Year 2 News

It’s Friday! Today in Maths is fun, Year 2 have been practising and consolidating their number bonds. We had lots of fun trying lots of different activities.  

We have been learning all about Shabbat this week. We have learnt about how Jewish people celebrate Shabbat and enjoyed tasting some of the special challah bread. We have also wrote our own Shabbat blessings.  

This week’s star reader in Year 2 is Freddie. Well done Freddie, you have tried super hard this week in our guided reading in phonics and have done so much reading at home. Keep up the hard work. we are so proud of you!  

We had a fun maths lesson today all about 2d shapes. We played bingo, dominoes, made shapes with the peg boards, had a feely bag and lots of other activities too. We had lots of fun whilst consolidating our 2d shapes.  

Connor is our reader of the week this week. You have tried so hard this week with your reading and it has been lovely to hear that you are developing a love of reading and books again. Well done Connor! We are so proud of you.  

This term in DT we are looking at structures at the park. We will be designing and making a mini structure. Today we enjoyed using a range of construction materials to make slides, sea-saws, swings, zip wires and roundabouts. `We enjoyed working together and sharing our ideas. Next week we will be looking at different ways to join different materials.

Our first readers of the week in Year 2! Well done girls. We are very proud of you.  

After reading the story ‘The Colour Monster,’ Year 2 enjoyed making a feelings wheel. We have all been really keen to use our wheels each morning and afternoon to say how we are feeling. Sometimes we feel happy, sometimes we feel sad and sometimes we just feel all mixed up like the Colour Monster does. Mrs Wilkinson is teaching us …

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We have been enjoying the story of The Colour Monster. Today we have enjoyed making some feeling jar collages and feelings wheels. We then spent some time with our friends talking about our feelings using all of the different colour monsters from the story.  

For today’s mindfulness activity, we enjoyed cloud watching. We went outside, felt the air on our faces with our eyes closed and then watched the clouds. We saw mermaids, turtles, dogs, rabbits, love hearts, bears any many other things.          

We have had a lovely time in Year 2 this week and the children have all settled back in remarkably well and I am so proud of each and every one of them. We had lots of fun outside with the ‘getting to know you beachball’ and the children enjoyed telling me all about themselves. We have also enjoyed lots …

Today we talked about diversity in toys in our news assembly. #ToyLikeMe was established in April 2015 after writer and journalist Rebecca Atkinson noticed the lack of positive disability representation in toys. Rebecca worked in children’s television and had always been interested in the way these industries represent disability and difference. She called on some fellow parents, including play consultant, …

We have finalised our timetables today. Please remember to send your child in PE kit on their PE days. This will begin from Monday 7th September. PE days for this half term are: Year 1: Monday & Tuesday Year 2: Monday & Friday Year 3: Wednesday & Thursday Year 4: Tuesday & Friday Year 5: Wednesday & Thursday Year 6: …

We are looking forward to welcoming everyone in our school family back in September. We know you will have lots of questions which we have tried to answer in the following documents Reception Frequently Asked Questions Year 1 Frequently Asked Questions Year 2 Frequently Asked Questions Year 3 Frequently Asked Questions Year 4 Frequently Asked Questions Year 5 Frequently Asked …

Thank you for your late entries everyone! What a great week you all had. We loved seeing your active photos and want to say thank you and well done to all families who took part! In third place were St. Andrew with a brilliant 95 points, in second place were St. Patrick with 97 points but our Lockdown Sports Week …

Next week we would like you to take part in SPORTS WEEK CHALLENGE! Firstly, if possible, can you wear something in your house group colour: purple for Aidan, blue for Andrew, white for Bede, yellow for David, red for George, orange for Oswald and green for Patrick. There are two challenges each day. If you send your teacher a picture …