Year 2- Week 6

WHAT A WEEK! 🌟 End of Week 6

And just like that, we have reached the end of Week 6 in Year 2! What a busy week full of learning, teamwork and exciting activities. The children have continued to work incredibly hard, and it has been lovely to see their confidence continue to grow. Let’s take a look at what we have been up to!

📰 English – Breaking News!

This week, we have started thinking about our upcoming newspaper reports based on The Bear and the Piano. We have been exploring the bear’s incredible journey from the forest to the big city, where he became famous for playing the piano! We are beginning to think like real journalists, considering the exciting events we could report on and how we can share the bear’s extraordinary story with our readers. Watch this space for some breaking news from Year 2!

🔢 Maths – Fact Families

We have been learning all about fact families this week. This has been a tricky concept, so we took our learning outside and used the children themselves to represent the numbers in our calculations! This really helped everyone to visualise how the numbers are connected and how addition and subtraction facts belong together. Once we had explored this practically, the children were able to put their understanding to the test in their maths journals. Well done, Year 2, for persevering with a challenging concept!

🫁 Science – Get Moving!

In Science, we investigated how our breathing changes before and after exercise. The children took part in an experiment, recorded their observations on a recording sheet and began thinking about why our bodies need to work harder when we exercise. This week, we will be using our results to create a graph so that we can present and compare our findings. Little scientists in action!

🔧 DT – Lever Creators!

Our Design and Technology lessons have been full of creativity as we made our own levers using pipe cleaners and lolly sticks. The children enjoyed exploring how their levers worked and putting their designing and making skills to the test. 

We also had a special birthday to celebrate this week – a lovely way to add a little extra excitement to our busy days! 🎂

🌟 Looking Ahead to Week 7!

We have another fun-filled week ahead, with some very exciting adventures planned!

📚 Wednesday morning: We will be visiting Thomas Hardye School for our special author visit. We cannot wait to meet the author and enjoy this exciting reading experience!

🐮 Thursday morning: We are off to the farm! We are looking forward to exploring, discovering and learning more about the world around us.

🍂 A date for your diaries: Our Harvest Assembly will take place on 23rd October. We look forward to sharing this special occasion with you!

Have a wonderful weekend, everyone. Thank you, as always, for your continued support. The children have worked so hard this week, and they should be very proud of themselves!

See you next week and have a great weekend!

Miss Joy and the Super Supportive Year 2 Team💙

 

Year 2- Week 5

 Week 5: Another week of wonderful learning and adventure!

And just like that, we have reached the end of Week 5 in Year 2! What another fantastic week we have had. I continue to be blown away by the children's enthusiasm, creativity and determination in everything they do. Their writing has been incredible this week, and it has been wonderful to see their handwriting improving day by day. The pride they are taking in their work is really shining through, and I couldn't be happier with the progress they are making! ✨

📚 ENGLISH

This week, we have moved on to our new book, The Bear and the Piano. The children have been working hard to make their sentences longer and stronger by using conjunctions, exploring modal auxiliary verbs such as could, would and should, and learning how to use contractions, such as do + not = don't. We have been putting all of these skills into practice in our writing, and the children are becoming more confident at making thoughtful vocabulary and sentence choices. Their writing really has been a joy to read!

We have also been enjoying a little Roald Dahl magic during our class story time! So far, we have read The Twits and George's Marvellous Medicine, and we are nearly at the end of our third book, The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me, which the children are absolutely loving! It has been lovely to share these stories together and see their excitement as we discover what happens next. 

🔢 MATHS

In Maths, we have been learning all about comparing and ordering numbers. The children have been practising how to identify which numbers are greater than or less than others, using the symbols < and > to show their understanding. We have also been ordering numbers from greatest to smallest and smallest to greatest. This has involved lots of careful thinking, checking and explaining our reasoning. The children have worked really hard to develop their confidence with these skills!

🗺️ GEOGRAPHY

This week in Geography, we became real-life cartographers! A cartographer is someone who creates maps, so we put our skills to the test by exploring our school and creating our very own maps. We imagined that we were looking at our school from an aerial perspective, as though we were high above it looking down. The children had to think carefully about the different features they could see, where they were positioned and how they could represent them on a map. It was fantastic to see them getting outside, exploring and putting their map-making skills into practice!

🥦 SCIENCE

We have continued our learning about healthy eating and what our bodies need to stay healthy. This week, we focused on understanding what makes a balanced diet. We tackled a common misconception that eating only fruit and vegetables is enough to be healthy. Instead, we explored why our bodies need a variety of foods from all the different food groups, in the right proportions, to give us the nutrients and energy we need to grow, learn and play. The children have been developing a much better understanding of why balance and variety are so important! 

🐳 RE

In RE, we have been exploring the story of Jonah and the Whale. We learnt how Jonah tried to run away from God's instructions, found himself caught in a terrible storm and was swallowed by a great fish. After spending three days inside the fish, Jonah prayed to God and was given another chance to do what he had been asked to do. We talked about the different feelings Jonah might have experienced throughout the story and then created our own whales with Jonah inside! The children wrote about what they thought Jonah might be feeling, thinking carefully about his experiences and emotions.

🚒 FIRE SAFETY ASSEMBLY

Friday brought an exciting opportunity for some of our Year 2 children to take centre stage! During our fire safety assembly, the children took on some fantastic acting roles at the front of the hall, helping to demonstrate the importance of fire safety. They showed wonderful confidence, enthusiasm and bravery in front of the school, and it was lovely to see them getting involved in such an important message. A huge well done to everyone who took part!

I hope you all have a lovely weekend. I cannot wait to see what week 6 brings! 

Miss Joy and the Super Supportive Year 2 Team! ✨

Year 2- Week 4

 Year 2- Week 4 

Yet another positive week in year 2!

We have enjoyed another busy and fun-filled week in year 2. How is it the end of week 4 already? This half term is whizzing by! We have undertaken lots of exciting learning across the curriculum and it is lovely watching the children's minds expand day by day!

In maths, we have been tackling the rather tricky concept of estimating numbers. This can be a challenging idea for children to get their heads around, but my class never fail to amaze me with their determination! We have been looking at numbers such as 47 and identifying the multiples of 10 that come before and after it. We then found the midpoint between those two multiples of 10 and used this to help us decide whether our number was smaller or bigger than the midpoint. The children have shown fantastic resilience when tackling this tricky concept.

In English, we have brought together all of the amazing learning we have done so far around The Bear Under the Stairs and used it to create our very own letters of advice to William. The children’s ideas have absolutely blown me away! It has been wonderful to see their confidence grow throughout our lessons and then see this reflected in their writing. They have worked so hard to expand their vocabulary, using words such as horrified and petrified to engage the reader rather than simply using the word ‘scared’. I am incredibly proud of them all! Their fantastic writing will be up on our Writing Hall of Fame at the start of next week,

In RE, we have been learning about how people of the Jewish faith celebrate the New Year. We have discovered what Rosh Hashanah is and created our own New Year cards featuring the greeting Shanah Tovah, meaning “Good Year”. The children have really enjoyed learning about this celebration and creating their own cards.

We also have a Flashback Friday board in the year 2 classroom. This is a way for children to talk about what they:

Tried 

Grew at 

Inspired them 

Felt proud of

I have attached some amazing ideas that have been discussed recently! 

And finally… we have officially started our Christmas card making! 🎄 It is never too early for Christmas in Year 2! Our cards will be sent to Cauliflower Cards, where they will be available to purchase. More information about this will be shared with you closer to the time, so keep an eye out for further details.

A little reminder: individual school photographs will be taking place on Monday, so please don’t forget! 📸

What a positive week year 2!

WOW Year 2! What an amazing week we have had! 

We have certainly been putting our brains to the test and showing just how much we can achieve when we persevere. In English, we have been exploring how using the word ‘because’ can help us make our sentences longer and stronger. We are now getting ready to create our own letter of advice to William from The Bear Under the Stairs, where we will give him some helpful ideas about what he could do to tackle his fear of thinking there is a bear hiding under the stairs! 

In Maths, flexible partitioning has definitely put our brains to the test! It has been tricky at times, but the children have shown fantastic resilience and have truly been Reggie the Resilient Tortoise 🐢. They have persevered, kept trying and can now absolutely SMASH flexible partitioning! What a fantastic achievement! 

We have also continued exploring levers in DT and have been busy making our own. The outcomes have been amazing, and the children have loved seeing their ideas come to life! 🔧

📚 A little reading reminder

Please can reading books stay in children's bags/bookbags and come to and from school every day. It is really important that we are able to read with the children regularly and that they continue to read independently each day. Without their reading books, children may need to choose a book that is beyond their current reading level, so having their books with them each day really helps us to support their reading progress.

🏃‍♀️ PE DAYS HAVE CHANGED! 

Our PE days are now Thursday and Friday. This change is to coincide with Year 1's PE days, allowing us to make the most effective use of the equipment and, most importantly, make the most of our precious PE time! Please can children come into school wearing their PE kits on Thursdays and Fridays.

Thank you, as always, for your continued support with your child's learning. You are helping us to make Year 2 such a positive and exciting year, where we can all continue to grow and be inspired to learn! 🌟

From Miss Joy and the super supportive Year 2 Team! 💙

🌟 Welcome Back, Year 2! 🌟

Welcome back, Year 2! 

I am SO excited to be your teacher this year! Some of you may remember that I taught you for a little while before, so it feels extra special to be back together again. I already know what a brilliant, funny and enthusiastic bunch you are — and I cannot wait to see how much you grow this year!

We have SO much to look forward to: exciting learning, new challenges, lots of laughter, making memories and, of course, becoming the amazing Year 2 learners I know you can be.

 Get ready for a year full of curiosity, creativity, teamwork and BIG dreams. Let's make this our best year yet!

Miss Joy

The end of Year 2!

Wow hasn't that year gone quickly?!

On behalf of all of the Year 2 team I want to share how proud we are of all of the children. They have worked incredibly hard, showing resilience, curiosity, and kindness every single day.

Thank you so much for the incredible gifts and cards. 

We hope you have a lovely Summer

Mrs Thorpe, Mrs March, Mrs Hibberd, Mrs Smith, Mrs Briant, Miss Aly, Mrs Geddis and Miss Hounsome. 

 

Final week of our Sports fortnight and things to come...

 Wow the heat is definitely slowing us down! On Wednesday the children spent the first hour of the day with the Year 4 sports leaders who taught them how to play some games. 

Today we had Jen and Anthony from Castle Hill Heritage skills CIC who taught the children a set of 6 games dating back 1000 years! This was great fun, thank you to Jen and Anthony for this amazing opportunity. 

There isn't any home learning or spellings this week. We are consolidating our learning in our last full week of term. I can't quite believe Year 2 is nearly over!!! 

Have a lovely weekend 

The Year 2 team