Today, our new junior leaders met for the first time.
As part of the meeting, they reviewed our school definition of bullying and our child friendly anti-bullying policy prior to anti-bullying day next Monday.
They also reminded the class about Odd Socks Day, which is also on Monday, that celebrates our individuality.
We’ve enjoyed lots of learning about identity, diversity and community so far in our themed week.
What is a community?
Did you know our class is made up of lots of different ethnicities and look at all the languages we can speak. It’s been great to hear some of the children share these languages with the class.
When thinking about our own identity, this video gave us lots to discuss about what makes us, us?
There are lots of different aspects of our life that make us who we are. We are all UNIQUE.
Which members of the class do you think these might be?
We read and performed these identity themed poems. Ask your child to read them to you with prosody.
Our first visitors of the week were our local PCSOs. They told us about their role in the community to keep people safe and they also reminded us of some important safety advice for bonfire night.
Some of the class have been keeping active in our community on their journeys to school. Send your photos to school by Friday to be part of this competition.
We’re looking forward to more visitors and learning throughout the week and Identity Day on Friday.
Congratulations to Jemima and Henry L who were voted by the class to become our new Year 2 members of the Junior Leadership Team.
We are sure they will do a great job!
Well done to all the children who prepared a speech and shared this with the class. We hope you will try again next year!
We’d also like to say a big well done to Aaniyah and Ralph who have been our fantastic junior leaders. We are sure they will help out our new leaders.
We are very proud of the children after their class assembly performance today. This was the first performance they’ve had chance to do since starting school and they all did a great job.
Thank you for coming to hear all about our learning. We’ve loved learning about the Great Fire of London. Here’s the song if you want to hear more at home!
Tomorrow is our first class assembly.
We are excited to show you what we have been learning so far in Year 2.
Hope you can come to share this with us at 2:40pm.
To start our lesson about self-respect, we made our own creature creations. Starting with a head, someone else added a body and finally someone else added legs.
We had some great mixed up creations and not one of them was the same. The creatures were all different as we all have different drawing styles and imaginations and, just like the creatures, those differences make us all unique.
We thought about what else makes us unique and why we are special.
Our weekly circle time sessions give the children chance to build on this learning about respect and self-respect and our themed week, Me and My Communities, after half term will also reinforce this learning about our own identity.
A squashed sentence is when two sentences are squashed together without any punctuation.
An example: The fire was burning I was terrified.
This should be: The fire was burning. I was terrified. (…or some other punctuation, but not a comma)
We can also join two sentences with conjunctions.
An example: The fire was burning and I was terrified.
In class, we are focusing on separating two squashed sentences with a full stop.
To help at home, you could ensure that children are pausing at full stops in their reading. You could also write two sentences, based on the weekly spellings, which are separated by a full stop in the incorrect place, such as I went. Camping it was fun. Read the sentences together and see if your child could fix it.
This half term, our science learning has been all about living things and their habitats so we are biologists.
Here is the key science vocabulary that we have been learning along with their definitions.
So far we have learnt about what is living, dead and what has never been alive. Think about this for the following things.
Then, we learnt about different habitats and the animals and plants that live there.
What might live in a polar habitat?
Where habitat would a monkey live in?
What might live in a desert habitat?
What habitat would a squirrel live in?
There are also micro-habitats.
A micro-habitat is a very small habitat (a small area of a larger habitat).
For example, a leaf could be a micro-habitat of a hedgerow.
Why do animals and plants live in particular habitats?
A habitat provides the basic needs (including food, air, water and shelter) of different kinds of animals and plants. It gives them what they need to survive.
There are lots of great videos to support this learning on the BBC website.
Today, ten Year 5 and 6 children took part in a netball skills event with Tracey Neville, former England netball international and England head coach, at the opening of the new sports dome at The Grammar School at Leeds.
The children enjoyed three skills sessions – shooting, passing and defending and the consensus from all of them, was that they had a fantastic afternoon.
Using good manners was our Living and Learning focus this week.
We thought about what manners are.
Saying sorry
Saying please and thank you
Saying excuse me
Sharing
Having good table manners
Not interrupting others
Being kind to others
Covering our mouth (with our elbow) if we cough or sneeze
Manners are words and actions that we can use to help us be kind and respectful to others. They are so important in our relationships with others.
Here’s a poem about manners that we will be our reading fluency text next week.
So far in Year 2, we have heard and seen some great manners. We will continue to reinforce this, not just this week, but all the time.
Remember to use these good manners whether at home, at school, in shops or wherever you are!