Well done to Class 5! You have all worked so hard this year and should all be very proud 🙂 I am proud of all the children this year and they all deserve a fantastic summer break! Thank you to all the parents/carers for your ongoing support and many thanks for your kind words and thoughtful gifts.

I hope you have a great summer 🙂

Thank you,

Miss Longland

This week in Class 5 children have been doing lot of quizzes to see how much they have learnt in Year 2. It has been great to see their learning develop and flourish. I am SO proud of them all and their determination and resilience they showed.

All children did amazing in sports day today. I was impressed by the sportsmanship, teamwork, confidence, and determination to all the races. It was great to see smiles on their faces as they all enjoy the morning of sports day.

Reminders:

• Next Tuesday Class 4 and 5 are going to be walking to Homedene Farm Shop to look at the variety of plants they have as part of our science topic. Please let the office know if you wish your child NOT to take part.
• Books to be in every day for reading.
• Make sure you child brings a sun hat and water bottle to school as the weather is getting warmer.

I hope you all have a lovely weekend 😊

Miss Longland

Happy half term everyone!

What an exciting final week of half term we have had 😊

In maths we have been comparing mass and measuring objects in grams.

We have really enjoyed our literacy lessons this week learning about tongue twisters. We wrote our own tongue twisters based upon our topic ‘Pirates’, so we used lots of words with the ‘p’ sound. The children thoroughly enjoyed sharing their poems and challenging their peers to read them.

We had a fantastic day on Wednesday with our special visitor, Captain Jim Bones! The children really enjoyed themselves and could ask great questions based upon the knowledge they have gained from our history topic this half term. The morning consisted of listening to pirate facts, playing with jig dolls, and learning a pirate dance routine and song.

In History, we finished our topic of Pirates by answering our enquiry question ‘Should we call Grace O’Malley a pirate?’. We had great discussions surrounding this question, we designed front covers and blurbs of a book about Grace O’Malley, before answering the question itself. It was great to see the children’s individual opinions based upon what we have learnt.

Reminders:

• Books and reading records to be in school every day.
• PE is on Monday and Friday.
• Academy Photography is in school on Monday 3^rd June for class photographs, please ensure your child is in the correct uniform.

Have a lovely half term break!

Miss Longland 🙂

What a great week we had last week in Class 5.

In maths, we have moved onto measurement. The children have been learning to measure in centimetres (cm) and metres (m) and at the end of the week we were starting to compare measurements e.g. is 7cm longer or shorter than 2m, etc.

We have really enjoyed our literacy lessons this week learning about tongue twisters. We looked at a range of different tongue twisters, what made them tricky to say (they repeat the same initial sound/have the same sound repeating) and worked in groups to recite tongue twisters. We then began to write a whole class tongue twister before moving onto writing our own, individual poems next week. Lots of laughs were had with this 😊 This week we are creating our own tongue twisters and we can’t wait to share them with you!

In Science last week, we have been learning about the different parts of a plant that we can eat. Can we eat the root, stem, fruit, flower, leaves or seeds? We investigated different plants coming from different places e.g. carrots and parsnips are root plants, celery is the stem, sunflower seeds, lettuce are leaves, apples are the fruit and cauliflower is the flower. The children loved trying the different plants we had to offer (sugar snap peas, apple, carrots, celery and lettuce).

Reminders:

• Books and reading records to be in school every day.
• No PE Wednesday as we have our special visitor and children are welcome to come to school in pirate costumes.
• Please consent and pay for our special visitor on Arbor so this special event can go ahead, thank you to those who already have!

We love how enthusiastic our children are about reading and want to encourage this as much as possible. Attached are some recommended reads for your children 😊

Year-2-Recommended-Reads-Checklist-2024

Miss Longland 🙂