Mrs Hayes

Year 2 focus on their wellbeing

We all performed brilliantly in our class assembly this week and we are very proud of ourselves. As part of Children’s Mental Health Week, we shared our top tips for how to boost wellbeing and cheer ourselves up when we are feeling down.

Here are our top tips for good wellbeing:

First of all, connect with the people around you. We created a paperchain to show all the things we do that connect us together.

Don’t forget to Be Active: we start each day with a song and dance and we love to run laps around the playground to keep extra fit.

Remember to Give: small acts of kindness are a great way to give to one another. We look out for our friends in the playground and give our clothes to charity to help to raise money.

Take notice: we love to spend time in the great outdoors and we have planted lots of seeds in different conditions to see how well they grow. We have learned that in addition to water, sunlight and air, seeds also need heat to grow well.

Finally, don’t forget to Keep Learning. There are so many wonderful things to find out and each day, we love to learn something new!

Year 2 in Solidarity

This half term, our Catholic Social Teaching theme focuses on Solidarity and Peace. The children reflected on their inspiring ‘Give Racism the Red Card’ posters to show how they understand that God’s world is for everyone and all people should have equal access to everything.

We also thought about how we can act as peacemakers in our everyday friendships in the classroom or outside. We wrote our peacemaker promises onto doves of peace and decorated them to make a great display.

Year 2 get sewing!

As part of their learning in Design and Technology, the Year Two children have been working really hard, developing their sewing skills. They have learned how to thread a needle and also join two pieces of material together as they created their own piece of bunting. Each triangle has its own letter and the children have decorated their bunting very imaginatively with sequins. Can you spot the missing word in our message?

Year 2 love animals

This week the children have had great fun supporting the charity Pets as Therapy by dressing up in animal themed outfits and creating some amazing artwork. They produced some wonderfully unique pieces using a range of media. The imaginative Year 2s are all very proud of themselves!

Year 2 explore Everyday Materials

Year 2 have been enjoying exploring materials out and about. In particular, they have been finding out about the properties of a variety of materials and thinking about the suitability of different materials. They have been learning to use lots of new words such as transparent/opaque, absorbent/waterproof as well as flexible/rigid. They are great scientists!

Using adjectives to describe materials …
in the playground.
Finding different ways to describe the properties and group the materials …
was great fun.
Rigid and flexible
We wrote labels to describe how we grouped the objects.

The children have also enjoyed thinking about what it would be like if an unsuitable material was used for a particular object. Inspired by the poem, Woolly Saucepan by Michael Rosen, they created their own unsuitable matches! Here is just one of the poems created this week.

Chocolate Door by Mahdi, Rosanne and Rosie

Could I have a chocolate door

a metal biscuit, a fabric window

and a brick hammer, please?

Er, sorry, I mean a plastic mug

a cardboard table, a wooden blanket

and a glass hat, please?

Er, sorry, I mean … oh no!

You know what I mean, don’t you?

Year 2 get fit!

We are all very pleased that the wonderful PTA fundraising events have raised enough money for the amazing trim trail that we have had great fun climbing on this week. Here are some photos of us in action!

Storytelling in Year 2

This week, we have been learning about the baptism of Jesus. We started off the week by comparing the stories in the gospels of Luke and Matthew and then took part in lots of different activities , such as hot-seating characters from the story, creating story maps and performing our own dramas so that we could really get to know the story. At the end of the week, we wrote the story in our own words and we are very proud of our storytelling!

Take a look at our photos to find out more.

Hot seating – What did you think when you heard the voice of God coming from the heavens?
Retelling the story with a Talk Partner.
Building up the story with different objects great fun.
Setting the scene for the story.
We created story maps that told the baptism story and …
used these to narrate the story in small groups.
John the Baptist …
baptised Jesus …
in …
the River Jordan.
When Jesus came up from the water …
the heavens opened.
Find out what the voice from heaven said by asking one of the Year 2 children!

Year 2

The Year 2 class wish you all a wonderful 2025.

The children have started the new year with lots of enthusiasm. They have been reflecting upon the Epiphany story and thinking about the special gift that they can bring to 2025. To mark the Feast of St Adrian, the children also learned about how St Adrian was a teacher for over forty years and so, in the spirit of great learning, they committed themselves to a personal learning challenge for the new year.

Year 2 are ready for Christmas

We have had a lovely December and enjoyed many events while journeying through Advent in preparation for the celebration of Jesus’s birth on Christmas Day!

The Year 5 children led the class brilliantly in a celebration of the Word that focussed on Advent and the meaning of this important season.

A creative group called Electric Umbrella came to school to lead us in song and it was a great way to celebrate diversity and have fun together.

Rock Steady performed their Christmas concert and we all thoroughly enjoyed joining in with the Christmas tunes.

Finally, Father Christmas found out that we had all been nice, not naughty this year and so deserved a visit from him during our Christmas party day. What a smashing way to get ready for Christmas. Merry Christmas everyone and we wish you a very Happy New Year!

Year 2 love to perform

The children performed brilliantly in their Christmas play this week and they should be very proud of their enthusiastic singing and wonderful acting. Every single line was delivered clearly as the children reflected on the true meaning of Christmas and had great fun too!