This week we took part in Safer Internet Day, where our focus was on Artificial Intelligence (AI). We explored what AI is and talked about voice assistants such as Alexa and Siri. The children were brilliant at discussing how these tools can be helpf

In Maths, we have been exploring halves and quarters. We learnt what these fractions mean and practised finding half and a quarter of shapes and quantities. It was wonderful to see them explaining their thinking and using mathematical langu

In English we have been using once upon a raindrop to inspire us to do shared writing about once upon a sunshine. We have used rhyme, alliteration and present progressive tense to describe the sun in our own class version. We have continued lookin

Final week of Autumn term!

In English, we have been looking at subordinating conjunctions and how they can help us extend our sentences by giving reasons. This is going to help us when we create our persuasive writing on why we need a school garden. We then created our for and against reasons for this argument ready to write our pieces next week.

 

For maths, we have focused on arithmetic style questions and reasoning questions to help us with strategies for answering these types of questions. It was a good chance to recap all the learning we have done so far in year 2!

In history, we answered our big question 'What was the impact of the Great Fire of London'. The children used all their knowledge from autumn term to create posters and mind maps to showcase their answers.

Our nativity rehearsals have been going brilliantly, and we are excited to show you all next week! We are still missing some costumes, so please make sure you have brought them in as we will be doing a dress rehearsal on Monday.

 

Star of the Week is….

Camilla! For always demonstrating our school promises.

 

Reminders:

• PE days for Term 2 are Wednesday (hockey) and Thursday (team games).
• Please bring in reading books and reading records every day and read 5 times a week at home. Remember an adult needs to sign the reading records.
• Spellings will come home on Monday. Please practice these every day at home ready for our spelling test on Fridays.

Have a wonderful weekend!

Miss Knapp

 

Thank you to who came to our linger and learn session this week for History. The children loved involving you in being historians, looking at what different sources tell us about the Great Fire of London.

In English, we finished our unit on diary writing. The children imagined they were in 1666 when the Great Fire of London started and wrote a diary entry about this. They made sure to write in the past tense, use time conjunctions, expanded noun phrases and included their thoughts and feelings.

We started looking at money in maths this week. We looked at the different coins and notes and made given amounts. We also used different coins and notes to make the same amounts.

In music, we continued to look at how music can help tell a story. We looked at Little Red Riding Hood and used dynamics and tempo to help tell the different parts of the story.

We had our last forest school session this week. The children wrapped up warm and got stuck in making their shelters. Mr Summers even made a 'swing' which the children loved.

Star of the Week is….

Tom! For great expanded noun phrases in his diary writing.

Reminders:

• PE days for Term 2 are Wednesday and Thursday.
• Please bring in reading books and reading records every day and read 5 times a week at home. Remember an adult needs to sign the reading records.
• Spellings will come home on Monday. Please practice these every day at home ready for our spelling test on Fridays.

Have a wonderful weekend!

Miss Knapp