Year 2 Class News

Tom Palmer local events

This year, some children at school attended an online workshop with author Tom Palmer. Tom Palmer has been in touch to let us know about some local events he is attending in half term.

Message from Tom

For children and families – I am also coming to Leeds on Thursday 2 November
2023 :
*       Farsley Book Festival – 10am-11am more here
https://trumanbooks.co.uk/event/flf-kids-day
*       Chapel Allerton Library – 2pm
*       Pudsey Community Hub and Library – 4pm

PCSO visit

Yesterday, our local PCSO officers visited us. They came to give us an important message about being safe at Halloween and Bonfire Night. The children listened to the key messages really well.

Help at home by asking your children how to stay safe on Bonfire Night.

Living and Learning: respect

For the last two weeks in our Living and Learning lessons, we have been learning about respecting others and respecting ourselves. This is part of our relationships education.

What is respect?

Respect is where you consider the feelings of others and treat them as you would like to be treated.

Who should we respect?

Everyone! Even if someone is very different to you or has different thoughts, likes or beliefs to you, we should still respect them.

We recognised in the class that we have some similarities but also lots of differences. This makes us all special!

I am the same as Hannah because we both have blond hair.

I am different to Hadeed as we like to play different sports.

I am different to Kitty as I can speak a different language.

I am the same as Raffi as we both have a brother.

Next week, in our circle time, we will carry on this learning and think about what is special about each of us.

Help at home: read this story with your child to think about all ways we can be different.

Assembly stars!

We are very proud of all the children after performing their first Year 2 class assembly so well this afternoon.

It’s a lot different performing to a full hall than in our rehearsals and there were a lot of nerves.

All the children have learnt their lines, actions, song words and they have used their oracy skills today to help to share our learning.

Thanks to all the adults who were able to come and watch. We hope you enjoyed it.

Well done, Year 2!

Leeds Diving opportunities

Recently, Year 2 and 3 welcomed Leeds Diving as part of their talent in diving programme.

If your child is interested in learning to dive, please see the information and requirements below.

Leeds Diving

This week, we welcomed James and Oli from Leeds Diving. They came to visit Year 2 and 3 as part of their talent in diving program to unearth the next generation of world class Olympic divers in Leeds.

The children took part in lots of different exercises, including jumping, agility, flexibility, strength and speed, while James and Oli looked to see who may
have the right characteristics to be world class performers.

Well done to Sophie, Isla and Ailie who have been invited to take part in the second phase.

Watch us while we work

Thank you to those parents who were able to join us for our watch us while we work session this week. It was lovely to see so many.

Here’s a summary of what we covered and how we are encouraging the children to become more responsible for their learning at home.

Spellings – use the spelling guide for ideas to help with learning weekly spellings.

Daily reading – we thought about some of the reading skills the children are learning in Year 2 (fluency, prosody (using expression in their voices), retrieval, interpret and learning new vocabulary). Reading needs to happen daily to build up these skills. A brief note in their reading record books is needed after reading at home. We will continue to monitor the use of e-books at home. Please alert us to any access issues.

Maths – our number tennis games included counting in 2s, 5s and 10s and number bonds to 10 and 20. Play these when you’re in the car, walking to school or making breakfast. Hit the Button is a great online game to build up the recall of these facts.

Numbots certificates are awarded every Tuesday and it’s great to see children already achieving their next levels in Year 2.

Finally, here’s the help at home section of the website.

Please get in touch if you need any further support with your child’s learning at home.

Leeds Diving Training Scheme

Living and Learning: Manners

Manners are words and actions that we can do to help us be kind and respectful to others. Good manners help us to get on well with others.

We thought about examples of good manners and we did some role play to model these good manners.

We linked manners to our reading lesson using these two poems.

Help at home: reinforce this message about using good manners at home as well as at school. Encourage your child to greet the adults on the gate as they arrive at school.

Also, have a go at this manners quiz to check your child’s understanding.

We are Geographers!

This half term we are learning about geography in topic lessons. Our unit is called Where in the World am I? It is all about where we live, including our locality as well as the countries, capitals and seas of the UK. Our vocabulary for this topic is listed below.

This week we have been learning about the names of all the countries that make up the United Kingdom as well as their capital cities. We worked with our partner to look in the atlas to find the UK.

Help at home by discussing the four countries of the UK (England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland). The BBC bitesize website here and this song are great for helping the children remember too.