2020 - 2021 Year 2
Summer Fun!
During the last few weeks we have been taking part in lots of fun activities including our summer fair day, infant fun day and much more! Thank you very much for all of your hard work and support this year. Thank you also for the lovely cards and gifts. Have a great summer everyone!
Super Sports Day!
Year 2 had lots of fun during their Sports Day! They enjoyed taking part in the activities and cheered on their classmates!
Is there such a thing as a healthy dessert?
Year 2 have been investigating the answer to this question - and the answer is YES! As part of our science and DT learning we have designed, made and eaten a healthy dessert. We thought very carefully about how much sugar and fat it contained, what it tasted like and what it looked like. We had a lot of fun making them and even more fun tasting them! Thank you very much parents for providing everything!
Blast off!
After learning about Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, Year 2 have had lots of fun making junk models of the Saturn V rocket he travelled in. Unfortunately, we don't think they will get us to the moon, but we think you'll agree that they look amazing!
Look how much our beans and peas have grown!
Bulbs, beans and seeds!
Year 2 have been investigating bulbs and seeds in science. We have dissected them to see what is inside and planted our own beans - check back soon to see how they are growing!
Amazing Algorithms!
We have started learning about algorithms in Computing this half term. We worked on the ipads to input simple instructions using Purple Mash.
Happy Easter!
We have had another egg-citing week! We are now on the count down to Easter so we have been taking part in lots of fun Easter activities including an Easter bonnet parade. Everyone worked really hard at home to create amazing Easter bonnets - thank you to everyone at home who helped! Well-done for another fantastic week year 2. Have a wonderful Easter holiday!
British Science Week
It was British Science Week between 5th - 14th March so year 2 became inventors, thinking of new ideas. We looked at reduce, re-use and recycle, creating inventions that would make the world a better place. The children designed a water saving device for when they brush their teeth or use the shower (reduce). The children took part in an experiment to find out how much water is wasted if the tap was left on during the time it took for them to brush their teeth. They also looked at the affect of plastic on the world and made their own recycle bin (recycle), we did another little to test to show how plastic is harmful to living things using mustard seeds. For the third activity we had lots of fun upcycling objects (re use).
Another Fun Week!
Our second week back has been lots of fun, being inventors as part of British Science Week activities and designing Faberge Eggs leading up to Easter.
A Wonderful Week Back!
Well-done everyone for a brilliant first week back after 8 weeks of lock down. We are all so very proud of how you have settled back into the school routine really well. We have been taking part in a variety of activities this week including African animal art, making thank you cards and learning about British Science Week. We also managed to have our belated Christmas party!! Keep up the hard work Year 2!
Pretty Poppies!
Spring Term Update
All our online learning has moved to our TEAMs platform. The children have been engaging so well with our home-learning and sending lots of examples of their work.
Please see the Monthly Mention Newsletter for more examples of our home-learning journey in Year 2.
January Monthly Mention
Happy New Year
So... an interesting start to 2021. Thank you for all your support so far. We will truly miss not seeing you all in school. However, we are looking to starting this 'Home Learning' journey with you.
Our 'Home Learning Platform' is Microsoft TEAMs so we will now be contacting you through TEAMs. If you have any problems accessing your TEAMs account please contact us via the Year Group email Year2@springfieldprimary.net. In addition to your TEAMs Home Learning there is a star above which has a vast amount of information on that you can use to continue and support learning at home. Good luck!
We will see you for the register on TEAMs tomorrow Wednesday 6th January 2020.
A Christmas Story - The Dinosaur that pooped Christmas!
Merry Christmas everyone and thank you for your lovely gifts! Here are a few Christmas pictures from Wilson.
Merry Christmas!
We hope you all have a lovely Christmas break. Thank you very much for your kind gifts. See you in 2021.
Crazy Hair Day!
We were very impressed with the hair designs! Thank you everyone for all of your efforts including the children at home too!
Hedgehog Home Learning
Here's Lottie's hedgehog! Well-done Lottie!
I READ ME: MORE BLACK AUTHORS IN SCHOOLS
As part of Black History month, year 2 learnt about Rosa Parks who made a difference in history in the fight for equality. We also read the book Look Up by author Nathan Bryon and did a guided drawing to create one of the characters from his story.
Now, one of our Year 4 children has co-curated an exciting event with her favourite authors including Nathan Bryon and along with Hannah Lee and Peter Kalu. On Saturday 28th November at 2pm these authors will be online via Zoom ready to read their books and talk with Manchester school children. It is an organised event recommended for children aged 4 - 8 and their grown ups. If you would like to find out more click on the link below:
Many Thanks!
Thank you to those parents who have kindly already emailed their child's Xmas photograph to the Year 2 email address. We look forward to receiving the rest of the year groups by Friday 27th November.
You will find your child's line for their xmas song in their reading record. Please take a photograph of your child that represents the line they have been given - you can be as creative as you like! We are going to collate the photographs into a Christmas movie that we would like to share with all our year 2 parents. Please remember if you do not wish your child to included in the movie do not email a photograph of your child.
Kind Regards,
Year 2 Team.
What's Coming up?
After parent's evenings this week, lots of parents have asked for an overview of some of the things we will be learning about in Year 2 maths this term. Please find below a list of the topics we are going to cover. Whilst we teach objectives in the same order as the White Rose scheme of work, we continue to use our own weekly plans for maths and supplement these with White Rose and Classroom secrets materials. We have now moved onto money, making different amounts in pounds and pence and recognising coin and note values.
User Guides for TEAMS
Sphero Challenge!
We were very lucky to have MGL in school teaching us all about algorithms, programming and debugging. The children learnt how to drive a Sphero and navigate it by inputting a program in a variety of challenges.
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Christmas is on it's way!
We have had a great day in our Christmas jumpers! Thank you very much for bringing in the chocolate for our chocolate tombola!
Worry Dolls.
Living and Non-Living
We have been learning about living and non-living things this week in science and the seven life processes. We finished our lesson by investigating living things in our school garden.
Dahl have made up a song to the
Remembrance
Can forces change the shape of materials?
Investigating suitability of materials for a waterproof coat.
History of Sale
Thumbs up Year 2!
What a fantastic first three weeks we have had in year 2. We are so pleased with how all the children have settled back into school life. Everyone has been so eager to learn and have adapted extremely well to the changes made in school.
We have been busy already learning interesting facts in our new topic Our Town Sale and finding out all about materials in science.
We have also been challenging ourselves in maths and made a great start in our RWI groups.
We will be regularly adding photos of our learning and any relevant information here so please keep a look out.
Thank you everyone for your continued support!
Super Science!
Cricket
Welcome Presentation
We have uploaded our Year 2 welcome presentation to Microsoft Teams. Your child should have brought home their reading record, which contains their username and password to access the Year 2 Teams page. Many of you have already accessed this and have said hello so thank you. Please note, we have now deactivated the use of comments on the wall. The Teams wall will now only be used by the Year 2 Team to post work should our bubble go into lockdown. Please use the @springfieldprimary.net email address to login (Teams user guides are saved below)
Many thanks.
Year 2 Team