The children have had a wonderful last full week at school writing their information texts about countries around the world and then sharing them with the children in year 1.

They have also enjoyed designing and making a British sandwich for design technology!

Have a lovely weekend.

From the year 2 team.

The children had a lovely morning on Tuesday celebrating their liturgy. Many thanks to all the families that came and joined us, it was lovely to see so many of you.

Hope you all have a lovely weekend.

From Miss Allen and Mrs Layton

What a beautiful week we have had at school! Even though it has been hot the children have shown excellent commitment to their learning. Our writing in English has been very impressive with some brilliant stories based on the Queen’s hat and a newspaper report to help find the Queen’s hat!

We have also enjoyed planting some seeds this week in Science. All the children are having a go at growing peas and recording over time what they see happening as well as understanding exactly what plants need to grow!

Have a wonderful weekend.

From the year 2 team.

We had a fantastic day at Staunton. Thank you to everyone who was able to help, it is always much appreciated. The sun was shining and the children had such wonderful hands on experiences with the animals.

We are looking forward to writing about our trip on Monday.

Hope you have a lovely weekend.

From the year 2 team.

This week the children have enjoyed using measuring jugs and water to estimate and measure capacity. We had some wonderful mathematical language come from the children during the activities.

The children have also been hooked into their new topic which is ‘Where in the World’. We have enjoyed looking at a map of the school and walking around identifying all the physical features.

Just a reminder to parents/carers who haven’t returned their child’s permission slip for Stanton if they could do so by Monday 12th June. Many thanks to the parents who have already offered to help. If anyone else would be available on the Wednesday that would be great. Please let Mrs Layton or Miss Allen know.

Have a lovely weekend

From the year 2 team.

The children had a wonderful time writing prayers to our butterflies that they have been watching grow this half term.

After half term 2L have their music concert on Monday 5th June 2017 at 11am.

Could we ask if you bring in as many different sized bottles as you can for the children to learn about capacity after half term.

We hope you have a wonderful break. The children have worked so hard this half term especially during their SATs and we are all very proud of them.

From the year 2 team

The children have enjoyed making homes for worms this week.

They have then written instructions during their English lessons.

Here some photos of the fun they had.

If you are able to help on the Staunton trip on Wednesday 14th June please could you let us know. Thank you for all the reply slips we have had so far. Still plenty of time to get them in.

Many thanks

Year 2 team.

The children have been working extremely hard this week in telling the time to 5 minutes. If possible, please could children continue to be encouraged to tell the time at home as it is something we just need to keep practicing with them.

In English the children have enjoyed writing their own story based on our class text A New House for Mouse. We have had a big push on presentation and encouraged the children to show their learning behaviors through commitment to produce the very best writing that they can.

We have had a few children tell us that they have been worried about the SATs tests that they had to complete last week. We have been very understanding towards the children as we know it can seem a stressful time for them however we have been clear to them they don’t need to worry about them as they are assessed in just the same way their normal day to day work is. They are of course encouraged to do their very best and expectations are that they are to be done without communicating with their peers. However if they feel they can’t complete a question then they are not to spend time worrying about it. We are sure this is the same message you are stressing to your children too. We are doing the very best we can to make sure their day is as normal as possible around the tests they have to do across some mornings next week. Our topic lessons throughout the afternoons are helping to engage the children to take their mind off the SATs and they have demonstrated some wonderful Science learning through it. Extra play is also given after to ensure they have that time to rest their minds and spend quality time with their friends.

This is a competition which the children can take part in. They can design a poster for their homework and then bring it into school to share and enter.

Thank you for your continued support. Any questions please come and speak to Miss Allen or Mrs Layton.

Have a lovely weekend.

From the year 2 team.

The children have worked really hard this week during the start of their SAT’s. We have reassured them that they have nothing to worry about but to just try their best as they do all the time in their learning.

Around this we have been enjoying learning about the habitats of animals. We have learnt about the life cycle of a human and compared this to a butterfly’s life cycle.

We have also been learning about whether things are dead, alive or that have never been alive and the reasons why. The children then enjoyed sorting these objects into the different categories within a group.

During English the children have been continuing to focus on our class story A New House for Mouse. We have written suffixes and verbs as well as writing the four different sentence types. These include statements, commands, questions and exclamations.

Have a lovely weekend.

From the year 2 team.

Hope you all had a wonderful Easter break. The children have come back into school with positive attitudes to continue working hard in all areas of their learning.

We have begun our new topic which is Habitats. We have been delivered our caterpillars which we are all excited to see grow into butterflies. We are looking forward to seeing all the home learning the children create.

The children have been excited in English; reading the story A New House for Mouse which is a great link to our topic.

Maths we have been doing lots of work on recapping all the properties of 2D and 3D shapes.

Hope you all have a lovely weekend.

From the year 2 team.