Category: Year 2 – St Teresa of Calcutta

This week, the Year Two children returned to school for their last half term in the infants. They were very proud of the Bee and Butterfly garden that they have been caring for and watering over the last few weeks as it is filled with flowers that are being visited by many insects.

Hidden amongst all those flowering plants, there were also lots of ripening strawberries. Through the week, we have been harvesting the strawberries and freezing them. On Friday, we finally had enough to make our own strawberry and banana milkshake. It was delicious and now the children know how make a milkshake as well as a wrap. Here are the instructions if you would like to make one too!

This term, we have been learning about the Eatwell plate and what foods go in each food group. We have learned that it is really important to have foods from a variety of food groups in order to eat healthily. We taste tested combinations of ingredients to see what went well together and then designed a wrap that would be tasty and healthy.

We had great fun preparing ingredients for our wraps and learned how to chop foods up with a knife by making a bridge with our hands. Once we had made our wraps, we reviewed them against our success criteria to see just how tasty and healthy they were. We tried to include ingredients from at least three food groups in our wrap and we have found that there are new foods that we will try.

When reviewing the wraps, many of the children said that they were wonderful, tasty, fantastic, delicious and brilliant. Lucy said ‘I loved it so much’ and Tadhg wrote ‘I’ve never had a wrap that good!’ Well done to the Year 2 chefs who have learned a great skill that they will be able to do at home too.

We launched May by thinking about Mary, Mother of Jesus. The children prepared a lovely display ‘Mary, Queen of Peace’ and enjoyed singing many hymns in our Celebration of the Word dedicated to Mary.

The Year 2 children wrote a song to sing to their mums during the Mother’s Day assembly and they sang it beautifully. They have also created a fantastic card to show just how much they love their mums. It’s been a wonderful week!

This week has been Science Week and we have been exploring Change through our science topic ‘Humans and other animals’. Our favourite activity was finding out about the life cycles of different animals and then creating our own. Here are some examples:

This week, Year Two celebrated World Book Day by coming into school dressed as their favourite book characters. What an imaginative group of children they are and they look amazing in their outfits. Can you work out the book title that goes with each outfit?

The children loved reading a favourite book with a Year Six buddy and this was a wonderful way to share their passion for reading!

If you would like some ideas for books to read, some very inspiring books to choose from can be found here: Great books for Year 2 or on the link below.

To celebrate their birthdays, children are encouraged to donate a book to our class library. The reward for doing this is to come to school in a favourite outfit.  You can view our class wish-list on Amazon: Year 2 WIshlist The children thank you in advance for any donations of books to add to our class library!

As part of our learning about how to be an active part of our community and support others, we were keen to raise money for the charity Pets as Therapy that helps children in many schools. Here we are showing off our amazing animal outfits and imaginative artwork!

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.