Welcome to Year 2 - Beech, Cherry and Rowan Classes

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WOW! What a great start to the year! The children have quickly and positively settled into year 2 and responded well to new rules and routines.

Stunning Start:

We kicked off the term with a stunning start for our Geography topic, The United Kingdom. The children had to demonstrate both listening and teamwork skills to complete a huge scavenger hunt around the school grounds. They had to work together to read and decode each clue in order to find the next. At the end, they had to solve the puzzle in order to make each flag of the four nations. We then continued to look at where in the UK we live, the four nations and their capital cities.

Story Telling Festival:

The last week of this term saw a whole school celebration of everything CREATIVE using imagination and super story telling skills to spark & support reading advancement. We kick started the week by dressing up as our favourite Roald hl characters. We had characters from Willy Wonka, Matilda, Fantastic Mr Fox, The BFG, The Witches and so many more! Year 2 were also lucky enough to take part in a Caribbean storytelling and cooking workshop, where they got to make and try a range of Caribbean cuisine.

Fantastic Finish:

This term Year 2 have been reading the story ‘No Such Thing as Nessie’ by Chani McBain and Kirsteen Harris-Jones. We have been busy predicting, clarifying, summarising and reflecting upon this story so we can retell it fluently. To finish our English this term we enjoyed making Nessie’s favourite treat – Shortbread biscuits!

Parent Event:

Thank you to all of you who were able to attend the parental event. If you haven’t already had yours Miss Clarke, Mrs Bruce. Miss Owen and Mrs MacIntyre will continue to have parent consultations in term 2. During these meetings we will discuss how your children have settled and set some targets to work on throughout their time in Year 2. These will either be face to face or via phone.

Storytelling week- Roald Dahl dress up day

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What a fantastic term, it’s certainly been a busy one! All the children have amazed us with how well they are engaging with their learning and working so hard.

Reading, reading, reading!

In Year 2 we are passionate about getting the children to be more confident readers. This term we have had a huge focus on phonics and all the children have taken part in the Phonics Screening Check. The class text ‘Finn MacCool and the Giant’s Causeway’ has really engaged and inspired the children to produce some wonderful pieces of writing. We had a visit from a librarian who talked to the children about how they can use their local library service to access lots of fantastic books for free! He also spoke to the children about his job as a librarian and the children asked some interesting questions.

Fire, Fire!

This term Year 2 have continued to learn about the Great Fire of London in our history lessons and deepen their understanding of how we know about the events that took place 350 years ago. Linked to this in Design and Technology, the children have been researching, designing and making Tudor style houses. They investigated the best materials to use to make a model house and what shapes are used to create strong and stable building structures.

Christmas Shenanigans:

Christmas is always such a fun time of year at school. It’s when the children can really start to get excited about the arrival of Father Christmas. This year the children have got to take part in a Santa dash around the running track, enjoy a delicious Christmas dinner and even got to meet the Mr or Mrs Santa Claus themselves. On a more serious note, they have learnt in RE how Christians today prepare for Advent in the Church. We had a visit from a local vicar who explained what an advent ring was and identified the symbolism of each candle on the advent ring.

Christmas Concert:

The children absolutely loved performing all their Christmas songs for you and worked so hard to learn all the words and actions. It was a wonderful way to finish the term and we really hope you enjoyed the concert as much as we all did.

Merry Christmas everyone!

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What a great term we have had!

We have loved our outdoor learning sessions with Sandown Outdoors; we built bug hotels and created a wormery to compost our fruit in.

Our Great Fire of London topic has seen us build Tudor-style houses, learn great fire of London songs and read and explore the book ‘Vlad and the Great Fire of London’.

We had a great day celebrating 25 years of Harry Potter and loved dressing up as our favourite character. We did a draw-along with the illustrator of the Harry Potter books, we found our own wands in the woods and decorated them. We loved making potions and sharing books together.

In Science, we have learnt all about habitats and have been exploring the habitats we have in our school grounds.

It has been quite a short term but we have squeezed in lots of fantastic learning.

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What a great term 4 we have had! Carry on reading to hear about some of the highlights…….

Siddy Bennett Song Writer

As part of careers week, we welcomed singer/songwriter Siddy Bennet in to class. We create our own song about dreams and goals and performed it with Siddy and her guitar. We had such a great time and made an original song to share on Sandown Radio.

World Book Day

World Book Day 2022 was the best one yet! We had a great day celebrating books, reading and storytelling. We were so lucky to have best-selling author Peter Bunzl visit our school. We also had the wonderful Hastings Bookshop in for the day selling beautiful picture books, chapter books and the WBD books. We had a joyful visit from Henry the librarian who shared funny stories in our school library. We loved joining in with the actions and parts of the story.

Great Fire of London Performance

We were lucky enough to have a theatre performance all about Samuel Pepys and the Great Fire of London. We learnt more about the fire and how people tried to stop it spreading. We acted, we sang and we had a great time.

Ore Community Library Visits

Year 2 have all now been on at least one visit to Ore Community Library. We have met the librarians and spent time sharing books together and choosing books to take back to our classroom. Many children have now joined up to the library so that they can visit at the weekends and after school.

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We have had another fantastic term in Year 2.

This term we have immersed ourselves in the wonderful world of Winnie the Pooh and the Hundred Acre Wood. We have read chapters from the first of the series of Winnie the Pooh books, written thoughtful descriptions of Winnie and his friends and created beautiful poetry.

In Science, we have been learning about plants. We carried out a fair test to see where our plants would grow best and what conditions plants need to thrive. We have planted bean seeds and studied how they change from a seed to a plant.

In Art, we studied the sculptor Lucie Rie. We then used her as inspiration when we designed and sculpted our own clay pots to take home.

To mark the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, we made crowns and had a huge street party on the playground. We waved our flags and had a tasty feast of sandwiches and sausage rolls.

We can’t wait until next term when we go on our school trip to visit the Hundred Acre Wood.

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Welcome to Year 2 - Beech, Cherry and Rowan Classes

Teachers:

Miss Straw

Miss Clarke

Mrs McIntyre

Miss Owen

TAs:

Miss Starnes

Mrs Beadle

Stunning Start:

Story Telling Festival:

Fantastic Finish:

Parent Event:

Siddy Bennett Song Writer

World Book Day

Great Fire of London Performance

Ore Community Library Visits

Welcome to Year 2 - Beech, Cherry and Rowan Classes

Teachers:

Miss Straw

All about me

Miss Clarke

All about me

Mrs McIntyre

All about me

Miss Owen

All about me

TAs:

Miss Starnes

Mrs Beadle

Term 1

Stunning Start:

Story Telling Festival:

Fantastic Finish:

Parent Event:

Term 2

Term 3

Term 4

Siddy Bennett Song Writer

World Book Day

Great Fire of London Performance

Ore Community Library Visits

Term 5

Term 6