Year 2 w/b 6th January 2025

Date: 10th Jan 2025 @ 5:14pm

Wishing you all a very Happy New Year and a warm welcome to the new spring term in Year Two. Below you can find lots of information about our learning from this week. Pictures will be uploaded when we return to school on Monday.

Spellings

Here our spelling for this week, spelling sheets were ready to come home today but will be with you on Monday:

shorter, louder, slowest, fastest, rain, train, paint, join, coin, people

Please practice these in any way that works for your child, ideas have been sent home on a spelling strategy sheet. Keep this sheet safe and use to help learn the spellings each week – we call this our ‘memory lock’.

RE  - Why did Jesus welcome everyone?

We started out lesson by discussing who our friends are, why they are our friends and how we choose them

Then talked about who did Jesus made friends with.

In Jesus’ time children were not thought of with any high regard. So when people brought their children to be blessed by Jesus several adults tried to stop them. However, Jesus told them to let the children come to him. Many images of Jesus welcoming the children show Jesus’ actions and teaching. We looked at:

Christ with the Children – Christopher Santer
Christ Blessing the children – Nicholas Maes
Children coming to Jesus – John Lautermilch

Pupils to created their own interpretation (in an art medium of their choice) of this event in the life of Jesus and then we talked about it. 

PSHE – Harold’s Story

We read the story of Harold's Picnic and had a discussion to understand that medicines can sometimes make people feel better when they are ill. We thought of examples of things people can do to help themselves feel better without using medicines and thought of safety and responsibility of using medicines.

English – The Bog Baby

Before the children were introduced to the fictional character – The Bog Baby, they made predictions, after looking closely at some clues, as to who the character could be. The pupils then read the detailed description that Jeanne Willis and Gwen Milward had written to describe the Bog Baby and turned this into a descriptive poem.

Maths

As you will have seen in our home learning, we are focussing on money as our first unit this term. We have looked at counting money with pence and pounds (note and coins) and selecting coins to make values. As mentioned before Christmas, any opportunity to handle and use coins and notes in our increasingly digital worlds supports this understanding.

Science

This half term our focus will be on plants. We will build on our knowledge from Year One and will be taught to:

Identify and name a variety of common wild and garden plants, including deciduous and evergreen trees.

Identify and describe the basic structure of a variety of common flowering plants, including trees.

Geography–

The children were very excited about using an atlas and they were given time to explore what information they could find in an atlas and to see if they could find where we live. Then using a map and an atlas they located and named all of the continents and oceans of the world. We also learnt about the Equator and how the climate differs if a country is near or far from the Equator.

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Lindersen, Mrs Forrester and Mrs Mitchell