Year Two weekly newsletter

What an exciting week we have had celebrating World Book Day and performing our class worship!

• In English this week, we couldn’t believe our eyes when we discovered that a rocket had crashed into the school. We first found a picture of a rocket flying past Wybunbury Delves and began thinking carefully about why there was a rocket and who might be inside it. We then went outside to search for clues. That’s when we found a poster saying “Property of the Moon” by a tree, and just behind it we discovered a rocket, an astronaut outfit and lots of wires. We had so many questions! On Tuesday, we then found a book in our classroom called Bob and the Moon Tree Mystery. Each day we have been reading a small part of the story and completing some writing linked to it. In our writing, we have practised using apostrophes in contractions, different suffixes and question marks.

• In Maths this week, we finished our unit on multiplication and division by learning all about division. We learnt how to divide by grouping and by sharing. You also understood that division is the inverse of multiplication. We are still finding multiplication and division a little tricky, so we will continue to recap these skills during our starter activities.

• In Reading this week, we have been practising reading aloud. We had a big focus on using expression and remembering to pause at full stops. It was lovely to read with all of you.

• In RE, we started our new unit on Easter. We looked at the different symbols we often see around Easter time and thought carefully about how these symbols relate to the Easter story. For example, we noticed that crosses appear in many places, including on hot cross buns, and we discussed how this represents the cross that Jesus sacrificed himself on.

• In Computing, you continued learning about pictograms. We learnt how to create digital pictograms based on “Year 2’s favourite fruit” and “How Year 2 travel to school”. Once you had created your pictograms, you answered questions about the information they showed.

• In Art, you learnt about the artist Kandinsky. You discovered that he was Russian, that he was an abstract artist and that music often inspired his paintings. You then created a fact file about him in your art books.

• In PE this week, you learnt three different styles of jumping: a vertical jump, a long jump and a hop jump. You loved this lesson and enjoyed seeing how far you could jump using the techniques you had learnt.

We also had two WOW moments this week!

Our first WOW moment was celebrating World Book Day on Thursday. I was so impressed with all the effort you put into your costumes. You were so excited to come into school and show each other who you had dressed up as. We spent the first part of the morning drawing our costumes and writing about why we had chosen them.

We then began our World Book Day project work based on the story A Handful of Buttons. We learnt that the story is all about different families. It compares families to a handful of buttons. Just like buttons come in many colours, shapes and sizes, families can also look very different. Some families may have one parent, two parents, grandparents, adopted children or other unique situations. Even though families are different, the story shows that what truly makes a family is love, support and caring for each other. In the morning, you created some beautiful artwork. You each made your own house and used tissue paper to collage it, making it bright and colourful. You then added buttons and drew the people who belong in your house. Finally, you painted the front of your house using watercolours. These looked fantastic and showed how all of your families are different but filled with so much love. In the afternoon, you worked with Mrs Chesters to plan a diary entry about your favourite day with your family. Once you had planned it, you used your ideas to write your own diary entry. These were fantastic and really captured how you felt on your special day. You even spent some time sharing your book with Y5 and picking out a book from our book shop in the hall.

Our second WOW moment of the week was definitely our class worship on perseverance. I am so incredibly proud of how hard you have worked to prepare for this worship. You spoke in great detail about what perseverance means to you and carefully showed how you have taken on the role of perseverance leaders by teaching new skills to the Reception children.I particularly enjoyed how you retold the story of Rosa Parks and thought carefully about how she showed perseverance by never giving up on what she believed was right. We have learnt so much from our courageous advocacy work this term and now understand just how important our voices are. I am so proud of your acting skills, how clearly you spoke throughout the worship and your beautiful singing, which even brought a happy tear to my eye. Well done on such a successful class worship, superstars! A huge thank you to your families for coming to support you and for helping you learn your lines.

Have a wonderful weekend.

Miss Haynes