Year 2 at The Word!

17th October 2024A Wilson

The Year 2 children in Class 5 had a fantastic time at The Word on Wednesday! In the morning, we used a green screen and iPads to record ourselves saying facts about our continents that we had been learning in Geography. Once we had all videos, we dropped them into iMovie and started editing our video. We learnt how to create a backdrop using different images, how to edit text and how to add music.

In the afternoon, we used the Stickbot app to make an animation with Lego. We had such a wonderful day and our behaviour was excellent!


Schools in the Past

11th October 2024A Wilson

This week in History, we started learning about schools in the past. We learnt…

⭐️ Teachers wrote on chalkboards, these were often very big and were at the front of the class.

⭐️ Children wrote on dark slate with a white, squeaky slate pencil. They spat on the slate to rub out mistakes!

⭐️ Older children had dip pens.

⭐️ Classrooms were very big with no carpet and just a coal fire at the front – this meant children at the back got very cold!

⭐️ Children sat in rows at wooden desks, sometimes 5 children had to sit on a bench made for 2!

⭐️ There were no colourful displays.

⭐️ Teachers were very strict – children were hit with the cane if they misbehaved and ruler if they were late!

⭐️ Teachers made children wear a hat with a ‘D’ on it if they didn’t know something – which stood for ‘dunce’. This meant stupid person!

We felt so grateful that schools changed and are now so very different in the present. Take a look at some of our work below.

Incredible Inequality Signs

26th September 2024A Wilson

This week, Class 5 have been learning to compare quantities of objects with the inequality signs. We then moved onto comparing two numbers! We used the following signs and vocabulary…

⭐️ > greater than

⭐️ < less than

⭐️ = equal to

Take a look at our hard work below!

How goes the work? Quack!

20th September 2024A Wilson

This week, we’ve been reading the story of Farmer Duck. We learnt about punctuation and added full stops, question marks and exclamation marks to the correct sentences from the story. At the end of the week, we retold the story using a 3 box plan. We used our pictures to help us tell the story in chronological order. We did a fantastic job and tried really hard to remember our punctuation.

 

First full week in Year 1/2!

13th September 2024A Wilson

We’ve been super busy during our first full week in our mixed Year 1/Year 2 class! We’ve been recapping place value to 10 within maths, explored mixing primary colours to make secondary colours in art, discussed feeling safe and special in PSHE and read the book ‘Farmer Duck’ before writing some brilliant descriptions.

Welcome to Class 5!

4th September 2024A Wilson

Welcome to Class 5! I hope you’ve all had a wonderful summer – I feel so privileged to be the teacher of this mixed Year 1 & Year 2 class and I cannot wait to get started.

This week, we will be exploring our new classroom and doing an array of fun activities to help children feel happy and settled the moment they arrive through the door. I’m looking forward to getting to know each and every one of them. ❤️

If there’s anything I can help with, or if you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to get in touch via Class Dojo.

Miss Wilson

Parents Summer Evening – Cress Head Fun!

By A Wilson19th July 2023

On Monday and Tuesday this week, all parents in Year 2 had the opportunity to attend our Summer Evening from 4pm – 5pm. It was absolutely lovely to see so many of you there! We watched a video to show us all how to make a cress head and enjoyed some juice and delicious rocket lollies (even if the weather didn’t quite match!). A huge thank you to those of you who attended and we really hope you enjoyed it!

South Shields – in 3D!

By A Wilson13th July 2023

This week, we have been finishing our 3D maps of South Shields that we have been working so hard on with Mrs Spargo. We included key places such as Marine Park, the fair, Herd Groyne Lighthouse, Weebles, The Word, Old Town Hall, ferry and the beach! We used a range of resources to make the various different places look effective!

Brilliant Beamish!

By A Wilson10th July 2023

Class 6 had the most incredible time at Beamish on Thursday. We even got access to the park 15 minutes before members of the public so we got the whole new park to ourselves!

After this, we walked through the new 1950s Town and seen the new fish & chip shop and hairdressers before wandering around the 1900s Town. The smell inside the bakery was absolutely scrumptious and we all had a squish of the dough! Next, we visited the garage and then the dentist before enjoying our lunch near the bandstand. It was bliss having lunch in the sun! In the afternoon, we ventured off to the Pit Village where we looked inside the school and pit cottages. We had a blast!

African Dances

By A Wilson28th June 2023

On Monday, we were lucky to have a visit from One Day Creative – they delivered a dance workshop all based around Africa.

We were excellent at discussing the 7 continents and where Africa was located on the map. We then named loads of different animals in Africa and really impressed our visitor.

After this, we were shown some special dances moves that were specifically from African dances. We really enjoyed listening to the African music and doing the moves we had learnt in time to the beat! Some of us were even brave enough to perform to the class whilst the other children watched as audience members.