All things bright and beautiful!!

This week Year 2 became nutritionists for the afternoon thanks to a wonderful visit from Harrison's mum, who came into school to talk to us about healthy eating.  She talked about why we should eat a 'rainbow' of fruits and vegetables and supervised the making of our very own rainbow! We all tried something new that we hadn't eaten before and made sure we had lots of questions to enable us to get the best answers from the expert!  Mrs Gregory - thank you, we had a wonderful afternoon.

As part of the work that Mrs Gregory did with the children, you will find a tally chart in their reading folder this weekend.  Please encourage them to fill this in as it handily links in with the maths that we are doing in class.  When it is completed, please send it back into school.

Our classroom helper Millie went to ISA hockey this week in London and came home with a silver medal. Well done Millie!

A big thank you to everyone who gave money to donate to Children in Need. We had some super spotty and beautifully bright outfits!

Well done Year 2 for all your hard work this week - we hope that you have a wonderful weekend.

Coming back with a bang!

We have had a very busy first week back after half term!

In English, we have been listening to, and learning about funny poems. Please ask your child to tell you about some of the tongue twisters that they have had fun practising!

Maths has involved measuring (Mrs Y-F's group) and learning about money (Mrs U's group) - don't forget to try and work on the 2,5 and 10 times tables with your child at home.

 

As previously mentioned, our topic for the first three weeks of this term is Healthy Living.  Our focus this week has been on a healthy mind and we have been discussing emotions and feelings. The children have tried really hard to talk about their own feelings and what we can do to help ourselves and each other both in and out of school.

We have looked at some breathing techniques and have had a go at some yoga!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhYtcadR9nw 

We have had a few items of clothing that have gone missing over the past few days. Please make sure that all items are named so we can try and prevent this. Thank you.

Have a great weekend!

The end of our Pirate fun!

This has been our final week of 'Pirates' and so we had our Pirate Party!  Both 2F and 2U were brilliant hosts, making pirate hats and decorating biscuits with their Year 1 shipmates.  They had a go at a pirate dance and walked the plank - well done Year 2!  Thank you all for your fantastic pirate ship creations, we hope that you enjoyed seeing them on display at the Parents Evenings this week.

We have continued to learn about how to use Mathletics and had some interesting discussions about our 'sticky question' - it was quite an even split as to whether an elephant or a giraffe would make the better footballer!  A sound walk around school provided some interesting moments on Thursday afternoon, there was much excitement 

In Forest School, 'treaure' was made from clay and there were some beautiful conker bracelets and necklaces that were carefully put together.  The children learned about how a kelly kettle works and practised creating sparks to light a fire.  The highlight of the afternoon was a rather waterlogged rope walk to find a treasure chest! 

Pencil cases are being sent home today - please check and refill them where necessary.

Our topic for the first three weeks after half term will be 'Healthy Living'.  The homework for the topic will be to create a poster based upon whichever aspect of healthy living that your child prefers.  You are very welcome to make a start on these over half term if you so wish.

We hope that you have a fantastic half term and we look forward to seeing everyone (in winter uniform) on Monday 4th November.