Welcome to Eagle & Owl
Year 2
Happy Mother’s Day
We are looking forward to seeing as many families as possible at our Mother’s Day service later at church.
The children have written some heartfelt prayers and have worked hard to create cards and pictures for you all.
Thank you mums, grans, nans and aunties for all your hard work in supporting your gorgeous children.
Here’s just a glimpse of some of the work they’ve been creating.
Book Week 2024
Book Week 2024
This year each year group chose a non-fiction book from the Little People Big Dreams series. Year Two chose to learn about Sir David Attenborough as we’ve been learning about animals and habitats this term, we knew that some of our pupils were huge Attenborough fans!
We have read about him, watched films and then invented a new animal for him to discover.
We wrote descriptions of our new animals and then the children used these descriptions to design a picture of what they looked like. We wrote letters to Sir David Attenborough and will post these next week – we are keeping our fingers crossed that we get a reply from the man himself!
Find our animals here:
RWI Spelling in Year Two
RWI Spelling
This term has seen the start of all children in Year Two having daily RWI spelling sessions.
They have been working really hard and helping each other with their work, one of the new skills they’ve been learning is dictation. The children work in pairs to dictate a sentence to their partner and then help them check if it’s correct. The patience and support they’ve demonstrated has been lovely to watch.
Each week the children are sent spellings home which will be tested on a Friday in the RWI spelling sessions. We will work slowly through the programme to ensure that all children are getting what they need from it.
You can log into the Oxford Owl website to find further books to read online. If your child really likes playing on a tablet then you can find lots of books on the site to read on the tablet, there are also so audio recordings of some of the stories we have at school!
https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/
We will soon be pointing you in the direction of further online activities that you can do with your children to help them with their learning in school, keep an eye on DOJO for further updates
Term 4
Term4
This term we are studying habitats around the world. The book we are looking at is Meerkat Mail, where Sunny the little meerkat finds his home too hot, too dry, and his family too big so he goes off to explore alternatives habitats to live.
We have linked our English to our Geography where we have been learning about the North and South Pole, and explored what would happen if Sunny moved somewhere cold! Science is learning about habitats too, which fits perfectly with our other topics this term.
Maths is all things money, so when you are out at the weekend please try and show your child some coins, and maybe even let them pay for something small too! Here are our Key Learning Facts for this term: T3 KIRFs y2
Success!
This week we made our Ferris Wheels.
Through determination, problem solving and lots of team work Year Two have shown that when they put their mind to something they can succeed. We were so impressed with their perseverance and patience today.
Fantastic results
Visit from a Doctor
DT – Make a Ferris Wheel
Computing Term 3
Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole
This term we have been learning about Mary Seacole and Florence Nightingale in our History lessons.
The children have learnt some key facts about how these amazing nurses helped injured soldiers in the Crimean war, and how their work changed nursing forever!
They have looked at old pictures and some photos to identify how poor the conditions were for the soldiers. They’ve dressed up and practiced being nurses themselves and we are looking forward to meeting a doctor next week to learn more about how to help protect current patients from further illness and infection.
Here are just a few samples of our work, our collaborative work and us pretending to be nurses!
The Lonely Beast
This term our English work is all linked to our lovely text ‘The Lonely Beast’
We’ve begun by exploring our feelings towards this enormous black creature of whom we know nothing about!
The children have been looking at the illustrations and using role-play to develop understanding about our main character.
We’ve mapped out the story and look forward to creating some interesting descriptions of the Beast next week