Year 2

At our reading café this week, we taught our parents and families how we complete the four operations.   Firstly, we showed them how we complete addition using our ‘chips and peas’ method.   We then went on to subtraction again with chips and peas.   For multiplication, we showed them how we draw an array and then for division we drew groups. After this we made multiplication flowers to take home and chose the multiplication we wanted to practise.

This week has been a super busy week! Firstly, we would like to thank you for your support with our Maths Café and our Assembly. We hope you enjoyed learning about how your child solves maths problems and learnt a little bit about our Power of Reading story from our assembly. In English this week, we found out that a robber stole a sculpture from an art gallery in our book ‘Claude in City’. We made wanted posters using suffixes, for example harm less , colour ful , quick ly, shini est, clever est and sneak iest . Later in the week we held a press conference with children in role as the Robber, Security Guard, Museum Manager, Mayor and Police Chief. The children wrote questions to ask at the conference. We have begun looking at the features at newspapers ready to write a newspaper report about the incident next week. In Maths, we have been practising our multiplication skills and learning about the inverse relationship between multiplication and division. We used the same 4 nu...

Weekly news – 22.3.19 This week at school we have had a go at writing our own free verse poem based on the work that we did Friday around the city and the things that we could see, hear smell and touch.   We have learnt about writing and sending an email through Claude and Sir Bobblysocks adventure in the city.   We went into role as Claude and wrote an email to Mr and Mrs Shinyshoes.   After carefully editing these we then practised typing these up on the computer. In maths this week we have been practising our subtraction using ‘chips and peas’ and then went on to read word problems to decide which of the operations we should use, addition, subtraction, division or multiplication. For our topic sessions this week we went outside and created a sound map by drawing ourselves in the middle, closing our eyes and listening carefully to the sounds around us.   We then drew these onto a map with a key.   In Geography this week we drew a map of the city that C...

We had a lovely start to the week with the launch of our new topic ‘Street Detectives’ by going on a walk around the village. The children had a map and drew symbols to make a key showing the main features of Mulbarton including the Church, Co-Op, The Common, etc. In English, we have started our new Power of Reading book (the title of which will be kept a secret for now). We began by looking at the first picture in the book, which was a city scene. We then read the first 9 pages which introduced us to the characters Claude, Sir Bobblysock, and Mr and Mrs Shinyshoes. The children completed a character profile with all the information that they already knew about Claude along with questions regarding things they would like to find out. Later in the week, we wrote predictions of the adventure that Claude and Sir Bobblysock might have. At the end of the week, we began writing poetry about a city. We will be continuing this next week. In Art, we made collages to show our predicted ...

We had lots of fun this week when George and Ethan came in from the Kings Camp holiday club group and gave us a taster session of the fun that we can have!  We also had lots of fun on world book day dressing up as our favourite character!

Weekly news 8.3.19 This week in school, we have finished our ‘Power of Reading book project by writing our own chapters in our best handwriting.  The storybooks look amazing; please have a look in your child’s classroom. We have been practising SATS papers this week and the children have responded really well to their ‘Special Work’ and ‘Secret spaces’.  They have all worked hard and have enjoyed the quiet, focussed atmosphere in the classroom.  We have finished off our ‘Towers, Tunnels and Turrets ’topic with an ‘Innovate Day’.  The children read the story of the three little pigs as inspiration.  Then they were challenged to design and build a safe fortress for the three little pigs based on their knowledge of castles.  Once complete they labelled their design and made a list of the resources they would need.  They then went on to collaboratively build their design using the available resources.  The children worked in groups all day long...

Weekly news We have had a lovely week in Year 2 and have been very busy. In English this week we have been story mapping our Power of Reading story ‘The Princess and the White Bear King’. We divided the story into chapters and began to plan our own chapters to write. We have used our story maps to write our own chapter with adjectives and adverbial phrases to say when and where things happened. We have edited and improved our work ready to write up in best next week to make our own collaborative versions of the book. In Maths this week we have been focussing on money. We have learnt about the values of different coins and worked on making different amounts using the coins. We have also focussed on adding amounts of money and finding totals. In Science this week we have been out on a ‘I wonder…’ walk and thought about questions that we could investigate later in the year about plants and nature. The teachers will use these questions later in the year to plan some exciting sc...