Year 2 Weekly Blog Friday 30th June - Some beautiful things only grow with rain
In Science, the children have been on a material hunt! They looked at fixtures and fittings around the class room, identified the materials they were made from and listed their properties. We had some wonderful conversations about why certain material were used and what made them suitable. I wonder if the children could have a material hunt at home? What are objects made from? Why have these materials been used?
This week in our Geography topic ‘Around The World’, Bobby the Bee, visited Australia. The children located Australia on their maps and then got to work finding fantastic facts and information. They used their newly acquired computing skills to put their facts into concept maps on Purple Mash.
In English, we have watched the arrival of Prince Ali and the persuasive language we could use to convince people to watch the parade. The children came up with some fantastic nouns phrases to describe Prince Ali’s entourage.
Thank you for sending the children in with ingredients for wraps on Wednesday. The children are really enjoying this Design Technology unit with Mrs Neves and of course, learning some essential life skills.
Unfortunately our trip to Hope Street Park to bowl was rained off on Friday - we will try to rearrange this and send out details as soon as we can.
Next Wednesday we will be visiting St Annes library, if your child is a member of the library please send their library cards into school with them. This will be our last visit to the library in Year 2, but I hope these visits have inspired and ignited the children’s love of books and they will continue visiting themselves.
Let’s Celebrate
Well done to our certificate winners this week!
Liam
It has been lovely watching you working co-operatively with your learning partner. This half term your confidence is really growing. You have some fantastic ideas and it’s great to see you sharing them with your friends. You are always polite and well mannered and a great role model.
This week’s Star Readers are Fletcher, Lettie and Rosa.
Virtues Butterfly - Lena
Notices
Our PE days are Monday and Wednesday
KS1 Sports Day - Thursday 6th July 1.30pm - PE kits to be worn please.
Visit to Hope Street Park Bowls - to be confirmed
Library visit - Wednesday 5th July
Zoo trip - Monday 17th July - please note this has changed
Reminder - We try our best in school to be a ‘nut free’ zone, there are a number of adults and children in school who have severe nut allergies. Please ensure that snacks and packed lunches are nut free.
As the weather gets warmer we’re hoping to spend more time learning outdoors. Please send your child in with a suitable sunhat with their name in it and apply suncream before school. Please ensure your child brings a water bottle into school.
Have a lovely weekend,
Mrs Marham, Mrs Maano and Mrs Carragher