Another busy and fruitful week in Y2. Our Y2 Autumn Watchers have been gathering Autumn leaves, acorns and conkers. In the classrooms children have been mastering their use of coordinating conjunctions and adding multiples of 10 on number lines. Can you believe that their English and Maths books are over halfway full?

Year 2 have been having fun learning to skip and to do French skipping. Why not have a go at home?

Year 2 have been learning about the work of the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development and raised money by wearing their brightest clothes. Meanwhile Elephant class have been developing their ukulele skills. Another fantastic, fun week of learning.

It was lovely to celebrate with family, friends and Fr. James on Tuesday. Well done Y2!

Watch out, there are some monstrous highway rats on the loose!

Some are grizzly and evil, others have sharp, scary claws and horrible, wicked swords. They all have disgusting manners and you will smell them coming because of their slimy, green teeth!

As you can tell Y2 have mastered using expanded noun phrases in their writing.

It has been so lovely to welcome the children into Y2 looking so smart and grown up. It has been a fantastic week despite the rain. The children have really enjoyed reading and acting out ‘The HighWay Rat’ by Julia Donaldson. They have been doing lots of counting to and from 100 and had great fun in PE.

In DT, the children enjoyed making a healthy salad. They tried new vegetables, leaves and dressings. And used taught skills -slicing, grating and peeling- to make it!

A number of Year 2 children, their families and both our teachers share an African heritage including from Nigeria, Kenya and Zimbabwe. With another of our families preparing to relocate to Kenya the children have been very excited to watch some episodes of Tinga Tinga Tales and to learn the meaning of some Swahili phrases used in the story. Swahili is a Bantu language spoken in several African countries. Here are some wonderful examples of the children’s retelling of ‘Why Elephant has a Trunk’.

In maths the children have enjoyed weighing objects. They have used non-standard measurements to find out how much different objects weigh as well as ordering objects from lightest to heaviest.

The children also explored the laptops and created a poster to help find a missing teddy. They had to type sentence to describe it and then type a phone number too.

What an eventful week we we have all had in year 2 with our amazing celebration of the word on Tuesday, school trip on Wednesday and plenty of sunshine.