Welcome to Year 2!

Dance Extravaganza

The children thoroughly enjoyed the Dance Extravaganza and performed amazingly. We hope you enjoyed our performance and the whole show!

Donations

In RE, we have been learning about the good news of Jesus. Jesus was a friend to everyone and there are many Christian charities who follow this principle. We researched the local charity 'The Cowshed' who are based in Wokingham and support the homeless. We have created our own posters and will begin collecting donations from now until the end of term on the 28th March. For more information on donations please follow this link https://www.thecowshed.org/how-and-what-to-donate/ 

Can I please also request no more than 1 small carrier bag per child of donations.

Our learning last week (18th March-22nd March):

English

This week we have been leading up to our final piece of the term - Instruction Writing - inspired by The Bog Baby. We have used the creatures from within our narratives we wrote to begin considering what habitat they would like to live in. We will be creating a set of instructions explaining how to make these habitats. We first practised making our own habitats on the field and playground and then we drew a design and planned our writing. Next week, we will begin writing our instructions.

Maths

This week we have focussed on mass, capacity and volume. Mass refers to how heavy or light something is. We explored using this key vocabulary to describe objects in the class alongside balance scales to compare the mass of objects. We also began to learn the units of measurement: grams (g) and kilograms (kg) and began to discuss which unit of measurement we would use for specific objects. Next week, we will explore volume and capacity.

Science

This week, we explored the different parts of a plant. We cut up and observed the different parts and their functions. We then drew the plants, wrote the key parts and provided a sentence describing what each part did. 

RE

In RE this week, we thought about the good news of 'peace'. We explored a passage from the bible which reads  ‘My peace I leave with you, my peace I give to you. Do not let your heart be troubled and do not be afraid’. We each had a copy of this passage, and, after discussing what peace means to us, we took part in some scripture journalling and drew illustrations to interpret the passage.

PE

In PE this week we have focussed on our teamwork and communication skills. We played paired games whilst blindfolded to explain how to retrieve items whilst on the playground. In hockey, we continued focussing on push passes and how we receive the ball.