Year 2 – Page 34 – Pope Paul Primary

Year 2 Blog Week 16

January 19, 2018/2 Comments/in Year 2 /by Margaret Joyce

What a busy week it has been! The children have been learning all about the Exodus story in Religion. Firstly, we looked at the features of an epic story and located Egypt on the map. Then the children created some beautiful artwork for our R.E. display and sequenced the Exodus story.

In maths, we have continued work on measurements. The children have been working very hard on their mental fluency as well as solving word problems. The caption of the week in maths has been ‘Prove it!’ Year 2 are understanding the importance of showing their workings out. We have seen lots of different strategies employed… partitioning as well as drawing dienes and number lines!

In P.E. this week this week the children have been concentrating on indoor games. It was a lot of fun!

This week Year 2 led the school in an assembly about friendship. As part of their assembly the children performed the story – Stone soup. This story highlighted the importance of working together and sharing with others. The children were amazing and they all delivered their lines with great confidence! Well done Year 2!

Year 2 Blog Week 15

January 12, 2018/1 Comment/in Year 2 /by Margaret Joyce

Happy New Year and Welcome back! I hope you all had a joyful break. Thank you for all your kindness and generosity last term. We have another busy and exciting term ahead of us. Year 2 have already thrown themselves into their learning.

Dublin, Ireland, has been chosen by Pope Francis to host the next World Meeting of Families 2018, guided by the theme “The Gospel of the Family: Joy for the World”. In R.E. this week we launched The Year of the Family. We discussed belonging to a family and how even though families are all different and live in many different places, they share one thing: love.

In Maths we have been looking at capacity and measure. The children used their reasoning skills to solve a thirsty problem. The children had to put 7 glasses in the correct order. Some of the clues were tricky – The two full glasses of orange juice are next to each other.

In Computing we have been learning about algorithms and repetition. There were lots of great examples of what you could program a robot to do.

Joseph – ‘I will program my robot to do my homework.’

Phoebe – ‘I will program my robot to sing a song.’

William – ‘I will program my robot to clean my bedroom.’

The children discovered that giving precise instructions is very important!

Year 2 Blog Week 14

December 16, 2017/1 Comment/in Year 2 /by Margaret Joyce

Children of the World

It has been a joyous week in school. We started off the week with our KS 1 Christmas Nativity. Year 2 along with Year 1, acted, sang and danced brilliantly and they should all be very proud of themselves. Thank you to everyone for attending and for your generous donations to The Passage.

On Thursday, we put our Christmas jumpers on and we sat down together for a delicious Christmas meal. After lunch, we gathered in the hall for our annual school talent show. Pope Paul definitely has talent and an extra big cheer came up from Year 2 for Nichola and Charlotte for coming second in the competition!

Year 2 were treated to a wonderful concert on Friday morning. Well done to everyone for taking part and sharing their musical talents. A very special well done to Alice, Sandro and William G.

To end the week, we attended the Cinderella Pantomime in the Wyllyots theatre – Oh no we didn’t! OH YES WE DID!

Year 2 Blog Week 13

December 8, 2017/0 Comments/in Year 2 /by Margaret Joyce

This week we closed our 50 Years celebrations with a very special assembly and Act of Worship, which was attended by Bishop John Wilson. It was lovely to look back and remember all the wonderful things we did as a school to celebrate our 50th Year in Catholic education.

Year 2 have been very busy this week rehearsing for the Christmas Nativity play and making the displays for the stage. We are really looking forward to performing in front of an audience next week. Put that date in your diaries – Wednesday 13th at 9:30 a.m.

The children also looked at a story from Mexico – The Christmas Poinsettia. Everyone enjoyed the learning about la Flor de Nochebuena – the Flower of the Holy Night and produced some wonderful retellings.

In maths this week, we have been looking at subtracting a 1 digit number from a 2 digit number. The children have been employing their strategy of partitioning to great success!

Year 2 Blog Week 12

December 1, 2017/1 Comment/in Archives, Year 2 /by Margaret Joyce

What is a tree’s least favourite month? ……Sep-timber!

It was a very cold morning on Thursday and Year 2 wrapped up warm for their walk in the woods as part of National Tree Week 2017. The children were challenged with the task of creating a waterproof elf shelter using only the materials they could find in the woods in Dame Alice Owen’s school. The children thought carefully about the materials they used and their properties.

In Religion we have been learning about Advent and the children wrote up their Advent promises and created an Advent calendar for our sacred space.

In Art we created some beautiful Advent wreaths using a mosaic effect.

Year 2 Blog Week 10 & 11

December 1, 2017/0 Comments/in Year 2 /by Margaret Joyce

Traction Man is here!

By Mini Grey

With an action outfit for every occasion, he patrols the house saving toys, guarding toast, searching for lost wrecks and rescuing damsels in distress. Our hero is ready for anything!!!

Year 2 have really enjoyed this story! The children have been learning about conjunctions, adjectives and recount language. They have produced some wonderful writing based around Traction Man’s adventures!

In P.E. we have continued work on balances. The children worked in groups of 4 to create some very impressive group balances.

We are artists! The children were very excited to see the hall transformed into an art gallery and were very proud to see their artwork on display.

Year 2 Blog Week 9

November 11, 2017/1 Comment/in Year 2 /by Margaret Joyce

It has been all about balancing and rebalancing this week in Year 2. In maths, the children have been looking at rebalancing number sentences. The children identified the number in their calculation that was near a friendly number (multiple of ten) and used a beadstring to rebalance their calculation.

How would you rebalance the following calculations?

41 + 13 =

24 + 39 =

18 + 28 =

In P.E. we were also looking at balancing! The children explored balancing on 2, 3 and 4 parts of their bodies.

In Science, the children were investigating materials with translucent properties. The children used torches to see if the light could pass through.

The science learning continued outside as we planted our bulbs for spring. We decided on a pattern of circles and we used coloured sand to mark out our designs! We can’t wait to see what happens when the bulbs come up!

Year 2 Blog Week 8

November 3, 2017/0 Comments/in Year 2 /by Margaret Joyce

The first week back has flown by! In maths we have started looking at addition and subtraction. The children have been using their number bond facts as well as equipment to solve some tricky missing number problems.

What number bonds do you see? If 4 + 6 = 10…. What else do you know?

In P.E. this week we started gymnastics. The children had great fun on the mats perfecting their forward rolls and their log rolls! There are definitely some talented gymnasts in our midst!

In science we have been learning about spring bulbs and why we need to plant the now. Everyone helped to prepare the class flower bed for planting next week. Watch this space!

Year 2 Blog Week 7

October 20, 2017/2 Comments/in Archives, Year 2 /by Margaret Joyce

One World Week- China

When all the people live peacefully in the world, we bring about God’s Kingdom.

It has been a wonderful week of learning in Year 2. Well done to everyone in Year 2 for their wonderful projects on China! We have enjoyed learning all about this wonderful country! In maths we have been looking at tangrams. A tangram is an ancient Chinese puzzle where you make pictures using mathematical shapes. The children enjoyed creating some different animals.

In English we looked at The Willow Pattern story. The children decorated plates with the willow pattern designs and produced some wonderful retellings.

Vegetable Spring Rolls were on the menu and the children washed their hands, rolled up their sleeves, put on their aprons and whipped up these tasty treats.

Thank you for your generous donations for the Harvest assembly. It was great to see so many of you at our celebration morning. Thank you for your continued support.

Enjoy the half term!

Ms Davey

Year 2 Blog Week 6

October 13, 2017/2 Comments/in Year 2 /by Margaret Joyce

There was great excitement on the playground this week as we watched the combine harvesters at work.

Thank you for the harvest

Thank you for your goodness

For all of the fruit and vegetables

And the wonderful things that grow!

Year 2 were in full voice as we rehearsed the harvest songs for next weeks harvest assembly.

In English this week we have been looking at non-fiction texts and perfecting our spellings. We have been learning about suffixes and how to add ed, ing and y to our root words. We were also busy creating some magnificent magpies for our new magpie learning wall. The children used a mosaic effect for their marvellous magpies.