Merry Christmas 

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

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

on Monday 8th January.

Thank you again

From the Year 2 team.

Hello everyone and happy Friday!

We have had an extremely busy week full of fun and especially the children's performance of Lights, camel, action it was absolutely amazing. They all thoroughly enjoyed singing the songs, well done everyone and on Monday morning, they will perform their show once again to the school.

Please see below pictures taken after the dress rehearsal.

 

We all had lots of fun at the Christmas jumper and Christmas dinner today, please see below a few pictures taken during the meal.

 

Next week, the children will be completing many Christmas activities.

Monday morning is sharing assembly followed by our Christmas performance to the school. 

In the afternoon it is our KS1 Christmas party. Children can bring in party clothes to change into after lunch.

Wednesday we are lucky to have a drama company visiting us on Wednesday performing the pantomime Dick Whittington and his cat.

Wishing you a fun weekend

From the Year 2 team.

 Happy Friday!

The children enjoyed their dress rehearsal this week and are looking very much forward to performing to yourselves next week.

Next week

Maths - finish our topic on shapes.

Science - to research a famous person.

Art - to create a winter display. 

Please see below an insight of our time table for next week.

Monday - perform our Lights Camels Action show to the school 

Tuesday morning and Wednesday afternoon - perform our Christmas show to yourselves.

Wednesday morning we will be listening to a virtual session on the festival of Hanukkah. Also, after the performance is open afternoon, to look at your children's books.

Thursday morning we are going to Christ Church to discuss and complete fun activities on Christmas.

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

Have a great weekend

From the Year 2 team.

Wow, it’s Friday again and we are now in December!

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

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.

Next week

In English, the children will create a Christmas calligram using exciting adjectives.

In geography, the children will discuss and write about which country either hot or cold they would prefer to live in.

In RE, we will discuss the Lords Prayer.

Spellings for Friday are:

Group 1 – be, like, some, so

Group 2 – one, won, hear, here, sun, son, be, bee, see, sea

Group 3 – bear, bare, new, knew

Have a great weekend.

The Year 2 team. 

Good afternoon,

This week, in English the children wrote an explanation text on how to fly a kite and how a pencil sharpener works.

In maths, we looked at 2D and 3D shapes along with line of symmetry.

In RE, the children enjoyed learning about Hanukkah the Jewish festival of light.

In geography, the children compared UK and Kenya and discuss whether they lived in a hot and cold country.

In science, the children chose what materials would be best suited to create a rocket.

Next week

English - the children will learn their lines using expression and practise on the stage for our Christmas show - Lights, Camel, Action!

Maths – we will continue our topic on shape looking at the faces, edges and vertices of 3D shapes.

D&T – to decorate and complete our Christmas stockings.

Spellings for next Friday are:

Group 1 – went, was, said, are

Group 2 – race, ice, once, settle, site, city

Group 3 – circle, celery, cycle, Cinderella, face

Have a great weekend.

From the Year 2 team. 

Hello, we have had another very busy, fun week in Year 2.

 

Next week

English – the children will learn how to write an explanation text. We will look at a variety of texts and discuss the layout and present tense. The children will create their own explanation text on how to work a pencil sharpener.

Maths – we will start our new topic on shapes, looking at 2D and 3D shapes

RE – continue to learn about Hanukah

PSHE – reinforce how we work together, the children will create friendship tokens

D&T – to decorate their Christmas stockings

Geography – we will compare the UK and Kenya

ICT – research countries of the Uk

Science – the children will draw and include what materials they would use to build a rocket

Spellings for next Friday are:

Group 1 – there, this, have, put

Group 2 – jar, jacket, village, huge, badge, edge

Group 3 – giant, giraffe, language, shortage

Have a great weekend.

The Year 2 team.

Hello,

In English next week we will discuss how to write an explanation, which will be centred, on how to make a bicycle move and what is a bicycle. The children will also be practising their lines and songs for the Christmas show along with starting to use expression.

In maths next week, the children will solve missing number problems and complete the end of unit assessment.

Throughout the week, the children will start to sew and create their Christmas stocking.

It is anti-bullying week next week, on Monday the children can come to school wearing odd socks, this is a great way to celebrate what makes us all unique.

On Friday, it is Children in Need - the children can wear something spotty to school.

Spellings for next Friday are:

Group 1 – my, her, what, out.

Group 2 – wing, sting, thing, mother, climb, crumb.

Group 3 – mostly, motion, mirror.

I look forward to seeing you tomorrow.

Mrs Beadle

Hello to all!

This week in English the children have story mapped their day when they had lost their favourite toy using adverbs of time.

Next week, the children will write their recount and include adjectives, adverbs of time and conjunctions.

In maths, the children carried out various activities to develop a good understanding on adding 10s using 2-digit numbers.

Next week, the children will solve calculations subtracting 2 single digit numbers using 10s.

 Next week

Geography – to research where are the coldest places on Earth.

 Science – we will be looking at absorbent materials.

 RE – to learn about how Hanukah is celebrated.

 D&T – to start to design a Christmas stocking puppet.

Home learning

Following on the topic of puppets. I would like the children to create a moving puppet of their choice. The children are very excited to create their Christmas stocking in school and had some very imaginative ideas. I look forward to seeing their moving puppet and for the children to discuss their character and materials they have used to the class.

Date for the puppets to be in by please is the Monday 11^th December 2023.

The children have in their book bags a pink book, which they can complete any kind of activities they would like to do. For example, write stories, practise spellings/maths, research countries of world etc. This book is to show children learning can happen beyond the classroom.

Spellings for next Friday are:

Group 1 – can, are, up, had

Group 2 – level, little, bottle, liquid, dial, detail.

Group 3 – impossible, rational, dental, pencil.

Have a lovely weekend and I look forward to seeing you at the fireworks display tomorrow.

From the year 2 team.

Happy half term everyone! 

It was great to see so many of you at parent consultations this week.

The children have settled extremely well into the routine and expectations of Year 2, I am sure like me you are very proud of their progress. 

Please see below an insight of the topics we will be covering next term.

English – the children will create a recount, this will be on the book ‘Dogger’. The children will describe the character’s feelings; create a wanted poster along with creating a recount using adverbs of time and conjunctions to extend their sentence writing. The following topic, we will be discussing the difference between instruction and explanation. The children will write their own explanations.

Maths – the units are addition and subtraction along with 2D and 3D shapes.

Science - We will continue our topic on the uses of everyday materials and we will start with exploring what materials are best suited for a waterproof coat, along with discussing natural and manmade materials and researching famous inventors.

Geography - Our topic is 'Would you like to live in a hot or cold place? Our first lesson will be learning, Where are the continents?

PSHE - The topic is 'Celebrating differences'.

RE - We will be learning about Diwali, Hanukkah and Christmas.

D&T - The topic is on creating 'Hand Puppets', the children will create a Christmas stocking.

Have a fun and relaxing half term.

From the Year 2 team.

 

Happy Friday!

We had a wonderful time at the British Museum in Hitchin. The children were extremely well behaved and enjoyed the role-play acting as Victorian children.

Please see photos taken below.

Next week

English – to write a different version of Handa’s Surprise, including expanded nouns and conjunctions.

Maths – solving calculations using different methods on add and subtract across 10.

History – to write a recount on our class trip using time words along with learning interesting facts on Mary Seacole.

Reminder re - Home Learning is due in by 19^th October- to write about your favourite reading book. 

Please include the following: the title and the author of your book. What is the book about? What is your favourite part of the story and why? Did you enjoy the ending? If not what ending would you write instead and draw a picture. 

Spellings for next Friday are:

Group 1 – that, with, all, we

Group 2 – can, nail, neck, into, another, now

Group 3 – gnome, many, own, know,

Have a fun weekend,

From the Year 2 team.