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In the eyes of God, every child matters, every moment of every day

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  • Friday 14th February 2025

    Published 14/02/25, by Christina Farmer

    Spellings:
    Please continue to consolidate the spellings we have been learning throughout the half term.
    words starting with 'wh' making the 'w' sound - whistle, whale, whine.
    words starting with 'wr' making the 'r' sound - wrist, wrong, wrinkle.
    words with split digraph endings - cake, theme, bike, phone, tune.
    adding suffixes to split digraph words (bake - baking) - drop the 'e' add the suffix.

    words ending in -le: table, stable, apple
    words ending in -el: level, label, 
    words ending in -il: until, evil, devil
    words ending in -al: mental, royal, arrival
    adding suffixes to words ending in -y: 
    happy - happier - happiest
    cry - cries - cried
    adding endings to single syllable words ending in a vowel/consonant:
    pat - patted, fun - funny, spot - spotting.

    Y2 Common Exception words: revise all Y2 common exception words.

    Reading:
    Please read daily with your adult and log it on Boom Reader.
    You can read your 'The Dreams of Moxie Mouse and Cat Capone' book, your banded book or a book from home. We will be changing your books on the first Monday back after half term, and your child will receive their new shared reading book 'An Invitation to a Party'.

    Maths:
    Please practice Numbots 40 minutes weekly.
    You can also practise your 2, 5 and 10x tables on Topmarks - Hit the Button Game 
    https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

    The children have been incredibly creative this week, in Art we have finished our final pieces of 'Frottage Collage' in which they drew and painted a water droplet, linked with our Global Learning Goal 'Clean Water and Sanitation'. They then added a range of 'frottage' through the form of rubbings around the classroom and school environment to add tone, tint and texture to their finished droplet.

    In DT the children finished their final pieces of their mechanisms, they chose a character from our Class Reader 'The Lonely Beast' and decided whether they wanted to make their character into a Lever, using a pivot, or a slider, using a slot. The children's finished products looked fantastic and they were so proud to share their creations with you all today.

    We loved having you all in this afternoon for Koinonia, the children were so excited to share their learning from this half term with you.

    Thank you for all of your hard work and support, we look forward to welcoming the children back on the 24th February after a well earned rest.

    Take care,

    The Year 2 Team.

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  • Friday 7th February 2025

    Published 07/02/25, by Christina Farmer

    Spellings:
    Next week is a review and consolidation week of all the spelling rules we have looked at this half term.
    words ending in -le: 
    table, stable, apple
    words ending in -el: 
    level, label, 
    words ending in -il: 
    until, evil, devil
    words ending in -al:
    mental, royal, arrival
    adding suffixes to words ending in -y:
    happy - happier - happiest
    cry - cries - cried
    adding endings to single syllable words ending in a vowel/consonant:
    pat - patted, fun - funny, spot - spotting.
    Y2 Common Exception words: could, would, should
    Contraction: couldn't, shouldn't, wouldn't
    Reading:
    Please read daily with your adult and log it on Boom Reader.
    You can read your 'The Dreams of Moxie Mouse and Cat Capone' book, your banded book or a book from home. 
    Maths:
    Please practice Numbots 30 minutes weekly.
    You can also practise your 2, 5 and 10x tables on Topmarks - Hit the Button Game 
    https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

    Heidi and lots of other children really enjoyed Wednesday when we did RE for the whole day - we did crafts, - Bode enjoyed making a poster all about the importance of water in our lives and to Christians. Harriet loved that we had two assemblies and learned a song about respect! Asia loved the crafting too.

    Kobe has loved our Maths learning this week where we have been learning about the 5 and 10 times tables, and learning how to divide by these numbers - as well as solving lots of problems involving the times tables.

    Caelan has really enjoyed our English learning, where we used our own adjectives to write expanded noun phrases about a setting. He really enjoyed sharing his writing and up-levelling it to make it more interesting.

    Lennon really enjoyed making our watercycle craft out of paper plates, fluff and lots of different coloured paper.

    Myra enjoyed sharing what she knows in our spelling test! 

    George loved our PE this week, where we practised our passing and moving. We started to think about Netball as a game and will be practising shooting next week!

    Hugo and lots of children have enjoyed the opportunity to play hockey at lunchtimes - they showed they could play in teams and had lots of fun!

    Have a wonderful weekend.

    Miss Freeman and the Year 2 Team

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  • Friday 31st January 2025

    Published 31/01/25, by Christina Farmer

    Spellings:
    New Y2 spellings: Adding endings to single-syllable words ending in a single consonant (e.g. pat/patted)
    Please practise the following words:
    patted
    skipped
    hopped
    ripped
    tripped
    trapped

    Y2 Common Exception words: could, would, should
    Contraction: couldn't, shouldn't, wouldn't
    Reading:
    Please read daily with your adult and log it on Boom Reader.
    You can read your 'The Dreams of Moxie Mouse and Cat Capone' book, your banded book or a book from home. 
    Maths:
    Please practice Numbots 30 minutes weekly.
    You can also practise your 2, 5 and 10x tables on Topmarks - Hit the Button Game 
    https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

    This week has been a very busy week in Year 2!
    The children LOVED our Computing lesson where we learnt how to send and receive emails, as well as drawing pictures and adding attachments to our emails - we emailed Baby Bear, Anna and Doug about a range of different topics including Healthy Lunches, Celebrations and our favourite sports.

    Some of the children enjoyed learning about how we get our clean water delivered to our houses. The water goes to a Water Treatment Centre where it goes through different stages to be filtered and cleaned properly.

    The children also loved our English lessons this week where we have focussed on writing setting descriptions using expanded noun phrases and extending our sentences using conjunctions!

    Have a wonderful weekend.

    Miss Freeman and the Year 2 Team

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  • Friday 24.1.25

    Published 24/01/25, by Christina Farmer

    Spellings -

    Rule -Words ending in: –y (cry)

    CEW - any, many, busy, does

    Special Skill - Contraction: doesn’t

    Reading - 

    Read your books and record them on Boom Reader 

    Maths - 

    Do Numbots 

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  • Friday 17th January 2025

    Published 17/01/25, by Christina Farmer

    Spellings:
    New Y2 spellings: Words ending in: -al/-il
    Please practise the following words:
    total, arrival, local, royal, hospital
    pupil, devil, evil, April, lentil
    Y2 Common Exception words: father, past*, fast*, last*
    Contraction: wasn't/isn't
    Reading:
    Please read daily with your adult and log it on Boom Reader.
    You can read your 'Why do stars twinkle?' book, your banded book or a book from home. 
    Maths:
    Please practice Numbots 30 minutes weekly.
    You can also practise your 2, 5 and 10x tables on Topmarks - Hit the Button Game 
    https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

    We've had another busy week this week in year two and enjoyed lots of our learning.

    The children have enjoyed learning lots of new skills in PE this week, in netball we have been practising three different passes - the chest pass, the shoulder pass and the bounce pass. The children have been developing their accuracy and we will be putting these into practise next week when we look at passing and moving to get the ball around the court.

    We have had fun introducing the concept of division in our Maths learning. The children have learnt about arrays and making equal groups to divide numbers accurately.

    In RE we have learnt about the story of the Crying Camel and been introduced to Bismallah in our topic of Islam, and have found out that Allah teaches Muslims to show compassion to everyone we meet, no matter who they are and how big or small they may be.

    Have a lovely weekend.

    The Year 2 Team

     

     

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  • Friday 10th January 2025

    Published 10/01/25, by Christina Farmer

    Spellings:
    New Y2 spellings: Words ending in: -le/-el
    Please practise the following words:
    bubble, giggle, little, bottle,  
    travel, model, tunnel, squirrel, level
    Y2 Common Exception words: parents
    Reading:
    Please read daily with your adult and log it on Boom Reader.
    You can read your 'Why do stars twinkle?' book, your banded book or a book from home. 
    Maths:
    Brimstone Class have won the Mammoth Mathematician award again this week, for the 10th time, but with only 38% active players! We are aiming to beat this and get at least 80% next week and continue on our streak of certificates!
    Holly Blue Class, can you catch us?
    Please practice Numbots 30 minutes weekly.
    You can also practise your 2, 5 and 10x tables on Topmarks - Hit the Button Game 
    https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

    Happy New Year! We have had a fabulous return from the Christmas break - the children have come in smiling and ready for their learning and we are very glad to have them back.

    This week we in Maths we have revisited addition and subtraction, and the children have learned a new method when solving calculations - the column method. This has been a challenge and the children have shown resilience and perseverance when using the method, especially when needing to exchange a ten or knock next door and regroup! Any practise at home would be fantastic, remember to add/subtract the ones first, carry the ten when adding or borrow a ten subtracting and to show this on your workings!

    In English we have started our new CLPE book, The Lonely Beast - the children have enjoyed story mapping the story and considering the Lonely Beasts emotions as he embarks on his long journey!

    We have starter our new Global Learning Goal - Clean Water and Sanitation. We talked about the importance of clean water and working toilets, how some people aren't lucky enough to have these and the impact this has on their health and hygiene. We will continue to look at this over the half term and it's going to get smelly!

    Have a wonderful weekend.

    Best wishes, 
    Miss Freeman and the Year 2 Team

     

     

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  • Friday 13th December

    Published 13/12/24, by Christina Farmer

    Spellings - this week is a Review and Consolidation Week. We will be going over all the rules we have learnt this half term. Please look back at previous blogs if you would some words to practice. Or practice the Common Expeception Words for Year 2 (wild, child, gold, climb, find, water, beautiful, because, people, again. These are just some examples). 

    Maths - numbats 

    Reading - please read daily and record on boom reader

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  • Friday 29th November 2024

    Published 29/11/24, by Christina Farmer

    Spellings:
    Revisit Y1 graphemes - compare: /or/ /ore/ /au/ /aw/
    i.e. sword, port, north, more, shore, sore, august, haul, shawl, saw, prawn.
    New Y2 spellings: adding the suffix -ful.
    i.e. colourful, beautiful, mouthful, wonderful
    Y2 Common Exception words: door, poor, floor, water, beautiful
    Reading:
    Please read daily with your adult and log it on Boom Reader.
    Maths:
    Numbots 30 minutes weekly. Practise 2, 5 and 10x tables on Topmarks - Hit the Button Game 
    https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button 

    A big thank you for all of the children this week for working so so hard. 
    Not only have the children worked hard in class, but they have worked their absolute socks off at the school performances this week. They have worked so hard to learn the songs, the dances and have the confidence to step on the stage in front of so many children and adults - we are so so proud of them.

    On Friday the children across school celebrated the Festival of Lights, and learned about how this is celebrated in different religions. Year 2 learnt about the festival of 'Diwali', meaning 'rows of light. We learnt about the story of Rama and Sita, and how the heroic prince saved his princess by defeating the Evil King Ravana in a huge battle with monkeys and other animals! We learnt that good always triumphs over evil and light always triumps over darkness. The children spent the afternoon creating their own Mendhi designs and colouring their own Rangoli patterns.

    Have a lovely restful weekend.

    Miss Freeman and the Year 2 Team

     

     

     

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  • Friday 22nd November 2024

    Published 22/11/24, by Christina Farmer

    Spellings: This week we have been revisiting the Year 1 and Year 2 Common Exception Words. Please continue to practise these over the weekend.

    Reading: Please continue to read daily and log this on Boom Reader.

    Maths: Please practise Numbots for 30 minutes weekly.

    What a busy week we have had in Year 2!
    A firm favourite from this week was our trip to St Neots, where we visited St Mary's Church to create some still life drawings of the features within the Church, including the stain glass windows, the hand carved features such as pews and the engraved stone in the ceiling of the Church, and we had a chat with Reverend Margaret who told us all about the History of the Church. As well as this, we had a fantastic opportunity to visit St Neots Museum. The children were split into two groups, each spending time looking at the part of the Museum which used to be the old Police Station, housing arrested criminals before they were sent onto court to be sentenced, whilst the other group went upstairs in the museum to learn about a variety of Victorian criminals from in and around St Neots. We were most surprised to discover that the criminals from this time ranged from 13-19 years old - just children! They were caught stealing small amounts of money, food and toys, and were sentenced to hard labour, reformatory school and even put under police watch! Most of these children were poor and hungry, which made us feel sad and incredibly lucky to have what we have in our lives - we decided that we wouldn't want to be criminals!

     

    Have a wonderful weekend - we hope to see you at the Christmas Light Switch on this Sunday, and if you are in the school choir, please meet us at the Church at 1:20pm ready to sing our Carols at 1:30pm.

    Best wishes,

    Miss Freeman and the Year 2 Team

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  • 15.11.24

    Published 15/11/24, by Christina Farmer

    Spellings 

    Revisiting Year 1 - Compare: /ou/ /ow/ (shout/ crown)

    New for Year 2 - Apostrophes for possession

    CEW - hour

    Special Skill - Homophones: hear/here

    Maths  use numbots 3 times a week 

    Reading Read daily and record on boom reader 

     

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  • Friday 8th November 2024

    Published 08/11/24, by Christina Farmer
    Spellings: Review from Year 1 - ph/wh New Skills for Year 2 - Words beginning 'wr' Common Exception Words: who, whole, Mr, Mrs Special Skill: homophone right/write Please read daily with your child and log this on BoomReader, re-r
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  • Friday 18th October 2024

    Published 18/10/24, by Christina Farmer

    Spellings:
    Practise some of the following common exception words: great, break, steak, because, again, even, people, find, kind, mind, wild, child(ren), climb, old, cold, gold, hold, fold, told, most, only, clothes, both, hello.

    This week has been a super week in Year 2!

    Hugo has really enjoyed our shared reader this week, where we have been practising reading to develop our fluency, and even performed our favourite animal poems to our friends!

    Jesse has enjoyed getting outside to collect our natural materials ready to fill our newly made Bug Houses next week. We can't wait to share these with you on Friday at koinonia!

    Bode has enjoyed our first rehearsal of the play where we teamed up with Year 4 to sing some of the songs and to share our fabulous dances!

    Jacob has enjoyed learning all about the different 2D and 3D shapes. We have learned how to count the number of sides, the number of vertices and we have even learned about lines of symmetry. Reuben knows that a line of symmetry shows us that both sides of the shape are exactly the same, and can be vertical, horizontal or even diagonal.

    George enjoyed PE this week where we have practised dribbling a range of balls with our feet showing control and coordination.

    Just one more week to go until we can sit back and relax... the children have worked so hard and deserve a well-deserved rest!

    Have a lovely weekend!

    Miss Freeman and the Year 2 Team

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