Hello everyone!

We have had an extremely fun and productive week. The children finished their stories on their own version of The Enormous Turnip and also wrote detailed acrostic poems on The Great Fire of London.

Next week, the children will create calligrams on The Great Fire of London, which will be displayed in our class book.

In maths, the children have been learning grouping and repeated addition for multiplication.

Next week, the children will be learning arrays and solving problems using the 2 times tables and division.

Thank you very much Mrs Prime for visiting us this week and discussing how babies grow, the children very much enjoyed your visit and listening to their heart beat.

We visited Christ Church and the children carried out lots of fun activities.

The children also enjoyed creating and eating their fruit kebabs.

Spellings this week will be learning the Year 2 common exception words, these will be practised daily in the classroom.

Have a great weekend.

From the Year 2 team.

Happy Friday!

In English the children have worked extremely hard planning their own version of the story of ‘The Enormous Turnip,‘ they have included different recurring language and changed the characters. The children have started to write the beginning of their story.

Next week, the children will finish their own version of ‘The Enormous Turnip’ and self-mark checking that they have change the characters and repeated phrases and included commas and exclamation marks. During the end of the week, we will discuss acrostic poems and create a poem on The Great Fire of London.

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 D&T our topic is on healthy food, this Thursday the children will be creating fruit kebabs. (The children do not need to bring in any fruit for this lesson, the school will provide this)

On Tuesday, we are visiting Christ Church in Little Heath. We will be discussing and carrying out activities on what we can see inside a church.

Next week is mental health and wellbeing; we will be carrying out various activities along with activities for safer internet day.

Spellings for Friday are:

Group 1 – dad, big, when, it’s.

Group 2 – wrist, write, written, wrote, writing, wrong.

Group 3 – wrapping, wreckage, wriggled, wristband.

Please could you let me know if you can help out on either the morning or afternoon for our Great Fire of London day on Wednesday 28th February.

Wishing you a great weekend

From the Year 2 team

Hello everyone!

The children have worked extremely hard producing their own story on The Three Billy Goats Gruff; they created their own recurring sentences and including adjectives, exclamation and question marks.

In maths, the children enjoyed solving problems solving using coins and pounds.

Next week

English - we will be focusing on the story The Enormous Turnip and changing the characters and the recurring sentences.

Maths – we are starting our new topic on multiplication and division.

Home learning

To learn the 2, 5 and 10 times tables up to 12. We will also be revising these times tables in class over the next few weeks.

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

History – to find out about Samuel Pepys and his diary.

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

Spellings for next Friday are:
Group 1 - them, do, me, down.
Group 2 - shine, shiny, scare, scary, bone, bony, stone, stony, smoke, smoky.
Group 3 - chimney, valley, alley, money.

Have a great weekend

From the Year 2 team

Good afternoon to all,

The children have had a very productive week in English planning their own version of The Three Billy Goats Gruff. They have worked very hard checking they have changed the characters and repeated phrases, including commas, adjectives and exclamation marks.

Next week, in English, the children will write their stories and we will be continuing our topic on recurring language. We will be looking at the story The Enormous Turnip.

In maths, we have been looking at money and the children have solved maths problems using addition and subtraction with coins and pounds.

Next week, we will continue our topic on money and start to look at multiplication and division.

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 described and drew pictures of the stages from a baby to an adult.

Next week, the children will draw a picture of how an animal changes as it grows.

 In D&T, we have discussed healthy eating and next week, the children will draw a detailed fruit kebab.

 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 – as, no, mum, one.

Group 2 – let’s, I’m, I’ve, isn’t, can’t, it’s, I’ll, didn’t.

Group 3 – they’re, couldn’t, hasn’t, we’ve.

Have 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 Three Billy Goats Gruff and they are starting to think of alternative ideas for their story, which they will write next week. 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 topic starts with stories with recurring literacy language. Our first traditional story will be The Three Billy Goats Gruff. The children will role-play and create their own version of this story.

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 - the children will develop familiarity and typing skills with the computer and keyboard along with, understanding that the internet contains a large amount of information and recognise the need to use search tools and search engines to begin to find information. The children will also create a healthy eating poster.

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 Wednesday 28th 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.

 

Please could the children make sure they have their full PE kit in school for next week’s lessons.

Don’t forget that if you wish to enter the competition to name our reading tree in the KS2 library, you need to give your class teacher a piece of paper with your name and class written on it and the name that you would like to give the tree, by next Friday at the latest.

 

Spellings for next Friday are:

Group 1 – not, then, were, go

Group 2 – cry, dry, July, fly, try, reply, by

Group 3 – quickly, multiply, supply, why

Have a great weekend.

From the Year 2 team.

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.