Year 2 Class News

Vocabulary

Posted on Friday 04 November 2022 by Mrs Lake

This week, during our themed community week, we have read lots books about respecting and celebrating everyone and different communities. In these books, we read some words which we wanted to explore and find out more about. We have used the iPads to find definitions of words on the online dictionary. We also used the online thesaurus to find synonyms and antonyms for each word. Ask your child what a synonym is and what an antonym is.


Living and Learning: Me and My Community week

Posted on Thursday 03 November 2022 by Mrs Taylor

We’ve enjoyed lots of learning about identity, diversity and community so far in our themed week.

What is a community?

  • A group of people that live in a particular area
  • A group of people who are similar in some way or have similar interests

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.

Gymnastics

Posted on Thursday 03 November 2022 by Mrs Lake

This half term, Year 2 have two great gymnastics coaches teaching their PE lessons on a Thursday.

Today, we have practiced rolling, balancing, stretching and jumping.

The PTA needs you..

Posted on Monday 24 October 2022 by Mrs Weekes

Do you want to make a difference to our school community?

Are you able to give some, time, skills or ideas? 

Existing members of the Moortown Primary School Parent Teacher Association (PTA) are urgently looking for new parents to join. The PTA is a registered charity and they are looking for parents to take on the roles of three trustees; as well as these roles, they need enough people to help out so that organising and running the fundraising events is shared between more people.

They would like to invite you to join the PTA before the AGM on Tuesday 15 November. If you are interested in joining the PTA, please contact the school office and they will put you in touch with the right people.

Living and Learning: Democracy – our new Junior Leaders!

Posted on Friday 21 October 2022 by Mrs Taylor

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.

 

Themed menu 04 November 2022

Posted on Thursday 20 October 2022 by Mr Roundtree

Catering Agency, our school meal provider, will be running a special themed menu on Friday 04 November. Bonfire night menu. Please contact the office if your child would like a school dinner on this day (no action required if your child normally has a school meal on this day).

Check out the bonfire night menu here.

Well done, Year 2!

Posted on Wednesday 19 October 2022 by Mrs Taylor

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!

Class assembly

Posted on Tuesday 18 October 2022 by Mrs Taylor

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.

 

 

Living and Learning: self-respect

Posted on Wednesday 12 October 2022 by Mrs Taylor

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.

 

Squashed sentences

Posted on Friday 07 October 2022 by Mrs Taylor

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.