed taking part in the athletics activities, please see photos below.

 Next week

English, the children will write a report about the Minpins from what we know so far. The children will us subheadings and possessive apostrophes. Towards the end of the week, the children will plan their own story centred on The Minpins changing the main character and monster.

Maths, we will start our new topic on length and height. The children will measure several objects around the classroom and school using centimetres and metre ruler sticks.

Geography, to look at some of the world’s most amazing places.

D&T, the children will examine, describe and categorise a variety of bread-based products.

RE, we will discuss the meaning of Lent.

Spellings for Friday are:

Group 1 - one, like, then, it’s.

Group 2 – key, donkey, monkey, trolley, turkey, hockey, parsley, journey, valley, chimney.

Have a great weekend.

From the Year 2 team.

Happy Friday!

We have had a fun and busy week; the children have worked extremely hard.

Please see below photos taken of the children enjoying programming and debugging with the Bee-Bots.

Please find below a brief outline of the topics the children will be covering over the next term.

 English

We will be continuing our topic on The Minpins by Roald Dhal creating information reports and postcards. Our next book will be The Owl and the Pussy-cat by Edward Lear and the children will create letters, lists and instructions.

 Maths

Continuing our topic on multiplication and division then we will at start a new topic on length, height, capacity and temperature.

 Science

Animals including humans continued.

 Geography

Life in the city.

 PSHE

Healthy me.

 RE

The Easter Story, Shabbat and Passover.

 ICT

Data and information - Pictograms

D&T

Design and create a balanced healthy pizza.

Home Learning – to continue to practise the 2, 5 and 10 times tables.

Spellings for the first week back.

Group 1 – with, what, when.

Group 2 – other, mother, brother, nothing, Monday, money, cover, honey, discover, wonder.

Wishing everyone one a fun and restful half term.

From the Year 2 team.

Good afternoon everyone,

In English, the children have completed their detailed non-chronological reports on Bears, which are now displayed in the classroom.

Next week, the children will be creating danger posters and character descriptions based on our class text, The Minpins.

In Maths, the children have been learning to group objects and were introduced to division. Next week, they will continue this learning by making equal groups, grouping and sharing, and learning to divide by 2.

In Computing next week, the children will create and debug a program that they have written themselves.

In Science next week, the children will describe the importance of eating the right amounts of food by exploring different food groups.

Next week is Mental Health and Wellbeing Week. We will be taking part in a variety of activities, including lessons linked to Safer Internet Day.

Unfortunately, due to unforeseen circumstances, we were unable to attend the workshop at Christ Church. This will be rearranged for later in the year.

Spellings for Friday:

Group 1: all, ball, small, wall

Group 2: patting, patted, humming, hummed, dropping, dropped, sadder, saddest, runner, runny.

From
The Year 2 Team

Happy Friday!

In English, the children have worked extremely hard researching and writing notes on facts for their non-chronological report on bears.

Next week, the children will write their notes up into full sentences including correct punctuation and conjunctions. We will also start to read our new class book on Minpins by Roald Dahl and create command sentences.

In maths, we finished our topic on money and have started learning grouping and ungrouping on multiplication and division.

Next week, we will be looking at arrays to solve multiplication calculations.

In computing, the children enjoyed creating their own mat and navigating their friends to different destinations giving correct instructions.

Next week

Computing – to explain what an algorithm should achieve and create a program.

Art – to continue to collect resources for their collage.

RE – following our topic on different ways of giving thanks to God, on Tuesday morning, we are visiting Christ Church.

Home learning

To continue 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.

Spellings for Friday are:

Group 1 – this, into, the, bear

Group 2 – hiking, hiked, hiker, nicer, nicest, shiny, being, shining, scary, scaring

Have a great weekend

From the Year 2 team.

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.