Living and learning: drug education
This half term, part of our Living and Learning focus includes drug education. We have arranged for visitors to come into school to help to deliver this key aspect of education.
We have been working with d:side for many years and they will be visiting school to deliver sessions to all classes based around drug education on Monday 11 July and Wednesday 13 July.
d:side is a comprehensive drug & alcohol education programme that encourages children to make positive & healthy life-choices whilst promoting a pro-active attitude to life. They focus on developing the children’s knowledge, skills & attitude, whilst equipping them with the appropriate life skills to successfully manage sensitive situations with peers & encourage a positive approach to life.
As part of this visit, Dave Hill, from d:side, will be available in the playground after school on Monday 11 July 3:05-3:30pm to answer any questions about this learning.
Scooter training
Year 2 have learnt lots about being safe on their scooters today.
Here are some of their top tips!
Wait if you are ahead of your adult and always know where your adults are. Don’t go too far away from them.
Push your scooter across the road while you hold your adult’s hand. Do not scoot across a road.
On a pavement, scoot along the edge that is not near the kerb.
When braking, use your push foot and keep your other foot on the scooter.
Don’t do a flip or jump if you are scooting fast.
Always wear a helmet to keep safe! Make sure it is secure on your head.
Living and learning: relationships
For the past few weeks, we have been learning about relationships that are important to us, in particular our friends and family.
We came up with lots of ways to be a good friend and what friends do to make us feel happy (a healthy relationship).
We thought about the importance of family and we recognised that all families are different. We respect these differences.
The ways people care for each other in these families remains the same.
Here are some of our special people and why they are important to us.
Daddy is fun because he is really fun to play with.
Mummy is special because she looks after me if I am sad.
Aaron is special to me because if I get hurt, he helps me.
Erica is special to me as she makes me feel happy.
My grandma is special to me because she tells me the finniest stories at bedtime.
My whole family are special because they look after me.
Finally, we reminded ourselves of the important NSPCC Underwear rule and enjoyed the Pantosaurus song too. Hope you can share this important learning again with your child at home.
Scooter training and sports day
Year 2 have an active start to the week this week.
Monday 4th July scooter training
If your child has a scooter and helmet, please bring these to school and leave them against the wall outside the classroom. If not, the trainers will provide this equipment.
Tuesday 5th July sports day
Sports day is at 1:30pm at Roundhegians Rugby Club (access for parents is from Chelwood Drive). Children should come in their PE kit ideally with a t-shirt of their team colour. If not, coloured bibs are available and can be used over your child’s white PE t-shirt. The children must have a water bottle in school and please bring a hat and apply sun screen depending on the weather on the day.
Year 2 will be also helping with the Key Stage 2 sports day in the morning.
Any questions, please come and ask.
Yorkshire Wildlife Park
What a truly amazing day we had Yesterday at Yorkshire Wildlife Park! The children all had a brilliant time, were extremely well behaved and learned so much about animals from the visit. The workshop we attended was brilliant! The Brave Year 2 children held cockroaches and African land snails. They also learned more about the types of animals in Yorkshire Wildlife Park and how they look after them.
Living and Learning: money workshop
Today, visitors, from HSBC, came to deliver a money workshop as part of our Living and Learning curriculum.
The workshop, to buy or not to buy, included learning about:
- the difference between a need and a want
- people making different choices about saving and spending money
- prioritising needs over wants
- saving for the things we want
Our visitors were very impressed with the knowledge and participation from the children. The visit supplemented our recent learning about money education so it was great to hear this.
Reading books
Over the next two weeks, we will be using the children’s home reading books and reading record books in class.
Please could your child bring these into school every day.
Books will continue to be changed on Tuesdays and Fridays as normal.
Design Technology – textiles
This half term, our topic learning will be all about textiles and design technology. Over the next few weeks, the children will learn all about the design process, different types of sewing stiches and make their own puppet.
At the end of the topic we will evaluate our product and discuss what went well and anything we could have done differently.
This half term’s topic vocabulary.
Amazing skipping
Today, the day had finally come. It was the event we had been building up to after all our skipping practicing – the Year 2 Skipping Festival!
Jodi, Chris and Katie welcomed us and the other five schools to the event at Armley Leisure Centre. First of all, there was a skipping warm up for everyone before the individual skippers did their events. The children were so encouraging and supportive to their class mates and every child tried their best and performed amazingly well.
Next, it was time for the group events. The children worked so well together in their teams and once again, we were so proud of what they have achieved. Even in the last few days, we have seen some of the children mastering these new skills.
Finally, it was time for the results. The tension was mounting…
Double bounce – Rory 1st and Erica 1st
Single bounce – Daniyal 2nd and Roshni joint 1st
Side straddle – Aaron 2nd and Haleema 1st
Side swing – Ibrahim Sh 2nd and Grace 3rd
We were so pleased to have received so many awards. Sadly, we weren’t the winning school but we were amazed to hear that we were in 2nd place out of six schools and that it was very close between us and the winners.
The children have been so resilient, determined and have definitely believed in themselves (even when it has been hard learning new skills) and we are very proud of them all.
To be told by one of the class at the end of the event, ‘thank you for teaching us to skip’, made it all worthwhile!
Here’s some of the action. Keeeeep skipping!
Year 2 Lexia learning
Nearly 50% of the class have either achieved the end of Year 2 certificate (Level 9) for Lexia or are currently working on this level. Well done to all those children!
As we start our final half term in Year 2, it would be great to see as many of the class as possible achieve this target by the end of this year.
Just ten minutes a day, at home, can help to achieve this.
Please let us know if you have any difficulties with your child’s log in.