Welcome to Class Armitage - Year 2

We would like to say a big hello to all our new Year 2 children starting in Class Armitage this September! We hope you have had a lovely summer and are ready to start learning with Mrs Biggs and Mrs Riordan!

The classroom is all ready and waiting for you...

Our sunshine inspired art and writing about ourselves is dislayed for all to see!

Here are our curriculum letters and information for each half term: 2022-23

Autumn 1 Class Armitage 2022 Curriculum Letter to Parents 

Welcome Presentation Parent Meeting Year 2

Take a look at what we have been learning so far...

We are scientists!

We became nature explorers on our visit to Old Moor RSPB - investigating pond life and woodland habitats.

We are musicians!

We are learning the South African song, 'Hands, Feet, Heart'. We improvised playing along to the song using glockenspiels and keeping a steady pulse.

We are mathematicians!

Our day involved exploring 'Place Value' by playing games, using manipulatives to show our understanding and recording our addition and subtraction calculations.

We are scientists! 

Finding out about how the climate is changing was the focus of our science day. We explored what happened to our lovely, fresh bread (painted with land and sea!) when we put it in the toaster...

What would you wear and why?

Have you ever wondered what materials clothes are made from? We explored warm clothes, waterproof clothes and clothes to keep you cool.

Please see below our curriculum letters and information each half term: 2021-22

Summer 2 Class Armitage 2022 Curriculum Letter to Parents

Summer 1 Class Armitage 2022 Curriculum Letter to Parents

Spring 2 Class Armitage 2022 Curriculum Letter to Parents

Spring 1 Class Armitage 2022 Curriculum Letter to Parents

Autumn 2 Class Armitage 2021 Curriculum Letter to Parents

Autumn 1 Class Armitage 2021 Curriculum Letter to Parents

End of Year Expectations

Well-being in Year 2

Looking after our mental wellness and finding the time to look after each other is so important. Here's some of the activities we engaged in during our well-being day in Class Armitage.

Platinum Jubilee Celebrations

Using our artistic talents to draw then paint watercolour portraits of Queen Elizabeth II as we learnt all about her Platinum Jubilee. We love to paint in Year 2 while listening to relaxing music!

Wildlife Warriors

As part of our courageous advocacy focus, we are looking after the wildlife around our school community and making a difference to the environment for everyone. We enjoyed creating these bird feeders during our well-being day.

World Book Day

It's been the 25th anniversary of World Day Day this week and just look at the amazing effort that our class went to in celebrating this occasion! We had a great day of reading and book activities linked to our class text for this half term, Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown.

 Creating our own 'flat' people!

Now time for writing our own comics about Flat Stanley...

Exploring shapes in maths

Have you ever built 3D shapes with straws and marsh mallows? We did! We were very tempted to nibble the marshmallows but kept on persevering creating our different shapes.

A Balanced Diet

The importance of a healthy balanced diet has been our focus during design technolgy lessons. We discussed the different food combinations when designing and making our wraps so that they included vegetables, protein and dairy.

Year 2 Learning Environment

Just take a look at the learning we have achieved so far this year! There's our concentric circle paintings based on Clarice Cliff designs, London landmarks in geography, our fantastic fantasy stories we have written, our 'Jesus is Good News' prayer candles, Captain James Cook historical enquiry and spectacular science investigations about materials.

Children's Mental Health Week

We really enjoyed our 'Dress to Express' day! We created support balloons and shared our ideas with each other about how we can keep our minds healthy. Here's a few pictures of our photo booth moments - Sharing the happiness!

We are Readers!

Our class text is 'The Stone Giant' by Anna Hoglund. We have been very busy writing our own fantasy stories which we have enjoyed reading aloud to the rest of our class. There are dragons, unicorns, magic and sparkle!

We are Designers!

For Design Technology, we are now learning all about a healthy belanced diet. We are exploring combining different foods to come up with the best combinations which we will make into our wraps!

Time for arithmetic...

Every Friday we challenge ourselves with an arithmetic quiz to see if we can use our knowledge and mathematical skills from the week! We love maths!

We are Writers!

We love to write! After learning all about the features of a recount including using the first person, past tense and all of our descriptive language, verb choices and punctuation, we wrote about a day at the beach and seaside! Take a look at just how amazing our writing is! Happy reading!

We are Mathematicians!

 We are learning our 2, 3, 5 and 10 timestables in Y2.  We explored grouping counters when learning multiplication skills and challenged ourselves to increase the number of groups!

Religious Education

"I spy with my little eye..." We looked closely at the art work, The Majestic Nativity and described what we found. Using our artistic talents, we then created our own watercolour nativity paintings.

Please find 'A Little Nativity' by Class Armitage

on our Google Classroom page. The children as always have made a super effort with this performance, showing great enthusiasm, perseverance and enjoyment. We hope you enjoy watching it as much as we did performing it!

Class Armitage you are amazing - Stars in the making!

Merry Christmas Everyone

and

Best Wishes to you all for the New Year.

We hope you have all had a great summer! A warm welcome is waiting for you as we start our learning adventure in Year 2. We have lots of exciting and challenging learning planned for you all within our lovely new classroom. You will be able to follow the learning that takes place on our webpage as we progress on our journey together!

Working scientifically!

Exploring light and working as scientists in Year 2...

We spent our science day exploring light and carrying out some investigations and experiments about light. These included a light experiment, creating a lava lamp and mirror boxes. We developed new vocabulary including 'reflect', 'absorb' and penetrate'. We made predictions, observations and developed our understanding of conclusions. A great day of learning for all involved - just look at our learning below...

Let's sew!

We're now ready to practise the running stitch before we make Mr Grinling's special pouch for his lunch! Tying a knot, threading the needle and sewing a running stitch was our focus for this design technology lesson...

 Old Moor RSPB

Our visit to Old Moor RSPB was a day full of discovery and adventure as we went pond dipping, minibeast hunting and exploring a range of habitats for living things.

Noah's Ark - A Bible story about TRUST

We know that God makes a promise with humanity never to destroy the world again. The rainbow is given as a reminder of this promise.

Our paintings depict the ark in which Noah was protected with his family and all of  the animals.

Music

 "In my hands, in my feet, in my heart...music is in me!"

As musicians, we are learning how to play the glockenspiel and maintain the pulse!

Design Technology

We are learning how to make a pouch (for Mr Grinling's lunch) by using a running stitch to join our material together. Here we have designed our pouch and are preparing our material ready to sew. Let's hope those seagulls keep away this time!

Keeping Healthy

The Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch

Our class text for this half term is The Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch by Ronda and David Armitage. Take a look at the lighthouses we created today after watching a video all about the Beachy Head lighthouse where the stories were set.

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Class Blyton -  Year 2

Summer 2 curriculum letter.

All parents and carers should have received the Summer 1 curriculum letter by e-mail. For anyone who has not seen it the link is attached below. We are looking forward to another exciting term in Class Blyton.

Summer 2, 2021 Class Blyton Curriculum Letter to Parents.

Summer 1 curriculum letter. 

All parents and carers should have received the Summer 1 curriculum letter by e-mail. For anyone who has not seen it the link is attached below. We are looking forward to another exciting term in Class Blyton.

Summer 1, 2021  Class Blyton Curriculum Letter to Parents.

Spring 2 curriculum letter. 

 All parents and carers should have received the Spring 2 curriculum letter by e-mail. For anyone who has not seen it the link is attached below. We are looking forward to another exciting term in Class Blyton.

Spring 2, 2021  Class Blyton Curriculum Letter to Parents.

Spring 1 curriculum letter. 

 All parents and carers should have received the Spring 1 curriculum letter by e-mail. For anyone who has not seen it the link is attached below. We are looking forward to another exciting term in Class Blyton.

Spring 1 2021 Class Blyton Curriculum Letter to Parents.

Autumn 2 curriculum letter

All parents and carers should have received the Autumn 2 curriculum letter by e-mail. For anyone who has not seen it the link is attached below. We are looking forward to another exciting term in Class Blyton.

Autumn 2 2020 Class Blyton Curriculum Letter to Parents

Science 

Our science lessons during this term will focus on super scientists. Over the coming weeks we will look at different scientists and will test their discoveries and inventions.

Our first lesson focused on Sir Isaac Newton's discovery of gravity. The children enjoyed learning about Newton and tested his discovery by creating paper spinners and seeing how adding weight to the spinners affect them.

They also completed experiments to see how quick their reflexes are. 

Christmas Performance

Although we were all dissapointed that we couldn't do a whole school performance this year we made sure that the children had the opportunity to feel as festive as possible in Class Blyton. We made christmas cards, calendars and decorations. They also sang a beautiful song for you all to enjoy.

Art Day

On Friday the 27th of November we completed our final Art day of the term. This week the children learned how to make 3D colour drawings of the planets in our Solar System by using pastels. They learned the skills required to create lighter and darker tones by using the top or side of the pastel and by rubbing different coloured pastels together. The end results were amazing. Please take a look at the children's work in the gallery below.

Art Day 

On our first Friday back (6th of November) Class Blyton enjoyed the second installment of our Art themed morning. The children continued to practice the technique of taking rubbings of different materials and textures. They were then introduced to the work of artist Max Ernst who developed a unique technique in the 1920's called frottage, which is the technique of tearing and cutting shapes out of the rubbings and putting them together to create a new picture or landscape.

The class had a go at making an animal, creating their own creature or making a face out of their rubbings by using the frottage technique.

Art Day

 On the last day of term our theme morning was Art. The children started the morning by completing their repeated patterns using paints and objects like milk bottle tops and doweling, they tried different patterns on white and black backgrounds. The second part of the Art morning the children had the opportunity to take their art outside as we focused on using wax crayons to take rubbings of different surfaces and textures. 

We look forward to continuing our Art day on the first Friday back.

Harvest Poem

The children have recorded a harvest poem that they wanted to share with you all. They've also created some lovely art work which will be uploaded shortly.

Science Day!

On Friday the 9th and 16th of October class Blyton took part in our Science themed mornings. We learned so much about living things, non-living things and things that used to be alive. We also went on a bug hunt to explore micro-habitats and to find as many minibeasts as possible. The children loved searching under rocks and logs for all sorts of creepy crawlies. Please check out the school's twitter page for more pictures. Next Friday our theme day is Art so we are looking forward to getting our paint on.

Welcome to your new school year

Hello Children! 

Welcome back to school and into the year 2 class with your new teacher Mr. Willetts. We're looking forward to to having you all in the class after such a lengthy time away for some of you. 

We understand that some children may be nervous coming back to school but we assure you we will have taken all the necessary steps to make your return as safe as possible.

Please click the link to view our Autumn 20/21 curriculum:

Autumn 1 Class Blyton 2020 letter.

PE will be taught on Tuesday afternoon. Can you please ensure your child brings the appropriate kit including joggers and a sweatshirt as we will try and hold our PE lessons outside as often as possible. 

 'Contactless Homework' in Year 2

Our home work will be completed through google classroom. A parent must have a gmail account to access google classroom for free, so please view this link for instructions on how to set up a gmail account, then view the second attachment to see how to access our new google classroom page. 

How to set up a gmail account

How to use Google Classroom

Starting back in September 2020

For children who do not have any siblings in school, their start time will be 9.20am, lining up on the right hand side of the barrier gate. The finish time will be 3.20pm, where you can collect your child from the pathway down Beech Close at the front of school. Your child will be escorted when crossing the road to meet you. For all other Year 2 children, the start time will be slightly different and this will be on your individual letter that was sent out on 10.07.20. These staggered start and finish times are in place to minimise congestion and contact with other bubbles of children.

Road Safety

Please click the link to find out some road safety information 

https://spark.adobe.com/page/WeWyxxGFZiZIf/

For BMBC's road safety information  for children, copy this link below:

https://spark.adobe.com/page/SgsyzaWELREZT/

To learn about online safety, click the link:

https://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/parents/Support-tools/home-activity-worksheets/5-7s/