St Elizabeth's Class - Year 2 | ST MARY'S CATHOLIC PRIMARY SCHOOL

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St ELIZABETH'S Class (Year 2) 2023/2024

Welcome to Year 2!

We hope you enjoy looking at our class page. This is where you will find all of the useful details about the year including curriculum information, important dates, and a diary of our learning.

Meet the team

Miss Eatherington: Monday- Wednesday AM

Mrs Turnbull: Wednesday PM- Friday

PE Days

Monday and Thursday

Reading/Homework

Homework set on Wednesdays on Google Classroom.

Reading books returned and changed on Wednesday's.

Termly Enquiry

Term 6

Our Class Blog 2023-24

Stations of the cross

Monday 25th March

Today in RE we discussed and performed the Stations of the Cross.

making Bridges

Enquiry- What did Brunel do for Great Britian?

Today we talked about what materials bridges can be made with and then tried making our own bridges out of paper. We started by making a beam bridge, but this was not very strong. We then tried using triangles to make a truss bridge as well as experimenting with different shapes.

Making healthy wraps!

Thursday 1st February

Today the class enjoyed making the wraps that they had designed earlier on in the week. They really enjoyed cutting and choosing their own ingredients and thinking how to make it a healthy and balanced snack.

RE: Term 4

This term, we've been learning about the miracles Jesus performed and have had so much fun acting out them out!

Having learnt all about the importance of preparing during Advent, we invited the Year 1 children in to our classroom to share with them all that we had learnt.

Equiry Lesson

What a perfect day it was for a glorious walk in the woods! The class did a fantastic job of spotting human and physical features in our local area.

RE learning in Term 1

In RE this term we have been learning all about the prophet Amos. We learnt about how Amos tried to change the world around him to be kinder and fairer. We created posters to show our ideas of how we can make the world a fairer place.

Class Trip October 2023

On Thursday 13th October, Year 2 took a trip to the Aerospace Museum in Filton. We had a brilliant time learning all about the different flying machines and their connection to our local area.

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Year 2 Flight Day 22nd September 2022

On Friday Year 2 had a very busy day learning all about the origins of human flight, writing newspaper reports, making hot air balloons, racing paper aeroplanes and learning new songs.

Look what we did when we were in Year 1 - 2021/2022

29^th April 2022

,We wrote a letter and invited our parents and families to an African WOW hour afternoon. This was to begin our Geography topic looking at Kenya. We made African necklaces, similar to those worn by the Masai Tribe. It was so much fun making these, and we think they all looked amazing!

Thursday 12th May 2022

Here are some pictures of us estimating and measuring the capacity of different containers. Luckily, it was sunny, so we could do it outside. It was great fun! We are now understanding the difference between ‘Capacity’ and ‘Volume’.

May 2022

In year 1 we have started our topic on mass- weighing and comparing different objects. Here is our first lesson comparing objects and making sentences using the words 'heavier', 'lighter' and 'equal weight' to describe the scales.

Monday 7^th March 2022- Fairy Tale WOW day!

In Year 1 we had a FABULOUS day celebrating all things FAIRY-TALE! We all dressed up to begin out new topic 'Traditional tales'. We had to predict what had happened to the mess in the classroom when we came into class, write a Wanted! Poster to find the Big, Bad Wolf, follow clues to find the key features of a fairy tale AND WE SAW THE BIG BAD WOLF!!! We also made Rice Krispie Marshmallow wands and so much more... What a fun way to start our new topic!

Thursday 3^rd March- World Book Day.

We had such a fun day celebrating books, dressing up and enjoying all that reading has to offer! We had clues to uncover about a book, before unwrapping our book 'Little Red Reading hood'. We enjoyed reading this different version of 'Little Red Riding hood' and thinking about what the wolf will do at the end of the story.

We also created a tally chart on our favourite books.

Litter Picking

Year 1 have been doing their part to help keep the school grounds clean and tidy.

Creating different textures using ink and rollers, and oil pastels.

During Anti-bullying week, we looked at a book called ‘Kindness Grows’ by Britta Teckentrup. This book is all about how when we are unkind a crack can grow in our friendship, but when we are kind and do thoughtful actions, a kindness tree grows. It taught us also that we can always change and turn the crack into a kindness tree.

After looking at the book, we decided to do some art, creating different textures on paper using printing ink and oil pastels. We used printing ink to create the backgrounds. We then used ink and oil pastels on paper to cut out shapes to make leaves and clouds to copy the style of the illustrations in the book. It was good fun.

God's wonderful world

During reflection, we discussed all the different parts of God’s creation that we are grateful for. We then went outside and created a wonder bracelet with wonderful parts of God’s creation that we stuck to the bracelet. It made us really appreciate our wonderful world.

Friday 12th November 2021 - Road Safety

Today we had a virtual assembly on Road Safety and Be Bright, Be Seen. We then thought carefully about how we could design a school bag to keep children safe when walking to school in the winter mornings and afternoons now that it is darker! Here are some of our designs! We even added some reflective, shiny card to our designs!

Thursday 4th November 2021 - Understand Diwali, and the meaning of Rangoli patterns

We really enjoyed learning about Diwali. Some of us were really knowledgeable and they told us some interesting facts about Diwali. We then looked at Rangoli patterns and discussed how beautiful they were. We then thought about how we can create similar patterns using nature. It was a lovely autumn afternoon, however the wind did keep blowing our creations away. We still enjoyed ourselves lots though!

Monday 13th September - Learning about the United Kingdom

We were given some different cards that matched to the 4 countries in the United Kingdom. We had to work out which cards matched England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. The cards contained the country’s flag, symbol capital city and location in the UK. It was quite tricky but we persevered.

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