Year 2: A fantastic end to Food, Faith and Farming fortnight!

Thank you so much to everyone that joined us to watch the brilliant Year 2 perform our Harvest song and for coming in to our classroom to taste and evaluate the children's wraps. 

This week we were lucky enough to go to THS on Wednesday to listen to a talk from the author Simon Peters. Simon told the children about why he became and author and all of the stories he has written. 

In Science this week we have been learning how germs when we sneeze spread and learnt about how important it is to wash our hands. This happened to be on 'National Handwashing Day'. We watched the NHS guidance on how to wash hands. 

I haven't set any home learning this week, I would encourage you to read with your children and access EdShed if they are in my spelling group and numbots. 

Have a lovely weekend 

The Year 2 team 

Year 2 Computing – Learning About Buttons in Coding

Today in Computing, our Year 2 pupils explored how buttons can be used to make things happen in a computer program! 

Using 2Code (Free Code Chimp), the children designed their own interactive scenes — choosing a background, adding objects like animals and food, and then programming buttons to make those objects perform actions.

They learned that:

• A button is a special object that can be clicked on to trigger an action.

• Every object has attributes (like size, colour, and position) that can be changed.

• The “When Clicked” event makes something happen when the user presses the button!

Pupils showed great creativity designing their programs — some made ducks eat bread, others made animals move or sounds play when their buttons were clicked. It was wonderful to see how confidently everyone could explain what their button did and how they had customised its look and text.

We were really impressed with the teamwork, perseverance, and problem-solving skills on display — true #InspiredToLearn coding in action! 

Mr Spracklen

Year 2: End of the week

 Today the children drew some amazing story maps adapting the story of the Bear and the piano. Next week we will use these to plan and write stories. 

Thank you to Ashton the Optometrist who came in on Thursday during 'world sight day' to talk to the children about their eyes, vision and showed them the lenses. Did you know that children get free eye tests? 

We have had some great adventure time this week. 

Today was 'World Mental Health day', we talked about how important it is to talk to a trusted adult about how we feel. 

This morning we had Karen in from the fire service to give the children a fire safety talk. We learnt about how to keep safe and the importance of not touching matches and also to check your fire alarms every week. 

Home learning this week is linked to our Maths learning of counting in 3s. 

My spelling group are having a two week focus on the soft c sound and so they have a consolidation task. 

Please remember it is the farm trip on Tuesday afternoon. The children should wear their school tops but can have home trousers. Please bring wellies to school and wear trainers to school. 

Finally, Miss Taylor has started her Teacher Training placement with us.

Miss Taylor will be with us Monday-Thursday until February. 

We hope you have a lovely weekend. 

The Year 2 team 

Year 2: What we've been up to!

 Over the last week we have had some amazing enrichment learning experiences. The children all got to visit the book fair and we shared a couple of stories.

Yesterday they had an input from Lynda on Rosh Hashonnah (please see Mr Spracklen's previous blog on this)

In Maths this week we have come to the end of our place value unit and so we are assessing what the children have retained so we can put in interventions in the next couple of weeks. 

In English we are just about to start to plan our own stories based upon the Bear and the piano so watch this space! 

In our SCARF lesson we have been focussing on what it is to be kind. It is so nice to see so many children supporting each other. We really do have some kind, thoughtful and understanding children in the class. We are really trying to follow our class charter as seen below.

On Tuesday afternoon next week Mr Spracklen will be taking the class to the farm. If you are available to support this trip please see a member of the team at the door. 

As always, please come and speak to me at the door if you are concerned about anything. Parent consultations will be bookable soon but if you can not do those times we can arrange another one. 

                                                                  🍁The Year 2 team 🍁

Year Two’s Snail Race! 🏁🐌

Today in Computing, Year Two took part in a very exciting coding challenge – our very own Snail Race!

Using the 2Code program, the children explored how to make different objects move by using events and actions. We talked about how each object in a program has its own attributes (like how big it is or what it looks like) and how we can change these to make our scene unique.

Once everyone had designed their road backgrounds and chosen their racers (including snails, turtles, and other speedy creatures!), it was time to add the code. The children used “when key pressed” events to start their race and then programmed their objects to move forward along the track.

There was lots of laughter and excitement as we predicted which snail would win — some raced ahead quickly while others took their time! We even talked about how to debug our code if something didn’t quite go to plan.

By the end of the lesson, everyone had created their own working snail race and could explain how different objects in their programs had different actions and properties.

A fantastic effort, Year Two – you really showed brilliant predicting, problem-solving, and computing skills today!