Meet Our Staff

2 Maple 

Teacher: Mrs S Marais 

Teaching Assistant: Miss A Sones

2 Rowan 

Teacher: Ms Y McAuley

Teaching Assistant: Mrs K Leary

Key Information

PE

2 Maple - Wednesday (Commando Joe)and Friday

2 Rowan - Wednesday (Commando Joe) and Thursday

Your child is to come in to school in their PE kit on these days.

Homework

Home work is sent home on a Wednesday and due in on a Monday
• Read every day (and discuss their reading)
• Practice spelling patterns and apply these to known and new spellings

Termly Update

Summer 1

Another half term has flown by, and now we’re heading into our final one in Year 2 and Key Stage 1 before the summer holidays—and a new chapter in the other building!

We’ve been so impressed with the children’s progress in English this half term. Our focus texts, How to Wash a Woolly Mammoth and The Lost Homework, have really captured their imaginations, and this has been reflected in the fantastic writing they’ve produced.

In Art, the children particularly enjoyed creating their own clay pots, showing great creativity and focus. In Geography, we’ve been exploring the fascinating continent of Asia, and PE sessions with Commando Joe’s have brought lots of energy and teamwork to our weeks.

After the break, the children will take part in some optional SATs papers during the whole school Assessment Week. These are simply to help us understand each child’s progress and attainment—they are nothing for children or parents to worry about.

For now, let’s celebrate all the hard work and achievements of Summer 1, and look forward to all the fun (and hopefully some sunshine!) that Summer 2 will bring!

As we come to the end of a busy Spring Term, there has been lots of great learning to celebrate across the Year 2 classes.

In English, we have looked at the fairy tale ‘Rapunzel’ and an information text about ‘The Big Blue Whale.  The whole school also focused on the book ‘Hermelin’, and this helped us to think about being a detective and finding items for people.

In History, we learnt about significant British monarchs and found out where Richard III’s skeleton was found.

In RE, we have completed learning around the key questions ‘Who is a Muslim and how do they live?’ and ‘What does Easter mean to Christians?’.

In Science, we found out more about Pollution, Mini-beasts and completed some investigations.

Our Design and Technology lessons were all about puppets and how to make them.

We also went to the Barbican in London and listened to the London Symphony Orchestra play music from ‘The Pirates are coming’.

This half term we have learnt about the Great Fire of London and why it spread so fast in such a short amount of time. We enjoyed watching clips about this.

In maths we have done doubling, addition and subtraction. We used resources to show how we work out our answers.

In DT we looked at axis and explored different types of vehicles. Science was exiting because we explored different materials and helped design a trainer. In RE we learnt about the good news that Jesus brings to Christians. d lots of books and particularly enjoyed reading different traditional tales.

We enjoyed out Christmas play and all the deco days during the last week.