What a great week Team Aqua and Team Topaz have had. Check out what we have been up to!

Red Nose Day

Thank you for all of your Red Nose Day donations. We had a great day of fun! 😊

Miss Kennedy

From next week, Miss Kennedy will be joining the Year 4 team so all children will be back in the classroom. We would like to take this opportunity to thank Miss Kennedy for everything she has done in Year 2 these past few months.

Maths

This week in maths we have been looking at fractions! We started the week by finding fractions of shape. We then used this learning to help us find fractions of quantities by using the sharing method. By the end of the week we were able to solve problems using our knowledge. What super Mathematicians we are.

​Next week in maths we will be continuing looking at Fractions.

Fact of the week!

Next week our Fact of the Week is 4 X 5 = 20

English

This week in English we have been looking at ‘Surprising Sharks’ by Nicola Davies. We have been writing different sentence types including statements, questions and exclamations. We worked on constructing and punctuating each sentence accurately and then looked to see how we could edit and improve them. We challenged ourselves this week to use a subordinating or coordinating conjunction in our statements. We wrote our very own Surprising Shark texts!

Next week in English we will looking at a brand new book ‘How Bees Make Honey’.

RWI

In RWI this week we have been focusing on building up fluency when reading, this included focusing on pace, speed,

Guided Reading

This week in Guided Reading we have been looking at comprehension by retrieving information from the text and poetry. Take a look at us in action when reciting a poem all about sharks!

https://vimeo.com/923676233 password: shark

https://vimeo.com/923677580 password: shark

Thematic

We started the week with an exciting Science Day! We started the day by thinking about what a scientist was. We wanted to break down any stereotypes that a scientist is a man in a lab coat because we now know a scientist could be looking at plants, space, the earth, food, work in a laboratory, work outside in nature and so much more! We then focused our day on learning about offspring. We matched offspring to their adults and looked at the differences between offspring depending on the type of animal it is. We learnt the differences between mammals, amphibians, fish, birds and reptiles.

For the rest of the week we have been focusing on computing. On Scratch Junior, we have been learning how to get sprites to move in repeated movements and to speak by using dialogue boxes.

Next week in Thematic we will finish our computing learning and complete the end of unit quiz.

Love2Learn

The children will be coming home with their assembly slips. Please may you practice their words off by heart or practice their drama scene. Thank you.

Reminders:

Key Dates

Monday 18^th – Thursday 21^st March – Parent-Teacher Consultations

Thursday 21^st March – Rock Your Socks Day in support of Down Syndrome Awareness

Thursday 21^st March – Year 2 Assembly 9:00 – Parents invited

Wednesday 27^th March – Come Dine With Me for Years 2 & 3

Thursday 28^th March – Easter Egg Hunts

Thursday 28^th March – Easter Bonnet Parade 10:30 for Reception, Year 1&2 (parents invited)

Thursday 28^th March – Term 4 ends (normal time @3:15)

Friday 29^th March – Good Friday

Monday 15^th April  - Term 5 begin

Have a lovely weekend and we will see you all on Monday! 

Miss Davey, Mrs Barlow and Miss Hall