We’ve had an incredibly fun week at school especially during our Sports Day on Tuesday morning. Children participated in a carousel of activities where they had to score as many points as possible!

Congratulations to YELLOW team who came in first place!

Children then took part in running races against each other. All the children were great sports and cheered each other on enthusiastically! Congratulations to the children who came 1st, 2nd and 3rd place overall in their races. 

We have been having a very creative day in school and have been making our habitat dioramas. We have used our designs to make 3d models. the final pictues will be added soon but for now, here is our work in progress update! 

This week we celebrated our Liturgy together with the theme of Pentecost, marking it as the birthday of the Church.  And, as with any birthday celebration, there were balloons, banners and party games during the liturgy, in this case pass the parcel.  As each layer was unwrapped, a different gift of the Holy Spirit was revealed and shared with the children.

This week we enjoyed a drama workshop with the company ‘Perform’. We went on an adventure under the sea and were able to explore different movements whilst being octopi, starfish and stingrays! The children were able to move to the music and had the opportunity to work in groups.

Computing 

In Computing we have been using Scratch to create and debug simple programs. The children followed their plan, ‘I am Special’, to help create their own avatar, or to paint their own Sprite.

We carefully considered different backgrounds to represent their personalities, likes and dislikes.

Have a look at some of our work below!

Don’t forget, the children can have a practise at this at home by visiting https://scratch.mit.edu/

Then click on ‘Create’ at the top. Enjoy!

Have a lovely weekend,

The Year 2 Team

Hello, you will notice that the children were sent home with their new Summer Term Reading passports this week. We are excited by the books that the children will read and we have ensured that the options for books suggested are wide enough. Mrs Porter has updated her shelves in the library with lots of books that the children can choose from.

Click below to download an additional copy.

Summer Term Reading Passport

Once your child has completed the passport, please send it into school so that they can be added into the prize draw for a special treat!

This afternoon, we were visited in school by Lee Haywood who you may know as our local contact for online safety. He spoke with the children about being safe with the internet in the home. He spoke with the children about smart devices such as an Alexa and using Siri and how to use them safely.

He spoke to the children about the appropriateness of the games that they play and how we are reliant on the Internet. We discussed how to stay safe on games when there is an option for chatting or communicating through games and what a stranger is. Please do look at his website as it does advise about individual games that your children may ask to play and their suitability.

https://www.onlinesafetyuk.com/advice-for-parents/

What a fabulous return to school we have had. We have so enjoyed the last 3 weeks since all the children have been back and our very proud of the writing we have produced about the passengers on board Titanic.

In Science this week we have been planting seeds in order to answer the question, do seeds always need soil to grow?

We have been busy in Year 2 this week continuing to write our diary entries as if we were a passenger on board Titanic!

We used our story mapping skills to plan out our diary entry adding key vocabulary.

In Maths we have been solving problems using multiplication and division skills.

We developed our strategies for solving problems by using the Plan, Do, Review approach.

We have loved seeing you all back in school!

You have come in and settled so quickly and we are already deep into our new learning journeys.
We are learning all about Titanic and it’s maiden voyage. 

In maths we have been learning about multiplications and division and have been drawing models

and images to represent our learning.