Year 2 - YEW Class
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We are all very excited for our trip to Plymouth Aquarium on Tuesday 2nd July. We are linking this trip to our science focus on animals and also our art focus for the remainder of the term. We will be creating recycled materials animal sculptures to help promote recycling and conservation of our natural habitats.
Please can pupils start bringing in any recycled materials to help with our sculptures. Plastic and cardboard boxes would be great! No glass or tins though. Thank you. We have now completed our year 4 Multiplication Times Table Check. The pupils did a great job on this test and it is a useful measure for the school to review how well pupils know their tables. We are linking our history and reading topics this half term. We are delving into the world of Norse myths for reading and we are learning about the Vikings for history. The class is really enjoying learning about this fascinating period. In English lessons we are learning all about Shackleton and his expedition to the South Pole. It has been fun being in role as Shackleton and his crew. Our big write will be a newspaper report that highlights the hardships and challenges the crew members had to go through on this historic crossing.
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It’s been an exciting start to the first half of the summer term in Yew Class. In English we have started a new book, Ocean Meets Sky by Eric and Terry Fan. It is a beautiful and poignant story with equally stunning illustrations and explores the themes of family, memory and loss. As a stimulus we had a box of ‘Grandpa’s things’. This brought the class closer to the characters. We also used role play to understand the text further. We have started on art this week and looking at the Dutch Artist, Ton Schulten and his Cityscapes. This week we were practising his style but mainly focussing on colour mixing. It was wonderful hearing the children getting excited over discovering ‘their’ new colours! Have a wonderful weekend everyone!    Year 2 has been designing and making Ferris Wheels in groups, pairs or individually. The choice was theirs. It was wonderful to watch the children choose the materials that would be strong enough for this design technology project and to make choices including those to ensure that when the wheel turns passengers won’t fall out! The children were so engaged and looked proud of their work.
English: When we come back after Easter Yew Class will be working with the book, Ocean Meets the Sky by The Fan Brothers. It’s a poignant story with stunning illustrations throughout and explores themes of family, memory and loss, aimed at year 1 and 2. Through the book the class will be given a variety of meaningful writing opportunities throughout the sequence and gradually build up the skills to write an extended fantasy story of their own. Maths: We will be continuing with the last part of measurement with temperature and then be moving on to fractions. I hope the children are enjoying learning 2, 5, 10 and 3 tables with apps such as Times Tables Rock Stars (TTRS) as this helps with fractions. Science: Yew Class will be looking at Changing Materials and learning about their properties. The children will be investigating how the shape of solid objects can change. Art: An exciting unit as we will be looking at the Cityscapes work of Dutch artist, Ton Shulten in which the children will be playing colour tones and blocks in creating their own cityscapes. Meanwhile, have a wonderful Easter and see you all after the break. Vanessa Freeman We are so excited as we have the Rev. Edwina Fennemore coming in every Wednesday morning to read with individual children in the class. We have a rota so everyone will get a chance to share a book with her. In design technology the children have been designing and making ferris wheels in groups, pairs or individually. Thank you to you all for sending in the egg boxes as this now enables children to work on their own if they wish. The egg boxes will serve as the pods in their designs. Some of the designs have had to go back to the drawing board as they failed safety tests! And here's a picture from last Friday's World Book Day. What a wonderful day it was - the children shared their favourite books and their costumes were truly original. Thank you to those who were able to come in that afternoon and listen to the children discussing their costumes and favourite books.  Dear all
Year 2 have had a smashing first week back to school after the holidays, and I’ve loved hearing from them about their fun activities during the week off school! We’ve been busy as ever this week, learning to tell the time and starting to write our own retelling of ‘Charlotte’s Web’ to showcase everything they’ve learnt about writing this year. Some of the children chose to change the characters and how the main character is saved - I can’t wait to read these very individual stories! We were delighted to rehearse some more of Fantastic Mr Fox with Lydia, and to make the most of the sun by doing a series of multi-skills challenges on the field in PE. There was some lovely teamwork happening and it felt almost like a mini sports day. Finally we began learning about sacred places in RE. The children thought deeply about what would be their ideal “special place” and then designed this behind a lift the flap door. We hope to take a trip to the church in the coming weeks, to discover more about what make it such a special place for Christians. Best wishes for a happy and safe weekend! Mrs Robertson Dear families,
I sadly haven't been here all this week with the children, but nonetheless have seen so much fantastic learning going on. The children did a great piece of work on the Great Fire Of London, in preparation for making some History booklets on London's history. They also showed what whizzes they now are on a computer keyboard by quickly completing their 'Keyboard Detective Challenge' and then progressing with their touch-typing. Yew Class also teamed up with Beech Class in PE to complete some throwing and catching challenges. We've finished the week with some wonderful outdoor learning in Forest School - thank you so much to Kael for leading this. Thank you to all families for supporting your children with their homework and reading - it is clear that everybody has been working very hard and this makes all the difference to their progress. Thank you. Have a lovely weekend, everyone! Mrs R Dear families
We said it would be a busy week in Yew Class and we weren't joking... Notably, the children sat a range of maths and reading assessments so that we can see what the next step for their learning should be. They tackled these immensely well and should feel very proud of themselves. However, this has also been a very active and curious week - we have started our topic on the history of London, learning how it was founded by the Romans and exploring what parts of Roman London are still evident today. We also began singing in French, learning the months of the year! Soon the children will have a go at writing these months too, to compare French and English writing. And I feel we must mention the very exciting P.E lesson with Beech Class, testing out everyone's agility and speed by playing banana tag! Yesterday, we managed to venture outside to hunt for organisms (living things) within our school's woodland habitat - the class did very well to spot plenty in the murky, drizzly weather. This will hopefully inspire some of our artwork this half term as we develop some ideas for our own collages in the style of Henri Matisse. Thanks for remembering your wellies! Please bring them again next Thursday as we will be out and about, investigating microhabitats in more depth. Have a great weekend, everybody! Mrs Robertson |
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