Year 2 Blog Week 8

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In November we pray for the people we love who are no longer with us. This week Year 2 created a beautiful display of poppies for our R.E. board. The children also wrote the names of people they are praying for on poppies and hung them from our prayer tree.IMG_2806

Next week, family and friends are invited to attend the Year 2 Remembrance Act of Worship. This will take place on Thursday 15th November at 9:15 a.m.

In Religion this week, for Other Faiths Week, we have been learning about Judaism. The children learnt about the Jewish observance of Shabbat. We laid the table for this special celebration and we enjoyed trying some grape juice and Challah bread.IMG_2792

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P.E. was all about jungle gymnastics with Mr Cowan. The children had great fun perfecting their balances and sequences. There were plenty of graceful gazelles, tip-toeing tigers and loping lions.IMG_2797

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Home Learning: spellings wk1, reading comprehension and  mental maths worksheet.

Have a peaceful weekend.

Miss Davey

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This week we welcomed Mr Cowan to Year 2. Mr Cowan is a trainee teacher from St. Mary’s University. He will be teaching and learning with us for the next term. We hope he is very happy with us in Year 2 and we wish him a successful teaching practice placement.

The children have been working hard during their reading sessions and they have been concentrating on answering inference questions. This month we are enjoying the stories of the award winning writer – Sir Michael Morpurgo. So far we have read Fox Friend, This Morning I met a Whale and The Black Queen. They have been suspenseful stories and they do not always have a happy ending.166398-ml-1394408

Year 2 were in full voice as they joined Year 3 to practise hymns for our celebration day.IMG_2681

We ended the week with a wonderful day of celebrations for St. Paul VI. We enjoyed a very special assembly about the staff pilgrimage to Rome and the canonization Mass. Everyone received a beautiful St. Paul VI prayer card to share with family and friends. After extra play and a Fairtrade treat, Year 2 created their own flags of the Vatican City. We gathered on the playground at the end of the day and waved our flags as doves were released. A beautiful moment and a lasting memory.IMG_2692

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Home Learning: Spellings Week 6. One World Week project on Kenya.

Have a lovely weekend.

Miss Davey

Pilgrimage To Rome and St Paul VI Celebration Day

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Today the school has been filled with excitement and joy as we celebrated the canonization of Pope Paul VI. We started the day with an assembly where everyone was presented with a St Paul VI prayer card. The children then enjoyed an extra break and Fairtrade treat in the sunshine. Following the theme of peace, the children spent the morning creating flags, designs, sketches and mosaics as well as continuing their research on Pope Paul VI. This afternoon we released doves of peace in the playground as a symbol of our continuing mission, following the charism of Pope Paul, to support peace and justice for all. Our pilgrimage to Rome to share in this very special moment was inspiring and uplifting. We felt privileged to be able to represent our school community in this important event. Father Shaun also attended the Mass in St Peter’s Square and we were all invited by Alex (our Seminarian)to visit the English College for Mass and then refreshments, enjoying the view of Rome from the rooftop terrace! Throughout the weekend we remembered our Pope Paul School Community and prayed for the continuing success of our school. We are very fortunate to have a wonderful group of staff who are happy to make a financial and time commitment in support of our community. Thank you ladies!

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Year 2 Blog Week 5

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This week Year 2 have been reflecting on the life and work of Pope Paul VI. The children learnt about canonization, wrote up fact files and created some beautiful artwork.

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In English, the children wrote a first person recount. The children recounted a day in the life of Rapunzel, experiencing freedom for the first time. Everyone included plenty of wonderful expanded noun phrases in their writing.

We had a very special visitor in class this week … Michael, the seminarian from OLSV came to sing some hymns with us. It was a joyful afternoon of singing.IMG_2640

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We have been focusing on balances in P.E. The children created amazing individual balances on the mats.

Home Learning: R.E. whole school learning – St. Paul VI prayer and spellings week 5.

Have a wonderful weekend.

Miss Davey

Year 2 Blog Week 4

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Year 2 have had a very creative week. The children completed a very special stained glass window for a school display. This display is part of our Year of our Eucharistic Journey 2018-2019 to enhance our understanding and devotion to the Blessed Sacrament.IMG_2608

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We have continued work on representations of number in Maths. The children created beautiful WANTED number posters with plenty of different representations of number.IMG_2623

In English we have been learning about expanded noun phrases and conjunctions. The children applied these to their writing about Rapunzel. ‘Rapunzel was feeling elated because she could run wildly in the dark, gloomy forest.’ IMG_2620

Home Learning: reading comprehension, handwriting, spellings wk 4 and Mathletics – Money.

Have a lovely weekend.

Miss Davey

Year 2 Blog Week 3

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It has been an action packed week for the Year 2 crew. In Religion this week we focused on the life and work of St. Vincent de Paul. Thank you for all your donations of socks, soap and toothpaste for The Passage.

In English we have turned our attention to fairy tales. This week we looked at the tale of Rapunzel. The children delivered some wonderful oral retellings of this well loved tale. We also looked at an alternative Rapunzel tale. The children generated plenty of amazing adjectives to describe Rapunzel in Beth Woolvin’s version. IMG_2570 IMG_2571 IMG_2572 IMG_2573 IMG_2574 IMG_2575 IMG_2576 IMG_2577 IMG_2578

Year 2 had great fun using Mathletics this week to test their place value knowledge. Logging in to Mathletics takes practice!  Please note that the usernames and passwords are case sensitive. We reviewed our e-safety rules and everyone used the devices responsibly. Remember .. You need to think, think before you click, click and tell someone! IMG_2579 IMG_2580IMG_2581Year 2 have taken on a very special art project. The children thoroughly enjoyed their pasta painting session…. watch this space! All will be revealed soon.

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Home Learning: reading comprehension, handwriting, maths worksheet, spellings wk3 and spag.com – sentences types (A)

Wishing you all a lovely weekend.

Miss Davey

 

Year 2 Blog Week 2

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Our second full week in Year 2 has flown by. This week we had our whole school mass to celebrate the beginning of our new school year. The children all showed great reverence during the mass and sang beautifully.

This week in Religion we started our unit – Beginning with God. We looked at the story of Moses and the Burning Bush. The children produced some wonderful retellings of this story.IMG_2537

In English we continued work on our poetry unit. The children created some fantastic list poems all about autumn which were full of amazing adjectives.IMG_2552

We are number and place value crazy in Year 2. We have continued work on regrouping and the children have also been learning about different ways of representing number. We used dienes, money, whole and part models as well as pictorial representations.IMG_2553

In P.E. this week we had great fun playing team building games and testing our reactions.IMG_2539 IMG_2540 IMG_2541 IMG_2547 IMG_2548

Home Learning: reading comprehension, spellings week 2, handwriting and Mathletics.

Have a restful weekend.

Miss Davey

Year 2 Blog Week 1

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It has been a busy first week of learning in Year 2. In Maths we have been looking at number and place value. The children used different resources to help them recognise the value of each digit in 2 and 3 digit numbers. There were plenty of resourceful beavers in Year 2 this week. IMG_2495

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IMG_2488Miss Davey’s Wanted Number. I have 17 ones and I am between 40 and 50. Who am I?

The Year 2 Author of the Month is the very talented Roald Dahl. So far we have enjoyed the wonderful Esio Trot and marvelled at the tales of The Giraffe, the Pelly and Me. We have now moved onto FANTASTIC Mr Fox. In English we have been learning about different poems. To celebrate Roald Dahl Day we looked at the poem, The Crocodile and the children created some magnificent Crocky-Wock headbands to wear while performing the poem.

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Have a lovely weekend!

Miss Davey

 

 

 

Welcome to Year 2

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Welcome to Year 2!

It has been a pleasure to welcome your children into Year 2 and to begin the next stage in their learning journey. I look forward to working with parents/carers to help the children to achieve their full potential in all areas. You are invited to celebrate the children’s learning in our Year 2 blog, which will be updated on a weekly basis.

Wishing you a happy, healthy and successful time in Year 2.

Miss Davey

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