Year 2
Mrs ChapmanWelcome to Year 2
Music Makers.
In our computing lessons Year 2 have been making music digitally. The children were given the challenge to explore and combine a range of sounds to create a piece of music. They added different instrument sounds and altered the speed and volume until they were happy...
Jewish Law
Year 2 have been learning about the Torah and its importance to Jewish people. We learned that although Moses was given Ten Commandments, there are actually 613 laws in the Torah. Today, we learned about Jewish dietary laws. We learned that Jewish people eat food that...
Bugs ‘n’ Stuff Workshop
We loved having Guy from Bugs n' Stuff come to visit us in school during our Science Week. Every class had the opportunity to look, touch and hold a wide variety of creatures - a giant millipede, cockroaches, a gecko and a python to name just a few! We saw how a...
Science Week – The Story of Earth Assembly
As part of our Science week activities, Reece from the Street Scientists team , who is a student at Newcastle University, came into school and shared an assembly with our children in Years 1 - 6 about the story of Earth. He showed the children, using ropes, the...
Masters at Measuring
This week Year 2 have been using a ruler to measure in cm. We learnt that it was really important to start from zero when measuring and lining the ruler up correctly. We measured a range of objects in the classroom and recorded the length to the nearest cm. Our next...
Football Festival
Girls from year 1 and 2 enjoyed participating in a football festival at Gateshead Stadium this morning. We rotated around the stations enjoying football based games and skills. It was lots of fun and the children were all very well behaved.
Making Music
In Music Year 2 have been reading, hearing and clapping rhythms based on Myths and Legend stories. This week we listened to the tale of King Arthur and took key words from the story to compose our own short rhythm. We drew the beats in hearts to help us play each...
Football Fun
This half term Year 2 are working on their football skills with a coach from Gateshead Football Club. This week the children worked hard to dribble the ball using the inside of a their foot making light and controlled touches. They then tried to develop accuracy...
World Book Day
Year 2 have really enjoyed celebrating World Book Day today. We came to school dressed in our pyjamas and brought our favourite books to share with our friends. We thought about some of our favourite book characters and gave clues to see if others could guess who we...
Reverso Poems in Year 2
This half term we have enjoyed reading and performing reverso poems from Marilyn Singers’s book, Mirror, Mirror. The poems are based on fairy tales and can be read from top to bottom to create one voice, or from bottom to top to create another. We are currently...
Amazing Arrays
In maths, Year 2 are working on multiplication. We have looked at equal groups and the x sign. Here we are making arrays to represent our calculations.
Online Safety Week ‘Stop, Close and Tell’
During internet safety week, Key Stage 1 have been learning how to identify scams! We have talked about what information is public and private and which adults we can trust to help us if we think we are being scammed! Remember ‘Stop, Close and Tell’