What a busy week in Year 2!
To celebrate World Book Day, we have had a Circus themed week!! We have gone circus crazy and linked all of our learning to the circus.
We have researched the history of the circus and used our research to generate informative posters!
We have read ‘Paddington at the Circus’ and wrote post cards home, telling them all about his crazy circus filled day.
We have looked at Ariel views in Geography, identifying key features of Ariel photographs of the Circus then created our own!
We have had an also amazing time learning some Circus skills in PE and making fortune teller potions in science.
We had a fun filled ‘Circus theme’ dress up day and finished our week by writing some persuasive posters to convince people to go to the Circus.
Thank you to those parents who attended our Spring maths workshop. This term we have focussed on Place Value and ways in which you could support your child at home.
This week the children have been practicing their racket skills in preparation for net games later in the term! We practiced balancing a bean bag and a ball on the racket while moving to improve our coordination and balancing skills.
Last week, the children in year 2 attended a festive multi-skills event at Temple Park. The children demonstrated the PE skills that they have been developing this term through a range of festive games! This included throwing and catching ‘Santa’s presents’, dribbling and kicking in ‘festive feet’, running, crawling and jumping in ‘Sleeping Santa’, and their listening and co-ordination skills in ‘Build a snowman’.
A huge thank you to all of those parents who attended our reading meeting on Wednesday 13th December. It was lovely to see the interaction between children and parents and taking time to understand how children’s reading skills are developed throughout Year 2.
The workshop focussed on both decoding and early comprehension skills.
This week, Class 6 have been exploring the different ways that we can use ICT. We explored the ‘digital diet’ and learned about how to use technology in a healthy way by finding a balance between using technology and spending time away from connected devices.
We connected with each other by writing messages using whiteboards.
We used technology to be active by following a yoga programme.
We got creative by using technology to make pictures.
We gave nice messages to each other by recording them using the iPads.
We spent some mindful time away from technology by drawing pictures and listening to calming music.
We had such a great time learning about Children in Need! 🐻
We fundraised by participating in a whole school ‘wear what makes you happy’ day and did lots of fun activities throughout the day to learn about the importance of Children in Need.
The children in class 6 really enjoyed decorating their Pudsey bears with lots of colours and facts about Children in Need and why it is important!
Wow! Class 6 have been working really hard on their houses for their History topic. We have learned all about the great fire of London and the children have really enjoyed recreating a scene from London during the fire!
The children focused on how close the houses were to each other and what they were made out of which helped the fire to spread so quickly!
Year 2 have had a fantastic day today visiting ‘The Word’ learning centre in South Shields. We travelled by metro and then took a short walk to the centre.
The children have had the opportunity to learn and practise key learning objectives from our computing curriculum. These included programming and coding.
All children used the Lego program ‘Spike’ to programme a variety of different amusement park rides and then used Scratch Junior to learn how to code and set a simple set of algorithms.
Well done Year 2!
