What a wonderful start to Year 2 we have had! The children have settled in so well and are ready to go!
We started the year thinking about our saint, St James, and taking time to think deeply about what our mission statement, ‘Together we are learning to follow Jesus,’ means. We wrote wonderful prayers asking Jesus to help us in the coming academic year.
RE
In RE lessons we have learnt about Creation and Covenant following The Vine and the Branches topics. We have learnt about the story of Noah, focusing on Gods promise with Noah and with all creatures. We have also explored the psalms, what stewardship means and we have learnt what happens at the Sacrament of Baptism.
In our Prophecy and Promise topic this half term, we have been introduced to John the Baptist. We have read closely St Luke’s gospel, beginning in the temple in Jerusalem with Zechariah. We have learnt about the Annunciation, focusing on importance of Mary saying ‘Yes’ to God’s message as well the Visitation and we have prepared for the birth of Jesus during Advent.
We have also really enjoyed helping to plan and prepare Prayer Time sessions each week throughout the term.
Our Nativity performance was amazing! We have really enjoyed getting ready for Christmas in Class 2 and have had lots of special Prayer Time sessions around our Advent wreath. We have celebrated at our Christmas party and enjoyed Christmas dinner day!
Year 2 enjoying Christmas Dinner:
This term we also celebrated a wonderful mass planned by the children on the theme of Noah’s Ark sharing the importance of Gods promises. They delivered it beautifully in church, well done!
Maths
In maths, we have been continuing to follow Maths, No Problem! This term we have learnt to use numbers to 100, improve our addition and subtraction.
English
We have really enjoyed using some new exciting books as our focus in English, following Pathways to Write. We wrote a fantastic story focussing on character description and conjunctions after reading Troll Swap by Leigh Hodgkinson. We have loved learning all about owls, using The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark by Jill Tomlinson to inspire us. We have written a non-chronological report about owls using conjunctions and commas!
History
This term we have been exploring ‘How was school different in the past?’ following our Kapow scheme of work.
We have investigated what schools were like in the 1900s, compared a modern classroom with a classroom 100 year ago and compared three periods of time.
We thoroughly enjoyed exploring photographs of our school and local area from the 1960s. We compared them with what our school looks like today. We also interviewed a special visitor, Mrs Hogan, an ex-pupil of our school who attended our school in 1966. We asked her lots of questions to find our how our school was different in the past.
Geography
This term our Geography topic has been learning about the Continents and Oceans around the World. We have learnt how to locate the continents and oceans on a map and explored the human and physical features of a continent.
Science
In science we have been learning all about Living Things and their Habitats. We have loved learning about different habitats and food chains, and practising our enquiry skills exploring in our local habitat!
Computing
Class 2 have amazed us with their coding skills in computing and have also learnt how to stay safe online.
Art
We have really enjoyed personalising our own sketchbooks and using nature to inspire us in our Explore and Draw topic in Access Art. We loved creating sculptures outside, and the quality of the creations was amazing. We then took nature inside and practised our line drawing using continuous line drawing and blind drawing techniques!
D.T
We had fun in D.T this half term. Class 2 have made and decorated a pouch for a Christmas decoration out of felt using running stitch.
