PE – Castles and Cannon Balls
In PE, we worked together as a team to build castles using different pieces of equipment. This challenged us to use our resilience and communication skills. Once our castles were built, we had great fun using balls, quoits and beanbags to try and knock them down!
Maths
This week in Maths, we’ve been practising counting in tens from 0 to 100.
For example:
0, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50…
0 tens, 1 ten, 2 tens, 3 tens, 4 tens, 5 tens…
We’ve also been learning how to represent multiples of ten using both words and numerals. One important discovery is that every multiple of ten always ends with a zero.
To help us, we’ve been using the stem sentence:
“___ is made of ___ tens. ___ is a multiple of ten.”
We’ve been practising showing numbers in lots of different ways on our whiteboards too.
Well done Year 2!
Help at home:
- Practise counting in tens together. Start from 0 and go up to 100 (0, 10, 20, 30…). Then try counting backwards from 100 to 0.
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Ask your child to represent multiples of ten in different ways (e.g. using coins or drawing groups of ten).
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Say a number (like 40) and ask your child to complete the stem sentence:
“40 is made of 4 tens. 40 is a multiple of ten.”
Living and Learning: rules
At the start of the new school year, in our Living and Learning lesson, the children have been reminded about rules and the importance of rules in our daily life. This also links to the British Value of rule of law.
Before focussing on our school rules, we started by thinking about…
Why do we have rules?
What rules can you think of?
What places have rules?
Who makes the rules?
Rules tells us what to do.
We need rules so we don’t hurt each other.
Rules help us to know what is right and what is wrong.
Rules keep us safe.
In our school we have three school rules and three, two, one, stop is one of the most important instructions the children will hear at school.
Following our school rules will make our school a happy, healthy and SAFE place to learn.
We also agreed our Living and Learning ground rules.
For rules around online safety at school, your child will be bringing home their Being online – acceptable use agreement for pupils and parents/carers which should be read through, signed and returned to class.
Any questions, please do ask.
Help at home – think about our three school rules and talk with your child about what that might look like or sound like in the classroom, the playground or at lunchtime. Here are some examples the children thought of. Being ready would mean looking at the speaker, being respectful would mean laughing with not laughing at someone and being safe would mean washing our hands before lunch to stop spreading germs.
First day in Year 2
We’ve had a brilliant first day in Year 2. We’re really impressed with how the children have settled into their new classroom and coped with the new routines.
Here are a few things to note:
- Mrs Palmer – class teacher – Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
- Mrs Taylor – class teacher – Thursday and Friday
- Mrs Rothery, Mrs Simpson, Ms Akhtar – Teaching assistants
- PE – Tuesdays and Thursdays (please dress your child in their PE clothes on these days)
- Library – Friday
Please ensure your child brings a water bottle to school every day and healthy snacks for playtime (if required).
During PE, the children are not permitted to wear earrings. Please can you ensure these have been removed prior to attending school on PE days.
Homework and spellings will go home every Friday and the children will be tested on their spellings every week.
The children will read 4 times per week in school and we encourage you to read with your child daily at home.
If you have any concerns or questions please either catch us at home time or make an appointment via the school office.
Design & technology: food
This week, Year 2 have been using their design and technology food preparation skills to make our latest recipe, fruit bars.
Some of the skills we used to make our product included:
- snipping
- mixing
- measuring
- mashing
- using the oven and hob safely
After the cooking, we carried out the evaluation of the product and we enjoyed the tasting our product together.
Help at home: Ask your child/children what food preparation skills they have used in this learning and can they demonstrate these using the recipe they have brought home.
Living and Learning: Being healthy themed week
It was a busy end to our being healthy themed week with lots of visitors to support this key aspect of Living and Learning.
Matt, from Leeds Well School Partnership, visited to deliver an assembly all about being healthy. There were key messages about being active, sleep and healthy eating. We also got to hear our two winning entries that have now been published in a book titled Move Well looking at children’s relationship with physical activity and sport. Well done to Florence and Soham.
Catering Leeds, who provide our school meals, came to deliver their Bushtucker trial workshop all about healthy eating. Here, the children were able to taste blind taste and blind feel different fruits and vegetables. There were lots of new foods to explore.
Foot tech, who support our PE curriculum, came to deliver some of the games which we’ve enjoyed this year in a fun and active way.
Our final visitor was Hazel from D:side, a health charity. We started by thinking about the three main things that we need to put in our body – food water and air. We also looked at different parts of our body and what their job is. Finally, we thought about our emotions and used this car wash activity to share compliments to our friends while they walked down the ‘car wash’.
Another way we’ve thought about our emotional health is mindfulness and ways we can calm our mind. The children enjoyed using their glitter bottles to watch the glitter settle just like our emotions. We hope the children enjoy using these at home.
In our circle time, the children shared the ways they are going to improve their health following our learning.
I’m going to play outside more.
I’m going to drink more water.
I’m going to have less screen time and TV time.
I’m going to go to bed earlier.
I’m going to eat less sweets and chocolate.
I’m going to be more active on my way to school.
I’m going to try new foods.
I’m going to make sure I keep my body clean.
Help at home: support your child to complete the online health questionnaire homework to share your child’s views on health at school.
Topic: Design and technology
This week, Year 2 have been busy building chairs for baby bear to sit on. We had a practice last week using paper however we realised this material was not strong enough. This week we used cardboard. This was a much stronger material. We followed out designs carefully. and made some very stable structures.
When we finished, it was time to evaluate our chairs and see if they were stable enough for baby bear to sit on.
Being Healthy: physical activity
What a fantastic start to being healthy week. We have has some great visitors in school delivering some physical activity sessions.
On Monday, to kick start the week, we had two physical activity sessions.
Daisy from BMMA delivered a fun and active martial arts session.
Later in the afternoon, it was wonderful to see the whole school participating in skipping on the playground led by Katie from skipping school. Thank you to all the parents that came to support their children.
Tuesday we took part in a relaxing, mindful yoga session.
Today, the children took part in a basketball session and a hip-hop session. The children represented our school brilliantly and thoroughly enjoyed learning some new skills.
Throughout the week, the children are taking part in a personal best challenge. Some children choose the stork balance and some choose speed bounce. On Friday, the children will bring their scores home and you may wish to donate £1 to our school charity for their efforts.
Living & Learning: body image
Our latest Living and Learning sessions have been focussed on body image and we started this learning by thinking about what is special about our own identity and how we can describe our own identity in terms of our physical appearance.
Our self portraits show just how unique we all are.
We also thought of other ways we might be different, on the inside as well as the outside. For example, we don’t all have the same personality and characteristics and we have different interests and hobbies.
We agreed that being different is a good thing and it should be celebrated as it would be boring if we were all the same!
In our circle time, we thought about good things about ourselves…
I am alive.
I can be on stage confidently.
I have a good imagination.
I care about the environment.
I care for others and help my friends.
I am funny.
…and what we like about our bodies.
I am flexible.
I like my long hair.
I am unique.
I can see and hear.
I like my eye colour.
My brain helps me think.
Help at home: discuss this learning with your child. Encourage them to think about their strengths and what they like about who they are.
Trip to Temple Newsam
Year 2 have had a wonderful day today visiting Temple Newsam Farm! We started off the day with a look around the farm and a visit to the playground.
Before lunch, we had a lovely walk around the park and saw some ducklings on the pond.
After lunch we headed back to the farm to see some teeny tiny piglets, some were just 2 days old! We learnt that despite their stereotype, pigs are one of the cleanest farmyard animals. This introduced our Design and Technology workshop about the Three Little Pigs. Pigs make nests to live in, so we decided to make some structures, much like the houses in the Three Little Pigs. We had to construct our own structure out of sticks (just like one of the three little pigs!). We tried really hard and we were really impressed with their structures.
We were very impressed with the children’s behaviour, engagement and attitude all day. They represented Moortown Primary impeccably.
WE HAD AN AWESOME DAY!!
