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Year 2 Blog Week 26

April 20, 2018/1 Comment/in Year 2 /by Margaret Joyce

We are an Easter people and Alleluia is our song!

We started our first week back at school with a special assembly to celebrate the Risen Lord. We also put the finishing touches to our Easter Gardens. Well done to everyone for completing the Easter Home Learning project. The Year 2 garden is full of symbols of new life, from painted eggs and chicks to colourful flowers and butterflies.

In Religion this week the children have been looking at the Resurrection story – The Road to Emmaus. We will continue working on this story next week as part of our Big Write in English.

Year 2 have been making the most of the glorious weather this week. We have been working hard digging and planting up the vegetable patches. The children found lots of worms and insects and we even found a frog! What do you think we should call the frog? All suggestions welcome.

Reminder: No hat, no play! Please ensure your child has a sun hat with them every day.

Year 2 Blog Week 25

March 29, 2018/0 Comments/in Year 2 /by Margaret Joyce

We have come to the end of another term. Time really flies when you are having fun! The children have all worked incredibly hard this term and I am very proud of them all. Please see below the Easter Home Learning project. I look forward to seeing your creations next term.

Wishing you all a holy and restful Easter.

Year 2 update! We have got the bug….. The Computing bug! What do you think of our gigantic Beebot maze?

Year 2 Blog Week 24

March 23, 2018/1 Comment/in Archives, Year 2 /by Margaret Joyce

Computing Week!

Year 2 kicked off Computing Week with an eSafety workshop –Into the Screen. The children learnt about how to stay safe online and what information should be kept private. We were joined by the Three Little Pigs, Little Red Riding Hood, the Big Bad Wolf, Cinderfella and the Ugly Sisters.

Year 2 gave out some great advice to these characters about keeping passwords protected and not giving away any personal information.

Year 2 also used some very exciting augmented reality apps. The children had great fun watching their volcanoes exploding in the middle of our classroom. We were even joined by a tyrannosaurus rex!

To finish the week, Year 2 perfected their algorithms and ensured their Beebots reached the flowers.

Year 2 Blog Week 23

March 16, 2018/0 Comments/in Year 2 /by Margaret Joyce

It has been another action-packed week for the Year 2 crew! This week was British Science Week and the theme was ‘Underground’. We launched into this theme with THE BIG QUESTION- What would be positive or negative if we lived underground? There was a lot of discussion and some very interesting answers. Negative – No WiFi! Positive – No more sunburn. Year 2 learnt about volcanoes and created their own clay models.

The children also researched animals that live underground and created some amazing invertebrate classification keys. We focused on earthworms – the world’s unsung heroes! The children really enjoyed finding and observing these wriggly creatures.

This week in tennis we were perfecting our serve. It is very important to keep your eye on the ball!

We finished the week with a wonderful St. Patrick’s Day celebration morning. It was lovely to see you all sharing in the maths learning activity with your child. Congratulations to Cian for completing the task first, revealing the leprechaun and collecting his gold!

Everyone enjoyed their celebration breakfast this morning!

Thank you for your generous donations to our Lenten charity – CAFOD.

Lá Fhéile Pádraig Sona Daoibh!

Happy St. Patrick’s Day

Year 2 Blog Week 22

March 10, 2018/1 Comment/in Archives, Year 2 /by Margaret Joyce

Year 2 enjoyed lots of wonderful learning activities this week. Some of highlights: World Book Day, Saracens Rugby and Affinity Water school trip. There were plenty of colourful characters in class on Monday from Little Red Riding Hood to Matilda as well as Where’s Wally and Hairy McClary. Even David Attenborough made an appearance. It was a wonderful celebration of books! In English we started reading The Tunnel by Anthony Browne and we will be using this story as inspiration for our next big story write! Watch this space!
The children really enjoyed their rugby session with Saracens Rugby and everyone worked together in a variety of team building exercises.

To end the week we visited Affinity Water, where we learnt about both pond creatures and minibeasts and how these creatures have adapted to their habitats. We also looked at some basic food chains and gained an appreciation of how all living things in our local ecosystem are connected.

Year 2 Blog Week 21

March 10, 2018/0 Comments/in Archives, Year 2 /by Margaret Joyce

Tweet Tweet Tweet. We had some very special visitors in Year 2 this week…. the chicks. Did you know the most common bird in the world is the chicken? Year 2 have been learning all about life-cycles in Science and the children really enjoyed observing the chicks.

To finish our Science topic on Animals including Humans the children carried out an investigation about growth.

Year 2 Blog Week 20

February 23, 2018/0 Comments/in Archives, Year 2 /by Margaret Joyce

Lent is a time when we pray, give up treats and do kind things for other people, as we prepare to celebrate the great feast of Easter. Year 2 thought very carefully about their Lenten promises and created a beautiful display for our Sacred space in the classroom.

On Tuesday, we came together for a whole school Act of Worship for Lent and placed our Lenten promises on a special Lenten Tree. This Lent we are supporting CAFOD and the amazing work they do helping families around the world living in poverty, especially those who do not have the basic things they need like enough food or clean water.

This week, Year 2 had their first rugby session with Saracens Rugby. It was an amazing session. The children perfected their throwing and catching skills… especially the ‘W’ grip and ‘Superman Hands’.

The KS1 SATs information powerpoint can be found in the menu on the Year 2 page: KS1 SATs.

Year 2 Blog Week 19

February 9, 2018/3 Comments/in Year 2 /by Margaret Joyce

Time really flies when you’re having fun and working hard. Year 2 completed their their maths learning on statistics this week. The children interpreted and constructed simple pictograms, tally charts and block diagrams. They applied this learning to find out what we should grow in our vegetable patches next term. The results are in and the winner is …. Rainbow Chard. Year 2 can’t wait to grow this colourful vegetable.

In English we have been looking at poetry and the children really enjoyed learning ‘The Owl and the Pussycat.’ Year 2 performed this poem for Reception and Year 3 and everyone was very impressed. This week, for Other Faiths week, we visited St. Giles church. The churchwarden, William Masterson, gave a wonderful talk about the history of the church and answered all of our questions. It was very interesting to see the similarities and differences between St. Giles Church and Our Lady and St. Vincent church. Year 2 showed great respect and represented our school beautifully.

Safer Internet Day 2018

February 6, 2018/0 Comments/in Year 2 /by Margaret Joyce

Today is Safer Internet Day! This is a time for all of us to think about what we love about the internet, all the wonderful opportunities it provides for us and what we can do to keep ourselves safe when using it. Year 2 looked at the story of The Three Little Monsters and thought about all the ways that we can be kind to others both offline and online. We discussed the importance of telling an adult straight away if someone is unkind.

This Safer Internet Day, everyone is being encouraged to play their part in building a better internet. What can you do to be kind and positive online? Year 2 had a great time creating their jigsaw pieces of the puzzle.

#ItStartsWithUs

Year 2 Blog Week 18

February 2, 2018/0 Comments/in Year 2 /by Margaret Joyce

It has been another week of fun and leaning in Year 2! The children used their artistic talents to create some beautiful paintings of The Parting of the Red Sea. We used one point perspective drawing to show the Israelites making their way to freedom.

Year 2 thoroughly enjoyed putting on their wellies and gardening gloves and going out to prepare the vegetable patches. The children worked hard turning the soil, weeding the beds and planing some bulbs. We are casting our votes to find out what we will grow this year. Rainbow chard? Beetroot? Brussels Sprouts? Results in next week.