Welcome to our Year 2 class page!
The Class Teachers are Miss Corney, Mrs. Dykes, Mrs. Paramore-Hall and Mrs. Blakey.
The Teaching Assistants are Mrs. Ellison, Miss Hickey and Mr. Storey.
We have lots of exciting and interesting learning planned for the year ahead. We hope that you enjoy reading through what we will be learning in class over the Autumn, Spring and Summer terms.
Our Learning in Year 2 (2024-2025)
Autumn Term-1
WB 09.09.2024
Physical Education
Article 29 –Your education should help you use and develop your talents and abilities.
In P.E this week we developed our understanding of over and under arm throws. We used a hoop in the middle as a target. If we managed to get all of our beanbags in the target we could challenge ourselves by taking a step back. Later we tried different balls to see if that made a difference to our aiming. We found the small soft balls easiest to control.
WB 16.09.2024
CRC Article 28: All children have the right to a good quality education.
Year 2 have been learning about poetry in their English lessons this week. They had fun as they learned about rhyming words and how to perform using expression and actions. Year 2 worked hard to learn the poem ‘Hands’ by Julia Donaldson off by heart and could not wait to perform it so they could share it with their parents and carers at home.
WB 23.09.2024
CRC Article 29: All children have the right to be the best that they can be.
Year 2 have been learning how to cut material and make joins in Design and Technology. They found it tricky to thread a needle at first but with some perseverance, they all managed it. They then begin to join using a running stitch. By showing determination and patience, children were able to join the two pieces of fabric they had cut earlier. They also tried using glue, a stapler and blue tac to join but decided stitching was the best choice for the puppets they are going to make as this creates stronger joins.
WB 30.09.2024
Science
CRC Article 28- All children have the right to a good quality education. You should be encouraged to go to school to the highest level you can.
Learning Objective: Can you think like a material scientist and investigate which ball is the bounciest?
In class today we had some big discussions about materials and their purposes, including some ‘what ifs’
- What if our house wasn’t made of brink?
- What if my house was made out of glass?
- What if we wore towels on our heads instead of helmets when riding a bike?
- What if towels were rough like the carpet?
After sharing all of our knowledge through these open discussions, Mrs Paramore then shared some of her thoughts:
“I wonder which ball in school is the bounciest?”
We looked at a selection of balls and watched some slow-motion videos, focusing on what happens to a ball when it is dropped and bounces from a surface.
We decided to make a prediction. We predict the bounciest ball will be the bouncy ball, after all it is in the name. This is then followed by the sports rubber ball, the hard plastic ball, the sponge ball and finally the Play-Doh ball (Mrs Paramore made this and we don’t think it even qualifies as a ball!)
Next in our investigation is to plan a test that is fair so we can seek the answer to Mrs Paramore’s wonder.
WB 07.10.2024
CRC Article 13: All children have the right to information.
Mrs. Blakey visited the beach at the weekend and found all kinds of weird and wonderful objects. We looked at them in detail, decided whether they were meant to be on the beach or ended up by accident and sorted them.
We had lots of questions:
What happens to the animals if plastic goes into the ocean?
How are fossils made? How are fossils there?
How is sand made?
How did all the plastics get there?
How can we help to make sure these things don’t hurt the animals?
Where does sea glass come from?
What are shells?
Some of the adjectives we used to describe the objects were:
smooth/rough/rigid/jagged/flexible/smelly/dirty/bendy/hard/curved
WB 14.10.2024
Year 2 have been learning about whales and other ocean creatures. We used the text ‘Dear Greenpeace’ to inspire our writing and thought it would be a great idea to write a letter then send it to their head office. Can you believe it…we got a reply along with some goodies and stickers. Greenpeace were incredibly impressed with our writing and research and told us about some of the things they do to help and also what we could do too.
WB 21.10.2024
Learning Objective: To learn to sing and perform the song Hands, feet, heart by Joanna Mangola.
Article 29 –Your education should help you use and develop your talents and abilities. It should also help you learn to live peacefully, protect the environment and respect other people.
Singing in parts
We have now learnt our class song and this week we focused on being able to sing in two parts.
One group sang the chorus line whilst the other group echoed it.
This is a very tricky skill as timing is really important and you have to stay focused on your singing part and not the singing part of the other group.
We were very good at this and performed to our Year 1 members of the class. You can see our music video on our school website.
Autumn Term-2
WB 04.11.2024
CRC Article 28 – All children have the right to a good quality education.
CRC Article 29 – All children have the right to be the best they can be.
Year 2 have been looking at poetry this week and have enjoyed the poem ‘There was an Old Lady’.
We looked at rhyming words and we thought of actions to help them remember the words. We practiced in groups and then all came together to practise it as a whole class. It was really tricky trying to remember the order that each creature was eating so we had to practise again and again so we could be the best we could possibly be. We hope you enjoy our performance.
WB 11.11.2024
CRC Article 28- All children have the right to a good quality education.
Our young historians were ever so keen to learn more about their local history when they were greeted by two locomotives in class today. We discussed how Shildon town, like many other towns, villages and cities has changed over time and how events of the past have had impact on the way things are today.
We enjoyed going on our school website and reading about the history of the school. We worked out it is 114 years old! We discovered the school was built due to the demand of having so many more children in the area.
But why did more children end up in the area?
Well that all stems from Timothy Hackworth, the Rainhill Trials and Shildon finding itself in the heart of the new railway industry.
We reflected on our knowledge of timelines and showed that we are very good at using the vocabulary: now, then, past, present future. We made a huge class timeline to go back and plot some key dates on.
