Year 2

Welcome to Year 2

Easter & Pentecost Terms 2024

Dear Parents,

I hope that you have all had a wonderful Easter.

We are very excited about our learning for the next two terms. Please have a look over our class curriculum. If you have any questions, please come to the classroom at the end of the school day. Alternatively, if you have any concerns of a more delicate nature, please make an appointment with me so we can talk these through.

Mrs Breen and Mrs Gadd

A Few Things I would like to highlight:

PE this term will be on Wednesdays. Please can children have their full, clearly named, PE kit in school at all times, including socks for girls who normally wear tights as part of their school uniform. We would appreciate that earrings and watches are removed for PE.
Please can children bring in a named, full water bottle each day. This is particularly important on PE days as children will be taking their water bottles to the far playground so that they can drink as and when they need to.
Homework will be given out on Fridays and expected in the following Friday. Each week children will receive spellings and a times table focus, together with either written work or maths calculations.
Children are encouraged to read daily at home, reading aloud to an adult who can discuss the text with them. Please record in their reading record. Reading books will be changed weekly or more often on request.

Some Key dates:

Monday 6^th and 27^th May: Bank Holiday, school closed.

Monday 20^th May @ 2:55pm: RE Celebration in Year 2 classroom.

Friday 24^th May: Final day of Term 5 for children.

Tuesday 4^th June: First day of Term 6 for children.

Thursday 4^th July @ 9:00am: Year 2 class assembly in the hall.

Tuesday 9^th July: Year 2 trip to Brogdale Farm (details to follow).

Tuesday 23^rd July: Final day of Term 6 for children

Terms 3 and 4

28.03.24. Celebration of our decorated Easter Bonnets and Easter Eggs.

19.03.24. Year 2 Visit Canterbury Library for Story Time with Sam.

18.03.24. Sharing our art and music learning with our families.

13.03.24. Our energetic Dance Workshop.

12.03.24. Canon Anthony Visits Year 2 to talk about Mass.

07.03.24. Year 2 Class Assembly

07.03.24. Celebrating World Book Day.

RE Celebration 5.2.24. The Good News of Christ.

Jesus Feeds 5000 People.

Jesus Heals The Paralysed Man.

Jesus Heals The Ten Men With Leprosy.

Music

In music, in Term 3, we started looking at beat and rhythm by using our bodies as instruments.

Then we tried some chair drumming to follow the beat of a piece of music.

We moved on to using the djembe drums which he played using our hands.

Safer Internet Day 6.2.24.

This year Safer Internet Day was all about Inspiring Change: making a difference, managing influence and navigating change online.

In Year 2, we thought carefully about we each used the internet and created a pictogram to show what we like to do online. Playing games was the most popular use of the internet but we also really liked listening to music and watching music videos.

We then looked at various scenarios where a change had occurred whilst someone had been online. This included where an unusual message had popped up on the screen, where an additional game had appeared on an App which we had not seen before, where the screen starting to ring indicating a phone call was now waiting to be answered.

We expressed our feelings to each situation by drawing the emotion as an emoji: happy, sad, anxious, confused, worried, scared.

We discussed each situation.

We all agreed that we had to tell a trusted adult if anything new appeared online.