Writing: nouns and adjectives
Year 1 have learnt about nouns and adjectives over the last couple of weeks.
A noun is a person, place, thing or idea.
An adjectives adds information to the noun.
We found nouns in the classroom, in our class novel and also spotted that some nouns have capital letters! These are called proper nouns like Moortown Primary School.
Adjectives can tell you more
About a noun and that’s for sure
Ad-jec-tives
We spent our lesson today deciding which adjectives were best to describe
Boxton the rat from our class novel. Tomorrow, we’ll use these to write
sentences about Boxton.
Living and Learning – JLT election
Well done to all the children in Y3 who made a speech for the JLT. We were a respectful audience who listened carefully to all the well thought through points.
Next, it was off to the makeshift polling station in the shared area.
Help at home by discussing why this links to our Ancient Greece topic in history!
Poetry Basket: Falling leaves
This week’s poem is called Falling Leaves and has an autmunal theme that links well with our learning about seasonal changes.
This week’s poem – There was an Old Man with a Beard
This week our poem was There was an Old Man with a Beard by Edwards Lear. This poem is from The Book of Nonsense.
Year 2 will be reading this poem to the school in assembly next week as part of National Poetry Day. This poem has been sent home today on your child’s homework so help at home by practising this poem with your child. Make sure to encourage expression and voice projection.
Poetry Basket: Chop chop
Welcome to our first Poetry Basket performance! Each week our Reception pupils learn and perform a new poem. We practise throughout the week before sharing our performance video every Friday. This week, we’re kicking things off with Chop Chop! Enjoy!
Science – air resistance
This half term in Science we are investigating forces. We know that the strand of science we’re learning is Physics.
We have already learnt about friction and how it can affect the speed of an object. This week, we looked at air resistance. First, we compared how a flat piece of paper and a scrunched up piece of paper fell through the air.
Then, we investigated the effects of air resistance on ourselves. We timed ourselves running across the playground. Afterwards, we ran holding a binbag behind our heads. We found that air resistance slowed us down and we could not run as fast.
Help at home by discussing other forces that children can experience.
This week’s poem – Goldilocks
This week our poem was called Goldilocks by Julia Donaldson and Nick Sharratt. It’s a poem inspired by the famous fairy tale. This week, there was no new vocabulary so we focused on our prosody – the expression we use when reading aloud.
Farewell Year 2
What a great year we’ve had. It has been a pleasure to teach all the children and see how much they have progressed and matured over the year. We shall miss them!
We would like to say a big thank you for all our kind and generous gifts and cards that we’ve received this week and thank you for all of the support you’ve given this year.
We hope you all have a happy, healthy and safe summer holiday.
Mrs Taylor, Mrs Palmer, Mrs Simpson and Mrs Rothery
Sports day 2026
We had a great sports day this week with Year 2 helping in the morning and competing in the afternoon. Everyone tried so hard and encouraged each other. We are very proud of all the children’s efforts.
I fell over when I did my race but I got back up.
Red team didn’t win. It’s fine. Maybe we will win next year.
I enjoyed it because we did fun races with our friends.
In the relay race, everyone was determined because they wanted to win.
What I liked about sports day was that I had fun for the whole day!
Living and Learning: body image
As part of our Living and Learning curriculum, we use a focus on self-esteem to promote a positive body image with a strong emphasis on appreciating and celebrating everyone’s unique qualities, talents and abilities.
We want the children to feel proud and confident about who they are and to value their own and each other’s individuality.
Firstly, we talked about what makes us special. This could be something physical or personal.
I’m special as I going to be a good big brother.
I’m special because I am good at maths.
I’m special because I can swim.
I’m special because I’m good at helping others.
Next, we discussed why we have names and what if everyone was nameless?
We have names because we are unique and special.
We need names as we wouldn’t know who people are.
Then, we considered why we like different activities.
We like different activities because we are different people.
Not everyone likes the same thing because we are all different.
It would be boring if everyone liked the same things.
Finally, we thought about why we look different and what things we can change and what things we can’t change about ourselves.
It’s always great to hear the children discussing and sharing ideas in our Living and Learning sessions and circle times.
Help at home: We read the text, Your Body is Awesome. Ask your child what is brilliant about their body?