Year 2 have been learning about the work of the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development and raised money by wearing their brightest clothes. Meanwhile Elephant class have been developing their ukulele skills. Another fantastic, fun week of learning.

It was lovely to celebrate with family, friends and Fr. James on Tuesday. Well done Y2!

Watch out, there are some monstrous highway rats on the loose!

Some are grizzly and evil, others have sharp, scary claws and horrible, wicked swords. They all have disgusting manners and you will smell them coming because of their slimy, green teeth!

As you can tell Y2 have mastered using expanded noun phrases in their writing.

It has been so lovely to welcome the children into Y2 looking so smart and grown up. It has been a fantastic week despite the rain. The children have really enjoyed reading and acting out ‘The HighWay Rat’ by Julia Donaldson. They have been doing lots of counting to and from 100 and had great fun in PE.

In DT, the children enjoyed making a healthy salad. They tried new vegetables, leaves and dressings. And used taught skills -slicing, grating and peeling- to make it!

A number of Year 2 children, their families and both our teachers share an African heritage including from Nigeria, Kenya and Zimbabwe. With another of our families preparing to relocate to Kenya the children have been very excited to watch some episodes of Tinga Tinga Tales and to learn the meaning of some Swahili phrases used in the story. Swahili is a Bantu language spoken in several African countries. Here are some wonderful examples of the children’s retelling of ‘Why Elephant has a Trunk’.

In maths the children have enjoyed weighing objects. They have used non-standard measurements to find out how much different objects weigh as well as ordering objects from lightest to heaviest.

The children also explored the laptops and created a poster to help find a missing teddy. They had to type sentence to describe it and then type a phone number too.

What an eventful week we we have all had in year 2 with our amazing celebration of the word on Tuesday, school trip on Wednesday and plenty of sunshine.

Everyone looked amazing dressed up as their favourite book character.

And also enjoyed creating their own Mr Men or Little Miss characters.

It seems as if this half term has flown by- and what a half term it has been. The children have created free standing structures out of marsh mallows and spaghetti, used what they learnt to create plant protectors for our spring bulbs and shown us some amazing balances in gymnastics.
We are so impressed by how well they are doing in all areas of the curriculum and thought you might like to read some examples of their amazing descriptive writing.

James
As the gloomy, green toads fly over the pond, the fish gulp in the deep, dark water. The shimmering toads calmly go to sleep as they shiver through the night. The fish, eating food, smell the toads’ feet. When the moon goes through the night it feels calm and sleepy.

Luca
Fish gape in wonder as giant, spotty toads start appearing from the foggy shadows. The bright shimmering moon shines on the extremely cold river. Long, tall grass blows as a turtle sits on a log. Droplets drip from damp, shady lily pads.