Junior leaders
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.
Community week
What a fantastic week we have had learning about different communities, respecting ourselves and others and knowing everyone is different, special and unique.
Vocabulary
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
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
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..
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!
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
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).
Well done, Year 2!
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
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.