Today we have been learning more about traditional playground games! We have been finding out that there are new games that we can play that are also really fun!  These included: animal relays, giants and fairies, mirroring and clapping rhymes!

 As we discussed in our Year 2 welcome meeting in September, we have changed the way we work with Twinkl go this year due to changes in the website.   We listen to the children read every day at school through our guided reading sessions - As modelled in our parent/teacher reading session at school.  We do not write in the children's yellow diaries everyday as this would be very time consuming and we would like to focus our efforts on physical learning, rather than writing in their books.  We do however check these books once a week to see the frequency of reading at home so please continue to note when your child has read to you - a signature will suffice with the book title.  We will also begin to acknowledge when your child has read in a smaller group with us and not just 1:1. Our yellow books are not for messages that need to be seen on that day.  Please refer any messages to the team, or to a member of staff on gate duty who will ensure that we ar...

 Do you have any food magazines that we could use in our Science learning on Monday?  we will be learning about healthy foods and creating our own food pyramids! Thank you in advance! Year 2

      Reading New Rhino Reader books have now been updated onto your child's Twinkl account and are ready for you to access.  This week we are reading: 'Up and Away'(Level 6), 'Do snails have feet?' (Level 5) and 'A cure for Ben' (Level 3) Please continue to write in your child's diaries when they have read to you.   Spellings Week 2 - Spring 1        autumn gone know   colour other does We will go through these spellings together on Tuesday 21st January 2025 We would also like to see the practising of spellings within sentences ,   alongside the spellings practise. The children need to be able to apply these spellings confidently when writing. They may write these spellings on a lined piece of paper at home and leave them in their diaries to be checked on Tuesdays. 

 This week, we have been exploring 2D and 3D shapes, using 'vertices' 'edge' 'face' 'corner' 'side' 'curved' and 'straight'. We have been describing the shapes and drawing them ourselves with a ruler! We have also been exploring symmetry! A busy week in Year 2 with lots of lovely learning! Here are some pictures of 2B playing 'hand up-pair up' where we had to find our matching partner! One of us had a description of a shape and the other had a picture! There are also some pictures of both classes exploring making and building 2D and 3D shapes!

 Today we began a new unit in our indoor P.E. lessons. Over the next half term, we will be exploring balance, shape and co-ordination in gymnastics! After warming up, we explored balance using different 'points' or small areas of our body and 'patches' or larger areas of our body. We also worked in pairs, exploring different shapes and practising being able to hold our balances for longer.