Author: Mrs Palmer

Help at home:

Have a chat with your child about the toys you played with as a child. Are there any similarities or differences?

This morning, we’ve had a lovely time revisiting some of our History, Geography and DT learning from Year 1.

In History, we recapped two heroes — Nelson Mandela and Leonora Cohen. The children really wowed me with how many facts they remembered about both significant figures.

In Geography, we recapped the seven continents and looked at the four countries that make up the UK, labelling their capital cities. Once again, the children did this confidently, demonstrating fantastic remembering skills (one of our 8Rs for learning).

Finally, in DT, we explored the design process and discussed how it’s a continuous cycle of planning, making and evaluating. We talked about how this needs to be repeated, as designers are constantly evaluating their work until they’re happy with the final design. We also tested the stability of three different structures and found that the cylinder was the most stable.

What a fab morning of learning we’ve had in Year 2! ✨

As part of our History topic, Toys and Games, we’d love to invite a grandparent into school on Tuesday 03 February at 1.20pm to share memories of the toys they played with during their childhood.

During the visit, the children will ask questions such as:

• What was your favourite toy when you were growing up?

• What materials were toys made from in the past?

If a grandparent or family member is able to spare some time to join us, we’d be delighted to hear from you. Please contact the school office or speak to Mrs Palmer if you’re able to help.

 

On Monday, Year 2 welcomed Jodi from skipping school to Moortown to show us lots of new skills.

The children were fantastic. Every child was resilient and determined. They gave the skipping 100% effort and some made amazing progress in one morning.

We’ll be practising in school regularly ready for our festival in June.

We’ve begun our new topic, History: Toys and Games. Over this half term, we will be exploring toys from the past and comparing them with the toys we enjoy today. Today, the children shared their favourite toy or game and talked about what makes it special to them. We also discussed whether their favourite toy or game might have been around when their parents or grandparents were children.

Help at home:
Please take a photo of your child with their favourite toy or game and email it to school so we can share it in class. You could also chat together about whether this toy or game is one you remember playing with when you were younger.

We’re focusing on dance in our first few weeks of Spring term. Dance is just moving to music. We have thought about low, medium and high movements and responded to different music this week. This week Kate Bush – Running Up That Hill really made us move in different ways.

Top tip for watching YouTube with your child: go to the settings cog (it’s along the play bar) and turn off autoplay – this avoids an inappropriate clip coming up automatically, and helps to discourage your child from passively watching clip after clip.

We’ve been working brilliantly during our Christmas nativity rehearsals – the children’s enthusiasm, teamwork and growing confidence has been wonderful to see! We’re very proud of how hard they’re trying with both their lines and the songs. Please remember to send in any costumes by Friday 12th December and do keep practising the songs at home to help them feel extra ready for the performance. Thank you for your support!