Friday, 13th September 2024

The highlight of this week was our ‘Scooterbility’ training led by Hertfordshire Council’s Active and Safer Travel Team on Monday.

During their session, the children learned how to ride their scooters with greater control, talked about safe ways of crossing roads and practiced keeping other members of the public safe.

During the week, we also created imaginative pieces of artwork using paint and 2D shapes to model our versions of Space; all linked with our first History topic: The Moon landing.

In English, after revising some key Phase 3 sounds, such as ‘air’, ‘ure’ and ‘ur’, we moved on to revising Phase 5 sounds such as ‘ay’ and ‘ea’. The children wrote simple sentences following picture clues, using words with these key sounds and punctuated them correctly. As an extension, the children then added conjunctions such as ‘and, ‘but’ and ‘because’ to extend their sentences.

In Maths, we looked at re-grouping numbers to 20 before counting objects within 100, in groups of tens and ones using lots of concrete resources such as bead strings, place value counters and Dienes equipment.

In RE, the class looked at the word ‘reveal’. Using objects , we discussed how God is revealed to us through stories in the Bible, practices in Church, friends and family surrounding us and examples of the Creation. Later on in the week, they also linked this with the Sign of the Cross as a visible token of their Faith.

In PE, the class participated in relay games, learning the routines of turn taking, team work and communication. They were introduced to the ‘ladder’ equipment beside using hoops and bean bags.

Thank you so much for all of you who came to see me on Thursday afternoon. If you have missed the ‘Meet and Greet’ session, please see the PPT and handouts on the Year 2 blog. The information should be uploaded by next week Friday.

I hope you have a lovely weekend,

Ms Varga