This week the whole school came together to celebrate Pentecost and the Crowning of Mary. Thank you for supporting our celebrations this week.
In class we have been busy revisiting how to find 1/2 and 1/4 of amounts, making clay dragon eyes and writing about the blue tits in the peace garden.
Have a restful half term holiday and look forward to seeing you back on Monday 5th June.
Miss Pringle
The children have worked extremely hard this week and have now finished their SATs. I am very proud of them all.
In the afternoons, the children have been busy gardening, watching the nesting blue tits in the peace garden, sketching and taking part in the Spirituality Week activities. They have also enjoyed a science workshop about changing states and their swimming lesson.
Have a lovely weekend,
Miss Pringle
This week the children have been revising 3D shape, the four operations and factions. They have worked hard to develop their skills and use the strategies they had been taught.
In English, the children have published their dragon writing and completed comprehension papers. I am extremely pleased with their writing and their inference and retrieval skills.
We have also enjoyed gardening and using the jungle gym.
Please read through the PowerPoint, on our Year 2 class page, regarding SATs.
Have a lovely weekend
Miss Pringle
Home learning
English
Please read and complete the SPAG.com activities set.
Maths
Please complete the mathletic activities set.
To celebrate National Sports week the children took part in a scooter workshop on Wednesday. I was impressed with their control, speed and confidence. Well done. They have also enjoyed swimming and doing the daily mile.
The children have learnt about King Charles III in preparation for the coronation. They have made succession family trees, coronation cards and learnt about King Charles III roles and responsibilities.
Well done to the children who sent in their home learning in on King Charles III. It was great to hear the facts they had learnt. If you did not complete it, please send it in next week.
Today we had a wonderful celebration for the coronation. We decorated biscuits, ate ice lollies, sang songs and had a party. The children look great dressed in red, white and blue.
Please ensure your child wears PE kit to school on Tuesday and Wednesday and that they do not bring toys to school.
Also the swimming instructors have politely asked that the children bring swimming goggles and hats for their lesson, that they wear swimming costumes (not bikinis or sports shorts) and that they remove earrings. Thank you.
Have a lovely weekend
Miss Pringle
This week the children received a letter about a dragon that has been spotted in Potters Bar, which was caught on CCTV outside our school! The children have been gathering clues and writing about their findings. Watch out for the dragon this weekend.
Our Art lesson this week has been inspired by the dragon too. The children have sketched dragons and designed detailed dragon eyes.
In Maths, the children have been solving time problems and identified properties of 2D shapes.
In PE, the children have been learning to hit forehand shots in tennis.
Please see the newsletter for the whole school home learning project about the Kings coronation.
Miss Pringle
Welcome back, I hope you had a wonderful Easter holiday.
This week in English, we have focused on reading comprehension and SPaG activities. While in maths we have revised telling the time to o’clock, quarter past, half past, quarter to and the nearest 5 minutes.
We have also enjoyed looking for signs of Spring and reading Matthew’s story of the Resurrection.
Have a lovely weekend
Miss Pringle
Home learning
A Spag.com activity has been set. Please support your child with this.
Mathletics activities on time have been set.
Please read and sign your records.
On Monday, we enjoyed our charity walk, through the muddy fields to raise money for Turkey and Syria. It was a beautiful Spring day and we enjoyed spotting bees, daisies and dandelions. Thank you to everyone who has donated.
In RE, we read have retold Palm Sunday and thought about different ways that we can serve others. Then we listened to the story of Good Friday and made pictures to represent the story.
Have a wonderful Easter
Miss Pringle
In Art this week we have experimented with print making techniques. Firstly we made flower stencils from foam sheets and used acrylic paint to create abstract pictures and then we used carbon paper to create mono prints of our sketches into our Art books.
On Wednesday Ruth’s mum taught us about how she uses Science in her job as a mental health nurse. She works in A&E to help people who are feeling very unhappy. Sometimes she has to test their blood to see if they have an injury, an infection, are dehydrated or to see if they are suffering from stress or lack of sleep. Thank you for visiting us.
In English we have been writing diaries in the past tense based on the story ‘A Squash and a Squeeze’ and in RE we have begun to sequence the events of Holy Week.
Have a lovely weekend
Miss Pringle
Home learning
Spelling – after, next, firstly, lastly, later, little, every, most, both.
Reading – please complete the reading comprehension sent home in handwriting pencil and return by next Wednesday as we will go though them in class.
Maths – please complete the mathletic activities set.
As part of Science week each class were asked to send messages in different ways around the school. Year 2 sent messages using their own marble mazes. Next week the children will be planning and building Rube Goldberg models that will reveal messages. Please send in any cardboard rolls/tubes or boxes.
On Tuesday, Joe’s mum taught us how scientists can also be detectives! We had a mystery to solve…someone had taken Mrs Carey’s mug and had left a note asking for money for it’s return! We tested the pens of different teachers to find out who’s pen wrote the note, using chromatography paper. The children were very excited when they solved the mystery and discovered I had written the note!
We were also lucky enough to be visited by Anna’s mum and dad, who explained how they use Science in their jobs as vets, to care for sick or injured animals. We also identified and grouped animal skulls and looked at red and white blood cells of sick animals on the visualizer.
Today Jamie and Charlie’s mum visited with lots of different animals. We held some of them and learnt about different reptiles and invertebrates . Thank you to all the parents who shared their science knowledge with us.
Well done to Sive, Tara and all the Irish Dancers who entertained us for St Patricks Day.
Have a great weekend
Miss Pringle
Home learning
Spag.com – a SATs SPAG test has been set. The only terminology they will be unfamiliar with is adverb (this is only for one question). An adverb is a word that describes a verb (doing word). For example He ate his breakfast quickly. The word ‘quickly’ is an adverb as it tells us how he ate (the verb) his breakfast.
Reading – please read and sign your reading records.
Mathletics – mulitplication and division activities have been set.
To kick start Science Week we had a Science Workshop on Thursday. The children learnt about air pressure and made slime. At the end of the day, the whole school watched a rocket launch. Next week, the children will take part in more exciting and engaging Science activities.
In maths this week the children have been learning to draw arrays to help them solve multiplication questions. While in English we have been writing and identifying different sentence types.
Home learning
Spelling – homophones
two, to, too, blue, blew, one, won, ate, eight, bare, bear.
Mathletics and spag.com activities have been set.
Have a lovely weekend
Miss Pringle
